Berkeley Talks
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Feminist legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon on the butterfly politics of #MeToo
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"We are here in the middle of the first mass movement against sexual abuse in the history of the world," said Catharine MacKinnon, a professor of law ...
Tanner Lectures, day 3: Commentators respond to Ripstein, discuss morality of war
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the 2019 Tanner Lectures at UC Berkeley, Arthur Ripstein, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the very thi...
john powell on targeted universalism
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Who Belongs, a podcast produced by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, we hear from john powell, director of the H...
Tanner Lectures, day 2: Arthur Ripstein on why it's wrong to target civilians during war
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the 2019 Tanner Lectures at UC Berkeley, Arthur Ripstein, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the very thi...
Tanner Lectures, day 1: Arthur Ripstein on rules for wrongdoers
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the 2019 Tanner Lectures at UC Berkeley, Arthur Ripstein, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Toronto, argues that the very thi...
Kira Stoll and David Wooley on how California and UC are reducing carbon emissions
11 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is a pressing and urgent global issue and a challenge that needs planet- and human-focused solutions. The state has signed into law num...
Dr. Joe Tafur on the role of spiritual and emotional healing in modern healthcare
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing from his first-hand experience at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual, a traditional healing center near Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon, Dr. Joe Tafur...
Professor David Raulet on the revolution of cancer immunology
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The last eight years have seen a revolution in approved cancer treatments, based on the development of medicines that arouse our immune systems to att...
Cal Performances announces its 2019-20 season
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, April 18, 2019, Cal Performances’ board of trustees co-chairs Helen Meyer and Susan Graham, and executive and artistic director Jeremy ...
Professor Rucker Johnson on why school integration works
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brown v. Board of Education was hailed as a landmark decision for civil rights. But decades later, many consider school integration a failure. UC Berk...
Rev. William J. Barber II: 'Forward together, not one step back'
14 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is a pastor and social justice advocate building a broad-based grassroots movement, grounded in the moral tenets of fait...
Jennifer Doudna on the future of gene editing
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Doudna spoke at UC Berkeley's International House on Feb. 21, 2019, about the revolutionary gene-editing tool she co-invented, CRISPR-Cas9.Ou...
Calculating your carbon footprint and the Cool Campus Challenge
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
1.5 degrees Celsius. That's the maximum global temperature increase allowable before we see catastrophic impacts on food security, ecosystems, wa...
Product engineer Amy Heineike on how humans and machines interact with AI
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Heineike is the vice president of product engineering at Primer AI. One area the company is active in is around news data and news cycles — they...
Programmer and author Ellen Ullman on her life in code
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ellen Ullman is a computer programmer, essayist on technology and culture and an author of four books — two nonfiction and two novels — on the hum...
Neurobiologist David Presti on the ritual use of psychoactive plants
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For millennia, humans have cultivated deep relationships with psychoactive plants — relationships embedded within and guided by ritual frameworks ho...
Poet Tarfia Faizullah reads from 'Registers of Illuminated Villages'
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Registers of Illuminated Villages (2018) and Seam (2014). Faizullah has won a VIDA Award, a GLCA New Write...
Author Ashton Applewhite on counteracting ageism
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ashton Applewhite, named one of PBS Next Avenue’s Influencers in Aging and author of the breakaway new book, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against A...
Jimmy López on composing 'Dreamers' oratorio inspired by Berkeley undocumented students
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Composer Jimmy López, who earned his Ph.D. in music from UC Berkeley in 2012, speaks about Dreamers, an oratorio he was commissioned b...
Michael Pollan with Dacher Keltner on the new science of psychedelics
17 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In his latest book, How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan turns his focus to psychedelics — LSD, psilocybin mushrooms and the like — exploring t...
Talk Policy to Me: The California housing crisis
16 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NIMBYism, geographical limitation and weaponized policies have led California to the biggest housing crisis in state history. Can ...
Professor Michael Omi on racial classification in the census
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How are individuals and groups racially classified? What are the meanings attached to different racial categories? And what impact do these categories...
Year of the woman: Panel on the recent rise of women in politics
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
National analysts have noted the sharply increased number of women running for elective office in 2018, especially among Democrats. In a panel discuss...
Dancer Akram Khan on performing the unimaginable, theater of war
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dancer/choreographer Akram Khan appeared in the West Coast premiere of XENOS, a Cal Performances co-commission, in Zellerbach Hall on March 2-3, ...
Berkeley Law Professor Catherine Fisk on reimagining labor law
02 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Berkeley Law Professor Catherine Fisk, author of Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue (2016), gave a lecture on Feb. 13, 2019, that...
East Bay poet Ari Banias reads new work at Lunch Poems
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (2016), which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Aw...
Richard Rothstein on how our government segregated America
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Rothstein, a fellow of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley and author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our...
Panel discussion: The Changing California Electorate
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a panel discussion, "The Changing California Electorate," Lisa García Bedolla, the director of Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies; Krist...
Professor Tina Sacks on maintaining social welfare programs in the Trump era
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation's most vulnerable people in the Trump era?Tina Sacks, an...
Design anthropologist Dori Tunstall on decolonizing design
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall is a design anthropologist, public intellectual and design advocate who works at the intersections of critical theory, cultu...
Ph.D. candidate Rosalie Lawrence on how our cells make decisions
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Nov. 6, 2018, Ph.D. candidate in molecular and cell biology Rosalie Lawrence gave an interview on KALX's program, "The Graduates," about her resear...
New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor on breaking the story that ignited #MeToo
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jodi Kantor is a New York Times investigative reporter and a recipient of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her reporting on the #Me...
Berkeley Law Professor Daniel Farber on presidential power and individual rights
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential power is always a hot topic, but never more so than today. This lecture, given by Berkeley Law Professor Daniel Farber on Sept. 25, 2018,...
Astronomer Bob Kirshner on the accelerating universe to accelerating science
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, astronomers were astonished to learn from observations of exploding stars that cosmic expansion is speeding up. We attribute this to...
Clinicians discuss where health and human rights meet
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There are a greater number of forcibly displaced people in the world today than at any time since the end of World War II, and the Bay Area has welcom...
Michael Pollan on science, psychedelics and the human mind
22 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2018, Michael Pollan, the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of a multitude of best-sellers, in...
Jennifer Doudna on gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution
01 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna joins oncologist Siddartha Mukherjee to discuss unprecedented advancements in gene editing and the effect new tech...
Anthropologist Eugenie Scott on evolution and creationism as science and myth
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; their signifi...
Robert Reich on why the common good disappeared and how we get it back
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor of Public Policy Robert B. Reich ignites a discussion of the good we have had in common, what happened to it and what we might do to restore...
Artistic Director Robert Battle on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For over 50 years, Cal Performances at UC Berkeley has fostered a strong partnership with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Since the company's ...
Commentator Van Jones on seeking environmental justice during climate change
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Across America, low-income and minority communities are being hit hardest by the economic and health impacts of climate change. Van Jones — news com...