Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses

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How Artists Reimagined Language in the Age of Decolonization

This online exhibit is the companion to an exhibit in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library, UC Berkeley, March-August 2023. This exhibition was created as a part of the … course History of Art 192Cu, "Exhibiting Calligraphic Modernism."

BUNKER: the optimism of the pessimistic

This exhibit puts in conversation the contemporary works of photographers and scholars Richard Ross, Bradley Garrett, and Adam Reynolds with Paul Virilio’s 1975 series … titled “Bunker Archeology.” During the pandemic isolation gained an entirely new meaning, and spaces for quarantine and reclusiveness attained increased visibility and popularity. However, designing protective spaces through seclusion has been a long-standing and widely-disseminated modern strategy to address military and sanitary actions. Bunker-types were broadly adopted during WWI, and these spaces served varying purposes over the years. Traditionally known as insalubrious underground spaces, this exhibition shows how bunkers have evolved. No longer necessarily buried or hidden, they now serve a variety of functions depending on context and historical moment. This show invites viewers to reflect both on the design of these spaces and on the conditions that necessitated their creation in the first place.

Visualizing Place

Maps from The Bancroft Library

Centering Philippine and Filipinx American Histories

Selections from The Bancroft Library

Shelf Life

Preserving the Library’s Collections

Tumbling the Ivory Tower

Creating the Race Requirement at UC Berkeley

What could be so important that faculty on campus would agree on creating a new campus-wide requirement? So asked Professor Bill Simmons, first director for the Center … for the Study of American Cultures (from 1988-1994). His answer - the teaching and learning of race, racism, and anti-racism in our institutions, communities, local and transnational lives - bringing into life the nation’s first ‘diversity’ curriculum, the American Cultures (AC) requirement at UC Berkeley.

The Daily Californian: The First 150 Years

This online exhibit is the companion to an exhibit in the Brown Gallery, Doe Library, UC Berkeley, December 2021 - July 2022. These exhibits celebrate the 150th … anniversary of the Daily Californian, one of the oldest college newspapers in the United States, and one of the oldest newspapers on the West Coast.

Becoming 'The First Free Town in the Americas': Claiming and Celebrating Blackness in Yanga, Veracruz

This virtual exhibition was created to honor Duncan Wanless whose undergraduate thesis titled, "Becoming the First Free Town in the Americas: Mobilizing Afro-Mexican … Memory, Performance, and Local History in Yanga, Veracruz, 1932-1990," won the 2021 Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Prize for Undergraduate Research.

¡Viva la Revolución Mexicana: 1920-2020!

This exhibition is dedicated to the November 2021 conference, "México : La Conquista-Independencia-Adaptación, 1521-1821-2021," which unpacks questions surrounding the … two significant dates in the history of Mexico. In 2021 we commemorate almost one-hundred years since the end of the Mexican Revolution (1910-2010), two hundred since the end of the struggle for Mexican Independence, and five hundred since the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. 2021 is the year that marks the five hundred years of the beginning of the end of the Aztec Empire with the capture of Tenochtitlan by Hernan Cortes (1521-2021). This event resulted in the genocide of the first nations on the American continent that Columbus’s “discovery” of “India” had begun in 1492. The second important date is September 28, 1821, as it is the date of the Declaration of Independence. The treaty of Cordoba signed on August 24, 1821, marked the end of The treaty ended hostilities between royalists and troops that fought for Independence. Still, Spain didn’t officially recognize Mexican Independence until 1836. While some have observed these as critical historical milestones, the organizers agree with what the Director of Center for Latin American Studies Professor Natalia Brizuela has noted, “even those presented as glorious (“independence”), particularly vis-a-vis indigenous populations, are markers of great catastrophes.” This conference represents an opportunity for us to reflect upon these dates and events. Precisely, the virtual conference presentations will revisit some of the events that transpired after 1521 and through the bicentenary of Mexico’s Independence.

Library Exhibition Posters

Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library

Using didactic posters to guide viewers through a Library exhibition.

Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining

This exhibit, “Indonesia: Spectacles of Small-scale Gold Mining,” consists of photos taken in the West Kalimantan region of Indonesian Borneo by UC Berkeley’s Professor … Nancy Lee Peluso.

Global Influence

Preserving Moving Images from Environmental Movements in the West, 1920-2000

Funded through the Council on Library and Information Resources Recordings at Risk program, this audiovisual collection documents the environmental movements in the … West from 1920- 2000, the roots of which influenced national and global movements surrounding land conservation, climate change, and environmental protection.

I Gave my Dreams to Liangshan

The Yi People in the Chinese Literary Imagination

James Kennerly began with the ultimate challenge: conduct ethnographic research involving no human interaction. Instead, Kennerly made the Library his field site. His … paper explores the concept of othering through language and art — focusing on how the ruling Han Chinese depicted the Yi minority of Liangshan as second-class citizens lacking Confucian ideals. For the project, titled “‘I Gave my Dreams to Liangshan,’” Kennerly dove into the C. V. Starr East Asian Library’s collections, reviewing 16th-century Chinese woodcuts, propaganda comic books, and more. “The project taught me how to build a personal connection to the archive,” Kennerly says, “(and) how to form bonds with people who are only found in the pages of string-bound volumes.”

The Nineteenth Amendment

The Fight for Women's Suffrage as seen through 'The Woman Citizen'

Mapping the Bay

The maps in this online exhibit include highlights from the Earth Science & Map Library's Historic Maps of the Bay Area Collection, supplemented with additional … historic and modern maps. They are organized loosely by region (Bay Area as a whole, East Bay, North Bay, Peninsula, San Francisco and South Bay) and by theme. You will also see several different types of maps—nautical, topographic, geologic, road maps, census maps and more.

Négritude : Sharing spaces in the Caribbean and Latin America!

Power and the People

The U.S. Census and Who Counts

The Fallen Weichafe

State Violence and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Chile

Science Gets Graphic!

Cartoons, Comics and Graphic Novels in the Sciences

Illustrated works and graphic novels from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Libraries collections that aim to teach college students and the general public about … science and scientists.

Illustrating Mexico one page at a time-Print Art of José Guadalupe Posada

Art for the Asking: 60 Years of the Graphic Arts Loan Collection

Women Who Figure

An Exhibit Inspired by the Mathematicians of Hidden Figures

We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!

The LGBTQ Movement and Life as Seen Through Government Information

Cuban Poster Art

Life and Resistance in the Mapuche Territory, Chile.

Vida y Resistencia en el Territorio Mapuche, Chile.

The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017

Politics, Propaganda and People's Art

This exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of the Russian Revolution that took place in October of 1917. This revolution was a tragic social experiment that came to … end with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, its repercussions are felt even one hundred years later. This revolution can be considered to be the last revolution in the series of revolts in the 19th century Russian Empire that began with the Decembrist uprising of 1825, followed by 1905 Russian Revolution, and finally the February 1917 revolution that led to the abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II. The Socialist Revolution that took place on 25 October (7 November 1917 new style calendar) was led by the Bolsheviks. It is thus often called as the Red October or Bolshevik Revolution in the West. The exhibition is divided into three interlinked themes. These are as follows- Politics, Propaganda and People's Art. This exhibition highlights faculty publications of the University of California system. This is an online component of the exhibition that was held in Moffitt Library in the Fall of 2017. This exhibition is curated by Dr. Liladhar R. Pendse, who is a librarian for East European, Eurasian and Slavic Studies collections at UC Berkeley.

The Logan Collection

Highlights & Shadows: Books on Photography from the Reva and David Logan Collection

The Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection for Chinese Film Studies

A Brief History of Literatura de Cordel

Doe Library Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley

Project IRENE

Using optical scanning to digitize ethnographic field recordings on wax cylinders