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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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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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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- Length: 48:29
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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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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 - 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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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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- Length: 21:06
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Lunch Poems - Gary Snyder
Born in San Francisco in 1930, world-renowned poet, essayist, and environmentalist Gary Snyder has published sixteen books of poetry and prose, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for Turtle Island. Snyder has traveled widely and lived for extended periods of time in Japan, where he studied a...
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- Length: 77:22
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2009 McBaine Moot Court Competition Final Round
The James Patterson McBaine Honors Competition is Boalt Halls venerable moot court competition and is open to all Boalt second- and third-year law students. Cases chosen for the competition involve cutting-edge issues of great public importance. This year, we are proud to welcome Justice Stephen ...
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- Length: 92:28
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YouTube, Blogs, Texting, the Web: How Are New Media Changing Politics?
How have New Media influenced elections and political governance, and shaped the language of civic engagement? Hear this panel sponsored by the Goldman School's Class of '68 Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement. Panelists: Professors Henry Brady, Bruce Cain and Geoffrey Nunberg gspp.berkele...
Story Hour Presents Michael Ondaatje in Conversation with Robert Hass
Michael Ondaatje in Conversation with Robert Hass Recorded March 20, 2009 storyhour.berkeley.edu
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- Length: 50:14
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Conversations With History - Gibor Basri
"Reaching for the Stars" Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy University of California, Berkeley Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, for a discussion of his work in astrophysics. Topics covered include: research methodology, discovery of B...
Lunch Poems - Tomaz Salamun
One of the great postwar Central European poets, Slovenian Tomaz Salamun has published over thirty books. Publisher's Weekly praises his "postmodern mix of giddy and global [and] the earthy retrospect he takes from his homeland. Salamun has taught at universities around the world. His There's the...
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- Length: 37:00
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Conversations with History - Lucy Shapiro
A Microbiologist's Intellectual Odyssey Lucy Shapiro Director of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Lucy Shapiro,Ludwig Professor of Cancer Research in the School of Medicine, Stanford University, for a discussio...
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- Length: 42:54
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Conversations with History - Roya Hakakian
Identity, Freedom, and Revolution Roya Hakakian, author Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Roya Hakakian whose book "Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran," chronicles her intellectual odyssey from teenage rebel to Iranian-American writer. In the conversatio...
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- Length: 55:53
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