SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
SEMINARS
The ARC core faculty meet together in a seminar format to share research interests between themselves and with other faculty
and visiting artists. Discussion topics have included current issues in art historical theory, new music, and performance studies.
ARC faculty also occasionally collaborate to team-teach interdisciplinary seminars for graduate students.CONFERENCES
ARC has sponsored a number of conferences at which Berkeley faculty and graduate students as well as visiting scholars
examine interdisciplinary issues in the arts.Below are links to more information on specific seminars and conferences:
Spring 2002 Conference: Artists/Intellectuals/Institutions
Spring 2003 Conference: "The Arts" In Question
Spring 2004 Conference: When is Art Research?
2005-2006 Strategic Working Group: When Is Art Research?
(a Townsend Center for the Humanities project that grew out of the ARC conference)
Spring 2008 Conference: World-Making and World Art
Spring 2008 Seminar: Art and the Transnational Caribbean
(a mini-seminar in conjunction with the World-Making and World Art conference)CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
ARC is concerned with promoting an interdisciplinary and experiential approach to the arts within general undergraduate
education. To this end, ARC annually awards curriculum development grants to Berkeley faculty and graduate student
instructors to develop innovative courses that integrates the performing and visual arts available on campus and/or
builds bridges between artistic disciplines. See below for more information.Curriculum Development Grants: Teaching Across the Arts
The Arts Research Center will award curriculum development grants of $750 to Graduate Student Instructors or faculty
to develop and teach courses in the 2008-2009 academic year that can be defined as “teaching across the arts.”
Courses that deal with intersections and disjunctions between different media and/or modes of representation, that
address general critical or theoretical frameworks that might be applied to the arts, or that consider the role of the arts
in relaying humanistic, historical, or other scholarly inquiries are welcome.
To be eligible for grant funding, proposed courses must:
- involve materials from at least two artistic media,
- whenever possible, draw in some significant measure on the existing art resources at Berkeley
(e.g. Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Cal Performances, Departments of Music, Theater, Dance, etc.),- and address the challenge of writing about the arts in addition to issues raised by the arts themselves.
Preference will be given to courses that have not been offered at Berkeley in the past, or that represent significant
modifications of pre-existing courses. Team-taught or interdepartmental courses are encouraged, though not required.
To apply for a grant for 2008-2009, please email the following information to Associate Director Michele Rabkin
at micheler@berkeley.edu by Monday, March 10, 2008.1. Name, department, GSI or faculty standing, email address and daytime phone number.
2. Proposed course outline, syllabus, and reading list.
3. List of proposed arts materials that will be incorporated into the course.
4. In the event that it is not an entirely new course, an explanation of how the proposed course
differs from or builds upon pre-existing offerings.
5. For GSIs: name and contact information of department scheduler and faculty member in charge
of GSI affairs relevant to GSI teaching.
6. For faculty: name and contact information of course coordinator and department scheduler.
7. Brief proposal for use of the funds, which may be expended for instructional or for research purposes.
Please note: arrangements can be made for students in Consortium-supported courses to attend course-related
shows at Cal Performances at a specially discounted rate of 75% the regular ticket prices, subject to availability.Grant awards will be contingent until courses are accepted for scheduling.
Successful applicants will be asked to file a brief report with the Arts Research Center at the end of the semester
and asked to submit copies of course evaluations.
For more information, please contact Michele Rabkin at micheler@berkeley.edu or 2-4268.
