Humanities

High schoolers from Hillbrook School in San Jose talk about items on display in The Bancroft Library on Aug. 30, 2024.

Humanities

60 years later, the Free Speech Movement’s legacy lives on at the UC Berkeley Library

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

Arts & culture

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’

A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.

Humanities

Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair

dozens of tv screens showing various sporting events from the control room of the Beijing Olympics

Humanities

What is lost — and gained — when Olympics coverage becomes a round-the-clock spectacle?

Close up of Alisha Gaines

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

part of the cover for the documentary

Film changed the way people saw sexuality. Now, social media does.

Justin Davidson as a toddler smiles as he rides a horse and his mom smiles and holds him on the saddle.

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

Circle-shaped headshots of Jennifer Redfearn and John Connelly, UC Berkeley's newest recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships, are in shades of blue.

UC Berkeley historian, documentary filmmaker are 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Rachel Jeantel on the stand during her testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

Natalie walks on UC Berkeley's campus with her mom and younger brother.

Berkeley Voices: A linguist’s quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

A black-and-white photo of a young man without a shirt on holding and squeezing the bare skin on his chest with a pained expression on his face

Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

A black-and-white illustration of hundreds of Irish immigrants and families with all their belongings

Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy

Bernice Yeung, Isabella Gomes and Holly Joshi sit at a long table with microphones in front of them

Berkeley Talks: Protecting survivors of sex trafficking

Stone tablet depicting Saint Nicholas with a scepter, and red and white garments depicting a Catholic bishop.

For the Dutch, Santa is tall and skinny. What happened to him in America?

headshots of 10 arts faculty members

Largest recent hire of faculty in the arts brings 10 gifted scholars to Berkeley