Humanities

Page 2 of 30

1
2
3
…
30

Two young girls sit closely together in this scene from the HBO series

No. 1 book of the century, ‘My Brilliant Friend’, is subject of UC Berkeley research, courses

December 16, 2024

Timothy Tangherlini

Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

November 15, 2024

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

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

November 4, 2024

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

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

October 28, 2024

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

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

October 14, 2024

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

When Kamala Harris is speaking, this professor is listening

October 14, 2024

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

September 30, 2024

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

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

September 24, 2024

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

August 22, 2024

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?

July 24, 2024

Close up of Alisha Gaines

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

June 28, 2024

part of the cover for the documentary

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

June 27, 2024

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

April 16, 2024

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

April 15, 2024

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

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

April 5, 2024

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

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

March 29, 2024