Humanities

Professor Juana María Rodríguez and student Mia Aguilar talk and laugh in Juana's office surrounded by a bright red wall and red desk

Humanities

Wikipedia as resistance: This UC Berkeley class makes queer contributions visible

At a time when information about LGBTQ people and their histories are being erased from public view, students are documenting them in the world’s largest encyclopedia.

people sitting in an open-floor-plan workspace looking at computer monitors

Business & economics

Is work the new religion in Silicon Valley? This UC Berkeley professor thinks so

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Humanities

Berkeley Talks: The complicated role of media in motherhood

Tyler Lee-Wynant stands among shelves lined with boxes of archival materials in the California Language Archive

Humanities

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.

Carla Shapreau holds up and discusses an antique violin from the Salz Collection to a group of middle school students on a field trip

The secret lives of violins — and the Berkeley scholar who uncovers them

a woman looks at enlarged mounted photos on a gallery wall

Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew

A collage of 15 book covers, including The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (on a burgundy background with a large face), A Gesture Life (black-and-white cover), Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston (image of a bridge), Comfort Woman (a woman's face), Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (dragons in a style associate with Asian scroll art), Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (on a blue background), east goes west (a globe on top of a cubist body, accompanies by Chinese characters), Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (a back-and-white image of an Asian man's face with a childhood photo superimposed), Fifth Chinese Daughter (a fairytale draying on top of a red background), China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston (red text and a dragon), America is in the Heart, No-No Boy (a body, fists covering his face, behind two strands of crossed red barbed wire, Dictee (a black-and-white landscape image), Obasan by Joy Kogawa (an Asian girl with a bowl cut looking through the window), and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn (a romaneqseque sculpture of a woman)

What counts as ‘Asian American literature,’ anyway?

A close-up of a child’s hand touching a white robotic hand.

Do chatbots have a moral compass? Researchers turn to Reddit to find out.

What history scholar Carlos Noreña is trying to discover about the Roman Empire

Researcher Stephen Menendian is shown in studio with inset image reading structural racism

Watch a Berkeley scholar explain structural racism

Berkeley Remix: The hidden heroes of the East Bay Regional Park District

UC Berkeley linguist Gašper Beguš peers through a row of books in a library

Berkeley linguist on time travel, talking to whales and the ‘sacred’ role of libraries

a man on a gray background with an inset grainy image of a bigfoot.

Berserkers to bigfoot: Computational folklore explained in 101 seconds

a map with 3D shadowing. The countries of the Middle East are in an orange hue whereas the other countries are black, and the ocean is blue. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iraq, and Jordan are a paler shade.

How scholars in the Middle Eastern languages and cultures department understand a complex region

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Is a second ‘Mona Lisa’ still special? What about the thousandth?

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

This class traces the evolution of American friendship

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