Catherine GallagherProfessor Emerita of English
“A Tale of Two Cities” and the History of Modern Revenge
Thursday, April 4, 2013
4—5 p.m. Free to the public.
International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Catherine Gallagher was the Ida May and William J. Eggers Jr. Chair in English until her retirement last July. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Berkeley and began teaching here in 1980. Her teaching and research focus on the British novel and cultural history in the 18th and 19th centuries. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has received NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships, as well as residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the American Academy in Berlin. She has published four books of literary history and criticism, more than 60 articles and reviews, and two edited volumes. She was a founding editorial board member of the journal Representations and served as its co-editor for 10 years. Her 1994 book, Nobody's Story, won the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize for the outstanding literary study of the year. She pioneered a type of literary studies known as “new historicism,” which aims to understand literary works through their historical context and cultural and intellectual history through literary forms.
Barbara RomanowiczProfessor of Earth and Planetary Science
Imagining the Earth's Interior
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
4—5 p.m. Free to the public.
International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave.
Barbara Romanowicz studied mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a Ph.D. in geophysics from the University of Paris 7. As a researcher at France’s CNRS between 1982 and 1990, she developed GEOSCOPE, a then state-of-the-art global network of digital seismic stations for the study of earthquakes and the earth’s interior. In 1991, she was appointed director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) and professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. During her directorship until 2011, she helped establish a joint real-time earthquake notification system for northern California between the BSL and the U.S. Geological Survey. Her research interests include the study of deep earth structure and dynamics using seismological tools; implementing numerical seismic wavefield computations in seismic tomography; earthquake processes and scaling laws; and the development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories on land and in the oceans. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 and was recently appointed to chair Physics of the Earth Interior at the Collège de France in Paris.
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