Humanities

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

Why conspiracies are so popular — and what we can do to stop them

Uncovering the roots of prison labor in America

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

Berkeley Voices: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

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

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

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

When Kamala Harris is speaking, this professor is listening

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

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

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

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.