Events at Berkeley

Two students hold an Israeli flag and two students hold up a Palestinian flag standing next to one another on the Berkeley campus with at least one hundred students on Sproul Plaza in the background

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Nadine Strossen, professor emerita of the New York School of Law and former national president of the ACLU, discuss a range of topics, from First Amendment rights to what steps universities can take to avoid free speech controversies.

The white cover of an artist book with a sepia-toned drawing of an eye next to a row of several vials labeled things like,

Arts & culture

Artists’ books shine in new exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library

Aileen Liu, Hernan Garcia, Christian Paiz and Arianne Eason sit in chairs on a dark stage and talk

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

Rich Lyons, the university's new chancellor, offers words of wisdom for incoming scholars.

Campus & community

At fall convocation, campus leaders urge 9,000 new students to discover the ‘Berkeley Way’

Michael Pollan and Mina Kim sit on stage in conversation

Berkeley Talks: It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too.

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Berkeley Talks: The science behind the emotions in ‘Inside Out 2’

Headshots of two educators Hilary Walker and Chris Mah side by side

Equity Leadership Now!: Embracing AI literacy in education

Portrait of Jemele Hill smiling

Berkeley Talks: Journalist Jemele Hill on the intersection of sports and race (revisiting)

Michael Waldman and Maria Echeveste talk on stage in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: How the Supreme Court divided America

Camilo and five other AileyCampers practice a dance on stage in 2009

Dance prepared him for the NFL. It began with a Berkeley summer camp.

Close up of Alisha Gaines

Berkeley Talks: Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

two photos side of side: on the left, the cover of the book, A Thousand Small Sanities; and on the right, a portrait of Adam Gopnik.

Berkeley Talks: Adam Gopnik on what it takes to keep liberal democracies alive

four musicians perform in a redwood grove at the UC Botanical Garden as an audience watches from an amphitheater above.

UC Botanical Garden summer concert series in full swing

Sonali Deraniyagala and Ramona Naddaff talk on stage for a UC Berkeley event

Berkeley Talks: ‘Wave’ memoirist on writing about unimaginable loss

Graduating Native students stand in a line wearing their graduation caps and gowns and gorgeous Native blankets wrapped around their shoulders

Slideshow: A glimpse at community graduations 2024

Gigi Sohn, wearing a cap and gown, gives a speech as a podium

Berkeley Talks: Gigi Sohn on her fight for an open internet

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