September 8, 2023
UC Berkeley's Alumni and Parents Weekend at Homecoming is scheduled for October 6-8, 2023, and the College of Letters & Science invites you to join one of our events this year:
Friday, October 6
- 10:00-11:00 a.m. Black Holes and How to Find Them with Associate Professor of Astronomy Jessica Lu
- 10:00-11:00 a.m. Psychedelics Research and Education at UC Berkeley with Professor of Neuroscience Michael Silver
- 10:00-11:00 a.m. Why Are We So Obsessed with Cults with Associate Professor of English Poulomi Saha
- 12:00-1:00 p.m. Spatial Temporalities: The Future-Pasts of Black Dispossession with Associate Professor of Geography Brandi Summers
- 4:00-5:00 p.m. New Directions in Neuroscience: Untangling Alzheimer's and Understanding Sleep with Professors of Neurobiology, Dan Feldman and Yang Dan and Professor of Neuroscience and Public Health William Jagust M.D.
- 4:00-5:00 p.m. Shakespeare's Cheerfulness: The History of Emotion and Poetry with Timothy Hampton, Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professor, Comparative Literature and French
- 5:00-6:00 p.m. The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024 with Alex Filippenko, Distinguished Professor of Astronomy
Saturday, October 7
- 10:00-11:00 a.m. Coffee & Conversation with Executive Dean Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
- 12:00-1:00 p.m. Discovering Black Studies at Cal with Nikki Jones, H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Professor and Department Chair, African American Studies
Sunday, October 8
- 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life