Berkeley Voices: Transformation

In the 2024-25 season of Berkeley Voices, we’re exploring the theme of transformation. In eight episodes, we’re exploring how transformation — of ideas, of research, of perspective — shows up in the work that happens every day at UC Berkeley. New episodes come out on the last Monday of each month, from October through May.

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

Arts & culture

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

In the early 2000s, UC Berkeley rhetoric professor Winnie Wong visited Dafen village in China, where artists painted replicas of famous pieces like the Mona Lisa and Starry Night. It dramatically changed how she thinks about art and those who make it.

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

Arts & culture

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

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

Mind & body

Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Research

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

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

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

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

Berkeley Voices: Psychopathy goes undetected in some people. Why?