Linda WilliamsProfessor of Film Studies and Rhetoric
“Mega-Melodrama! Vertical and Horizontal Suspensions of the ‘Classical’”
Monday, April 4, 2011
4—5 p.m. Free to the public.
International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Linda Williams is a professor in the Departments of Film and Media and of Rhetoric. She received her B.A. in comparative literature from UC Berkeley in 1969 and her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1977. Her research centers on popular American genres and modes of moving pictures, such as pornography and melodrama. Her most recent book, Screening Sex, addressed a basic paradox: that we watch moving images to lose ourselves vicariously in the bigger, more glamorous, more vivid world of the screen, but that this encounter leads us back to reencounter our own immediate sensuality.
Saul PerlmutterProfessor of Physics
“Stalking Dark Energy and the Mystery of the Accelerating Universe”
Thursday, April 7, 2011
4—5 p.m. Free to the public.
International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Saul Perlmutter is a professor in Berkeley’s Department of Physics and a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1981 and his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1986. He leads the Supernova Cosmology Project, an international collaboration of research teams from seven countries measuring the expansion history of the universe. He has addressed the cosmological constant, dark energy, supernovae, pulsars, gravitational lenses, massive compact halo objects, and advanced detector systems for astrophysics in more than 100 papers.
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