Podcast: Berkeley Voices

Berkeley Voices is an award-winning Berkeley News podcast about the people who make UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is. It's produced and hosted by Anne Brice in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. Follow Berkeley Voices.

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Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

Arts & culture

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

UC Berkeley Professor Poulomi Saha, who teaches a class on cults in popular culture, says students today see limited economic possibilities, the scourge of war and the looming threat of climate change and think, "It doesn't have to be this way."

a simple continuous line drawing of a face that suggests the many dimensions of a person's personality

Mind & body

In some people, psychopathy goes undetected. A recent UC Berkeley study offers a solution.

Justin Davidson as a toddler smiles as he rides a horse and his mom smiles and holds him on the saddle.

Humanities

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

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

Humanities

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

A black-and-white photo of a young man without a shirt on holding and squeezing the bare skin on his chest with a pained expression on his face

Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

Black-and-white line drawing of Walter Gordon with a Cal football to his side

Berkeley Voices: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley

A mother and baby chimp hug each other atop a wooden structure in a human-made habitat

Bonobos and chimps show ‘a rich recognition’ for long-lost friends and family

A black-and-white illustration of hundreds of Irish immigrants and families with all their belongings

Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy

a sepia toned photo of about 100 white men in hats shaking hands and celebrating, some of whom are on top of a train.

They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley

a black-and-white photo of people at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people in the 1970s. A young man carries another young man while they laugh and as the shirtless director of the program looks on and campers in wheelchairs chat in the background.

Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution

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Berkeley Voices: How the Holocaust ends

a person looks at the camera through the sides of her eyes

Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has

a person wearing a colorful shirt smiles at the camera

Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won’t change for anyone

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