Staff- and student-led exhibition and collection tours on the
occasion of UC Berkeley’s CalDay
May 21, 12noon • Lewis-Latimer Room, The Faculty Club
April 21, 5 –7pm • Morrison Library, Doe Library
ROUNDTABLE ➤ “THE WORLD’S BEST WORKING
CLIMATE”: MODELING INDUSTRIAL SUBURBS ON
THE EDGE OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY
April 18 • Magnes Collection
EVENT ➤ FIFTEENTH ANNUAL CTP DISTINGUISHED
LECTURER
Professor Bernhard Palme, University of Vienna, Austrian
National Library
MAY
May 6 • The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way
Wednesday Noon–1 pm (presentation begins promptly at 12:15 pm)
➤ POPUP EXHIBITION SERIES
Peter Ekman, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient and doctoral
candidate in Geography, UC Berkeley
EXHIBITION ➤ HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REVA
AND DAVID LOGAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON
PHOTOGRAPHY
Date TBA (Early May, 2015) • Magnes Collection
The gift from the Logan Foundation includes more than
2,000 titles comprising some of the most sought-after and
historically significant books by American and European
masters of photography. Among the highlights of the
exhibition are examples from a complete set of Alfred
Stieglitz’s Camera Work, the most important American
art and photography journal of the early 20th century.
Also on display are highly prized first editions of books
by such photographers as Paul Strand, Man Ray, Robert
Frank, Edward Steichen, Dorothea Lange, Margaret
Bourke White, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier Bresson, and
Brassai. The exhibition also features photographs from
The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection intended to
complement the Logan books on photography and place
CALENDAR
&
EXHIBITIONS
Between 1880 and 1940, urban manufacturers, planners,
and property developers configured a series of company
towns and industrial suburbs just east of San Francisco
Bay, stretching from Richmond to Antioch on the shores
of the Carquinez Strait. Drawing on visual materials
and numerous manuscript collections at Bancroft, Peter
Ekman will discuss how this unfashionable, ostensibly
unplanned, “middle landscape” came, over time, to serve
as a kind of laboratory for new, imitable models of social
and spatial order. He will place these experiments within
a prehistory, intellectual and material-cultural, of the
postwar suburb, and explore their afterlives amid decades
of disinvestment.
May 7–September 4 • The Bancroft Library Gallery
10am – 4pm • Monday – Friday
Opening Reception, May 6, 5:30–7:30pm
Th e B a n c r o f t L i b r a r y
EVENTS
EVENT ➤ THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
This public program, focused on the exhibition, The
Secret Language of Flowers, celebrates the end of the Spring
Semester. Presented in collaboration with the Berkeley
Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, the Berkeley
Center for Jewish Studies, and the UC Botanical Garden,
it will include lectures and a reception.
EVENT ➤ THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY
ANNUAL MEETING
TBA.
COVER IMAGE: Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1952. First American edition. Bound in color printed boards designed
by Henri Matisse. From the Logan exhibit.
Call number BANC f TR675 .C3513 1952
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
ROUNDTABLE ➤ TO BE ANNOUNCED
FIRST CLASS MAIL
U.S. POSTAGE
PAID
BERKELEY, CA
PERMIT NO. 559
CAL DAY
them within the context of Bancroft’s photography
holdings. The Logan gift brings Berkeley’s scholarly
resources for the study of photojournalism, press
photography, and documentary photography to the
national forefront.
The Bancroft Library
April 16, 12noon • Lewis-Latimer Room, The Faculty Club
SP R I N G 20 15
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
F EBRUARY
Through May 29 • Bancroft Corridor between The Bancroft Library
and Doe Library
EXHIBITION ➤ COMMEMORATING THE FREE SPEECH
MOVEMENT 50TH ANNIVERSARY
This exhibit revisits this pivotal student activist movement
through University Archives and other Bancroft materials.
February 4, 11, 18, 25 • The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way
Wednesdays 12noon–1 pm (presentation begins promptly at 12:15 pm)
➤ POPUP EXHIBITION SERIES
Each week a notable guest presents a brief lecture on a
treasure selected from the The Magnes Collection in a
“flash” exhibition. Bring your lunch or enjoy complimentary
refreshments as you join this exciting learning program. Free
and open to the public.
M A RCH
American literature. This talk will discuss the history of
this Bay Area literary activity by looking at some of its key
figures and publishing efforts during the 1970s.
March 4, 11, 18 • The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way
Wednesdays 12noon–1 pm (presentation begins promptly at 12:15 pm)
Simon Abramowitsch, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient
and doctoral candidate in English, UC Davis
➤ POPUP EXHIBITION SERIES
March 9, 9am–1pm • Magnes Collection
EVENT ➤ MODERN FOOD RITUALS: FROM THE
COMMUNAL TABLE TO THE GLOBAL TASTING ROOM
Through June 26 • Magnes Collection
February 16–November 2 • Rowell Cases, 2nd floor corridor
between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
EXHIBITION ➤ GOURMET GHETTOS: MODERN FOOD
RITUALS
EXHIBITION ➤ BERKELEY’S IVORY TOWER: THE
CAMPANILE AT 100
This exhibit explores the broader linkages among food, ritual,
identity, and activism that inform Jewish life.
bit.ly/gourmetghettos
Sather Tower, also known as “The Campanile,” looms
large both as a physical structure and as the most widely
recognized symbol of the Berkeley campus. This exhibition
celebrates the centennial of the landmark through holdings
from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library’s
manuscript and pictorial collections.
Inspired by the exhibition, Gourmet Ghettos: Modern Food
Rituals, UC Berkeley scholars and Bay Area authors,
artists, and food activists join in a roundtable discussion
of religious and secular food rituals; increasing public
interest in ecology, food security, and social justice; and the
role of museums and galleries in facilitating collaboration
between academic research and social engagement.
Presented in conjunction with the Annual Conference of
the Council of American Jewish Museums.
February 18, 5–8 pm • Magnes Collection
March 13–14, 2015
Through June 26 • Magnes Collection
EXHIBITION ➤ THE JEWISH WORLD • A BOOK
INSTALLATION
The Jewish World: 100 Treasures of Art and Culture, published by SkiràRizzoli in Fall 2014, is the first comprehensive catalog of The
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Selected pages from
the volume illuminate the walls of The Magnes Auditorium.
Through June 26 • Magnes Collection
EXHIBITION ➤ THE FUTURE OF MEMORY: JEWISH
CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
In this innovative project an installation, a museum
exhibition, and a digital research lab are combined to allow
researchers of all kinds to discuss memory, digital history,
and the use of the Internet to enhance the understanding of
Jewish cultural heritage. bit.ly/futureofmemory
Through June 26 • Magnes Collection
EVENT ➤ THE FUTURE OF MEMORY: EXHIBITION
OPENING AND LAUNCH OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES AT
BERKELEY
Digital Humanities at Berkeley is a partnership between the
Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT,
supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, with additional support from the Office of the
Vice Chancellor for Research.
February 19, 12noon • Lewis-Latimer Room, The Faculty Club
ROUNDTABLE ➤ TO BE ANNOUNCED
February 20, 2–10 pm • Magnes Collection
EXHIBITION ➤ THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS:
BOTANICAL DRAWINGS FROM ISRAEL, 1949–1950
EVENT ➤ THE NILE PROJECT • CALPERFORMANCES
SYMPOSIUM, FOOD TASTING, AND COMMUNITY
MUSIC EVENT
The botanical drawings of Ukrainian-born artist Shmuel
Lerner provide a unique window into the landscape, history,
and languages of Israel in the period immediately following
its establishment as a state. The 26 drawings from 1949-50
include the author’s annotations about plants, places, and
language. bit.ly/secretlanguageofflowers
Magnes Galleries are open Tu-Fr, 11am-4pm, January 27-June 26, 2015
Join CalPerformances at The Magnes for a symposium,
food tasting, and community music event following the
performance of The Nile Project (Thursday, February 19,
Zellerbach Hall). More than a dozen performers from Sudan,
Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda have collaborated
in using music to raise awareness of the cultural and
environmental challenges along the world’s longest river.
EVENT ➤ ORAL HISTORY CENTER SPRING WORKSHOP
The Oral History Center is launching a new two-day
Spring Workshop designed for the person interested in
learning the practice of oral history from the ground up.
Our experienced oral historians will focus on the basics—
interviewing, project planning, interviewing techniques,
transcription, recording equipment, and preservation.
Though space is limited, everyone is welcome to attend the
workshop, which will be held on the UC Berkeley campus.
The cost is $225 and includes a take-home oral history
manual. To register see: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
ROHO/education/workshop.html. For more information,
contact Martin Meeker at [email protected].
March 19, 12noon Lewis-Latimer Room, The Faculty Club
ROUNDTABLE ➤ “COUNTER-INSTITUTIONS ARE THE
ANSWER, MAN!” MULTI-ETHNIC PUBLISHING IN THE
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA IN THE 1970S
In the 1970s, independent publishing in the San Francisco
Bay Area was central to the development of multi-ethnic
American literature. Multi-ethnic literary venues in the
Bay Area not only presented work by and for single-ethnic
groups, but they also argued for a properly multi-cultural
March 19, 7–9 pm • Magnes Collection
EVENT ➤ JEWISH SONGLINES: JUDEO-SPANISH
AND YIDDISH MUSIC AND DANCE WITH ESTI
KENAN-OFRI (ISRAEL) AND MICHAEL ALPERT
(UNITED STATES)
A unique encounter between two world-class interpreters
of Jewish musical traditions from Eastern Europe,
North Africa, and the Middle East. Esti Kenan-Ofri is a
composer and a performer of Sephardic and Arabic music
and dance, and a vocalist sought after by some of the
leading contemporary composers of new music, including
Luciano Berio. Currently a Schusterman Visiting Artist
at UCLA, she teaches in the Department of Music at Bar
Ilan University. Michael Alpert, a leader in the world
Jewish music scene, has been instrumental in the revival
of Yiddish song and the rise of Klezmer music since
the 1970s. He has taught and lectured at universities
around the world and has performed with Kapelye, David
Krakauer, and Brave Old World.
APR I L
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April 1, 15, 22, 29 • The Magnes Auditorium, 2121 Allston Way
Wednesdays 12noon–1 pm (presentation begins promptly at 12:15 pm)
➤ POPUP EXHIBITION SERIES
April 2, Time TBA • Magnes Collection
EVENT ➤ DARIUS MILHAUD: THE BERKELEY YEARS
A very special musical event featuring the 14th and 15th
String Quartets of Darius Milhaud, one of many artists
and intellectuals who came to the East Bay seeking refuge
from European fascism. Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley
Department of History. Performed by the Left Coast
Chamber Ensemble and students in the UC Berkeley
Department of Music.