Conversations with History - Neil Shubin UC Berkeley Events 2026-09-22 | Conversations with History - Neil Shubin
Berkeley School of Education 2024 Commencement UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-19 | Berkeley School of Education celebrated its Class of 2024 at a commencement ceremony in Friday, May 17, 2024, at Zellerbach Hall.Dr. Mae Jemison, physician, engineer, educator, and retired NASA astronaut, delivered the distinguished keynote address. Student speakers were Olufemi Ogundele, EdD, and Aimee Eagle, MA plus teaching credential.
2024 UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics Commencement Ceremony UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-19 | After ADA compliant captioning is complete this video will be made available for viewing. Please check back in 24-48 hours.2024 Commencement Ceremony for UC Berkeley's Department of Mathematics at Zellerbach Auditorium. Live music performed by the Math Orchestra at Berkeley.
Berkeley Social Welfare Commencement Ceremony, Class of 2024 UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-17 | After ADA compliant captioning is complete this video will be made available for viewing. Please check back in 24-48 hours.Graduation ceremony of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley - UGIS Commencement Ceremony - May 14, 2024 UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-17 | This ceremony is for graduates of the American Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Media Studies majors at UC Berkeley.
Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture: Michael Nylan UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-08 | “The Utility of the Useless: Reflections on History Today”Lecture by Michael Nylan, Jane K. Sather Chair in the Department of HistoryMichael Nylan's current work focuses on the political theories and practices of the early empires (323 BC–AD 316), where she finds abundant evidence that the Ancients were “in better shape” than we in the modern world. She teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on conceptions of the body and body politic, on the environment and environmental ethics, and on the local administration outside the capital, at the county and sub-county level. All these topics she teaches from both received and excavated texts. Her latest books are a mammoth translation of the Documents classic (University of Washington Press, forthcoming) and a co-authored work entitled The Air We Breathe, The World We Want (under review).Since 1912, the Academic Senate has selected faculty members who are exceptionally distinguished for their scholarly research to serve as the Faculty Research Lecturers. These public events provide a unique opportunity for the campus community to hear from the very people who are transforming knowledge at Berkeley and in our world.
Tanner Lectures on Human Values with Rachel Barney: Lecture III - Seminar and Discussion UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-04 | Discussion of previous lectures between Rachel Barney, Adam Gopnik, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard and Alexander Nehamas. Time for Q&A will be allowed.
Tanner Lectures on Human Values with Rachel Barney: Lecture II - Craft, Métier, Utopia UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-04 | Especially when practiced as a line of work — as a job or métier — craft sets norms for its practitioners. On the whole, a shoemaker should try to be a good shoemaker, and the good person who is a shoemaker routinely does just that. But what kind of ‘should’ is this, and what could connect these two kinds of goodness? Prominent philosophical conceptions of craft, ancient and modern, offer wildly various explanations of its normative authority. The picture is complicated by the way in which craft-as-work is paradigmatic both for successful practical reason and for social roles or practical identities in general. But the most fundamental source of craft’s normativity is the one which Plato and Aristotle bring out: the fact that, when practised as a job or métier, practicing your craft can be a way to realize the human good. And so thinking about craft turns out to be a way of thinking about Utopia: a society in which a just distribution of work could secure both the flourishing of the worker and the common good.
Tanner Lectures on Human Values with Rachel Barney: Lecture I - The End of Craft UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-04 | What is a craft? For Plato, paradigmatic craft-practitioners include the doctor, carpenter and navigator; an updated, more generous conception should include the dancer, coder, waitress, painter, chef, professional athlete, and firefighter. Each of these skilled practices is oriented to the achievement of a distinctive end, the goodness of which is independent of the self-interest or inclinations of the practitioner. This Platonic conception of craft as involving disinterested teleological rationality can explain how craft sets objective norms for correct action, and for the excellence of the practitioner. And it shows that to master a craft is not merely to acquire knowledge or skills but to take on the ‘internal standpoint’ definitive of the craft, internalizing its values and treating its reasons for action as authoritative.
Campus Conversations - Chancellor Christs final interview UC Berkeley Events 2024-05-03 | Join the conversation as Chancellor Christ discusses: Her time in office, including the accomplishments and the work that remains.Reflections on over 50 years in higher education and her view of the challenges and opportunities facing universities today.The importance of community and our Principles of Community.What Berkeley means to her.
The 2024 Oppenheimer Lecture featuring Andrea Liu UC Berkeley Events 2024-04-25 | Physical systems that can learn by themselvesBrains learn and perform an enormous variety of tasks on their own, using relatively little energy. Brains are able to accomplish this without an external computer because their analog constituent parts (neurons) update their connections without knowing what all the other neurons are doing using local rules. We have developed an approach to learning that shares the property that analog constituent parts update their properties via a local rule, but does not otherwise emulate the brain. Instead, we exploit physics to learn in a far simpler way. Our collaborators have implemented this approach in the lab, developing physical systems that learn and perform machine learning tasks on their own with little energy cost. These systems should open up the opportunity to study how many more is different within a new paradigm for scalable learning.
Campus Conversations with UC President Michael V. Drake UC Berkeley Events 2024-04-19 | Join the conversation.Join the very first “Campus Conversation" with University of California President Michael Drake as he shares his goals and aspirations for the UC system in general and UC Berkeley, in particular.
Berkeley Grad Slam 2024 Graduate Division UC Berkeley Events 2024-04-15 | Berkeley graduate students showcase their research in a series of three-minute talks and compete for prizes. The campus champion goes on to compete in the University of California systemwide event in early May to try to bring home the Slammy!
Lunch Poems Brandon Shimoda UC Berkeley Events 2024-04-10 | Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomesBrandon Shimoda. Brandon Shimoda is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including: The Grave on the Wall, recipient of the PEN Open Book Award; Evening Oracle, recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; and his two-volume Tucson/desert book, The Desert. His latest work, Hydra Medusa, was published by Nightboat Books this year. He is an associate professor at Colorado College, and curator of the Hiroshima Library, an itinerant reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Free Speech and Higher Education: A Conversation UC Berkeley Events 2024-04-02 | The Baxter Liberty Initiative presentsFree Speech and Higher Education A Conversationwith Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Chancellor Carol T. Christ
On Cops, Capitalism, and the War on Black Life UC Berkeley Events 2024-03-21 | The police in the neoliberal era–in tandem with other state and corporate entities—have become engines of capital accumulation, government revenue, gentrification, the municipal bond market, the tech and private security industry—in a phrase, the profits of death. The police don’t just take lives; they make life and living less viable for the communities they occupy. The growth of police power has also fundamentally weakened democracy and strengthened “thanatocracy”—rule by death– especially with respect to Black communities. And yet, these same communities have produced a new abolition democracy, organizing to advance a different future, without oppression and exploitation, war, poverty, prisons, police, borders, the constraints of imposed gender, sexual, and ableist norms, and an economic system that destroys the planet while generating obscene inequality.
Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture: Inez Fung UC Berkeley Events 2024-03-15 | “On the CO2 Trail”Lecture by Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & ManagementInez Fung studies the co-evolution of climate change and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Fung received her S.B. in applied mathematics and her Sc.D. in meteorology from MIT. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998 as the Founding Director of the Berkeley Center for Atmospheric Sciences. She is the subject of the biography "Forecast Earth," part of the Women’s Adventures in Science series for middle-school-aged readers, launched by the National Academy of Sciences. She was also featured in the YouTube video, “What Could Happen in a World That’s 4 Degrees Warmer?,” sponsored by WIRED magazine.Since 1912, the Academic Senate has selected faculty members who are exceptionally distinguished for their scholarly research to serve as the Faculty Research Lecturers. These public events provide a unique opportunity for the campus community to hear from the very people who are transforming knowledge at Berkeley and in our world.
Lunch Poems - Esther Belin UC Berkeley Events 2024-03-15 | Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Esther Belin. A Diné (Navajo) multimedia artist and writer, Esther Belin is the author of From the Belly of My Beauty, which won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and Of Cartography, both from the University of Arizona Press. She also served as an editor of The Diné Reader. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Antioch University. She considers the following locations her homeland: LA, Durango, and Diné bike’yah.
Lunch Poems - Courtney Faye Taylor UC Berkeley Events 2024-02-14 | Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes writer and visual artist Courtney Faye Taylor on 2/1/2024.Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate, which was selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was also awarded the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and was named a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. The collection has been featured in Publishers Weekly,Essence magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, and has been named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine.Taylor earned her bachelor’s degree from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She is the winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize.
American Democracy and the Crisis of Majority Rule - Daniel Ziblatt UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-16 | Jefferson Memorial Lecture Series - with Daniel Ziblatt 12/06/2023America’s contemporary democratic predicament is rooted in its historically incomplete democratization. Born in a pre-democratic era, the constitution’s balancing of majority rule and minority rights created still unresolved dilemmas. Placing the U.S. in comparative perspective, this lecture offers new perspectives on what should be “beyond the reach of majorities”– and what should not– making the case for a fuller democracy as antidote to the perils of our age.
Jesse Nathan reads for Lunch Poems UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-14 | Jesse Nathan reads for Lunch Poems on 12/07/2023Jesse Nathan was raised in Northern California and rural Kansas. His first book of poems, Eggtooth, was published by Unbound Edition Press in 2023. Nathan’s poetry has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, The Nation, The Believer, Zyzzyva, and the inaugural issue of Revel, among other magazines. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stanford University, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the Ashbery Home School, and the Kansas Arts Commission.
Kay Gabriel reads for Lunch Poems UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-13 | Kay Gabriel reads for Lunch Poems on 11/2/2023. In UC-Berkeley's Morrison Library, and introduced by Geoffrey G. O'Brien. Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. Her research focuses on contemporary anglophone poetry and poetics, trans studies, tragedy, adaptation, classical reception, and translation studies. She has taught at Princeton University, where she received her doctorate in classics, the Prison Teaching Initiative, the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library, Naropa University, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, which was nominated for the Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle awards. She is the author of the collections Kissing Other People or the House of Fame and A Queen in Bucks County.
Transmitting Anne Frank to Gen Z - featuring Ronald Leopold, Director of the Anne Frank House Museum UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-13 | Inaugural Snapper Lecture on Dutch Studies, featuring Ronald Leopold, Director of the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. 00:00 Welcome remarks - Dean Sara Guyer, Division of Arts & Humanities 05:35 About Prof. Snapper's legacy - Prof. Jeroen Dewulf, Dutch Studies Program 20:15 About the Dutch Studies Program - Prof. Esmee van der Hoeven & Julia Verdickt 28:50 Keynote remarks, with introduction Program cosponsored by UC Berkeley's Dutch Studies Program, the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art & Life, the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Division of Arts & Humanities. Follow @berkeleyartshumanities on YouTube for more.
Campus Conversations - End of Semester UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-13 | Join the conversation with UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Carol Christ as she shares her thoughts and reflections on the semester and looks forward to her final semester on campus. Chancellor Christ will also take questions from the audience.
2023 BERC Resources Symposium Keynote: Vivas Kumar & Eilen Ehrenpreis UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-08 | Vivas Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder, Mitra Chem, and Ellen Ehrenpreis, Partner at Orrick, discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of critical mineral extraction for the clean energy transition.Hosted by the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) at the University of California Berkeley.
Campus Conversations - Athletics UC Berkeley Events 2023-12-01 | Join campus leadership for a discussion about Cal Athletics. They will discuss the current landscape of intercollegiate athletics nationally and its impact here at Berkeley, the meaning and impact of Cal’s move to the ACC conference, and will take questions from the audience.
Self-Consciousness and ‘I’ – Anscombe and Sartre in Dialogue UC Berkeley Events 2023-11-20 | Howison Lecture in Philosophy with Béatrice LonguenesseIn this lecture, I examine Elizabeth Anscombe’s analysis of our use of the first-person pronoun ‘I’ and its relation to self-consciousness. I argue that Anscombe’s account receives unexpected support from a philosophical approach which is very different from hers: Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenological description of consciousness, self-consciousness, and their expression in our use of ‘I.’ Anscombe’s characterization of self-consciousness as the non-observational, non-inferential, “unmediated conception of actions, happenings and states” is close to Sartre’s characterization of what he calls “non-thetic” or “non-positional” self-consciousness.
Campus Conversations - Berkeley Space Center UC Berkeley Events 2023-11-18 | On Oct. 16, Berkeley announced an exciting new project - the Berkeley Space Center. A joint venture between Berkeley and San Francisco-based SKS Partners unveiled Berkeley Space Center at NASA Research Park, a planned 36-acre innovation hub in the heart of Silicon Valley. As envisioned, the multi-phase development will accelerate the area’s existing innovation ecosystem, catalyzing deeper collaboration between the private, academic and governmental sectors. The joint venture is dedicated to identifying, incubating and launching technological breakthroughs across a diverse set of fields including astronautics, quantum computing, climate studies and the social sciences.https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/16/nasa-ames-to-host-berkeley-space-center-an-innovation-hub
dg nanouk okpik reads for Lunch Poems UC Berkeley Events 2023-11-15 | dg nanouk okpik is an Iñupiaq-Inuit poet from south-central Alaska. She is the author of Blood Snow, published in 2022 by Wave Books, and Corpse Whale, which received the American Book Award. Her work has been published in several anthologies, including New Poets of Native Nations and Infinite Constellations, from this year. Her awards include a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and the 2022 May Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. okpik lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she is a Lannan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Policies to Restore the American Dream UC Berkeley Events 2023-10-27 | Building on the lessons about the determinants of economic opportunity, the second lecture in this series will focus on three policy levers to increase upward mobility: reducing racial and economic segregation through more effective affordable housing programs, investing in place-based policies, and strengthening higher education. The lecture will give specific examples of pilot studies and interventions in each of these domains that are help inform the design of policy and practice from the federal to state to local levels, including at institutions of higher education such as UC Berkeley. The talk will conclude by giving some illustrations of how these policy proposals to improve opportunity are being scaled nationally, providing a pathway to expand opportunities for all.Policies to Restore the American Dream
The Science of Economic Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data UC Berkeley Events 2023-10-26 | Children’s chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half century in America. How can we restore the American Dream of upward mobility for all children? In this talk, Raj Chetty, director of Opportunity Insights, will show how big data from varied sources ranging from anonymized tax records to Facebook social network data is helping us uncover the science of economic opportunity. Among other topics, the talk will discuss how and why children’s chances of climbing the income ladder vary across neighborhoods, the drivers of racial disparities in economic mobility, and the role of social capital as a driver of upward mobility. The talk will present data on the state of economic opportunity in California in particular to provide a local context to these national patterns.
The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024 - Fillipenko Lecture UC Berkeley Events 2023-10-17 | ...
Moffett Countdown - Live UC Berkeley Events 2023-10-16 | On Monday, October 16, SKS Partners and the University of California, Berkeley will unveil a first-of-its-kind constellation of innovation. Here, leaders across diverse sectors will propel human knowledge forward and transform industries in the pursuit of the greater good.
UC Berkeley Campus Memorial 2023 UC Berkeley Events 2023-09-28 | This annual memorial recognizes those in the campus community who have died, including, academic & faculty, emeriti, staff, students, post-doctorates, and visiting scholars.
UC Berkeley Campus Memorial 2023 UC Berkeley Events 2023-09-23 | This annual memorial recognizes those in the campus community who have died, including, academic & faculty, emeriti, staff, students, post-doctorates, and visiting scholars.
On the Same Page: Crip Camp UC Berkeley Events 2023-09-15 | Submit your questions for Nicole and Jim in advance of the event: bit.ly/otsp2023
Campus Conversations: Campus Safety UC Berkeley Events 2023-09-13 | Join the conversation with UC Berkeley Chief of Police Yogananda Pittman in a discussion about campus safety. Chief Pittman will talk about cultural changes on the campus in terms of the community relationship with UCPD, challenges of policing in an open campus environment and what the community can do to collaborate with law enforcement. She will also cover some of the best ways for UCPD to engage with communities that have had contentious relationships with law enforcement. This is an opportunity to have an open conversation about what it means for our community to feel safe.
Campus Conversations - UC Berkeley EVC and provost Ben Hermalin UC Berkeley Events 2023-09-01 | Join the conversation with UC Berkeley’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Ben Hermalin to learn more about him, his plans and priorities for campus and what he is looking forward to as a new academic year begins.
Campus Conversations - UC Berkeley EVC and provost Ben Hermalin UC Berkeley Events 2023-08-30 | Join the conversation with UC Berkeley’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Ben Hermalin to learn more about him, his plans and priorities for campus and what he is looking forward to as a new academic year begins.
2023 Chancellors New Student Convocation UC Berkeley Events 2023-08-28 | UC Berkeley's traditional ceremony to welcome all incoming freshman and transfer students.
Bear Foundations Fall 2023 UC Berkeley Events 2023-08-28 | This program is intended to start the conversation of purpose and community for new students. The presentation prepares new students to discover a purpose, advocate for issues of social justice, diversity and inclusion while upholding the UC Berkeley Principles of Community.
