Due to Covid-19, the Spring 2021 Roundtables will be conducted online via Zoom. These presentations will be recorded, and made available on YouTube. Please see the current speaker list below for details.

Please note: As per the University's guidelines, all participants and hosts are now required to sign in to a Zoom account prior to joining meetings hosted by UC Berkeley. The Bancroft Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations or have questions about an event, please email banc-roundtable@berkeley.edu.

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Launched in 1997, the Roundtables highlight The Bancroft Library's vast resources for studying and exploring the history and cultures of our planet. We invite established and budding scholars to offer insights into their work, be it published or as an opportunity to conceptualize and present their dissertation level research. These informal noontime talks, which bring together the campus community and the wider public, are intended to represent the fruits of research conducted at Bancroft.

Roundtables are scheduled at noon on the third Thursday of September, October, November, February, March, April, and May in the Faculty Club. Please visit Bancroft's Events Calendar for room location. Email banc-roundtable@berkeley.edu to be added to the mailing list.

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List of Speakers

• Present - 2011
• 2010 - 1997

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SPRING 2021

February 18th
Noon
Eldridge Cleaver and the Global Archive
Presented by Justin D. Gifford, Professor of English Literature, University of Nevada, Reno

Justin Gifford is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Nevada, Reno. His teaching and research interests are African American literature, archival research, and popular fiction. He is the author of three books, Revolution or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver, Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim, and Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing. Starting at The Bancroft Library, Dr. Gifford's research on Eldridge Cleaver took him all over the globe, from the secret police archives in Paris to the national archive in Algiers to the living room of revolutionary Kathleen Cleaver.

You can order the book via the publisher Chicago Review Press or through your local, independent bookstore.

March 18th
Noon
Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa
Presented by Marilyn Chase, Continuing Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
Watch online on YouTube

Marilyn Chase will join the Bancroft Roundtable to discuss her work on the first biography of sculptor and survivor Ruth Asawa (1926–2013). Beloved in the Bay Area for her wire sculptures and fountains, Asawa's works were forged by Depression-era poverty, incarceration in a WWII internment camp and relentless racial and gender bias. Asawa's journey was the focus of five years' work by Chase, a UC Berkeley Continuing Lecturer, drawing from the Bancroft's Oral History Center, other archives and over 80 interviews with family, friends and colleagues. The resulting book, Everything She Touched: the Life of Ruth Asawa (Chronicle Books, 2020), is now in its fourth printing. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Chase also chronicled a 1900 epidemic fueled by denial –a familiar dynamic to many of us today– in The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco (Random House, 2003). A graduate of both Stanford and Berkeley, Chase currently teaches writing at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

You can order the book via the publisher Chronicle Books or through your local, independent bookstore. Visit the author's website for incredible photos from Imogen Cunningham of Ruth Asawa at work!

April 15
Noon
Inescapable Mutuality of Place: Aaron Mair, Environmental Justice, and the Sierra Club Oral History Project
Presented by Roger Eardley-Pryor, Historian, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library

Aaron Mair is a pioneer in the movement for environmental justice who became the Sierra Club’s first Black president from 2015-2017. Mair's sense of self and his sense of place are deeply entangled. To nourish one's sense of place, to acquire the sense not of ownership but of belonging, Sierra Club member Wallace Stegner suggested we look around us instead of always looking ahead. Oral historians help narrators look back and reflect on their past. The intense week I spent with Mair recording his fifteen-hour oral history in 2018 helped me realize how much we can learn by joining our narrators in looking around. How did the experience of conducting Mair's oral history, first in South Carolina and then in Albany, New York, relate to the power of place and the importance of interconnection, two key themes that arose in Mair's oral history? And how has the enslavement and emancipation of Mair's ancestors, as well as his own life experiences, intersected with the Sierra Club's evolving efforts toward environmental justice and its reckonings over race since the Club's founding in 1892?

April 29th *Special Roundtable Edition*
Noon
Register via Zoom
Graphic in Transit: Sergio Sánchez Santamaría
Presented by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría, Artist; Raúl Ferrera Balanquet, Artist, Curator, and Instructor In Residence, Center for Afrofuturist Studies; Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Co-Editor, Duke University; and Rafael A. Osuba, Artistic Director, Artist Studio Project

Sergio Sánchez Santamaría is the heir of the famous Taller de Gráfica Popular, a powerful collective of visual artists that for decades produced art in a socially (at times politically) engaged ways in Mexico and that became known worldwide for their commitment to justice, social equality, and human rights. Graphic in Transit: Sergio Sánchez Santamaría responds to the question of how to sustain and actualize such a legacy in times in which art has moved away from the social commitment of the past. Participants in this conversation will present the work of Sánchez Santamaría in a historical and critical context, next to figures such as African American artist Elizabeth Catlett and Leopoldo Méndez among others. This event also marks the launching of the book of the same title, which presents texts produced by art critics, collectors, and fellow artists introducing to the American audience the work of Sánchez Santamaría. This first edition of the book is accompanied with an "original" signed piece the artist is donating for the release of the book. The edition is made with a local artist base publication company (Artist Studio Publishing, LLC) based in Raleigh, NC. This first edition has a 200 copies run, most of them for free distribution to libraries, collaborators, and the artist. A small number will be on sale to recover some of the cost of the edition and keep the organization working on these themes. The publisher is working on an e-book edition that can reach a broader audience. To read more about the edition: https://arts.duke.edu/news/graphic-in-transit-honors-mexicos-finest-printmaker

May 20th
Noon
Register via Zoom
"An Island Rises from the Sea to Annex Itself": George Davidson, the Pacific Coast Survey, and the Charting of an Oceanic American Empire
Presented by Alexander Arroyo, graduate student, Department of Geography and Kenneth E. and Dorothy V. Hill Fellowship recipient

George Davidson, head of the U.S. Coast Survey for the Pacific, president of the California Academy of Sciences, and the first professor of geography at Berkeley, spent nearly his entire career charting the location and transformation of the Bering Sea's stratovolcano, Aĝasaaĝux (or "Bogoslof," as renamed by Russian sailors)—from his first Alaska survey in 1867 until his death in 1911. Utilizing historical information from Unangan informants, navigational charts of failed forays through the Northwest Passage, and military-scientific expeditions in the Aleutian Islands, Davidson's extensive research into the centurial life of Aĝasaaĝux/Bogoslof refracts the complex relations between multiple modes of geographic knowing deployed in the United States' fin de siècle imperial project. Drawing on The Bancroft Library's voluminous collection of Davidson's papers, Arroyo will utilize unpublished notes, drawings, and correspondence to discuss the historical conditions through which "an island rising from the sea" could be said to "annex itself" for empire.

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FALL 2020

September 17th
Curious Elision: Reading Philip Whalen's Manuscripts at The Bancroft
Presented by David Brazil, noted poet, pastor, and translator
Watch online on YouTube

October 15th
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Presented by Megan Rosenbloom, Collection Strategies Librarian at UCLA and cofounder of Death Salon
Watch online on YouTube

SPRING 2020

February 20th
Brown, Behind the Scenes: Contending with Governor Jerry Brown and his Oral History
Presented by Martin Meeker, Director, and Todd Holmes, Historian, Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library

March 19th
More Than a Centennial Celebration: California Women and the Vote
Presented by Lee Anne Titangos, Information and Instruction Specialist, The Bancroft Library
Watch online on Youtube (PDF of presentation also available)

FALL 2019

September 19th
The Makings of a Mutiny: Ghadri Poetry and Interrogations of Subjugated Knowledges in History
Presented by Amrit Deol, PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Humanities, UC Merced

October 17th
An Invaluable Resource: Reporting on Recent Archival Processing of Environmental Collections at The Bancroft Library
Presented by Lisa Monhoff, Environmental Collections Project Archivist, The Bancroft Library

November 21st
"To make letters live, that men themselves may have more life": Manuscript Analysis and the Lettering Arts
Presented by Chris McDonald, Assistant Pictorial Archivist, The Bancroft Library

SPRING 2019

February 21st
Migrants in the Making: Invisible Agricultural Child Labor and the Limits of Citizenship, 1938-1965
Presented by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, PhD candidate in History at Columbia University and Visiting Dissertation Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Latinx Research Center

March 21st
Sacred Time on the Frontier: Sabbath-keeping amongst Protestants and Jews in California, 1848-1920
Presented by Michel Sunhae Lee, PhD candidate in Religious Studies at University of Texas

April 18th
Cherokees and Choctaws Among the Miwok and Yokuts: Legacies of Cultural Blending and Intertribal Relations in Nineteenth Century California
Presented by Andrew Shaler, PhD candidate in History, UC Riverside

May 16th
"Loans for the Little Fellow": Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression
Presented by Sarah Quincy, PhD candidate in Economics at UC Davis

FALL 2018

September 20th
A Wise Counselor and Faithful Servant: The Life of Regent Andrew Smith Hallidie
Presented by Taryn Edwards, Librarian, Historian, and Strategic Partnerships Manager, Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco

October 18th
Education as the Project of Freedom: A Study of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project, 1968-76
Presented by Joanne Tien, doctoral candidate, Education, UC Berkeley

November 15th
Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area
Presented by Richard A. Walker, Professor Emeritus, Geography, UC Berkeley, and Director, Living New Deal Project

SPRING 2018

February 15th
Solving Mysteries at The Bancroft Library: The Fifth (Floor) Dimension
Presented by Kenna Fisher, Manuscripts Cataloger, Bancroft Library

March 15th
California's Place in Anti-Slavery Litigation on the Eve of the Civil War
Presented by Alexandra Havrylyshyn, J.D. and Ph.D. candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, and Bancroft Library Study Award recipient, UC Berkeley

April 19th
From Kitchen Tables to Laboratories: Nutritional Science at UC Berkeley, 1895-1930
Presented by Kimberly Killion, doctoral candidate, History, and Bancroft Library Study Award recipient, UC Berkeley

May 17th
The Business of Silver and Gold: Comstock Mines, California Finance, and the Production of Money in the Gilded Age West, 1860-1879
Presented by Rick Elliott, doctoral candidate, History, and Arthur J. Quinn Memorial Fellowship recipient, The Bancroft Library, University of Illinois at Chicago

FALL 2017

September 21st
Is the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1960s Still Relevant Today?
Presented by Carol Ruth Silver, Speaker, Author, Consultant, and Retired Attorney

October 19th
City of White Gold, San Francisco in the Gilded Age: Bringing Archival Images to Life through Film
Presented by Geordie Lynch, filmmaker

November 16th
Native Claims Across Nations: Indigenous Land Ownership in Mexican and U.S. California, 1840-1860
Presented by Julia Lewandoski, doctoral candidate, History, UC Berkeley

SPRING 2017

February 16th
Views of the Women's Liberation and Feminist Movements of the 1970s and 1980s: Selections from the Cathy Cade Photograph Archive
Presented by Cathy Cade, documentary photographer

March 16th
The Sail Before the Trail or Have We Missed The Boat?
Presented by Fred E. Woods, Professor of Latter-day Saint Church History and Mormon Doctrine, Brigham Young University

April 20th
Marking Time: Gwendolyn Brooks and the Mundane World
Presented by Amani Morrison, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient and doctoral candidate in African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

May 18th
Native American Collections at The Bancroft Library
Presented by Lee Anne Titangos, Instruction Specialist, Bancroft Library

FALL 2016

September 15th
Bobby Soxers In The Fields: Girls' Emergency Farm Labor During World War II
Presented by Jennifer R. Terry, doctoral candidate in History, UC Berkeley

October 20th
Whose Story Gets Told? Constructing a Biography when Sources Seem Too Limited
Presented by Michael Helquist, public historian

November 17th
The Ingenuity and Bravery of Lillian Gilbreth
Presented by Ferd Leimkuhler, professor emeritus, Purdue University

SPRING 2016

February 18th
The Historical Background of the New Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Presented by Ann Harlow, Independent Scholar

March 17th
The Idle Readers of Piers Plowman in Print
Presented by Spencer Strub, Bancroft Library Summer Award recipient and doctoral candidate in English and Medieval Studies, UC Berkeley

April 21st
Evidencing Boundaries: Text, Image, and Experience in Techialoyan Manuscripts
Presented by Jessica Stair, Bancroft Library Summer Award recipient and doctoral candidate in History of Art, UC Berkeley

May 19th
Dangerous Ground: Squatters, Statesmen, and the Rupture of American Democracy, 1830-1860
Presented by John Suval, Gunther Barth Fellow at The Bancroft Library and doctoral candidate in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

FALL 2015

September 17th
Whiskerology: The Meaning of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America
Presented by Sarah Gold McBride, doctoral candidate in History, UC Berkeley

October 15th
Before the PPIE: The Mechanics' Institute and the Development of San Francisco's 'Fair Culture,' 1857-1909
Presented by Taryn Edwards, Librarian/Historian, Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room, San Francisco

November 19th
Literary Industries: Hubert Howe Bancroft's History Company and the Privatization of the Historical Profession on the Pacific Coast
Presented by Travis E. Ross, doctoral candidate in History, University of Utah

SPRING 2015

February 19th
The Campanile at 100: Researching What We Thought We Knew
Presented by Steven Finacom, career Berkeley campus staffer

March 19th
"Counter-Institutions are the Answer, Man!" Multi-Ethnic Publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s
Presented by Simon Abramowitsch, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient and doctoral candidate in English, UC Davis

April 16th
Highlights and Shadows: Books on Photography from the Reva and David Logan Collection
Presented by Christine Hult-Lewis, PhD, the Reva and David Logan Curatorial Assistant at The Bancroft Library

May 21st
"The World’s Best Working Climate": Modeling Industrial Suburbs on the Edge of San Francisco Bay
Presented by Peter Ekman, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient and doctoral candidate in Geography, UC Berkeley

FALL 2014

September 18th
Adolph Sutro as German-American Pioneer: Lifework and Impacts
Presented by Hermann-Victor Johnen, Visiting Scholar, Institute of EuropeanStudies, UC Berkeley

October 16th
Joseph N. Leconte: Exploring, Mapping, and Photographing the High Sierra, 1890–1930
Presented by Larry Simon, Federal Consistency Coordinator, California Coastal Commission

November 20th
Exposing the Hidden Collections of The Bancroft Library: A Report on the "Quick Kills" Project
Presented by Lara Michels, Archivist, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

SPRING 2014

February 20th
Reading Between the Lines: Translation in Ancient Egypt
Presented by Emily Cole, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient and doctoral candidate in Egyptology, UCLA

March 20th
Hawaiian Pioneers in Mexican California
Presented by Gregory Rosenthal, Arthur J. Quinn Memorial Fellow at The Bancroft Library and doctoral candidate in History, SUNY, StonyBrook

April17th
Gold on the Trees, Gold in the Ground: Cyanide and the Making of Southern California (1886-1915)
Presented by Adam Romero, Bancroft Library Study Award recipient and doctoral candidate in Geography, UC Berkeley

May 15th
The Place of Print: Publication and the Regional Imagination in the Mining West, 1849-1869
Presented by Garrett Morrison, Reese Fellow at The Bancroft Library and doctoral candidate in English, Northwestern University

FALL 2013

September 19th
Bolton, His Maps, and The Bancroft Library
Presented by Albert L. Hurtado, Travis Chair in Modern American History, University of Oklahoma

October 17th
Thomas Kuchel: California's Liberal Republican Senator
Presented by Jason Bezis, Boalt Hall graduate who is writing a biography of Senator Thomas Kuchel

November 21st
Fallout Films: Bruce Conner's Atomic Sublime, 1958–1976
Presented by Johanna Gosse, Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art, Bryn Mawr College

SPRING 2013

February 21st
Southern and Californio Convergence in Southern California: General Andres Pico and the Chivalry Democrats,1846-1861
Presented by Daniel Lynch, Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of History and Bancroft Library Gunther Barth Fellowship recipient

March 21st
The Lives and Loyalties of UC Berkeley's Pensionados
Presented by Adrianne Francisco, Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of History and Bancroft Study Award recipient

April 18th
The Mother Tongue in the Uttermost West: Yiddish-Language Print Materials in the Magnes Collection
Presented by Eli Rosenblatt, PhD. candidate in the UC Berkeley Jewish Studies Program and Curatorial Intern at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

FALL 2012

September 20th
Beyond Words: Diary Secrets Out From Under Lock and Key
Presented by Susan Snyder, Head of Public Service, The Bancroft Library

October 18th
What's in the News: A Look at the Fang Family San Francisco Examiner Photographic Negative Collection
Presented by Lori Hines, Pictorial Archivist, The Bancroft Library

November 15th
It Was a Bloody Mess: Vallejo's 1942 Race Revolts and the Port Chicago Sailor's Strike
Presented by Javier Arbona, Ph.D. candidate in Department of Geography, UC Berkeley, and Bancroft Study Award Recipient

SPRING 2012

February 16th
Rain of Gold: A Century of Circular Labor Migration from Mexico
Presented by Israel Pastrana, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, UC San Diego, and Bancroft Study Award Recipient

March 15
The Worlds of Oratorian Devotion in 17th & 18th Century Mexico City
Presented by Benjamin Reed, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Reese Fellowship Recipient

April 19th
Manuel Lozada's Indigenous Rebellion : A 19th Century Tale of Capital, Race, and the Struggle Over Territory in Mexico
Presented by Diana Negrin da Silva, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography, UC Berkeley, and Bancroft Study Award Recipient

May 17th
The Political Economy of Gold, Money and Loyalty: Californians and Greenbacks in the Civil War Era
Presented by Michael T. Caires, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, University of Virginia, and Gunther Barth Fellowship Recipient

FALL 2011

September 15
Illuminating the Jewel City: Spectacular Lighting at the Panama Pacific International Exposition
Presented by Laura Ackley, Architectural Historian

October 20th
It's Still Fun: An Inside Look at Small Press Publishing
Presented by Malcolm Margolin, Publisher, Heyday Books

November 17th
The Fight for the Public Interest: California's 2nd Convention Reconsidered
Presented by Jeff Lustig, Scholar

SPRING 2011

February 17th
Householders
Presented by Tara McDowell, Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department, UC Berkeley, and Bancroft Study Award Recipient

March 17th
Colonial Lessons: English Instruction in the Philippines and the Benevolence of U.S. Overseas Expansion, 1898-1916
Presented by Funie Hsu, Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education,UC Berkeley, and Bancroft Study Award Recipient

April 21st
Linguistic Landscapes of the Sierra Nevada
Presented by Hannah Jane Haynie, Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics, UC Berkeley, and Bancroft Study Award Recipient

FALL 2010

September 16th
California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor. and the Making of a New Deal
Presented by Jan Goggans, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts at UC Merced

October 21st
Introducing The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at The Bancroft Library
Presented by Alla Efimova, Director, Magnes Collection

November 18th
Attacking Municipal Inequality: The NAACP and the Integration of the Oakland Fire Department. 1950-1955
Presented by Martin SchiesI, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles

SPRING 2010

February 18th
Premodern Manuscript Fragments in the Present
Presented by Heather Bamford, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures

March 18th
Jack Spicer's "Correspondences"
Presented by Colin Dingier, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric

April 15th
Migrating Mexico: A Material History of Remittance Space in Sur De Jalisco, Mexico And California, USA
Presented by Sarah Lopez, Bancroft Study Award recipient, Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Architecture

May 20th
Popular Science at Berkeley and the Long History of American Studies
Presented by Alex Olson, Gunther Barth Fellowship recipient, Ph.D. candidate in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan

FALL 2009

September 17th
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
Presented by Frances Dinkelspiel, Author

October 15th
The Making—and Unmaking —of Southeast San Francisco
Presented by Rachel Brahinsky, Ph.D candidate, UCB Department of Geography

November 19th
Disrupting the Status Quo: The Story of Dr. Sidney Garfield
Presented by Tom Debley, Author and Director of Heritage Resources at Kaiser Permanente

SPRING 2009

February 19th
The "New" Bancroft
Presented by Bancroft Library staff

March 19th
John Francis Pyle and the Economic Culture of Rural California in the Late-Nineteenth Century
Presented by R.Todd Welker, UC San Diego

April 16th
To Grow Up with the Country: Pioneers, Personal Narrative, and Historical Memory
Presented by William Wagner, UC Berkeley

May 21st
"Little Postage Stamps of Native Soil": The Modernist Haiku During Japanese Exclusion
Presented by Audrey Clark, Department of English, UC Berkeley

SPRING 2008

February 21st
Henry J. Kaiser in Hawaii: More than a Mogul
Presented by Tom Debley and Bryan Culp, Director and Archivist (respectively) of Kaiser Permanente Heritage Resources

March 20th
East from California: How Ideas, Methods and Personnel from California Influenced the Conquest of the Interior West
Presented by Benjamin Madley, Doctoral Student, Yale University

April 17th
Private City, Public Threat: Entertainment, Industry, and Illusion in Emeryville, CA, 1896-1933
Presented by Seth Lunine, Bancroft Study Award winner and Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley

May 15th
Reducing Practice Into Speculation: Multiplicity as a Problem in Early Modern Translation Theory
Presented by Belen Bistue, Bancroft Study Award winner and Doctoral Student, UC Davis

FALL 2007

September 20th
The Man Who Named the Storms
Presented by Donald M. Scott, Independent Scholar

October 18th
San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
Presented by James R. Smith, Author

November 15th
Driven Out: The Forgotten Wars Against Chinese Americans
Presented by Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of English, University of Delaware

SPRING 2007

February 15th
Surely This City is Bound to Shine: Descriptions of Salt Lake City by mid 19th Century Westward Bound Emigrants
Presented by Fred Woods, Professor, Brigham Young University

March 15th
Origins of a California Maverick
Presented by Sean Burns, Bancroft Study Award Winner and Ph.D candidate in the Department of the History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

April 19th
How Early California was Seen by Germans
Presented by Bernd Brunner, M.A., Free University of Berlin, independent cultural historian, and author

May 17th
Raiding the Rancho: Livestock and Power in Native California
Presented by Nat Zappia, Bancroft Study Award Winner and Ph.D Candidate, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz

FALL 2006

September 21st
Telling Tales of the Becoming Self: Nawalism and the Obscured Power of Women from Colonial to Contemporary Recordings in MesoAmerica
Presented by Janferie Stone, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at UC Davis

October 19th
Late 20th Century Poster Collections at The Bancroft Library
Presented by Lincoln Cushing, Graphic Arts Librarian

November 16th
Land Litigation in California after the Mexican American War
Presented by Michelle Morton, Bancroft Curator for Latin American Collections

SPRING 2006

February 16th
States of Culture: The Central Government and Ethnoracial Consolidation in Mexico and the US, 1920-1950
Presented by Ruben Flores, Bancroft Study Award Winner, History, UCB

March 16th
'Conversion' as a Unifying Theme in Bancroft's Medieval Manuscript 106, a Thirteenth-Century Compendium of Marian Legends, Saints' Lives, and Arthurian Romance
Presented by Stephanie Green, Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies, UCB

April 20th
Free Speech/Free Sex: A Look at Sex Education and Reproductive Health at Student Health Services
Presented by Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State University

May 18th
The Race of Space in San Francisco's Mission District
Presented by Francisco Casique, Bancroft Study Award Winner, Ethnic Studies, UCB

FALL 2005

September 15th
Max Tivoli's San Francisco: A Bancroft Odyssey
Presented by Andrew Sean Greer, Author

October 20th
Niimiipu Narratives: The Essence of Survival in the Indian Territory
Presented by J. Diane Pearson, Lecturer in Ethnic Studies

November 17th
Tangible Memories: Californians and Their Gardens 1800 -1950
Presented by Judith M. Taylor, Author

SPRING 2005

February 17th
Cavalry, Cads and Convicts: The Restless Residents of Jalapa, Mexico, 1812-1835
Presented by Rachel A. Chico, Department of History, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Fellow

March 17th
Pacific Origins: Chile and the Making of Nineteenth-Century California, 1848-1900
Presented by Edward Melillo, Ph.D Candidate, History Department, Yale University

April 21st
The Engel Sluiter Document Collection
Presented by Anil Mukerjee, History Department, UC Santa Barbara, Bancroft Fellow

May 19th
Working Women and Racial Politics in San Francisco During the Late 19th Century
Presented by Hellen Lee, Literature Department, UC San Diego, Bancroft Fellow

FALL 2004

September 16th
Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnam and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California
Presented by JoAnn Levy, Author

October 21
William Saroyan, Heroin and Ethics: "The Sad Tale of an Archive Broken"
Presented by Peter Howard, Antiquarian Bookseller

November 18th
Guardians of the Golden Gate: John Birge Sawyer, Angel Island, and the Great Immigrant Smuggling Scandal
Presented by Robert E. Barde, Deputy Director, Institute of Business and Economic Research, Haas Business School

SPRING 2004

February 19th
City Lights Books: The History of a Community
Presented by Jim Gatewood, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University

March 18th
Locating "Our Language" in Northwestern California: Clues to Indigenous Linguistic Geography
Presented by Lisa Conathan, Bancroft Fellow

April 15th
The Importance of Being Relevant: Bay Area Poets in the World, 1935-1942
Presented by Kimberley Bird, Bancroft Fellow

May 20th
Consuming By Design: Consumption, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Julia Morgan's Domestic Architecture
Presented by Karen McNeil, Bancroft Fellow

FALL 2003

September 18th
'Culture of Conquest' Cast in Bronze: Exploring the Politics of Cultural Representation and Identity Formation in New Mexico
Presented by Dulcinea Lara, Bancroft Fellow

October 16th
Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly
Presented by Susan Snyder, The Bancroft Library

November 20th
Recovering Female Voices and Perspectives
Presented by Rose Marie Beebe, Professor, Santa Clara University

SPRING 2003

February 20th
Persian and Arabic Manuscripts at The Bancroft Library: An Introduction
Presented by Shayee Khanaka, UC Berkeley Library

March 20th
Visions of Pacific Destiny: Culture of Western Expansion and American Women's Work of Benevolence, 1880s-1900s
Presented by Yu-Fang Cho, Bancroft Fellow

April 17th
Contested Isles: The History and Representation of Ellis Island and Angel Island
Presented by Jeffrey Alan Ow, Bancroft Fellow

May 15th
Historical Evolution of Education and its Detrimental ideological and identity Forming Consequences on New Mexico
Presented by Dulcinea Michelle Lara, Bancroft Fellow

FALL 2002

September 19th
The FBI, UC Berkeley, and the "Freedom of Information Act"
Presented by Seth Rosenfeld, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle

October 17th
Archival Resources and the Changing Landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area
Presented by Elise Brewster, Researcher/Artist

November 21st
"Uncle Freddy" Coombs: The "Mad Hatter" of California's Pioneer Photographers
Presented by Peter Palmquist, Independent Historian of Photography

December 19th
Holiday Readings
Presented by Bancroft Staff

SPRING 2002

February 21st
Yogores, Pachucos, and Zoot Suiters: The Making of a Multiethnic Youth Culture Among California Minorities
Presented by Allison Varzally, Bancroft Study Award Winner

March 21st
Above the City, Upon a Hill: 19th Century Lithographs of San Francisco from the Honeyman Collection
Presented by Isabel Breskin, Bancroft Study Award Winner

April 18th
New World Utopias
Presented by Michelle Morton, Bancroft Study Award Winner

May 16th
Miracles of the Virgin: Popularity and Reception
Presented by Adrienne Williams, Bancroft Study Award Winner

FALL 2001

September 20th
Eadweard Muybridge at Bancroft Library
Presented by Rebecca Solnit, Author

October 18th
Contemporary Typographical Implication of the Native American Manuscript Tradition
Presented by Robert Bringhurst, Author

November 15th
Reflections on the Legacies of Governor Pat Brown
Presented by Ethan Rarick, Author

December 20th
Readings from The Bancroft
Presented by Bancroft Staff

SPRING 2001

February 15th
Dislocations and Relocations: The Built Environments of Japanese American internment
Presented by Lynne Horiuchi, Bancroft Library Fellow

March 15th
Politics of Translation: Missionaries and Indigenous People in New South Wales and Oregon Territory, 1825-1845
Presented by Anne Keary, Bancroft Library Fellow

April 19th
Every Colored Man is the Victim of Bitter Prejudice and Unjust Laws: Race and the Right to Be Heard in California's Courts, 1850-1873
Presented by C. Michael Bottoms, Bancroft Library Fellow

May 17th
Researching the Pentagon Papers
Presented by Daniel Ellsberg, Author

FALL 2000

September 21st
The Shakespeare First Folio (1623) and the Spanish Connection
Presented by Alan H. Nelson, Professor of English

October 19th
Different Voices, Different Lives: the Gay Bears Oral History Project
Presented by William E. Benemann, Librarian, Boalt School of Law

November 16th
A Lifetime in the World of Books
Presented by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Bookseller

December 21st
Reading from The Bancroft Library
Presented by Bancroft Staff

SPRING 2000

February 17th
Christian Seed in Western Soil: The Graduate Theological Union and the University of California
Presented by Lucinda Glenn Rand, Archivist, Graduate Theological Union Library

March 16th
Indian Resistance to Colonialism: The Pimas of Sonora
Presented by Robert Perez, Bancroft Library Study Award Recipient

April 20th
Envoys of Empire: California Engineers and the Common World Destiny
Presented by Jessica Teisch, Bancroft Library Study Award Recipient

May 18th
Stalking the Hunter: Thoughts on the Origin of America's Hunting Tradition
Presented by Daniel Herman, Central Washington State University at Ellensburg

FALL 1999

September 16th
Crime and Reward: The Untimely Death of William Chapman Ralston, the Triumph of Senator Sharon, and the Birth of the Bureau of Reclamation
Presented by Gray Brechin, PhD, California Historian

October 21st
California Dreaming: A View from the Southwest
Presented by Theresa Salazar, Curator of The Bancroft Collection

November 18th
The Bancroft Library Press...8 Years, 8 Projects
Presented by Peter Koch, Printer

December 16th
Readings from The Bancroft
Presented by Bancroft Staff

SPRING 1999

February 18th
Waiting for the Paradox: Bacteriophages and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Presented by Gunther Stent, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology

March 18th
Genteel Markets, Tumultuous Streets: Women in Public in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco
Presented by Jessica Sewell, Bancroft Fellowship Recipient

April 15th
The Cold War and Planetary Science at The Bancroft Library
Presented by Keay Davidson, biographer of Carl Sagan

May 20th
Exorcizing the Devil: Cultural Authorities Respond to Tobacco and Chocolate in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Presented by Marcy Norton, Bancroft Fellowship Recipient

FALL 1998

September 15th
Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley: The First 125 Years
Presented by Werner Goldsmith, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

October 15th
Never so Wonderful a Book Written by Man
Presented by Victor Fischer, Mark Twain Project

November 19th
Earthquakes and Earth Science as Measured on the Seismograph of Environmental History
Presented by Philip L. Fradkin, Rhetoric Department

December 17th
Readings from The Bancroft Library
Presented by Bancroft Staff

SPRING 1998

February 19th
Medieval French Manuscripts in Bancroft
Presented by Joseph Duggan, Professor of French and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division

March 19th
Documenting the Disabled Person's Independent Living and Civil Rights Movement
Presented by Susan O'Hara and Mary Lou Breslin, participants in the formative years of the movement

April 16th
Semana Santa in the Sierra del Nayarit: Historical Roots of a 'Syncretic' Tradition
Presented by Richard Warner, Bancroft Fellow

May 21st
The Artist's Genius and The Author's Facile Pen: Word and Image in John Muir's "Picturesque California"
Presented by Elizabeth Leavy, Bancroft Fellow

FALL 1997

September 18th
New Light on Old Leaves: Unveiling the Tebtunis Papyri for the 21st Century
Presented by Arthur Verhoogt, Faculty member at the University of Leiden

October 16th
Institution and Artifact: Inquisition Documents in the Bancroft Library
Presented by Gillian Boal and Walter Brem, Senior Conservator and Curator for Latin American materials (respectively)

November 20th
Huck Finn Redux: A New Edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Presented by Robert Hirst, Principal Editor of the Mark Twain Project

December 18th
Eat, Drink and be Conversational —A Feast for Ideas at Year's End!
Presented by Bancroft Staff

SPRING 1997

February 27th
Inaugural Roundtable: The Future of California's Past
Presented by Charles Faulhaber, Director of The Bancroft Library

March 20th
Hetch Hetchy: The Untold Story
Presented by Gray Brechin, Bancroft Fellow

April 17th
Chinese Immigration During the Chinese Exclusionary Act
Presented by Erika Lee, Bancroft Fellow

May 17th
Northern California Redwood Logging Towns
Presented by James Buckley, Bancroft Fellow