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This month, The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) at the University of California, Berkeley, launched the Certificate in Global Digital Infrastructure, the...Read more about Professor Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media) launches world's first certificate in internet infrastructure at Berkeley

Nataliia Goshylyk is a lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, where she teaches Ukrainian. Dr. Goshylyk received her M.A. in Philology from Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University, and her PhD in linguistics from Kharkiv National University. She is the...Read more about Language, Identity, and Ecolinguistics: An Interview with Nataliia Goshylyk on Teaching Ukrainian at Berkeley

In the novel Highway Thirteen, we learn about an Australian serial killer in bits and pieces. He kills hitchhikers and tourists, dumping their bodies in a state forest. He drives a taxi. His...Read more about Novel ‘Highway Thirteen’ traces the ripple effects of one man’s violence

South African artist William Kentridge is not interested in being certain. With certainty, he believes, comes a stuckness. Whether as a way of making artwork or in thinking about the world, certainty closes a person off to a more expansive creativity, to seeing all the possibilities that aren’t...Read more about William Kentridge’s ‘The Great Yes, The Great No’ is a voyage of chaos and creativity

Liam McEvoy (MELC) is a recipient of the Psychedelics in Society and Culture grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry.

Few...Read more about Investigating the psychedelic blue lotus of Egypt, where ancient magic meets modern science

Since joining UC Berkeley in 2009, Professor Jacob Dalton has helped shape the university’s Tibetan Studies program, bridging language, religious history, and Buddhist traditions. In this interview, he reflects on the program’s evolution, the challenges of learning...Read more about The Growing Importance of Teaching Tibetan Language and Culture at Berkeley: An Interview with Jacob Dalton

Two new Chancellor’s Chairs will expand access for students, create tenure-track opportunities for up-and-coming scholars, and recognize the groundbreaking work of senior faculty in the fields of dance and performance studies.

Housed in the Arts...Read more about .5M of gifts create two new endowed chairs and expand access

It was exhilarating to sit so close to an opera star. Tenor John Duykers was performing the lead in the chamber opera, Mordrake, and playwright Philip Kan Gotanda could practically feel the singer’s breath on his face. It was 2009, and the audience sat enraptured in a small studio space...Read more about For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera.

Liesl Yamaguchi, Assistant Professor in the Department of French at UC Berkeley, is a scholar and translator whose work bridges 19th-century French literature, poetics, linguistics, literary theory, and translation. In this interview, Professor Yamaguchi reflects on her path to academia, the...Read more about Illuminating Language: Liesl Yamaguchi on Synesthesia, Translation, and the Poetics of Modernity

Inspired by UC Berkeley Professor Frances Hellman and started at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, the Hellman Fellows Fund provides much needed support...Read more about Funding Early-Career Faculty: The Transformative Impact of the Hellman Fellows Program

Alankrita Malhotra is a sophmore and is forging an interdisciplinary path by combining her passions for Data Science and the humanities. Her work on computational folklore and Nordic flavor networks under the guidance of Professor Timothy Tangherlini, who we interviewed for the project...Read more about Data, Poetry, and Nordic Flavor Networks: Alankrita Malhotra’s Journey into Computational Folklore

There’s a new performance hall at UC Berkeley, and its arrival comes at an exciting and critical time for the Department of Music: From fall 2020 to fall 2024, the number of declared undergraduates majoring in music at Berkeley grew...Read more about Musical gifts: New campus performance hall, an unprecedented surge in music majors

UC Berkeley Professor Timothy Tangherlini, of the Department of Scandinavian and the School of Information, has been named one of the co-principal investigators on a groundbreaking $7.5 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The project, led by researchers at Indiana University...Read more about Scandinavian Professor Timothy Tangherlini is Co-Principal Investigator on .5M DoD Grant to Study AI and Misinformation

A project funded by the University of California’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) spotlights UC Berkeley's contribution in addressing critical global challenges through interdisciplinary innovation.

The UC Climate Action Arts Network (CAAN), awarded nearly $2 million...Read more about Art Practice Professors Jill Miller and Asma Kazmi Play Pivotal Role in Million Climate Action Arts Network Initiative

We are delighted to announce that Linda Haverty Rugg, professor in UC Berkeley's Scandinavian Department, has been named co-recipient of this year's prestigious Prize for the Introduction of Swedish Culture Abroad, awarded by the Swedish Academy—the institution responsible for the Nobel Prizes...Read more about Linda Haverty Rugg Receives Swedish Academy Prize for the Introduction of Swedish Culture Abroad

Berkeley, CA — UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) have been awarded $2.6 million to support a groundbreaking multi-year initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in...Read more about UC Berkeley Awarded .6 Million Grant for “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”

My Brilliant Friend, by the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante, is the New York Times’ No. 1 book of the century. This recognition, and the recent adaptation of...Read more about No. 1 book of the century, ‘My Brilliant Friend’, is subject of UC Berkeley research, courses

This interview is part of a series featuring members of the Flavor Network research team, a multidisciplinary group exploring the evolution of cuisine through computational analysis. Meet Marcus Romundset, a UC Berkeley student combining his passions for computer science, business, and...Read more about The Flavor Network Project and One of the Students Tracking Scandinavian Cuisine with Data Science