Pheng Cheah notes that you only have to pick up a newspaper to get an idea of how often the term "freedom" is used, whether in relation to protests against the World Trade Organization or justifications for war in the Middle East. But from where do our ideas of freedom arise, and do they work for everyone on earth?
Young scholars in the humanities
Gretchen Case explores the stories we tell about scars
Alexei Yurchak examines how ordinary Russians experienced the end of Soviet Socialism
Laura Pérez charts new directions in contemporary Chicana art
With a computer and a touch pad not much bigger than a dinner plate, David Wessel creates a universe of sounds: a deluge of drumming that resembles sticks banging on an empty oil barrel; the sound of 100 flutes blowing simultaneously; a demented jazz band playing a cacophonous but arresting tune.
Tom Laqueur and Steve Glickman seem like a natural partnership, but it took a very old mistake by Aristotle about the nature of hyena genitalia to bring them together.
When the National Theater of Greece came to Berkeley in September 2003 to perform Euripides' Medea, Mark Griffith, a professor in the Classics and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Departments, was a natural choice to introduce the troupe's performance at the Greek Theater.
