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"The other day, Dr. Charles B. Faulhaber, director of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, had an urge to hear the sonorous Chilean accent of the author Isabel Allende. So he went to the third-floor reading room and jacked headphones into a computer, and Allende's voice came through the wire - from an interview at City Arts & Lectures 20 years ago.

Faulhaber, a professor of Spanish literature, could just as easily have phoned the author at her home in Marin County. You might not have Allende's number, but you can go to the Bancroft and hear the interview along with more than 1,000 other City Arts & Lectures programs to be posted by the end of November." - Sam Whiting, Chronicle Staff Writer

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November 19th, Faculty Club
12:00 noon

Led by Tom Debley

The final Bancroft Round Table of the Fall Semester will take place on Thursday, November 19, at noon in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club. Tom Debley, author of The Story of Dr. Sidney R. Garfield: The Visionary Who Turned Sick Care into Health Care (The Permanente Press, 2009) and Director of Heritage Resources at Kaiser Permanente will present a talk entitled " Disrupting the Status Quo: The Story of Dr. Sidney Garfield."

The innovations of Dr. Sidney Garfield, physician co-founder of Kaiser Permanente, have been raising the eyebrows, (and sometimes the hair) of traditionalists since the 1930s. Less known than co-founder, Henry J. Kaiser, this son of Russian immigrants became a major leader of twentieth-century American medicine. The Henry J. Kaiser Papers and related collections at The Bancroft Library enriched the preparation of this first-ever biography of Sidney Garfield.

Bancroft's enormous collections of Kaiser Manuscripts offer windows for insights into many dimensions of modern history. They are among our most heavily used of our collections. Discussion of innovative methods of health care could not be timelier. We invite the campus community to join us for this look at the origins of a health care system that remains central to California's health care today. Bancroft Round Tables aim to showcase the varied resources of The Bancroft Library.

November 4th, Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
7pm

The Bancroft Library and the Townsend Center present a panel discussion, "Darwin's Enduring Legacy." Featured panelists include Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology, and Kevin Padian, professor of paleontology and co-curator of the exhibition "Darwin and the Evolution of a Theory" in The Bancroft Library Gallery.

October 15th, Faculty Club
12:00 noon

Led by Rachel Brahinsky

The second Bancroft Round Table of the Fall Semester will take place at noon on Thursday, October 15 in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club. Rachel Brahinsky, Ph.D. candidate in UC Berkeley's Department of Geography, will give a talk entitled "The Making-­-and Unmaking--of southeast San Francisco."

A massive redevelopment program is underway in San Francisco's Bayview, Hunters Point, and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods. Isolated in the city's southeast corner, these communities have long been an outpost for industries, projects, and indeed people who were not welcome elsewhere in liberal San Francisco. What can we learn from the history of one of the last largely African American and working class parts of this wealthy, yet politically complex, town?

The campus community is welcome to join us at this presentation about this important San Francisco neighborhood which played so crucial a role in the industrial development of San Francisco. Bancroft Round Tables aim to highlight our manifold collections, many of which enable us to better envision California and understand it in its historical context.