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This year, Comparative Literature ... held a remote commencement via zoom; The 90 minute ceremony featured 14 faculty, 16 undergraduates, and 2 graduates and their families participated for a total of approximately 60, and by all measures, it was a great success. Normally, the department joins with other language departments for a "mega-ceremony" in Zellerbach, but with pandemic and social distancing, we were not able to hold an in-person event; as a result, we held instead a smaller, more personal ceremony, which allows for more commentary by faculty and the opportunity for...

The last Big Give took place ... on March 12, 2020 - just moments before our world changed. Since then your UC Berkeley community has kept the blue and gold spirit strong: repurposing labs for COVID research and PPE fabrication; making sure students have what they need to thrive in challenging times; innovating ways to keep connections strong for classes, clubs, and cohorts; and shining light on expert perspectives that illuminate pathways through some of the most complicated times in modern history.

Big Give, our annual fundraising blitz, has been online since 2014. And on March 11...

Bella Chavez is a recent graduate ... from the University of California, Berkeley where she double majored in Comparative Literature and Latin American Languages & Cultures. She is a recipient of the competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. During her undergraduate career, she studied abroad in Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. She also volunteered in Medellin, Colombia where she completed her education minor practicum. She is currently interning with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence through a Virtual Student Federal Service program. In December of...

Third year Comparative Literature ... student at Cal Kayla Cohen is studying English, Hebrew, Arabic literatures. Drawing from her travels and the interviews that she conducted with Jewish Diaspora leaders in 2017 and 2018, her new book (titled "The Full Severity of Our Connection") carefully examines the Jewish people’s links to the non-Jewish world and how these links have impacted different conceptions of Jewishness. She hopes that this book can reshape conversations on campus about Jewish history and identity for both Jewish and non-Jewish readers. More information about the book...