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Collection: Webcast UC Berkeley Events
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- Abstract: This event took place on February 24, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC
Berkeley. A town hall featuring a panel of The Atlantic Monthly
writers who produced the special January/February 2004 Atlantic
Monthly issue. The panel will include writer Jim Fallows, one of
founders of the New America Foundation think tank, who wrote the lead
article, and a few other Atlantic writers. Michael Kinsley, of Slate,
will moderate. Introduced by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate
School of Journalism. The event is sponsored by The UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism and "The Atlantic Monthly" magazine.
For more information, please visit the Journalism School's website
for this event.
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- Abstract: The 2006 Computer Science Commencement Ceremony was held Sunday, May 21, 2006, at 2:00 pm in Zellerbach Auditorium. The Commencement address was delivered by Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, Inc.
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- Abstract: Friday, January 19, 2007
The Primary Election: November 2005 June 2006
Campaign managers, media experts and other top officials for all three major candidates discuss the campaign, from the underlying structure of the electorate to the day-to-day strategy to the outcome.
Moderators: Scott Shafer , KQED Public Broadcasting; Randy Shandobil , KTVU News
watch webcast: Schwarzenegger Laying the Groundwork
Opening Remarks: Bruce Cain , Director, Institute of Governmental Studies
Panelists: Matthew Dowd; Susan Kennedy; Reed Galen; Adam Mendelsohn; Steve Schmidt
watch webcast: The Westly Candidacy
Panelists: Jude Barry; David Doak; Garry South
watch webcast: The Angelides Candidacy
Panelists: Cathy Calfo; Paul Maslin; Katie Merrill; Bob Mulholland
watch webcast: Roundtable and Q&A with All Three Campaigns
Saturday, January 20, 2007
watch webcast: California: Blue, Red or Purple?
Scholars, journalists, and others analyze the nature of the California electorate the battlefield on which the governor's campaign was fought. Democrats control the Legislature and carry the state easily in presidential elections, yet Republicans have held the governorship for 19 of the last 24 years. Are we as blue as our reputation, secretly red, or some purple shade in between?
Panelists: Bruce Cain , Director, Institute of Governmental Studies; Morris Fiorina (Professor of Political Science, Stanford University); Thad Kousser (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California at San Diego); Ted Lascher (Professor of Political Science, California State University, Sacramento)
watch webcast: The Polls: What Were Voters Thinking?
The state's leading pollsters describe the status of public opinion before, during and after the campaign.
Moderator: Susan Rasky , Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley Panelists: Mark Baldassare , Director of Research, Public Policy Institute of California; Mark DiCamillo , Director, Field Poll; Susan Pinkus , Director, Los Angeles Times Poll; Phil Trounstine , Director, Survey and Policy Research Institute, San Jose State University
The General Election: June 2006 November 2006
Campaign managers, media experts and other top officials for both major candidates discuss the campaign, from the underlying structure of the electorate to the day-to-day strategy to the outcome.
Moderators: Mark Barabak , Los Angeles Times ; Carla Marinucci , San Francisco Chronicle
watch webcast: The Angelides Candidacy
Panelists: Cathy Calfo; Bill Carrick; Paul Maslin; Katie Merrill
watch webcast: The Schwarzenegger Candidacy
Panelists: Matthew Dowd; Susan Kennedy; Reed Galen; Adam Mendelsohn; Steve Schmidt
watch webcast: Roundtable and Q&A with Both Campaigns
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- Abstract: In the Tradition of Innovation at Berkeley Engineering... The College of Engineering is hosting the 3rd Annual Technology Breakthrough Competition to recognize the University's technology and scientific research that could make the world a substantially better place.
PROGRAM:
Dean Richard Newton in conversation with Steve Domenik, General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Lip-Bu Tan, Founder & Chairman, Walden International
Technology Breakthrough Winners Ceremony and
presentation of $25,000 in prizes
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- Abstract: The Relationship between Population Growth and Poverty
Robert Engelman , Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC.
Numbers: Mind the Gap
Theogene Rudasingwa ,, Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States.
The Return of the Population Factor
Martha Campbell ,, Co-founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD), UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Why Does Peace Break Out?
Malcolm Potts ,, Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Presented by The School of Public Health. This event was sponsored by the Bixby Program in Population, Family Planning, and Maternal Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
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- Abstract: Brad DeLong
"Afta Thoughts On Nafta"
"I was a true believer in NAFTA--the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now my faith is not gone but shaken." So states Brad DeLong, economist and creator of one of the net's most popular weblogs on economics, at www.j-bradford-delong.net .
J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy.
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- Abstract: The Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs and UC Berkeley's
Graduate School of Journalism present: America In the Second Nuclear
Age The live event took place on April 30, 2003 in Sibley Auditorium,
UC Berkeley. A conversation with: Jonathan Schell Author and Fellow
at The Nation Institute and Senior Fellow at the Center for
Globalization at Yale University Frances FitzGerald Author of Fire In
The Lake and Way Out There In The Blue Michael Nacht Dean, Goldman
School of Public Policy; Chair, Pentagon advisory panel on combating
terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction; Assistant Director of
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1994 -1997 Mark Danner
Professor, Graduate School of Journalism Staff Writer, The New
Yorker Introduced by Orville Schell Dean, Graduate School of
Journalism The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs is a
series of lectures, dialogues and scholarships meant to foster debate
about how critical world issues are covered in the American press --
and how they can be covered more effectively. Co-sponsored by The
Commonwealth Club of California.
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- Abstract: Anthropology Fall Emeritus Lecture Series
Established in 1991, the Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series honors a designated Emeritus faculty member from the U.C. Berkeley Department of Anthropology with a lecture by a distinguished anthropologist working in an area related to the honorees' field of expertise.
Beginning in 1995, the lecture series has been enhanced by exhibits at the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library and on the Internet illustrating the career of the honoree including biographical, bibliographical and other information.
As a collection, the Anthropology Emeritus web sites provide a perspective on anthropology at the University of California and more generally, a recent history of anthropology as a discipline.
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- Abstract: Three Berkeley professors place Botero's "Abu Ghraib" exhibit in historical and artistic context.
T.J. Clark is the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Chair, and a Professor of Art History at UC Berkeley.
Thomas W. Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at UC Berkeley.
Francine Masiello is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and a member of the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.
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- Abstract: The UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Welcomes The Economist's political cartoonist, Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher to discuss the iterpretation of news through drawing cartoons. Learn how to draw George Bush in five minutes and discover how to draw like a professional cartoonist.
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- Abstract: BIOSECURITY FOR A NEW ERA
Lecture Series
Biological weapons (BW) have been a significant national security preoccupation for nearly 15 years. The events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks that followed have magnified these concerns by orders of magnitude while shifting the context almost entirely to "bioterrorism." Over the past four years, the federal government has spent nearly $30 billion to counter the anticipated threat. Strangely, these responses took place in the absence of virtually any threat analysis. This talk will describe recent work to fill this gap by describing what is known about recent state and terrorist group efforts to obtain, develop, and use biological weapons (BW); reviewing how US agencies have portrayed the BW threat through exercises and planning scenarios; and examining how recent and projected expansions in the US biodefense program interact with the Biological Weapons Convention.
Milton Leitenberg , Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM), trained as a scientist and moved into the field of arms control in 1966. In 1968, Leitenberg was the first
American to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
He also worked with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Center for International Studies' Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. His research is widely published. He has authored two major studies at CISSM, Biological Weapons Arms Control (1996) and Participation of Japanese Military Forces in UN
Peacekeeping Operations (1996). His most recent books are "The Problem of Biological Weapons" and "Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat."
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- Abstract: What the Energy Biosciences Institute means for UC Berkeley
On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.
In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing series of webcasts about campus issues, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau delves into the details of the university's winning proposal and emerging plans for a new Energy Biosciences Institute.
Part one : The chancellor is joined by two people who played a significant role in crafting the proposal: Vice Chancellor for Research Beth Burnside and Dan Kammen, a professor in the campus's Energy Resources Group (ERG). They discuss their goals for the institute's research endeavors, its potential impact on graduate and undergraduate education, and the proposal's intellectual property provisions.
Part two : Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, joins Birgeneau to review the scientific challenges the new institute will confront, the role and importance of public-private partnerships in addressing the energy crisis and climate change, and the roots of Chu's passionate commitment to developing renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy.
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- Abstract: David Kirp is a Berkeley professor of public policy. He is the author
of many nonfiction titles, the most recent being "Shakespeare,
Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education", in
which he looked at 12 colleges and universities that, in order to deal
with competitive pressures, are marketing themselves much like a
consumer brand. Kirp is interviewed by John Levine, a College Writing
Programs lecturer.
Writers at Work takes an unusual approach to writing. While
nonfiction authors are often invited to discuss the subject matter of
their works, the series provides a forum for campus writers to talk
about their writing process - from gathering material to creating a
mood, editing, and revising.
This event took place on March 31, 2004 in the Morrison Library, UC
Berkeley
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- Abstract: Berkeley Writers at Work: Asian American literary figure Elaine Kim
Elaine Kim, UC Berkeley professor of Asian American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies , will read from her work, be interviewed about her writing process, and answer questions from the audience for the Writers at Work series. Kim has been an important figure in Asian American literature and culture for over three decades and has won numerous awards. She writes on a wide range of subjects, among them identity in Asian American literature, the visual arts, race relations, Korean literature, and feminism.
The Berkeley Writers at Work series provides a forum in which campus writers can discuss all aspects of their writing, from gathering material and crafting the framework of a piece of writing, to creating a mood, editing, and revising.
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- Abstract: Professor Linda Williams, Director of the Film Studies Program, is the
author of "Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible"
and "Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White, from Uncle
Tom to O.J. Simpson". She reads from her work and discusses her
writing process.
his event took place March 4, 2003 in the Morrison Library, UC
Berkeley.
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- Abstract: Pollan reads from his work, is interviewed about his writing process,
and answers questions from the audience.
Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate
School and director of the Knight Program in Science and
Environmental Journalism. He is a contributing writer at the "New
York Times Magazine", and the author of three books: "The Botany of
Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World"; "A Place of My Own"; and
"Second Nature". For many years he served as Executive Editor of
"Harper's Magazine". His writing has won numerous awards, including
the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental
Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the
Humane Society of the United States.
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- Abstract: Robert Hass, professor of English at Berkeley and former Poet Laureate
of the United States, reads from his work, is interviewed about his
writing process, and answers questions from the audience.
Hass was appointed Poet Laureate in 1995. During his tenure, he
turned a largely ceremonial post into one that actively addressed
literature and literacy. He wrote a column for the Washington Post,
introduced up-and-coming poets to the public, and advocated literacy
and reading throughout the country.
The "Berkeley Writers at Work" series, sponsored by the College
Writing Programs, provides a forum for campus writers to discuss all
aspects of their process. Past guests have included Alan Dundes,
Orville Schell, and Ronald Takaki.
For more information, visit the series homepage [1].
Links:
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[1] http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/bwaw/
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- Abstract: Secrets: The Ethics of Concealment and the Ethics of Science in Synthetic Biological Research
Dr. Laurie Zoloth , Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University
Increasingly sophisticated techniques allow for increasing powerful and creative tools of biology to create new or altered forms of life. Such synthetic biology may offer unprecedented avenues for drug development, alternate energy sources, and medical therapeutics. Yet increasing unease also mounts about the possible misuse of such biology, and governments, scientists and citizens turn their attention to the question of how protect academic freedom in an age of terror. Are the fears of dual use of synthetic biology overblown? Or are such fears prudent? Who should protect the secrets of science, or is it simply inappropriate to conceal knowledge from the broadest possible community? What are the fair limits of concealment in science? Are the arguments of the marketplace and the need for competitive secrecy applicable to open source knowledge? How can the core ethical principle and praxis of veracity be balanced with the problem of security? How can the core ethical principle of confidentiality be reconciled with open source research? What is the difference between holding secrets and deceit? This lecture will raise some preliminary framing questions in the emerging field of synthetic biology, a field that has been a subject of attention and concern since its inception.
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- Abstract: The College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley Presents
Janine Benyus
Author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature"
- Biomimics related to Energy and other industries
- Opportunities in the rapidly growing Biomimics field
- Green Chemistry as part of Biomimicry
Co-Sponsored by:
- Clean Tech Venture Network
- Greenbiz
- The Helios Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
- The Berkeley Energy & Resource Collaborative (BERC)
- The Horace M. Albright Lectureship in Conservation
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- Abstract: Featured speakers: Loic Wacquant, Department of Sociology, UCB and Tyler Stovall, Department of
History, UCB
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