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Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

If I Give My Soul: Pentecostalism in the Prisons of Rio

Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

March 30, 2016 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
Bechtel Hall

Andrew Johnson, Filmmaker and Co-Director
Laura Graham, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa

Film Screening and Discussion The documentary If I Give My Soul began the day that co-director Andrew Johnson checked into a Brazilian prison, where he would spend two weeks living as an inmate. He ate the same food, slept in the same cells and went through the routines as if he were incarcerated in an […]

If I Give My Soul: Pentecostalism in the Prisons of Rio

"Tablet of Being": Persian Painting and the Demiurgic Artist in Fifteenth Century Iran and Central Asia

Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

October 27, 2015 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
370 Dwinelle Hall

Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College

In the fifteenth century, Persian book painting becomes filled with extra-textual figures, deviating from and subverting the textual story they supposedly illustrate. Through a careful analysis of aspects of facture and composition, combined with an exploration of primary art historiographical sources, this talk suggests that this departure from illustration transformed the painting into a reflexive […]

"Tablet of Being": Persian Painting and the Demiurgic Artist in Fifteenth Century Iran and Central Asia

Radical Love: A Photographic Narrative of Cloistered Religious Life

Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

October 06, 2015 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
220 Stephens Hall

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Toni Greaves, Photographer

The sudden revelation of a powerful religious calling was an entirely unexpected event in the life of a college student named Lauren. But when it became clear to her that she had a spiritual vocation, she made the exceptional decision to dedicate her life to God. Drawing upon many visits to the cloistered religious community […]

Radical Love: A Photographic Narrative of Cloistered Religious Life

Brigid of Murroe

Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

April 09, 2015 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
370 Dwinelle Hall

Fanny Howe, Poet, Essayist, Novelist

Brigid of Ireland was first a goddess, then a person, then a saint divided into multiple personalities and nationalities. She shows up, like Mary, all over the place and is useful for almost any situation. There are religious orders devoted to her, although she emanates a pantheistic aura, even a primitive one, both historically and […]

Brigid of Murroe

Blueprint for a Modern Faith: 20th-C Experiments in Bay Area Religious Architecture

Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

February 05, 2015 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
370 Dwinelle Hall

William Littmann, Senior Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Visual Studies, California College of the Arts

For more than a century, Bay Area architects have created some of the nation’s most innovative religious architecture, ranging from the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Berkeley by Bernard Maybeck to the award-winning Congregation Beth Sholom Synagogue in San Francisco designed by Stanley Saitowitz in 2009. This talk explores the history of experimental and […]

Blueprint for a Modern Faith: 20th-C Experiments in Bay Area Religious Architecture

Religion and the Art of the Novel

Berkeley Seminars in Art, Literature, and Religion

November 03, 2014 / 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
Bechtel Hall

Author Marilynne Robinson is joined in discussion by UC Berkeley faculty panelists Dorothy Hale (English), Jonathan Sheehan (History), and Robert Hass (English). Robinson is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2004 National Book […]

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