David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in "What the bleep do we know?;" and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Co...
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Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, providing a meeting place for writers, arti...
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Made in Catalunya with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson
Available at www.calperformances.org On October 24, 2008, performance artist Laurie Anderson (in Berkeley, California) joined musician Lou Reed (in Barcelona, Spain) via the internet to perform the works of Catalan poets Brossa, Espriu, Carner and Vinyoli. The 45 minute live performance, in Engli...
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- Length: 45:56
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David Simon: "The Audacity of Despair"
David Simon presented his lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Simon is a Baltimore-based author, journalist and writer-producer of television, specializing in criminal justice and urban issues. He is the creator, executive produ...
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- Length: 70:59
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Tiffany Shlain's UC Berkeley Keynote Commencement Speech
UC Berkeley's 2010 Commencement speech calls for Moxie. Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is an acclaimed filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and a Henry Crown Fellow ...
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Reinventing Urbanism in a Time of Economic Crisis
CED 50th Anniversary - Visualizing the Future of Environmental Design: Reinventing Urbanism in a Time of Economic Crisis Manuel Castells, University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communications & Society, University of Southern California www.ced.berkeley.edu
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Garrick Ohlsson: "Why Chopin? and Other Questions"
Winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson is regarded as one of the world's leading performers of the music of Frédéric Chopin. He is also noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoir...
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Conversations with History - Martin Wolf
"Causes and Consequences of the Global Economic Collapse" Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times Wolf discusses its global origins focusing on the interplay between surplus countries such as China and debtor countries such as the United States. He evaluates...
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- Length: 55:44
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Conversations With History - Louise Richardson
"What Terrorists Want" Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Louise Richardson, Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for a discussion of how to understand terrorism and contain the threat.
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- Length: 56:55
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Conversations With History - Jack Citrin
"Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and American National Identity" Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley August 1, 2007 Credits: Executive Producer:Harry Kreisler
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- Length: 55:41
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The Politics of Obesity: Confronting Our National Eating...
A panel discussion with: Marion Nestle Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University and author, Food Politics Joan Dye Gussow Professor emeritus of nutrition education, Teacher's College, Columbia University and author, This Organic Life Kell...
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- Length: 105:08
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Conversations With History - Kishore Mahbubani
The Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Kishore Mahbubani for a discussion of the changing relationship between the West and Asia. In the interview, he describes the major transformations occurring because of the march of modernity made possible by ...
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- Length: 60:02
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Conversations With History - Peter Dale Scott
"Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America" Peter Dale Scott - Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Berkeley Recorded August 8, 2007 Executive Producer: Harry Kreisler globetrotter.berkeley.edu globetrotter.berkeley.edu
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- Length: 60:50
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Conversations With History - Tariq Ali
"Pakistan" Tariq Ali, Editor, New Left Review Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer and journalist Tariq Ali for a discussion of Pakistan and it relations with the United States. He places the present crisis in its historical context exploring the origins of the Pakistani state, the failure to forg...
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- Length: 57:22
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Conversations with History - Sebastian Mallaby
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion of his new book, "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite." Topics covered include: managi...
Three Decembers
Composer Jake Heggie plays excerpts from and talks about his new chamber opera Three Decembers. The West Coast premiere is presented by Cal Performances and the San Francisco Opera. The opera stars mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and is about the loving but often-strained relationship between a...
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