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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."

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

A robotic hand types on a computer keyboard, signifying the advances in AI technology's ability to be creative and craft stories.

Humanities

Don’t worry. Study shows you’re likely a more creative writer than ChatGPT. For now.

Performers on stage in the Broadway show,

Arts & culture

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’

two photos side of side: on the left, the cover of the book, A Thousand Small Sanities; and on the right, a portrait of Adam Gopnik.

Berkeley Talks: Adam Gopnik on what it takes to keep liberal democracies alive

Sonali Deraniyagala and Ramona Naddaff talk on stage for a UC Berkeley event

Berkeley Talks: ‘Wave’ memoirist on writing about unimaginable loss

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

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

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

Marion Fourcade, Josh Bloom, Alex Saum-Pascual, Keanan Joyner stand next to each other and smile for a photo

Berkeley Talks: The transformative potential of AI in academia

illustration of a wave behind a red barbed wire fence

New podcast series explores the legacy of Japanese American incarceration

Berkeley Talks: Poulomi Saha on why we’re so obsessed with cults

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

Berkeley Talks: Chinese activist Ai WeiWei on art, exile and politics

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘The Mud Sermon’ and other poems

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

UC Berkeley alum Hua Hsu wins 2023 Pulitzer Prize

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