Events at Berkeley

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Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: The transformation of US medical debt collection

Emergency physician Luke Messac discusses how the nation’s medical debt collection system became a predatory practice that puts people at risk of profound financial and legal consequences.

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Arts & culture

This BAMPFA documentary series explores the unseen side of climate change

University Librarian Suzanne Wones (left) and UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons talk onstage in front of an audience of 260-plus guests at this year’s Luncheon in the Library.

Campus & community

‘A lifelong love affair with ideas’: Chancellor Lyons shares his passion for Berkeley at annual Library luncheon

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Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the US

john powell, ashley gallegos and stephen menendian sit at the front of a room in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs

Ocean Vuong and Cathy Park Hong

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language

Two new UC Berkeley graduates embrace before the crowd at Winter Commencement 2024.

2024 Winter Commencement: A day of reflection, celebration and advice

about a dozen dancers in the nutcracker suite perform on stage. six are wearing rat masks and dancing around a group of dancers who look frightened.

The Sugar Rum Fairy? A freewheeling, jazzy reimagination of ‘The Nutcracker’

a panel of four Berkeley professors sit in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: How do we make better decisions?

A student walks through snow in a forest in the Sierra dragging a cut Christmas tree that is destined for a truck filled with other cut trees for the Forestry Club's annual Christmas tree sale on campus.

Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday

From left: Marty Baron and Dean Baquet speak to an audience

Berkeley Talks: Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

Percival Everett speaks at a podium at a UC Berkeley event

‘James’ author Percival Everett discusses his ‘Huckleberry Finn’ retelling at a campus event 

Timothy Tangherlini

Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

Rich Lyons

Equity Leadership Now!: Chancellor Lyons on how Berkeley shaped his leadership style

four headshots of Robert Reich, Maria Echaveste, Janet Napolitano and Angela Glover Blackwell

Berkeley Talks: The future of American democracy

A screenshot of a scene in Inkwo for When the Starving Return that shows a girl looking out on a field of beautiful purple flowers with an ominous-looking forest ahead.

Stop-motion animator creates immersive worlds for Indigenous stories

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