Please join us for our next #BerkeleyBookChat on Wed, Feb 21 at 12pm, where Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby will address the unique and profound indeterminacy of the term “Creole' In her book by the same name (Penn State, 2022) based on extensive archival research.

Join us for the first #BerkeleyBookChat of the semester, featuring Miryam Sas on Wednesday, January 31 at 12pm in the Geballe Room! In Feeling Media (Duke, 2022), Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan.

Please join us on Wed, March 13 at 12 in the Geballe Room for another #BerkeleyBookChat !

In The Entanglement, Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

Join us for the last #BerkeleyBookChat Wed, April 17 at 12pm in the Geballe Room with Shannon Steen!

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Ready for another #BerkeleyBookChat ? Join us on Wed, Mar 20 at 12 in the Geballe Room for Michael Iarocci discussing The Art of Witnessing: Francisco de Goya’s 'Disasters of War' (University of Toronto Press 2022)!

Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay (UC Berkeley History) reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy in this #BerkeleyBookChat on Wednesday, February 7 at 12pm in the Geballe Room.

Ready for another #BerkeleyBookChat ? Join us on Wed, Feb 28 at 12pm in the Geballe Room to discuss Angela Hume's newest work.

Deep Care (AK Press, 2023) follows generations of activists and health workers who orbited the Women’s Choice Clinic in Oakland from 1970-2010.

Join us on Wed, Nov 8 at 12:00 pm for another #BerkeleyBookChat ! Through the lens of Aleksandr Rodchenko’s photography, Aglaya Glebova (History of Art UC Berkeley) charts a new and provocative understanding of the troubled relationship between technology, modernism, and state power in Stalin’s USSR

Check out the video recordings of some of our #BerkeleyBookChat 's last semester! Find the videos on our website or on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@townsendcente…

Happy New Year! 🥳 We are so excited to announce a new semester full of great events. In addition to our regularly scheduled #BerkeleyBookChat on Wednesdays, pin this thread 🧵for a preview of our other events to come!