Berkeley Talks

Black feminist artists and cultural workers communally explore the questions of how the forms and methods of opera, surrealism, free jazz, poetry and dance help us communicate the concerns of radical Black feminisms. This Feb. 11 conversation was organized by the Black Studies Collaboratory, a collaborative initiative to address racial inequality through bold and unique humanities-based research projects, in partnership with Cal Performances.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News.If you haven't already, follow Berkeley Talks and review us on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paulina Przystupa, a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico, discusses how archaeology inspires comic books and proposes ways archeologists can help build connections with the comic book community.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News.If you haven't already, follow Berkeley Talks and review us on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The co-editors of The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises discuss their research that explores the European Union's institutional and policy responses to crises across policy domains and institutions, including the Euro crisis, Brexit, the Ukraine crisis, the refugee crisis and the global health crisis caused by COVID-19."The EU has been surprisingly able to cope with crises of different kinds through adaptations, through reforms and through further integration," said Jarle Trondal, professor of public administration at the University of Agder in Norway, at the Jan. 13 event. "We argue that crises no longer pose existential threats to the EU as a political order."Panelists include:Akasemi Newsome, associate director of UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies and executive director of the Peder Sather Center for Advanced StudyMarianne Riddervold, professor of political science at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and senior fellow at UC Berkeley's Institute of European Studies Jarle Trondal, professor of public administration at the University of Agder in NorwayListen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News.If you haven't already, follow Berkeley Talks and review us on Apple Podcasts!(Photo by Sara Kurfeß via Unsplash) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Elizabeth Kolbert in conversation with David Ackerly, dean of UC Berkeley's Rausser College of Natural Resources, and Geeta Anand, dean of Berkeley Journalism, as part of the 2021 Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation.Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2015, and Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In her 2021 book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert asks the question: “After doing so much damage, can we change nature — this time, to save it?”Listen to the episode and read the transcript on Berkeley News.If you haven't already, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 130 of Berkeley Talks, Eva Paterson, president and co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, talks in 2017 with Savala Nolan (then Savala Trepczynski), director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, about when Paterson first realized the need for social justice, litigating implicit bias and why she loves — and hates — America. This conversation first appeared on Nolan's 2017 summer podcast series, Be the Change.Berkeley Talks is going on winter break. We'll be back with new episodes on Jan. 14, 2022.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News.(The Atlantic photo by Edwin Tse)If you haven't already, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lewis Feldman, UC Berkeley professor of plant biology and executive director of the UC Botanical Garden, explores why some leaves appear to change color in the fall season — exhibiting reds, oranges and yellows — and the environmental influences that affect the brilliance of these colors. He also explains the evolutionary benefits of a tree losing its leaves.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser)If you haven't already, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A panel of artists, organizers and academics discuss UC Berkeley professor Eric Stanley's 2021 book that interrogates why, in a time when we're told LGBT rights are advancing in the U.S., anti-trans violence continues to rise.Panelists include:Angela Y. Davis, professor emerita, UC Santa CruzDean Spade, professor, Seattle University School of LawEric A. Stanley, associate professor, UC BerkeleyJules Gill-Peterson, associate professor, Johns Hopkins UniversityLaVelle Ridley, Ph.D. candidate, University of MichiganModerated by Courtney Desiree Morris, artist and assistant professor, UC BerkeleyThis Nov. 2, 2021 talk was co-sponsored by Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute, the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center for Research on Social Change, the Center for Race and Gender and the American Cultures Center.Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News.If you haven't already, please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A panel of scholars explore how technology is changing how and when we practice religion, as well as our notions of religious community, religious doctrine and what it means to be religious.Panelists at the Nov 2. event included: Steven Barrie-Anthony, research associate at the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion Kelsy BurkeAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-LincolnErika Gault, assistant professor of Africana Studies from the University of ArizonaHeather Mellquist Lehto, postdoctoral fellow with Arizona State University’s Center for the Study of Religion and ConflictModerated by Carolyn Chen, associate professor of ethnic studies at UC BerkeleyListen to the talk and read a transcript on Berkeley News. If you haven't already, please follow Berkeley Talks and review us on Apple Podcasts!(Photo by Ashkan Forouzani via Unsplash) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 126 of Berkeley Talks, evolutionary biologist Erica Bree Rosenblum, a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, tells a story about when she held a little frog — the last known member of its species — in her hand as it died. "I am a scientist who studies extinction," says Rosenblum. "I am a scientist who thinks about biodiversity and interconnectedness every single day ... but the difference between thinking about it and feeling a life slipping away in my hand and knowing that it was the last of an entire branch of the biodiversity on our planet was emotionally impactful in a way that I never could have expected." In that moment, she says, she woke up to how hard it is to feel interconnectedness for students in society, even if we know it to be true. In this talk, Rosenblum explores why we keep this feeling of connection at arm's length and how we can begin to build it back into our lives. This talk was given on Oct. 8 and was sponsored by UC Berkeley's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (Photo by Eric Sonstroem via Flickr) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A panel of leading Berkeley experts describe the harms of disinformation and potential solutions to its spread, from measures to strengthen old-school local news media to government regulation of tech titans like Facebook and Twitter. But there’s a critical obstacle: Efforts to directly block disinformation could challenge core American values, such as free speech and freedom of the press. Scholars in the panel: Geeta Anand, dean of Berkeley Journalism; Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law; Hany Farid, associate dean and head of the School of Information; Susan D. Hyde, chair of the Department of Political Science; john powell, director of the Othering & Belonging Institute; and moderator Henry Brady, former dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy. Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. (Photo: Joe Flood via Flickr; Music: "Silver Lanyard" by Blue Dot Sessions) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.