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