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Opening Reception for Raven Chacon's Score for Doomsday Clock

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Opening Reception for Raven Chacon's Score for Doomsday Clock

This exhibition will feature a site-specific sculpture and an immersive soundscape inspired by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ iconic Doomsday Clock, which estimates the likelihood of human-made global catastrophe. Incorporating real-time data on the planetary risks that inform the annual “setting” of the clock, the exhibition will translate those data streams into four streams of sound corresponding to the Bulletin’s four areas of concern: nuclear risk, climate change, biological threats, and disruptive technologies. For Chacon, the project is rich with historical echoes, linking the University of Chicago’s role in the Manhattan Project to the Trinity nuclear test site near Albuquerque, where Chacon grew up and has spent much of his life. By interweaving artistic and scientific perspectives, as well as historical record and personal memories, Score for Doomsday Clock suggests new ways to understand the existential risks humanity must confront.

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Director's Lecture with Sara Guyer

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Director's Lecture

Director's Lecture with Sara Guyer

The dean of the Arts & Humanities Division at UC Berkeley will address changing perceptions of the humanities in higher education and beyond.

Sara Guyer is the Irving and Jean Stone Dean of the Division of Arts & Humanities and Covening Dean of the College of Letters and Science at UC Berkeley. She has been a leader in defining and reviving the value of the arts and humanities in higher education. Recently, her work as the Director for the World Humanities Report, in collaboration with UNESCO and other international organizations, resulted in the most comprehensive and globally recognized report on world humanities since the late 1940s.

At this Neubauer Collegium Director’s Lecture, presented as part of the Collegium’s Future of the Humanities initiative, Guyer will draw upon the World Humanities Report to address rapidly changing perceptions of the humanities in and beyond American universities.

After the talk, Guyer will join University of Chicago Arts & Humanities Division Dean Deborah Nelson for discussion.

David Rubenstein Forum

The dean of the Arts & Humanities Division at UC Berkeley will address changing perceptions of the humanities in higher education and beyond.

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