Category: Humanities

  • Story Hour in the Library 2014 Student Reading

    Check out the brightest new writing talent from UC Berkeley. Join Story Hour in the Library as they celebrate UC Berkeley writers with their annual student reading. In this event, writers read short excerpts from their work, some of which include the year’s biggest prose prize winners. Students, Library interns, and faculty nominees tackle everything […]

  • Let’s Talk About Movies

    New programs in our Film & Television Collection will take you behind the scenes of the movie-making process. Watch the latest from the Carsey-Wolf Center: “Brave Miss World” Discussion A look at the new documentary by Cecilia Peck, “Brave Miss World” that follows Miss Israel Linor Abargil from her rape, to her Miss World win […]

  • Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock

    The Romani, not to be confused with the Romanian nation or people, are a diasporic ethnicity more widely known as “gypsies.” Throughout the world they are variously known as Rom, Roma, Romane, Cigáni and Gitano, just to name a few. In this presentation about the Romani and the Holocaust, Ian Hancock, professor of English and […]