UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures (Audio)

125 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

The University of California, Berkeley presents the Graduate Lectures. Seven lectureships comprise the Graduate Lectures, each with a distinct endowment history. These unique programs have brought distinguished visitors to Berkeley since 1909 to speak on a wide range of topics, from philosophy to the sciences.

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Episodes

American Democracy and the Crisis of Majority Rule

March 07, 2024 20:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

'I' and Self-Consciousness

February 16, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 52.7 MB

Policies to Restore the American Dream with Raj Chetty

January 01, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MB

The Science of Economic Opportunity: New Insights from Big Data with Raj Chetty

December 27, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MB

A Conversation with Ezra Klein about Liberalism

December 08, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MB

How Modern Slavery Touches Everyone

May 15, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MB

How Modern Slavery Impacts the Environment with Kevin Bales

May 05, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 40 MB

Constructing a Republican Executive with Michael McConnell

April 04, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 36.8 MB

21st Century Global Health Priorities with Christopher Murray

February 01, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MB

The Social Safety Net as an Investment in Children with Hilary Hoynes

January 29, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 35.9 MB

The Status Quo Loves To Say No: Disability Rights and the Battle Against Structures of Exclusion with Judith Heumann

January 23, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MB

Metrics in Action: Lessons Learned from 30 Years of the Global Burden of Disease Study with Christopher Murray

January 04, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 34.8 MB

The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy

July 26, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 53.2 MB

Smart Money: Educational Investments in Adolescents Earn Higher Returns

June 20, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB

The Fork in the Road: Investing in Adolescent Education

June 13, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB

The Fork in the Road: Adolescence Education Economic Fatalism and Populism with Caroline Hoxby

June 08, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MB

A Discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kate Crawford

April 20, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 36 MB

Excavating Ground Truth in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data with Kate Crawford

March 27, 2022 20:00 - 56 minutes - 26.6 MB

A New Measure: The Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System

March 15, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MB

Time Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe

March 11, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MB

Counterfactuals Compatibilism and Rational Choice

November 24, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.9 MB

Weaponizing Narratives: Why America Wants Gun Control But Doesn’t Have It

April 14, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 39.1 MB

Deep Soul: Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles and the Making of the Modern World with Waldo Martin

January 15, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MB

On Uncertainty: Wittgenstein: Habits of Thought and Thoughts of Habit

January 03, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MB

Prison Abolition and a Mule with Paul Butler

December 04, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MB

The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens

April 09, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MB

Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts

March 25, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MB

Shaping a 21st Century Workforce – Is AI Friend or Foe?

January 02, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MB

Evolution and Creationism as Science and Myth

November 06, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 33.6 MB

Why Do People Reject Good Science?

October 31, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 36.5 MB

Texting Etiquette Varies by Generation

September 18, 2018 20:00 - 4 minutes - 2.17 MB

Souls in Other Selves and the Immortality of the Body

June 18, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 39.2 MB

Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front

April 16, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MB

American Identity in the Age of Trump with George Packer

January 08, 2018 20:00 - 1 hour - 36.9 MB

The Language of Friendship: The Role of Talk in an Understudied Relationship

December 25, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.3 MB

Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media

December 18, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 34.5 MB

Strangers in Their Own Land: Challenges Climbing the Empathy Wall

December 11, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MB

Hello Food Industry Meet Food Activists

October 16, 2017 20:00 - 4 minutes - 2.29 MB

Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics

June 12, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 37.2 MB

Food Politics and the Twenty-First Century Food Movement with Marion Nestle

May 15, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 32.9 MB

The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today

April 24, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 36.1 MB

The Real 'Skin in the Game': The History of Naked Sweaty and Colorful Skin in the Human Lineage

April 17, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 37.9 MB

Can We Create Good Institutions?

January 09, 2017 20:00 - 1 hour - 40 MB

Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

December 26, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour - 37.7 MB

Embodied Souls — Lessons from Neurology with V.S. Ramachandran

May 02, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour - 33.2 MB

The Intrigue of Wine Gold and California Today with Frances Dinkelspiel

April 25, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour - 51.8 MB

Why We Have Effective Agreements to Protect the Ozone Layer But Not to Stabilize Climate

April 11, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour - 35 MB

Contemporary Climate Change as Seen Through Measurements

April 04, 2016 20:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB

Immortality - An Egyptian Dream

December 21, 2015 20:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB

Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying Science to Understand the Vulnerability of Modern Society to Natural Disasters

December 21, 2015 20:00 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB

Books

Book of the Dead

1 Episode

The Ivory Tower

1 Episode