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Encouraging an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostering innovative research, and promoting intellectual conversation @UCBerkeley since 1987.

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Eva Vaillancourt examines the emergence of road traffic rules in Britain and its Empire. She uses the regulation of street movement as a lens through which to examine this period's debates about rules, discretion, risk, ethics, diversity and social order. Jeffrey Berg Fellow

Eva Vaillancourt examines the emergence of road traffic rules in Britain and its Empire. She uses the regulation of street movement as a lens through which to examine this period's debates about rules, discretion, risk, ethics, diversity and social order.
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Join us Mon, 10/21, at 5pm, as we welcome Damien McDuffie (Damien Lamar McDuffie), creative technologist, digital archivist, and augmented reality (AR) artist for an interactive lecture on the world of AR in the arts and archives. Quick clip showcasing his work... bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/13/art-…

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Join Joshua Yaffa (Joshua Yaffa), a contributing writer for the The New Yorker, and professors Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley) and Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego) for a virtual symposium hosted by UC San Diego on Oct. 30. Register here: bit.ly/3YztEki #AcademicTwitter

Join Joshua Yaffa (<a href="/yaffaesque/">Joshua Yaffa</a>), a contributing writer for the <a href="/NewYorker/">The New Yorker</a>, and professors <a href="/AlexeiYurchak/">Alexei Yurchak</a> (<a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a>) and Ainsley Morse (<a href="/UCSanDiego/">UC San Diego</a>) for a virtual symposium hosted by <a href="/UCSanDiego/">UC San Diego</a> on Oct. 30.   

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Rebecca Rainof studies the relationship between literature and visual art in 19th- and 20th-century Britain. She is also working on a chronicle of a Japanese-American family's life in Los Angeles after the Second World War.

Rebecca Rainof studies the relationship between literature and visual art in 19th- and 20th-century Britain. She is also working on a chronicle of a Japanese-American family's life in Los Angeles after the Second World War.
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Anthony Graham is a curator of contemporary art, organizing exhibitions and stewarding the collection at the BAMPFA. Much of his current research focuses on how artists have addressed questions of legibility, perception, and embodiment through formal strategies of abstraction.

Anthony Graham is a curator of contemporary art, organizing exhibitions and stewarding the collection at the BAMPFA. Much of his current research focuses on how artists have addressed questions of legibility, perception, and embodiment through formal strategies of abstraction.
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“I turned my cell into a university, a hall of debate, a law school”: Prison Study and Revolutionary Cycles with Bernard E. Harcourt on November 21, at 5-7 pm in 315 Wheeler (Maude Fife room). See you there!

“I turned my cell into a university, a hall of debate, a law school”: Prison Study and Revolutionary Cycles with Bernard E. Harcourt on November 21, at 5-7 pm in 315 Wheeler (Maude Fife room). See you there!
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Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed explores how classical Islamic philosophy transformed Islamic theology & mysticism in the post-classical period. Her work focuses on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, who shaped the disciplines of Islamic theology & the occult sciences in the medieval Islamic world.

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed explores how classical Islamic philosophy transformed Islamic theology &amp; mysticism in the post-classical period. Her work focuses on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, who shaped the disciplines of Islamic theology &amp; the occult sciences in the medieval Islamic world.