Podcast: Berkeley Talks

Berkeley Talks is a UC Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at Berkeley. It's managed by the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. A new episode is released every other Friday. Follow Berkeley Talks.

To suggest a talk to be featured on the podcast, email Anne Brice at [email protected].

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three side-by-side headshots of Melike M. Fourie, Emiliana Simon-Thomas and Allison Briscoe-Smith

Events at Berkeley

Berkeley Talks: How forgiveness changes you and your brain

Psychologists explore what forgiveness is, how it works in the body and brain and the ways people can practice forgiveness that feel safe and empowering.

Jennifer Doudna

Science & environment

Berkeley Talks: Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and the future of gene editing

UC Berkeley Journalism student Erika Zaro interviews Berkeley education professor Travis Bristol in a studio as journalism professor Shereen Marisol Meraji watches wearing headphones

Politics & society

Berkeley Talks: Berkeley scholars unpack what’s at stake for U.S. democracy

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Business & economics

Berkeley Talks: Economist Gabriel Zucman on the benefits of a (modest) billionaire tax

Ezra Klein

Berkeley Talks: Ezra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)

rows of packaged junk food in a grocery store

Berkeley Talks: How the tobacco industry drove the rise of ultra-processed foods

Tony Reames next to the cover of a book he co-edited called

Berkeley Talks: Energy justice expert on his pursuit for affordable and clean energy for all

woman plants spring transplants at a small-scale farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Berkeley Talks: A debate on how to feed the world without ‘eating the earth’

Daniel Handler and Chanan Tigay talk on stage at an event for the Magnes' inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest

Berkeley Talks: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like

Dense housing in San Francisco

Berkeley Talks: In 1970, one in five Americans moved every year. Now it’s one in 13. What changed?

two images side by side: on the left, the cover of the book Open Socrates and on the right, Judith Butler and Agnes Callard in a conversation

Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

Headshot of author J Finley next to the cover of her book: Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity

Berkeley Talks: J Finley on how Black women use sass to claim their humanity

A closeup of the U.S. Constitution resting atop an American flag.

Berkeley Talks: Law professors debate originalism

Heather Cox Richardson and Dylan Penningroth speak on stage

Berkeley Talks: Heather Cox Richardson on the evolution of the Republican Party and what gives her hope for America

a large crowd of people wave small American flags at a political gathering outside

Berkeley Talks: Does democracy work?

a doctor writes in a notebook while she examines medicine held in the other hand

Berkeley Talks: The transformation of US medical debt collection

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