Issues published in 2002–2004 originally published as Framing the Questions.
1956
Berkeley Founds the Center for Latin American Studies
May 2006
Covering Culture
The News from Latin America in Paint, Cinema, and Song
May 2006
1980
Milosz on What Matters
April 2006
Universal, Beautiful Ideas
Hass and Danner on Dostoevsky and the Origins of Political Violence
April 2006
2004
Saving Voices
March 2006
Difficult Proposition
Berkeley prof at the center of California's stem cell debate
March 2006
1943
Diebenkorn Comes to Cal
February 2006
Just in Time
The strangely familiar world of Anne Walsh
February 2006
1872
West Meets East
December 2005
Writing from the Rim
Is there such a thing as Asian American fiction?
December 2005
1949
Roughing It
November 2005
Re-imagined Cities
Urban Expansion and the New Language of the Modern Novel
November 2005
1907
The Greatest Show on Earth
October 2005
Man of the Heart
Berkeley Playwright Channels Bengali Bard in New Production
October 2005
1969
Liberating Voices
May 2005
Hidden History
Berkeley Professor Uncovers the Everyday Lives of Palestinians
May 2005
1912
Charles Seeger Inaugurates New Era of Music
April 2005
Sound Reasoning
Berkeley Department of Music Celebrates 100 Years of Groundbreaking Scholarship
April 2005
1983
Foucault at Berkeley
March 2005
Out of His Head
Berkeley Philosopher Alva Noë Breaks Down Brain/Body Divide -- and Traditional Academic Barriers
March 2005
1874
William Swinton, the original radical
February 2005
Office Space
Louise Mozingo Gets the Dirt on America's Corporate Landscapes
February 2005
Ghosts of Freedom
Pheng Cheah explores the meaning of liberty
December 2004
Natural Rhythm
Kristin Hanson finds beauty in meter
December 2004
New Directions
Undergraduate grants help young scholars conduct original research in the humanities
December 2004
Marked on the Body
Gretchen Case explores the stories we tell about scars
August 2004
The Space Between
Alexei Yurchak examines how ordinary Russians lived the end of socialism
August 2004
Spiritual Reclamation
Laura Pérez charts new directions in contemporary Chicana art
August 2004
Sound Experiments
David Wessel and CNMAT explore the frontiers of music
April 2004
Man and Beast
Two colleagues cross disciplines to probe the human-animal dynamic
April 2004
Slaves of Dionysus
Mark Griffith finds hidden tensions in Greek drama and society
April 2004
Mussolini's Ghost
Mia Fuller examines Italian fascism through the eyes of those who grew up inside its walls
December 2003
Humanity Reinvented
Paul Rabinow has a birds-eye view of humanity in the crosshairs of technological invention
December 2003
After Angkor
Ashley Thompson unravels memory, mourning, and moving on in Cambodia -- from ancient times to today
December 2003
Color Correction
Linda Williams traces the manipulation of race and image through American pop culture
August 2003
Beauty in Violence
Alan Tansman unravels the subtle signs of a culture ready to embrace a violent future in pre-war Japan
August 2003
Shouting It Out
Mary Ann Smart reclaims 19th century opera for feminism
August 2003
Shaping the Future
Paula Fass mines the rich history of childhood, both in America and around the globe
April 2003
Hamlet & Redemption
Victoria Kahn investigates the literary writings of constitutional scholar Carl Schmitt -- and cuts him no slack
April 2003
Breathing Room
Through art, Greg Niemeyer explores air, environment and interdependency
April 2003
Across the Lines
Elizabeth Abel studies racial perspectives in photography of the Jim Crow era
December 2002
Amazonia Expanded
Candace Slater takes readers to the rainforest and beyond
December 2002
Justice in the Balance
David Cohen reflects on war crimes tribunals of the past, present and future
December 2002
Everyday Ancients
Todd Hickey shares secrets from the Tebtunis papyri
August 2002
Country of Kultur
Deniz Göktürk offers an inside perspective on migration and Germany
August 2002
Sexuality in Context
Michael Lucey helps sexuality studies find a larger home
August 2002
Tales from the Bog
Karin Sanders' research on the bog mummies explores how language brings us face to face with the past
April 2002
Mythic Montana
Joe Goode teaches his students how to reveal divine power on the stage of everyday life
April 2002
Extraordinary Bodies
Sue Schweik helps UC Berkeley expand the horizons of disabilities studies
April 2002