Podcast: Berkeley Talks

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

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

Science & environment

Berkeley Talks: Feeding the world without ‘eating the earth’

UC Berkeley Professor Timothy Bowles and journalist Michael Grunwald discuss the impact of our current agricultural methods and debate the ways we can ramp up food production without causing more harm to the environment.

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

Arts & culture

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

Dense housing in San Francisco

Events at Berkeley

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

Events at Berkeley

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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Berkeley Talks: Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the U.S.

john powell, ashley gallegos and stephen menendian sit at the front of a room in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs

Ocean Vuong and Cathy Park Hong

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language

a panel of four Berkeley professors sit in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: How do we make better decisions?

From left: Marty Baron and Dean Baquet speak to an audience

Berkeley Talks: Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

Timothy Tangherlini

Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

four headshots of Robert Reich, Maria Echaveste, Janet Napolitano and Angela Glover Blackwell

Berkeley Talks: The future of American democracy

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