Drawing on John Cage and the BAM/PFA exhibition "Silence," a six-week OLLI course delves into art, music, film, neuroscience, bliss, edginess, paradox and more in what Susan Hoffman, OLLI's director, calls "an experiment" in experiential learning. Silence, lecturers will show, is more than an absence of sound.
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What happens when a salsa-loving musicologist sits down to talk with a cognitive scientist studying how the brain hears music, plus a philosopher querying the nature of sound itself? Anything. That's just why the Townsend Center for the Humanities has been igniting those kinds of conversations among faculty and students for 25 years.
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UC Berkeley wants to know how you feel about the campus climate. An unprecedented UC-wide survey, launched today, asks all faculty, students and staff to chime in about the extent to which they feel welcomed, valued and supported in their work, studies or research. The goal is to make improvements.
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