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November 2014
News and Events
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Contents
01) November 3 | Shakespeare: The Question of Audience | Marilynne Robinson
02) November 3 | Panel | Religion and the Art of the Novel | Marilynne Robinson with Robert Haas, Dorothy Hale, and Jonathan Sheehan
03) November 4 | Speaking the Unspeakable: God | Randy Schekman, Gibor Basri, Carla Hesse, and Maura Nolan
04) November 14-15 | Conference | Between the Visible and the Invisible: Cosmology, Ritual, and Hermeneutics in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Worlds
05) November 21-22 | Conference | Leaps of Faith: Figurations of Belief in Literature and Critical Thought
06) Upcoming Deadline for Graduate Student Event Grants | December 4
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, visit bcsr.berkeley.edu.
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01) November 3 | Shakespeare: The Question of Audience | Marilynne Robinson
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
Marilynne Robinson, Novelist
Monday, November 3, 1-3:30 pm
Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Pulitizer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her Avenali lecture considers the question of audience in the work of Shakespeare and is followed by a response from Jeffrey Knapp (English).
 Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her most recent novel, Home, won the 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction and the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction. A new novel, Lila, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She is also the author of four books of nonfiction, The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind, When I Was a Child I Read Books, and Mother Country. In 2013, President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal for “her grace and intelligence in writing.”
Co-presented with The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Photo: Kelly Ruth Winter
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02) November 3 | Panel | Religion and the Art of the Novel | Marilynne Robinson with Robert Haas, Dorothy Hale, and Jonathan Sheehan
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
Panel Discussion with Marilynne Robinson
Monday, November 3, 6-7:30 pm
Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley
Author Marilynne Robinson is joined by UC Berkeley faculty Robert Hass (English), Dorothy Hale (English), and Jonathan Sheehan (History) for a panel discussion on religion and the art of the novel.
Co-presented with The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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03) November 4 | Speaking the Unspeakable: God | Randy Schekman, Gibor Basri, Carla Hesse, and Maura Nolan
Randy Schekman, Nobel Laureate and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Gibor Basri, Vice Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion and Professor of Astronomy
Carla Hesse, Dean of Letters and Sciences and Professor of History
Maura Nolan, Professor of English
Tuesday, November 4, 6-7 pm
Berkeley Hillel, 2736 Bancroft Way
A Nobel laureate, an astronomer, an historian, and a poet in conversation about their conceptions, or lack thereof, of God.
RSVP at berkeleyhillel.org
Presented by Berkeley Hillel with the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Jewish Studies, and Newman Hall Holy Spirit Parish.
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04) November 14-15 | Conference | Between the Visible and the Invisible: Cosmology, Ritual, and Hermeneutics in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Worlds
Friday, November 14-Saturday, November 15, 10 am-7:30 pm
1229 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Keynote speakers
Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature, UC San Diego
Michael Puett, Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University
An exploration of the manifold relations between ideas concerning cosmology, ritual practice, and classical scriptures in pre-modern and modern China. Papers discuss social, political, and religious topics ranging from alchemy, meditative healing, and spirit possession, to textual exegesis, omenology, and state ritual.
For a conference schedule, please visit the Institute of East Asian Studies website.
Presented by the Walter and Elise Haas Chair in Asia Studies and the Haas Junior Scholars Program at the Institute of East Asian Studies with the Department of Anthropology, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Chinese Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Eliaser Chair of International Studies.
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05) November 21-22 | Conference | Leaps of Faith: Figurations of Belief in Literature and Critical Thought
Friday, November 21-Saturday, November 22
Keynote Speaker
Hent de Vries, Professor of the Humanities and Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University
Welcome Reception
Friday, November 21, 5 pm
4337 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Conference Panels and Keynote, "Theology Revisited"
Saturday, November 22, 10 am-4:30 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Acts of faith challenge boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between rationality and intuition. Bringing together diverse topics such as social and aesthetic suspension of disbelief, post-secularism, and the miraculous, the concept of faith functions as a springboard for interdisciplinary discussions, engaging fields from literary studies to political theory. Against this background, the papers at this conference explore diverse acts of faith and their significance in both secular and religious contexts.
Presented by the Department of Comparative Literature with the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Departments of German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and Near Eastern Studies, the Graduate Theological Union, The Program in Critical Theory, and The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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06) Upcoming Deadline for Graduate Student Event Grants | December 4
BCSR’s Graduate Student Event Grants support innovative proposals for graduate student-led lectures, seminars, working groups and conferences for public and campus audiences. Awards range from $250 to $500 for a lecture, and up to $1000 for a conference. U.C. Berkeley graduate students organizing Spring events are invited to apply by the next application deadline of Thursday, December 4, 2014.
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