Скачать или смотреть Reception for The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition - Wednesday, February 5, 2020

On February 5, 2020, the Arts & Humanities Division of the UC Berkeley Library and the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) hosted the reception for the online exhibition The Languages of Berkeley. University Librarian Jeff MacKie-Mason gave introductory remarks, and Rick Kern, director of the BLC and professor in the Department of French, introduced the keynote speaker. Romance Languages Librarian Claude Potts, who is the lead curator for the exhibition involving more than 40 contributors, moderated the event. Four of those who read short texts in their original languages also contributed to the online sequential exhibit, which launched in February 2019 and reached completion in September 2020, with approximately 70 entries representing most of the languages that are currently taught and used in research at Berkeley.

0:00 Welcoming by Claude Potts - Romance Languages Librarian

10:50 Opening remarks by Jeff MacKie-Mason - University Librarian

13:40 Virginia Shih for Vietnamese (South/Southeast Asia Library) –
Curator for the Southeast Asia Collection

17:08 Ahmad Diab for Arabic (Department of Near Eastern Studies) –
Assistant Professor

23:50 Yael Chaver for Yiddish (Department of German) –
Lecturer in Yiddish

31:30 Jeroen Dewulf for Dutch (Department of German and Dutch Studies Program) –
Director, Institute of European Studies
Interim Director, Institute of International Studies
Queen Beatrix Professor

38:58 Sam Mchombo for Chichewa (African American Studies) –
Associate Professor

48:31 Deborah Rudolph for Chinese (C.V. Starr East Asian Library) –
Curator

53:21 Marinor Balouzian and Natalie Simonian for Armenian (Armenian Studies Program) –
Undergraduate Students

58:19 Emilie Bergmann for Spanish (Department of Spanish & Portuguese) –
Professor

1:07:05 Robert Goldman for Sanskrit (Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies) –
Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor

1:15:20 Keynote introduction by Richard Kern (Department of French) – Professor
Director, Berkeley Language Center

1:19:00 Keynote lecture: The Promise of Multilingualism by Judith Butler (Department of Comparative Literature, Program of Critical Theory) - Maxine Elliot Professor

Since its founding in 1868, students and faculty at UC Berkeley have concerned themselves with a breathtaking range of languages. In support of teaching and research, the University Library, which collects and preserves materials in all languages, now boasts a collection of more than thirteen million volumes. It is among the largest academic libraries in the U.S. with more than one third of its print resources in more than 500 non-English languages.

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Judith Butler's keynote lecture    • Judith Butler - The Promise of Multilingua...  
The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition http://www.ucblib.link/languages
Berkeley Language Center http://blc.berkeley.edu
The UC Berkeley Library https://www.lib.berkeley.edu

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Keywords: Online library exhibitions, multilingualism, multiculturalism, diversity, linguistic diversity, non-English languages, foreign languages, modern languages, ancient languages, vernacular languages, research libraries, academic libraries, international collections, University of California Berkeley