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Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

UC Berkeley Professor Timothy Tangherlini discusses the vital role that storytelling plays in many cultures around the world, and how it can influence belief, for good and for bad.

Michelle Yeoh stands with a hand to her mouth as Jamie Lee Curtis and Ke Huy Quan congratulate her.

Humanities

With the help of AI, UC Berkeley researchers confirm Hollywood is getting more diverse

A robotic hand types on a computer keyboard, signifying the advances in AI technology's ability to be creative and craft stories.

Humanities

Don’t worry. Study shows you’re likely a more creative writer than ChatGPT. For now.

A student reads a book in a campus library and is sitting at a large wooden table.

Arts & culture

World Humanities Report, directed by UC Berkeley’s Sara Guyer, warns of extinction risk to human knowledge

UC Berkeley professor Nicole Holliday seated next to a still of Kamala Harris

When Kamala Harris is speaking, this professor is listening

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

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

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

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.

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

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

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

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

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