Latest Ucberkeley Podcast Episodes
Storytelling and the Climate Crisis
Matrix Podcast - April 14, 2024 17:54 - 1 hourContemporary writers and activists have described the climate crisis as, in part, a crisis of the imagination, of culture, and of storytelling. Recorded on March 11, 2024, this panel featured a group of authors and scholars of different genres — science fiction, journalism, history, literary fic...
New Directions in Greening Infrastructure
Matrix Podcast - April 14, 2024 16:20 - 1 hourAs the effects of climate change become more obvious, moving away from fossil fuels has only become more urgent. But to do so, new energy sources – and new infrastructure – are desperately needed. Recoreded on March 20, 2024, this panel features three early-career scholars from UC Berkeley pre...
Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness
Matrix Podcast - April 05, 2024 20:51 - 1 hourRecorded on March 18, 2024, this panel focused on Professor Alex V. Barnard’s book, Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness. The book analyzes conservatorship, a legal system used to take legal guardianship over individuals deemed unable to meet their ...
Authors Meet Critics: “Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics,” Salar Mameni
Matrix Podcast - April 05, 2024 02:06 - 1 hourRecorded on March 4, 2024, this Authors Meet Critics panel focused on Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics, by Professor Salar Mameni, Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies. Professor Mameni was joined by Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa...
Traumatic Repercussions: Black Women and Obstetric Racism
Matrix Podcast - April 02, 2024 21:30 - 1 hourRecorded on March 7, 2024, this video features a lecture entitled “Traumatic Repercussions: Black Women and Obstetric Racism,” by Dána-Ain Davis, Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, and a member of the faculty of the PhD Programs in Anthropology and Critical Psychology. This tal...
Structural Determinants of Police Violence: Interview with Kimberly Cecilia Burke
Matrix Podcast - March 19, 2024 17:57 - 27 minutesKimberly Cecilia Burke, a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, researches the relationships between institutional violence and social stratification, utilizing multi-level mixed-methods analysis. Her dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how Black-White interracial cou...
The Scandal of Access: An Interview with Zahra Hayat
Matrix Podcast - March 19, 2024 17:55 - 47 minutesThis episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Zahra Hayat, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and is also trained as a lawyer with a background in intellectual property. Matrix Content ...
Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation: An Interview with Ryan Brutger
Matrix Podcast - March 19, 2024 17:54 - 30 minutesOn this episode of the Matrix Podcast, Daniel Lobo, a PhD student in the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology and a 2022-2023 Matrix Communications Scholar, interviewed Ryan Brutger, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Professor Brutger obtained his PhD in politics at Princ...
Understanding Land-based Psychological Trauma in Light of Epistemic Justice
Matrix Podcast - March 03, 2024 18:00 - 1 hourRecorded on February 8, 2024, this video features a lecture by Dr. Garret Barnwell, South African clinical psychologist and community psychology practitioner. The talk was moderated and coordinated by Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at UC Berkeley. A transcr...
Authors Meet Critics: "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall," by Andrew Garrett
Matrix Podcast - February 05, 2024 00:54 - 1 hourRecorded on January 19, 2024, this "Authors Meet Critics" panel centered on the book, The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California, by Andrew Garrett, Professor of Linguistics and the Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Professor of Cross-Cultural Social Sciences in t...
Vincent Bevins - "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution"
Matrix Podcast - January 28, 2024 19:06 - 1 hourRecorded on October 17, 2023, this video features a talk by Vincent Bevins, an award-winning journalist and correspondent, focused on his book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. The panel was moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC ...
The First National News Round-up of the 2024 Offseason
The California Golden Bearcast - January 18, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob return with a look around the CFB landscape and all of the news and happenings since the final 4-team CFP. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email ([email protected]) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcas...
Authoritarian Absorption: An Interview with Yan Long
Matrix Podcast - January 13, 2024 23:17 - 54 minutesThis episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Yan Long, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley who focuses on the politics of public health in China. She was formerly an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Cent...
Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830"
Matrix Podcast - December 18, 2023 23:32 - 1 hourRecorded on December 5, 2023, this Authors Meet Critics panel focused on Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), by Trevor Jackson, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Professor Jackson was joined by Anat Adm...
Authors Meet Critics: Sharad Chari, "Gramsci at Sea"
Matrix Podcast - December 16, 2023 02:58 - 1 hourRecorded on November 28, 2023 as part of the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix “Authors Meet Critics” series, this panel focused on Gramsci at Sea, a book by Sharad Chari, Associate Professor in Geography and Co-Director of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Professor Chari was joined in conversati...
Authors Meet Critics: Dylan Penningroth, “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights”
Matrix Podcast - December 16, 2023 00:48 - 1 hourRecorded on November 14, 2023 at UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix, this "Authors Meet Critics" panel is focused on Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan Penningroth, Professor of Law and Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History at UC Berkeley, an...
Matrix on Point: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality
Matrix Podcast - December 15, 2023 19:10 - 1 hourWhile the last 20 years have marked a significant change in increased acceptance of varied gender expressions and sexual orientations, these changes haven’t made the importance of gender and sexuality as concepts disappear. If anything, they’ve become more relevant for understanding the world to...
Racial and Ethnic Difference in South Africa and the USSR: An Interview with Hilary Lynd
Matrix Podcast - December 13, 2023 23:18 - 43 minutesHow did South Africans and Soviets think about how to manage difference--in their home contexts and in decades of conversation with one another? In this episode of the Matrix podcast, Hilary Lynd, a PhD candidate in history, discusses the changing relationship between South Africa and the USSR f...
Cal Football 2023: 72 Hours Later
The California Golden Bearcast - December 01, 2023 23:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsThe season is over but a Bowl remains, along with the start of coaching carousel and transfer portal moves. The Bears are already in changeup mode with the departure of OC Jake Spavital. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email (gold...
Cal Football 2023: It's Beary Sunny in Palo Alto
The California Golden Bearcast - November 24, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob vibe check the 126th Big Game along with some thoughts on the game! How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email ([email protected]) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cal Football 2023: Sunset on Pac-12 Football at Memorial Stadium
The California Golden Bearcast - November 16, 2023 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob look back at the final Pac-12 Game to ever be played at Memorial Stadium, the game itself and the expectation for the next two games with potential bowl eligibility on the line. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email (...
California Spotlight: From Boom to Doom in San Francisco
Matrix Podcast - November 13, 2023 17:07 - 1 hourDuring the peak of the most recent tech upswing, downtown San Francisco was booming. Now, after the pandemic and a new round of tech layoffs, commentators fear that the so-called “doom loop” has come to valuable commercial real estate. While boom and bust cycles are not new to The City, what ca...
Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, “Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity”
Matrix Podcast - November 10, 2023 18:01 - 56 minutesRecorded on October 17, 2023, this video features an "Authors Meet Critics" panel on the book Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity, by Massimo Mazzotti, Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of History and the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science. Professor ...
Cal Football 2023: A Double Feature
The California Golden Bearcast - November 06, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob are back to talk USC and Oregon and how to enjoy the rest of the season, along with how they navigate and analyze the game by game within the context of Cal Athletics. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email (goldenbearc...
Cal Football 2023: Defense Bears Defense
The California Golden Bearcast - October 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob record on a Bye Week Saturday while watching some other College Football games. They discuss the reason for defensive struggles and what to look for in the immediate future of the California Golden Bears Football team. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory ...
Matrix on Point: The Future of College
Matrix Podcast - October 21, 2023 01:13 - 1 hourThe pandemic has rocked higher education. From Zoom classrooms to students leaving higher education, colleges have needed to change modalities to adapt to public health risks and the emergence of new technologies. Enrollment patterns are also shifting in a changing economy: while selective flags...
War, Diaspora, Bureaucracy: An Interview with Sherine Ebadi
Matrix Podcast - October 16, 2023 21:51 - 42 minutesHow does international conflict shape immigration bureaucracy? Sherine Ebadi, a PhD Candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Geography, researches the impact of Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) and employment-based visa programs on Afghan nationals who worked with the U.S. military. For Ebadi, v...
Cal Football 2023: Viva Fernando
The California Golden Bearcast - October 10, 2023 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob are back to discuss the OSU game, Viva Fernando, the disappearance of a staple Wilcox defense and of course Fan Questions and Comments. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email ([email protected]) Learn more about ...
Cal Football 2023: Eyes Wide Open
The California Golden Bearcast - October 04, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsAndy and Rob talk through the ASU game, where the expectations on the season go, and a large tangent on photography. How to listen or talk to us! Make sure to send in your Victory Cannon's either to our twitter or email ([email protected]) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...
Voter Turnout in the United States: An Interview with Emily Rong Zhang
Matrix Podcast - October 04, 2023 19:04 - 49 minutesIn this episode of the Matrix Podcast, Jennie Barker, a PhD Candidate in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley — and a Matrix Communications Scholar — spoke with Emily Rong Zhang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley Law School, about her research on voter t...
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