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Tag: history
Remembering the 1991 firestorm: The view from campus
October 20, 2011:
As the Oakland hills firestorm blazed, a number of UC Berkeley student residences were evacuated, and some 500 faculty, staff and students lost their homes. Two decades later, the fire’s impacts continue to be felt by many in the campus community.
Sept. 10 colloquium to examine roles of history, culture in teaching and learning foreign languages
August 30, 2011:
Organizers say that since the attacks of 9/11 – despite increased awareness of the importance of history and culture in language instruction – some topics remain off-limits in the classroom.
Doe Library centennial goes live with new website
August 24, 2011:
Doe Library’s centennial celebration is going live, with a new website with images of the library under construction as well as of students and others attending a special event.
Elaine Tennant named new Bancroft Library director
August 22, 2011:
Elaine Tennant, a medieval and early modern specialist in the German and Scandinavian departments at the University of California, Berkeley, will become the James D. Hart Director of UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library starting in September.
Treasury official who spotted $2 trillion error is recent economics Ph.D.
August 10, 2011:
John Bellows may not have the household-name recognition of Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke or Christina Romer. But the U.S. Treasury Department’s acting assistant secretary has generated widespread buzz in finance and policy circles since finding a $2 trillion error in the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) calculations it used to support a historic decision to downgrade the nation’s credit rating.
Historian of science Roger Hahn dies at 79
August 8, 2011:
Roger Hahn, emeritus professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leader in shaping the academic field of the history of science, died unexpectedly on May 30 in New York City.
Bancroft historians search for first-hand accounts as Port Chicago memorial approaches
July 14, 2011:
Officials at UC Berkeley’s Regional Oral History Office are looking to a July 23 memorial service for the hundreds of servicemen and civilians killed and hurt in the largest homeland disaster during World War II to aid the office’s search for first-hand accounts of the 1944 accident that helped desegregate the U.S. military.
Bancroft Library to expand documentation of Japanese Americans’ World War II experiences
June 29, 2011:
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received two grants from the U.S. National Park Service to expand its efforts documenting the World War II era experiences of Japanese Americans.
Patrick Kirch awarded Gregory Medal for Pacific research
June 28, 2011:
Patrick V. Kirch, a UC Berkeley professor of anthropology and integrative biology and an authority on the archaeology of the Pacific Islands, has been awarded the 2011 Herbert E. Gregory Medal for Distinguished Service to Science in the Pacific Region.
California Language Archive clicks with multiple resources
June 20, 2011:
The new California Language Archive (CLA) website at UC Berkeley – the largest indigenous language archive at a U.S. university – is now accessible free of charge to anyone with Internet access.
Workshop for educators to take in-depth look at Mexican-American War
May 26, 2011:
“The United States never remembers, and Mexico never forgets,” is an oft-quoted maxim about U.S.-Mexico relations. The Center for Latin American Studies will hold a day-long workshop on a key chapter in that history — the Mexican–American War — on Tuesday, June 28. History professors Alex Saragoza and Brian DeLay will speak. Registration is free and open to all educators.
Russian history authority Nicholas V. Riasanovsky dies at 87
May 24, 2011:
Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky, an emeritus professor of European history at UC Berkeley, and a leading authority on the history of Russia, died May 14 in an Oakland, Calif., nursing home following a long illness. He was 87.
Ethnic studies professor Alex Saragoza in PBS documentary about Mexican revolution
May 12, 2011:
Alex Saragoza, associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies, is featured in the PBS documentary, “The Storm that Swept Mexico. The documentary, which airs this Sunday, May 15, explores the roots of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, which was led by such icons as Emiliano Zapata and Francisco “Pancho” Villa.
Phoebe Hearst remembered as premier UC benefactor
April 28, 2011:
The Berkeley Daily Planet covers the opening of “Building Berkeley: The Legacy of Phoebe Apperson Hearst,” a new exhibit at the Doe Library’s Bernice Brown Gallery honoring the generous philanthropist and namesake of many UC Berkeley landmarks.
Echoes of Mengele and Tuskegee, this time in Guatemala
March 18, 2011:
Medical historian Susan Reverby, who first revealed postwar U.S. government medical experiments on Guatemalan prisoners and mental patients, said the story “fits the trope of a grade-B horror move.” But she warned a Berkeley audience that it’s “too easy” to distance ourselves from those who conducted the research.
‘Capturing the campus’
December 17, 2010:
Call it a visual form of academic introspection. This semester, a new Freshman Seminar, “Photographing History in the Making,” used the campus itself as a source for, and subject of, scholarly inquiry.
‘Philadelphia Stories’: Exploring literature of race and freedom in early Philadelphia
December 13, 2010:
Antebellum Philadelphia, at the border between North and South, was home to a large and influential “free” African American community, and was viewed as a laboratory in which the possibilities of a future without slavery could be tested. The Townsend Center’s Humanities Lab this month features Philadelphia Stories: Americas Literature of Race and Freedom by Samuel Otter, professor of English at Berkeley.
Backstory told on four colossal creations
November 22, 2010:
In her most recent book, Professor Darcy Grimaldo Grisby turns her gaze to large — no, massive — works, built to strike awe in the hearts of viewers. Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal explores four famous landmarks and the context of their creation.
Grant launches Berkeley Economic History Lab
November 2, 2010:
UC Berkeley’s Department of Economics is the recipient of a $1.25 million grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) to develop a Berkeley Economic History Laboratory to train more historically literate economists who can contribute to policy debates and help avoid devastating economic crises.
Susanna Barrows, scholar of modern French history, dies at 65
November 2, 2010:
Susanna I. Barrows, a professor emerita of history at the University of California, Berkeley, and an authority on modern French history, died at her home in Berkeley on Wednesday, Oct. 27, after a suspected heart attack. She was 65.
The Berkeley family — those Berkeleys — come to town
October 1, 2010:
An Australian family of five, descendants of the Irish philosopher who gave Berkeley its name, spent a half-day touring campus on Thursday. They’re the only family members known to have paid a visit. And they stay true to the name’s original pronunciation, “Bar-klee.”
Canadian history scholar Thomas G. Barnes dies
April 2, 2010:
Thomas Garden Barnes, a professor emeritus of history and law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leader in the development of Canadian studies in the United States, died on March 9 after suffering a stroke. He was 79. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon credited Barnes with increasing the understanding of Canada in the United States and with promoting closer political, economic and cultural ties between the two countries.
