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a dramatic black-and-white photo of Joyce DiDonato gently looking toward the sky with her hands lifting up, with the three strings musicians from the group Time for Three in the background.

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How Emily Dickinson’s musical poetry pushes us to live more expansively

As Cal Performances brings the 19th-century poet’s explosive verse to Zellerbach Hall with "Emily — No Prisoner Be," Berkeley lecturer John Shoptaw explores why her hymn-like verse is the ultimate prescription for a digital age.

four small unfired clay figures depicting European merchants sit side by side in a line. You can see enormous attention to detail in the details on their coats, hands, hair and eyes.

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In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging.

Literature

This Berkeley professor is exposing the hidden physical toll of our digital world

Law student Simone Browne sits behind the workings of the Carrillon at UC Berkeley, smiling.

Arts & culture

For whom the bells toll: Student harmonizes love of music with law studies

Artist Sarah Cain stands in her latest immersive installation at BAMPFA.

Come in, sit, stay a while: How alum Sarah Cain invites visitors into her paintings

An AI illustration of a person's face is shown on a laptop screen, with stacks of books shown in the background, illustrating the connection between AI technology and the humanities

How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today

paper cutout shadows projected on a wall of a little girl entering a forest all alone

Shadow puppets and revenge: Manual Cinema’s new take on ‘Macbeth’

Carla Shapreau holds up and discusses an antique violin from the Salz Collection to a group of middle school students on a field trip

The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them

In new African lit exhibit, stories challenge and enchant

a woman looks at enlarged mounted photos on a gallery wall

Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew

A collage of 15 book covers, including The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (on a burgundy background with a large face), A Gesture Life (black-and-white cover), Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston (image of a bridge), Comfort Woman (a woman's face), Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (dragons in a style associate with Asian scroll art), Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (on a blue background), east goes west (a globe on top of a cubist body, accompanies by Chinese characters), Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (a back-and-white image of an Asian man's face with a childhood photo superimposed), Fifth Chinese Daughter (a fairytale draying on top of a red background), China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (red text and a dragon), America is in the Heart, No-No Boy (a body, fists covering his face, behind two strands of crossed red barbed wire, Dictee (a black-and-white landscape image), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (an Asian girl with a bowl cut looking through the window), and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (a romaneqseque sculpture of a woman)

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

Hannah Hoffman hands items to Lara Michels of Bancroft Library at St. Hieronymus Press

Iconic Berkeley printmaker’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library

Chris performs pirekua in Michoacán with a music group of five members

‘Always in motion’: New professor studies the flow of music across borders and cultures

A photo of Stephanie Syjuco's installation of

With a 63-by-30 foot art installation, Stephanie Syjuco explores education and activism at BAMPFA

UC Berkeley linguist Gašper Beguš peers through a row of books in a library

Berkeley linguist on time travel, talking to whales and the ‘sacred’ role of libraries

the uc berkeley symphony orchestra performs in Europe while david milnes conducts. it has some motion blur that gives the image a dream-like quality.

Encores and sold-out performances: The UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra tours Europe

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