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Occasional Papers

The Occasional Papers record the conversations of eminent scholars, writers, and artists who have been public speakers at UC Berkeley as guests of the Center.

There are 26 publications in this collection, published between 1994 and 2003.

Pollan, Michael: Cannabis, Forgetting and the Botany of Desire, 2003

Salgado, Sebastiao: Migrations: The Work of Sebastiao Salgado, 2003

Gillis, Editor, Christina: Seeing the Difference: Conversations on Death and Dying, 2000

Hoffmann, Eva: Complex Histories, Contested Memories: Some Reflections on Remembering Difficult Pasts, 2000

Doniger, Wendy: Carnal Knowledge, 1999

Grafton, Anthony: Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Dem, 1999

Heaney, Seamus; Hass, Robert: Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry, 1999

Katz, Stephen: Old Age as Lifestyle in an Active Society, 1999

Oe, Kenzaburo: On Politics and Literature: Two Lectures by Kenzaburo Oe, 1999

Coetzee, J M: The Novel in Africa, 1998

Ignatieff, Michael; Bernstein, Michael Andre; Alter, Robert: Berlin in Autumn: The Philosopher in Old Age, 1998

Klima, Ivan; Heim, Michael; Milosz, Czeslaw; Moravcova, Martina: Fictions and Histories, 1998

Liu, Alan; Sas, Miryam; Ascoli, Albert; Marcus, Sharon: Knowledge Work, Literary History, and the Future of Literary Studies, 1998

Danto, Arthur; Altieri, Charles; Wagner, Anne M; Cascardi, Anthony J: "Anything Goes": The Work of Art and the Historical Future, 1997

Davis, Mike; Reid, David; Klein, Kerwin; Clark, T J: Dark Raptures: Mike Davis' L.A., 1997

Sellars, Peter: Getting Real: The Arts in Post-NEA America, 1997

Woodward, Kathleen; Scharlach, Andrew; Fabe, Marilyn: Telling Stories, 1997

Alter, Robert; Biale, David; Long, Anthony; Miller, Isaac; Zipperstein, Steven J: Amos Funkenstein, 1996

Davis, Natalie Zemon; Hampton, Timothy: Confronting the Turkish Dogs:Rabelais and His Critics, 1996

Early, Gerald; Solomon, Eric; Wacquant, Loic: The Charisma of Sport and Race, 1996

Sendak, Maurice; Schreier, Herbert; Allanbrook, Wye; Greenblatt, Stephen: Changelings: Children's Stories Lost and Found, 1996

Clark, T J; Tanner, Carolyn; White, Laurens Park: Painting from Memory: Aging, Dementia, and the Art of Willem de Kooning, 1995

Lin, Maya; Saitowitz, Stanley; Greenblatt, Stephen; Laqueur, Thomas; Barshay, Andrew: Grounds for Remembering, 1995

Lock, Margaret; Capron, Alexander: Deadly Disputes: The Body in Death in Japan, North America, and Europe, 1995

Appiah, Kwame Anthony: Identity Against Culture: Understandings of Multiculturalism, 1994

Pinsky, Robert; Mazur, Michael: Image and Text: A Dialogue with Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur, 1994

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