Past Events

Joseph Harris, leader of the Art of Writing Summer Institute, considers the representation of writing teachers and instruction in popular culture. 

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Geoffrey Nunberg, Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, is the 2016 featured writer in the “Berkeley Writers at Work”… Continue reading Past Events

Writer, filmmaker, multimedia artist, composer, and UC Berkeley Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Rhetoric, Trinh Minh Ha reads from her newest work, Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared.

Widely published cultural critics Hua Hsu and Jeff Chang and discuss music, race, and popular culture.

Cuban wrtier Víctor Rodríguez Núñez has published more than 30 books of poetry throughout Latin America and Europe, and has received major awards all over the Spanish-speaking world.

Television and film critics Lili Loofbourow and David Thompson engage in conversation about the state of contemporary media.

Award-winning poet, novelist, translator, and scholar Sinan Antoon discusses writing and translation with Art of Writing Director Ramona Naddaff, with an… Continue reading Past Events

Jonathan Franzen speaks to undergraduate students on April 28, 2016, in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library. In examining his New Yorker article “Carbon Capture,”… Continue reading Past Events

We had the pleasure of hosting Professor Robert Reich for our second annual Art of Writing Lecture on February 23,… Continue reading Past Events