Talks & Conversations
Ongoing
Artists, curators, scholars, and others share their insights on BAMPFA exhibitions, the arts, and other cultural topics.
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Saturday, June 6, 1:30 PMMaren Hassinger Tributes and Wrenching News Workshop
For the opening of Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date, central figures in Hassinger’s life and career offer tributes to the artist and her ongoing legacy. Tributes will be given by artists, curators, and art historians including Linda Goode Bryant, Ava Hassinger, Kellie Jones, Leslie King-Hammond, Senga Nengudi, and Lowery Stokes Sims.
Following these remarks, Hassinger will lead the audience in a newspaper twisting workshop titled Wrenching News.
Tickets required.
Past Events
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Friday, May 15, 6 PMMFA Artists’ Talk
The 2026 graduates of UC Berkeley’s MFA program discuss their work with exhibition curators Omar Farah and Tausif Noor on the occasion of BAMPFA's fifty-sixth annual MFA exhibition.
Tickets required.
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Tuesday, April 21, 5 PMCANCELED: Townsend Center for the Humanities Una’s Lecture: Hortense Spillers: Oedipal Pursuit—A Historical Problematic
Hortense Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor Emerita of English at Vanderbilt University, is the 2025–26 Una’s Lecturer.
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities in partnership with BAMPFA
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Saturday, April 18, 1:30 PMLijin Lecture / Joan Kee: Afro Asia, or Art for a Global Majority
BAMPFA is excited to present Joan Kee as the museum’s 2026 Lijin Lecturer. The endowed Lijin Collection Distinguished Lecture series presents leading artists and scholars on topics that relate to and cast new light upon East Asian art.
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Saturday, April 4, 1:30 PMConversation: Cathy Park Hong, Brandon Shimoda, and Divya Victor
Drawing on the radical generosity of Cha's multidisciplinary practice, authors Brandon Shimoda, Divya Victor, and Cathy Park Hong discuss the lasting impact of Cha’s work, as well as their own approaches to writing in relation to such themes as imperialism, displacement, exile, and subjectivity.
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies. Community partnership support provided by GYOPO.
Tickets required.
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Thursday, March 26, 6:30 PMCalifornia Live!: Alone in the Algorithm: Human Connection in the Age of AI
Join California magazine’s Pat Joseph in conversation with UC Berkeley Professor Jodi Halpern and renowned technologist Jaron Lanier to explore the seductions and dangers of artificial intelligence against the backdrop of America’s deepening loneliness epidemic.
Copresented by California magazine and the Cal Alumni Association
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Thursday, March 19, 5 PMLecture: Spencer Lee-Lenfield and Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
In this illustrated presentation, Spencer Lee-Lenfield draws on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s own artwork and her family history to reconstruct how she understood the forces that shaped her life—and how we might contextualize her work across Korean and overseas Korean history.
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley's Center for Korean Studies.
Tickets required.
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Saturday, March 7, 3 PMConversation: Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser with Catherine Wagner and Margot Norton
On the occasion of the exhibition Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection, Berkeley-based art enthusiasts Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser discuss the inspirations behind and formation of their collection with artist Catherine Wagner, in a conversation moderated by Margot Norton, BAMPFA Chief Curator.
Tickets required.
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Sunday, February 8, 12:30–3:30 PMSymposium / Multiple Offerings: New Directions in Research on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
BAMPFA hosts a symposium that highlights new directions in research on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, featuring contributions from graduate students and early career researchers and moderated by UC Berkeley faculty and scholars.
Community partnership support provided by GYOPO