Calendar of Upcoming Events
View calendar in Monthly ViewAfrican American Heritage Dinner and Gospel Music Spectacular
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Celebrate Black History month with an all-you-can-eat buffet banquet featuring traditional foods from various African and African-American culinary traditions. Dinner is from 6:00-8:00 pm in the Dining Hall. Guests, friends and family members are welcome to attend for $12. Weekly menu and upcoming theme dinners posted at:
Ritual Dinner: Provence
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM
With Michel Brun, resident from Provence Home Room $10 public, $5 members
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
Fredric Jameson: "The Aesthetics of Singularity"
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 6:00 PM
The Townsend Center presents Literary theorist and critic Fredric Jameson as Avenali Chair in the Humanities, 2011-2012. The William A. Lane Professor in the Program in Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, Jameson has published a wide range of works analyzing literary and cultural texts, while developing his own neo-Marxist theoretical perspectives and offering important critiques...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
A Conversation with Yoshi Akiba: Bridging Cultures in Business, Art and Life
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Join us for a Conversation with Yoshi Akiba: Bridging Cultures in Business, Art, and Life as part of I-House’s International Women's Day Celebration. Beyond running her award-winning jazz clubs in Oakland and San Francisco (Yoshi’s), Mrs. Akiba, Bay Area artist, entrepreneur and I-House Alumna and Board Member, is a UC Berkeley graduate and teacher who has successfully integrated traditional...
Anthropology in the World Symposium: In honor of Laura Nader
Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE WORLD A SYMPOSIUM — open to the public— March 8, 9, 10 In honor of Laura Nader — 50 years in Anthropology March 8 International House (2299 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720) 4:00pm Welcome 4:10pm TERRORISM & EMPIRE Joseba Zulaika – Mythologies of Terror: Drones, Fantasy and Self-Fulfilling Prophesy in U.S. Counterterrorism Discussants: Ugo Mattei and Ralph...
Anthropology in the World Symposium: In honor of Laura Nader
Friday, March 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM
ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE WORLD A SYMPOSIUM — open to the public— March 8, 9, 10 In honor of Laura Nader — 50 years in Anthropology March 8 International House (2299 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720) 4:00pm Welcome 4:10pm TERRORISM & EMPIRE Joseba Zulaika – Mythologies of Terror: Drones, Fantasy and Self-Fulfilling Prophesy in U.S. Counterterrorism Discussants: Ugo Mattei and Ralph...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, March 12, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
I-House Film Series: San Yuan Li
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM
China's rapid modernization literally traps the village of San Yuan Li within the surrounding skyscrapers of Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people. The villagers move to a different rhythm, thriving on subsistence farming and traditional crafts. They resourcefully reinvent their traditional lifestyle by tending rice paddies on empty city lots and raising chickens on makeshift rooftop coops.
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, March 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
Jefferson Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM
The Honorable Kathryn M. Werdegar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California, will present the Jefferson Memorial lecture on March 20, 2012 titled "Living with Direct Democracy: The California Supreme Court and the Initiative Power—100 Years of Accommodation." The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
I-House Film Series: Children of the Amazon
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. This...
The Science of a Meaningful Life
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 9:00 AM
This day-long seminar and live webcast will offer strategies for cultivating self-compassion and reducing stress, led by Dr. Kristin Neff.
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
The Modern Consumer in Historical Perspective
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 4:30 PM
On April 29, 1912, a special Academic Council committee reported favorably on a proposal by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler “to consider the feasibility of establishing at the University a series of lectures for the presentation of results of research at the University of California.” Since then, except during the war year of 1919, the Academic Senate has annually elected one or two faculty...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, April 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
I-House Film Series: Our Summer In Tehran
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Jewish American filmmaker Justine Shapiro and her 6 year-old son Mateo, spend the summer with three middle-class families in Tehran, Iran transcending overt politics in favor of subtle, human, and often humorous moments. Over the course of three months, Shapiro and her son experience the daily life of three middle class families from very different backgrounds in Tehran.
Alexis Jones
Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Alexis Jones is an interna-tionally recognized motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of the female empowerment company i am that girl. At only 26 years old she has earned a Masters in Communication at USC and is well known for navigating the beauty industry as a teen model, being a finalist on the CBS hit show Survivor Micronesia and her commitment to critical inquiry into women’s...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, April 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
The New Industrial Revolution with Chris Anderson
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, will discuss a new form of entrepreneurship taking root around the world. People are applying the Web’s social and innovation models to DIY “small batch” manufacturing, leading to what Mr. Anderson calls “the continuing industrialization of the Maker Movement”. Author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price and The Long Tail: Why the Future of...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
I-House Film Series: The Other Half
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Working as a secretary for a legal office, Xiaofen records the sordid aspects of clients' lives: divorce, medical malpractice, financial corruption and revenge. She begins to question her relationship with her boyfriend fresh out of prison and looking to get into trouble again. While dealing with the overwhelming social malaise around her, rumors spread of a disaster at the chemical plant,...
The Mugging of Main Street in America: Implications for the World with Robert Scheer
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Robert Scheer, Editor-in-Chief of "Truthdig.com", has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. His in-depth interviews have made headlines, including the famous "Playboy" magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and notable "Los Angeles Times" interviews with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
Awards Celebration and Gala Honoring Joan Baez
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Save the Date! Thursday, May 3, 6:00 - 8:30 PM Reception 6:00 - 7:00 PM Seated Dinner & Program 7:00 - 8:30 PM Individual tickets start at $275 and table sponsorships with a range of benefits run $3,750 - $25,000. Online reservations begin March 1, 2012. Joan Baez began her singing career as a teenager in the coffeehouses of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has now been performing for...
Salsa Social Dance Class
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Salsa Classes are back with World Award Winning Dancer Timea Potys of Sizzling Latin! Timea heats things up at I-House with Salsa classes every Monday, 8 - 9:30 pm until May 7, 2012. Classes are FREE for Residents, Alumni and Members of I-House, $10 for the General Public. Sign up in the Program Office or e-mail ihprograms@berkeley.edu.
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Leon Wieseltier will present the Foerster lecture on October 24, 2012 titled "A Passion for Waiting: Messianism, History, and the Jews."
