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In Berkeley Talks episode 193, science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson discusses climate change, politics and the need for "angry optimism." Robinson...Read more about Berkeley Talks: Sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the need for 'angry optimism'

The Diversity Office in the Division of Arts & Humanities is thrilled to announce a new program titled New Directions in Latinx Research in the Arts & Humanities as part of the Advancing Faculty Diversity in the Arts & Humanities...Read more about New Directions in Latinx Research in the Arts & Humanities

This Thursday through Sunday, UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies will present Marisela Treviño Orta’s The River Bride.

In the play, set in a small Brazilian fishing village, a mysterious man is fished from the Amazon River three days before a wedding....Read more about Student designers build a magical realm for Brazilian folktale 'The River Bride'

In his research, UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Saagar Asnani looks at music manuscripts from between the 12th and 14th...Read more about Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

Lauren Bartone is a PhD student in Italian Studies with a designated emphasis in folklore. Her background as a visual artist strongly informs her approach to studying Italian culture. Before joining the Department of Italian Studies at Berkeley, she completed a B.A. in Fine Art at...Read more about Italian Studies PhD Student Lauren Bartone Discusses Research, Residencies, and Archival Work

While many people may think satellites are responsible for telecommunications as we know it, the global subsea cable network...Read more about The Next Generation of Internet Sustainability—and the URAP Students Making it Happen

UC Berkeley will refurbish the Bancroft Dance Studio thanks to a generous gift by Daniel Hitchcock ’69, a mathematics and physics alum. Hitchcock provided the crucial funding to make the studio space safer and more accessible. The enhancements will include re-sanded floors, repaired windows, and...Read more about Generous gift will improve Bancroft Dance Studio

My next interview will be with Dr. Mairi McLauglin of the French Department. Professor McLaughlin’s research largely focuses on linguistics and translation studies. She has two edited volumes, which will be referenced in the interview, which can be found at these links:...Read more about Mairi McLauglin: "Translation really belongs everywhere..."

Sylvie Thode is a graduate student for the English department, whose work focuses on gender and sexuality studies, textual criticism, and drama. After having Sylvie as my graduate student instructor for a course on Shakespeare and talking with her about her research, I realized...Read more about Graduate Student Sylvie Thode on “Why do we do what we do in criticism, and how do we do it?”

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Brandon Sánchez Mejia stood at a giant wall in...Read more about As a kid, he was taught men don't cry. As an art practice student, he has learned to challenge that.

For our next interview, I will be speaking with Professor Atreyee Gupta of the History of Art Department. Professor Gupta’s area of focus is on Global Modernism, and Modern and Contemporary South and Southeast Asian art. She is also affiliated with the Department of South and...Read more about Atreyee Gupta: "Art history, as a discipline, has constantly exploded and expanded what art is, what it can do, and what counts as art."

Tell me about yourself and what languages you speak.
I am a third year Political Science major and I speak Spanish and English. Spanish is my first language and then I started speaking English once I started grade school. I also just completed my first year of...Read more about Tristan Soto Moreno: "I know that my future clients will be global and the more languages that I can speak...the better I can serve"

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Brittany chats with Professor Poulomi Saha about America's obsession with cults. With so many shows choose from, cult documentaries could now be seen as their own...Read more about NPR: It's Been a Minute with Poulomi Saha

On February 28, the Berkeley Language Center and the Language and AI working group at the Townsend Center for the Humanities will be hosting a half-day conference Language and AI:...Read more about Filling the AI gap: languages and the humanities are central to the future of AI — this Berkeley group is broadening that conversation

It’s almost unheard of for a first-year college student to curate an exhibition at a prestigious art institution. Yet, on a recent December afternoon, three new undergraduates at UC Berkeley — Raena Chan, Emma Cusimano and Caitlyn Liao — guided visitors around...Read more about More exciting than a term paper: Student exhibition highlights art, science and new pathways

In Berkeley Talks episode 186, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars from the College of Letters and Science discusses the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in academia — and the questions and challenges it requires universities and other social institutions to confront.

"...Read more about Alex Saum Pascual weighs in on the transformative potential of AI in academia

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Michael Lucey, the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of...Read more about Michael Lucey Awarded MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies for his book 'What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk'

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In the last several years, a cult industrial complex has emerged to capitalize on Americans’ fascination with groups such as Jonestown,...Read more about KQED Forum: "Why do Cults Fascinate Us?" with Poulomi Saha

What do we learn from history? And how do we tell Anne Frank's story to a generation whose grandparents were not yet born at the time of the Holocaust?

Ronald Leopold, Director of the Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, explored the ways in which people have understood and engaged with...Read more about “A voice we carry to all corners of the world”: Director of Anne Frank House Museum on how we engage with the past