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Berkeley TalksEzra Klein on building the things we need for the future we want (revisiting)Today we are revisiting an October 2023 Berkeley Talks episode in which Ezra Klein, a New York Times columnist and host of the podcast The Ezra Klein Show, discusses the difficulties liberal governments encounter when working to build real things in the real world. He joins in a conversation with Amy Lerman, a UC Berkeley political scientist and director of the Possibility Lab.“To have the future we want, we need to build and invent more of the things that we need,” begins Klein, who has since published the 2025 book Abundance with co-author Derek Thompson. “It’s so stupidly...
2025-07-111h 35
Climate BreakRerun: COF 999 Carbon Capture, with Dr. Omar YaghiWhat is COF 999?UC Berkeley chemistry professor Dr. Omar Yaghi recently led a study which has the potential to be revolutionary in reducing the quantity of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere. “Covalent organic framework number 999,” or COF 999, is a yellow, powder-like material that has billions of tiny holes. Inside of these holes, researchers in Dr. Yaghi’s lab have installed molecular units that can seek out carbon dioxide, enabling the substance to suck in and capture the carbon dioxide. COF 999 has a huge capacity for absorbing emissions; half a pound of the powder can absorb as much c...
2025-06-0401 min
Berkeley Voices130: AI helped this paralyzed woman speak again after 18 yearsWhen Ann Johnson had a rare brainstem stroke at age 30, she lost control of all of her muscles. One minute, she was playing volleyball with her friends. The next, she couldn’t move or speak. Up until that moment, she’d been a talkative and outgoing person. She taught math and physical education, and coached volleyball and basketball at a high school in Saskatchewan, Canada. She’d just had a baby a year earlier with her new husband. And the thing is, she still was that person. It's just that no one could tell. Because the conn...
2025-04-2817 min
Berkeley TalksHeather Cox Richardson on the evolution of the Republican PartyIn Berkeley Talks episode 221, American historian Heather Cox Richardson joins Dylan Penningroth, a UC Berkeley professor of law and history, in a conversation about the historical evolution of the Republican Party, and the state of U.S. politics and democracy today. Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College, is the author of the popular nightly newsletter Letters from an American, in which she explains current political developments and relates them to historical events. With more than 3 million daily readers, Richardson says Letters has grown a “community around the world of people who are trying to reestablish a r...
2025-03-071h 38
Dean’s Speaker SeriesHSBC U.S. Head of Innovation Banking David Sabow shares why he believes AI will play an outsized role in improving labor productivityDavid Sabow joined HSBC as Head of Technology & Healthcare in 2023 to establish a dedicated banking practice focused on the innovation economy, empowering forward-thinkers, and future makers who are questioning the status quo. His two-decade career has centered on innovation banking. David previously held several roles at Silicon Valley Bank, which includes leading the Technology & Healthcare Division, focusing on venture capital relationship management and new opportunity organization, and running the Life Science & Healthcare Business.
In a fireside chat format, David discusses his career journey in banking, how he works in the innovation space, the influence of AI on...
2025-03-0455 min
Berkeley TalksHow hospitals collect medical debts can hurt patients. Why?When Luke Messac began his emergency medicine residency at Rhode Island Hospital in 2018, he noticed a lot of his patients came to him concerned about costs. Some worried about his recommendations for them to stay in the hospital overnight. Others questioned his motives when he asked them to undergo a test, like an X-ray or MRI. A few came in way too late in the course of their illnesses out of fear of the cost. He’d heard about aggressive debt collection practices at hospitals around the country that put people at risk of profound financial and leg...
2025-02-0755 minClimate BreakCOF 999 Carbon Capture, with Dr. Omar YaghiWhat is COF 999?UC Berkeley chemistry professor Dr. Omar Yaghi recently led a study which has the potential to be revolutionary in reducing the quantity of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere. “Covalent organic framework number 999,” or COF 999, is a yellow, powder-like material that has billions of tiny holes. Inside of these holes, researchers in Dr. Yaghi’s lab have installed molecular units that can seek out carbon dioxide, enabling the substance to suck in and capture the carbon dioxide. COF 999 has a huge capacity for absorbing emissions; half a pound of the powder can absorb as much c...
2025-01-0901 min
Berkeley TalksPoet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of languageIn Berkeley Talks episode 216, celebrated poet and novelist Ocean Vuong joins in conversation with UC Berkeley English Professor Cathy Park Hong, a poet and writer whose creative nonfiction book, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, was a 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Together, they discuss the importance of genre fluidity and artistic experimentation, the role of disobedience in their writing and how language can be both a tool of oppression and liberation.“I personally feel a lot of affinity with you as a writer for many reasons,” began Hong, in front of a packed auditorium at the Berkeley Art Muse...
2024-12-271h 20
Dean’s Speaker SeriesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang on inventing new markets | DSS Archive EditionJensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, solved the 3D graphic challenge for the personal computer in 1999 with the company’s release of the first-ever graphics processing unit (GPU).
Now the company's powerful chips are a driving force behind the acceleration of AI and advanced computing.
In this archive edition of the Dean's Speaker Series podcast, Huang talks about the ways that Nvidia is constantly inventing itself. “Creating something out of nothing is a skill that I think every company or startup needs to have,” he said. “The energy of looking for something new—a new way of doi...
2024-12-171h 10
The Culture Kit with Jenny & SameerShould Corporate Leaders Speak Out on Social and Political Issues?Should corporate leaders speak out on social and political issues? And if they decide to do so, what’s the best approach?On this episode of The Culture Kit, hosts Jenny Chatman and Sameer Srivastava chat with Matt Kohut, a leadership communications expert, about his new book Speaking Out: The New Rules of Business Leadership Communications. Jenny, Sameer, and Matt dig into historical examples of corporations and politics colliding, the potential pros and cons of deciding to weigh in on social issues, and strategies for business leaders to evaluate risk and maintain accountability when deciding to...
2024-10-1523 min
The Culture Kit with Jenny & SameerAmy Edmondson & Steve Brass on Psychological SafetyWhile “psychological safety” has become somewhat of a buzzword in management circles, it’s a concept that forward-thinking leaders dismiss at their own peril. “I cannot think of a place where lower psychological safety would help you in any way,” says Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson, known for her pioneering research on the topic. “Lower psychological safety would make you take fewer risks, but not necessarily better risks. So having anxiety about what other people think of you isn't a great state for optimal performance.”In this bonus episode of The Culture Kit with Jenny & Sameer...
2024-09-0345 minThe Culture Kit with Jenny & SameerAuthor Michael Lewis on the cult-like culture around Sam Bankman-Fried | Dean's Speaker Series [Bonus Episode #1]In a fireside chat with host Jenny Chatman, best-selling author Michael Lewis shares the inside story of the strange culture Sam Bankman-Fried created at his failed crypto exchange, FTX. Lewis got to know SBF for his latest book, "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon." The story is a fascinating example of a strong organizational culture gone terribly wrong. Lewis is known for his New York Times bestselling books, including Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, and The Blind Side. He started his career in finance on the bond desk at Salomon Brothers, and...
2024-07-2343 min
Berkeley TalksHow the Supreme Court divided AmericaIn Berkeley Talks episode 204, Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, discusses the history of the Supreme Court and how its recent decisions will impact generations to come. “When you think of the topics for the first two years of this supermajority — guns, abortion, affirmative action, the interest of the fossil fuel industry — that doesn't sound like a court,” Waldman said to UC Berkeley Law Professor Maria Echaveste, whom he joined in conversation in April 2024. “That sounds like a political caucus.“And so, I think disentangling our reverence...
2024-07-131h 07
Berkeley TalksRuth Simmons on access and equity in higher educationIn Berkeley Talks episode 196, Ruth Simmons, a longtime professor and academic administrator, discusses how the journey to equal access and fairness in education has reached a critical inflection point — and why educators are essential to the progress we need to see.“History has shown: The failure to resolve satisfactorily the issue of whether and how the state should address the causes and effects of discrimination will continue to impair progress, sow seeds of hatred and despair, and make even more distant the goals and ideals enshrined in the United States Bill of Rights and the U.S. Cons...
2024-05-031h 11
Berkeley Law Voices CarryProfessors Tejas N. Narechania and Rebecca Wexler on Governing Artificial IntelligenceIn this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professors Tejas N. Narechania and Rebecca Wexler about artificial intelligence from two very different perspectives. Both are faculty co-directors of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Law’s tech law hub and a leader in the field for more than a quarter-century. Narechania’s research focus is on the institutions of technology law and policy, including telecommunications regulation, platform governance, and intellectual property. He has advised the Federal Communications Commission, where he spent a year as special counsel, on network neutrality matters, and is the co-director of the Artif...
2024-04-1542 min
Berkeley TalksThe future of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)In Berkeley Talks episode 192, Sarah Deer, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, discusses the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a federal law passed in 1978 that aims to keep Native children in their families and communities. She also talks about the recent Supreme Court decision in Brackeen v. Haaland, which upheld ICWA, and explores the future of ICWA. “I want to begin by just talking about why ICWA was passed, and it has to do with a very tragic history in the United States of rem...
2024-03-0858 min
Berkeley TalksWhy so many recent uprisings have backfiredIn Berkeley Talks episode 190, journalist and UC Berkeley alumnus Vincent Bevins discusses mass protests around the world — from Egypt to Hong Kong to Brazil — and how each had a different outcome than what protesters asked for. “From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in mass protests than at any other point in human history,” said Bevins, author of the 2023 book, If We Burn. “These protests were often experienced as a euphoric victory at the moment of the eruption. But then, after a lot of the foreign journalists, like me, have left (the countries), and we look at what actually happened, t...
2024-02-091h 11
Berkeley TalksAmerican democracy and the crisis of majority ruleIn Berkeley Talks episode 189, Harvard Professor Daniel Ziblatt discusses how Americans need to do the work of making the U.S. political system more democratic through reforms that ensure that electoral majorities can actually govern.“If you're going to have a first-past-the-post electoral system, as we have in the United States, or one side wins and another side loses, then those with the most votes should prevail over those with fewer votes in determining who holds political office,” said Ziblatt, co-author How Democracies Die and Tyranny of the Minority. “No theory of liberal democracy can justify any other...
2024-01-261h 09
Berkeley Voices117: Bonobos and chimps show 'a rich recognition' for long-lost friends and familyBonobos and chimpanzees — the closest extant relatives to humans — could have the longest-lasting nonhuman memory, a study led by a UC Berkeley researcher found. Extensive social memory had previously been documented only in dolphins and up to 20 years."What we're showing here," said Berkeley comparative psychologist Laura Simone Lewis, "is that chimps and bonobos may be able to remember that long — or longer."Berkeley News writer Jason Pohl first published a story about this study in December 2023. We used his interview with Lewis for this podcast episode.Photo courtesy of Laura Simone Lewis.Music...
2024-01-2607 min
KPFA - Bay Area TheaterBay Area Theatre in 2023: Best of the YearKPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky discusses the year in theatre in the Bay Area in 2023, plus a top ten list and two honorable mentions.
Text of the podcast.
In the Bay Area, Live theatre companies continued in 2023 to adapt to the post-Covid world. While movie audience sizes seems to be returning to pre-pandemic numbers. live theater remains mostly on life support across the board, mainly because season subscriptions are down by at least a third or maybe more, which means theatergoers are buying tickets on a show by show basis. That makes planning d...
2024-01-0806 min
Berkeley Zen Center Dharma TalksPracticing With the Relative and Absolute TruthsA talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Monday, December 25th 2023 by John Busch.
2023-12-2553 minBerkeley Zen Center Dharma TalksBirth & DeathA talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Saturday, December 16th 2023 by Ross Blum.
2023-12-1654 min
Berkeley TalksThe transformative potential of AI in academiaIn 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. "When it comes to human-specific problems, we often want fair, equitable, unbiased answers," said Keanan Joyner, an assistant professor of psychology. "But the data that we feed into the training set often is not that. And so, we are asking AI to produce something that it was never trained on, and that can be very problematic. We have...
2023-12-151h 12Climate BreakBalancing the Grid: California's Shift to Renewable Energy SourcesHow does transitioning to renewable energy challenge the electric grid?As of 2022, renewable and non-greenhouse gas emitting sources accounted for 52% of California's in-state electricity generation with the remaining 48% fueled by natural gas. Legislation passed in 2018 mandates that the state must reach at least 60% renewable energy by 2030 which California is quickly on its way to meet. The 60% goal adds ambition to the emissions reduction goals set by SB 32, the 2016 update to prior landmark climate legislation that required California to reduce its emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. Transitioning to reliance on renewable energy sources introduces new c...
2023-12-1401 minBerkeley Zen Center Dharma TalksReturning Home After SesshinA talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Sunday, December 10th 2023 by Ryushin Andrea Thach.
2023-12-1053 minBerkeley Zen Center Dharma TalksBuddha’s EnlightenmentA talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Saturday, December 9th 2023 by Hondo Dave Rutschman.
2023-12-0938 minBerkeley Zen Center Dharma TalksFreedom in Zazen – Instructions for an Awakened LifeA talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Friday, December 8th 2023 by Seicho Judy Fleischman.
2023-12-0852 minBerkeley Zen Center Dharma TalksSilent IlluminationA talk given at Berkeley Zen Center on Thursday, December 7th 2023 by Mary Duryee.
2023-12-0752 minClimate BreakInternational Monetary Fund Reform, With Kelly Varian What is the IMF?The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides aid to developing countries to promote global economic and monetary growth. IMF investments and loans can significantly impact the ability of developing countries to improve climate resilience. Most directly, reforms to the IMF can allow developing countries to invest more in climate resilience and disincentivize fossil fuel production. How does the IMF affect the climate crisis?According to critics, the IMF’s Climate Change Strategy inadvertently worsens the climate crisis and amplifies financial risk. Specifically:1. Prohibitively high IMF borrowi...
2023-12-0101 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – November 30, 2023: A.S. Byatt (1936-2003)Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues
Bookwaves
A.S. Byatt (1936-November 18, 2023), in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky on January 27, 2003 while on tour for the novel, “A Whistling Woman.” This would be the first of two interviews, the second in 2010 for her novel The Children’s Book.
Born Antonia Drabble and sister to novelist Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt spent her early professional life as a teacher before becoming a full time writer in 1983. In 1978 she began the first of a tetralogy, The Vi...
2023-11-3059 min
KPFA - Bay Area TheaterReview: “Harry Clarke” at Berkeley Rep Roda TheatreKPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Harry Clarke” at Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre through December 23, 2023.
The post Review: “Harry Clarke” at Berkeley Rep Roda Theatre appeared first on KPFA.
2023-11-2906 min
Berkeley TalksA blueprint for housing reformIn Berkeley Talks episode 184, Richard Rothstein, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley's Othering and Belonging Institute, and housing policy expert Leah Rothstein discuss their 2023 book, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. The conversation was moderated by Tamika Moss, founder and CEO of the Bay Area organization, All Home. In the book, the father-daughter co-authors describe how unconstitutional government policy on the part of federal, state and local governments created the segregation that we know in this country today, where every metropolitan area has clearly defined areas that either are all white or mo...
2023-11-1753 min
Berkeley Voices115: They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.The U.S. transcontinental railroad is considered one of the biggest accomplishments in American history. Completed in 1869, it was the first railroad to connect the East to the West. It cut months off trips across the country and opened up Western trade of goods and ideas throughout the U.S.But building the railroad was treacherous, brutal work. And the companies leading the railroad project had a hard time retaining American workers. So they began to recruit newly arrived immigrants for the job, mainly Chinese and Irish. And these immigrants, who risked their lives to construct the...
2023-11-1415 min
The Berkeley Remix"From Generation to Generation" Episode 4 - "Origami as Metaphor"In season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah. This four-part series includes clips from these interviews, which were recorded remotely via Zoom. Using healing as a throughline, these life history interviews explore identity, community, creative expression, and the stories family members passed down about how incarceration shaped their lives.
In this episode, we explore creative expression...
2023-11-1338 min
The Berkeley Remix"From Generation to Generation" Episode 3 - "Between Worlds": Japanese American Identity & BelongingIn season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah. This four-part series includes clips from these interviews, which were recorded remotely via Zoom. Using healing as a throughline, these life history interviews explore identity, community, creative expression, and the stories family members passed down about how incarceration shaped their lives.
In this episode, we explore identity and...
2023-11-1335 min
The Berkeley Remix"From Generation to Generation" Episode 2 - "A Place Like This": The Memory of IncarcerationIn season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah. This four-part series includes clips from these interviews, which were recorded remotely via Zoom. Using healing as a throughline, these life history interviews explore identity, community, creative expression, and the stories family members passed down about how incarceration shaped their lives.
In this episode, we explore the history...
2023-11-1339 min
The Berkeley Remix"From Generation to Generation" Episode 1 - "It's Happening Now": Japanese American ActivismIn season 8 of The Berkeley Remix, a podcast of the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, we are highlighting interviews from the Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project. The OHC team interviewed twenty-three survivors and descendants of two World War II-era sites of incarceration: Manzanar in California and Topaz in Utah. This four-part series includes clips from these interviews, which were recorded remotely via Zoom. Using healing as a throughline, these life history interviews explore identity, community, creative expression, and the stories family members passed down about how incarceration shaped their lives.
In episode 1, we explore activism and civic...
2023-11-1326 min
KPFA - Bay Area TheaterReview: “Bulrusher,” at Berkeley Rep Peets TheatreKPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Bulrusher” by Eisa Davis, at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theatre through December 3, 2023.
The post Review: “Bulrusher,” at Berkeley Rep Peets Theatre appeared first on KPFA.
2023-11-0706 min
The Global BearsS4, Ep.2: The Israel-Hamas ConflictOctober 23rd, 2023.
Within this episode, we review the current situation within Israel and the Gaza Strip from a historical and analytical point of view.
***SENSITIVITY WARNING***: While we understand that the current situation is entirely awful and hope for a swift and peaceful solution to the conflict, it is important to note that the International Relations Council of Berkeley is not openly taking a stance on this issue at this time. Our goal is to have a productive and informative discussion regarding the conflict. Our hearts go out to all who have...
2023-10-2449 min
Berkeley Voices114: Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to BerkeleyUC Berkeley's first social justice theater professor, Timmia Hearn DeRoy, talks about how Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival practice, rooted in emancipation, drives her work today."Trinidadian Carnival, it’s social justice theater in practice. Every moment, it’s all about emancipation, the subverting of the powerful narrative through humor, through performance, through doublespeak. And it just taught me so much about the possibilities of the art form."Photo courtesy of Timmia Hearn DeRoy.Music by Blue Dot Sessions.Listen to the episode, read the transcript and see photos on Berkeley News...
2023-10-1722 min
The Leader’s Way6: A Case for Love with Michael Curry and Andrew McGowanIn this episode, hear from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Dean of Berkeley Divinity School Andrew McGowan on the centrality of love to Christianity. This live conversation, mediated by nationally bestselling author Deborah Royce, was recorded at the Yale Club in New York City inMay 2023. It celebrates the debut of the film, A Case for Love, a Grace-Based Films documentary about Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s teachings and writings.
2023-10-1633 minClimate BreakGeothermal Power: Tapping Earth's Heat for a Carbon-Free FutureWhat is Geothermal Energy?Geothermal energy is heat generated in the earth. It is a renewable source of energy, and it is extracted from the inner earth for energy use. Typically, geothermal energy is harnessed through holes that are drilled allowing hot water or steam to be extracted. These resources then drive a turbine to generate electricity and energy. Harnessed in this way, geothermal energy has significantly fewer environmental impacts than fossil fuels. The Pros and Cons of Geothermal EnergyGeothermal energy can provide base load power—available 24/7—which is generally not the case...
2023-10-1001 min
The Berkeley RemixVoices for the Environment - Episode 3: Environmental Justice for AllEpisode 3: Environmental Justice for All
The podcasts for "Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism" are part of a Bancroft Library Gallery exhibition at UC Berkeley. This exhibit charts the twentieth-century evolution of environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area through the voices of activists who galvanized public opinion to advance their causes—from wilderness preservation, to economic regulation, to environmental justice. The "Voices for the Environment" exhibition was curated by UC Berkeley's Oral History Center and is free and open to the public from Oct. 6, 2023 to Nov. 15, 2024, in The Bancroft Library Gallery, located just inside the ea...
2023-10-0326 min
The Berkeley RemixVoices for the Environment - Episode 2: Tides of ConservationEpisode 2: Tides of Conservation
The podcasts for "Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism" are part of a Bancroft Library Gallery exhibition at UC Berkeley. This exhibit charts the twentieth-century evolution of environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area through the voices of activists who galvanized public opinion to advance their causes—from wilderness preservation, to economic regulation, to environmental justice. The "Voices for the Environment" exhibition was curated by UC Berkeley's Oral History Center and is free and open to the public from Oct. 6, 2023 to Nov. 15, 2024, in The Bancroft Library Gallery, located just inside the east en...
2023-10-0329 min
The Berkeley RemixVoices for the Environment - Episode 1: A Preservationist SpiritEpisode 1: A Preservationist Spirit
The podcasts for "Voices for the Environment: A Century of Bay Area Activism" are part of a Bancroft Library Gallery exhibition at UC Berkeley. This exhibit charts the twentieth-century evolution of environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area through the voices of activists who galvanized public opinion to advance their causes—from wilderness preservation, to economic regulation, to environmental justice. The "Voices for the Environment" exhibition was curated by UC Berkeley's Oral History Center and is free and open to the public from Oct. 6, 2023 to Nov. 15, 2024, in The Bancroft Library Gallery, located just inside the east en...
2023-10-0329 min
Berkeley TalksWhat are Berkeley's Latinx Thriving Initiatives?In Berkeley Talks episode 180, Dania Matos and Fabrizio Mejia, vice chancellor and associate vice chancellor, respectively, for UC Berkeley’s Division of Equity and Inclusion, join Berkeley student Angelica Garcia to discuss the campus’s Latinx Thriving Initiatives (LTI) and how these efforts are supporting Berkeley’s goal of not only becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), but also of transforming Berkeley into a Latinx Thriving Institution.“There's a practical standpoint of this that's about becoming a Hispanic Serving Institution,” begins Matos. “That's why you'll hear HSIs a lot, and it's important in that naming and framing. Dr. Gina Garci...
2023-09-2252 min
The Buzz: The Berkeley High Jacket PodcastThe Buzz: Let's Be FriendsWelcome to this year's first episode of The Buzz! For the 2023-24 school year, we’ll be featuring in-depth discussions and interviews about topics that matter to our community.
The school year is well underway. We’re sitting next to new people in class, joining clubs, and meeting up with old friends. But making friends in high school isn’t as simple as it was in elementary school, when asking someone to join you on the swings was all you had to do. It’s more challenging now.
For this episode, we asked Berkeley High students...
2023-09-2206 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyDawn Porter, “The Ladybird Diaries,” “Deadlocked,” 2023Dawn Porter, documentary filmmaker, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded on Zencastr, September 11, 2023.
Dawn Porter’s work has appeared on ESPN, HBO, Netflix, PBS and other streamers. Her film Trapped, focusing on abortion clinics in the South, won a special prize at Sundance in 2016 along with a Peabody Award. Her 2013 documentary, Gideon’s Army, her first film, focusing on public defender attorneys in the South, is now part of the US Deparment of State’s American Film Showcase.
She is also the director of John Lewis: Good Trouble, which focuses on the late Congressman and ac...
2023-09-171h 00
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – September 14, 2023: Dawn Porter – Errol MorrisBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues
Artwaves
Dawn Porter, documentary filmmaker, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded on Zencastr, September 11, 2023.
Dawn Porter’s work has appeared on ESPN, HBO, Netflix, PBS and other streamers. Her film Trapped, focusing on abortion clinics in the South, won a special prize at Sundance in 2016 along with a Peabody Award. Her 2013 documentary, Gideon’s Army, her first film, focusing on public defender attorneys in the South, is now part of the US Depar...
2023-09-1459 min
Berkeley Voices113: Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolutionIt was summertime in the early 1970s in New York City. Fifteen-year-old Jim LeBrecht boarded a school bus headed for the Catskill Mountains, home to Camp Jened, a summer camp for people with disabilities. As the bus approached the camp, he peered out the window at the warm and raucous group below."I wasn't exactly sure who was a camper and who was a counselor," he said. "I think that's really indicative of one of the many things that made that camp special."Over several years, the camp changed him in profound ways."...
2023-09-0540 min
Berkeley TalksMichael Brown's family on keeping his memory aliveIn Berkeley Talks episode 178, Rashad Arman Timmons, a fellow at UC Berkeley’s Black Studies Collaboratory, joins in conversation with the family of Michael Brown Jr., whose 2014 killing by police in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited a wave of protests across the country.During the March 8, 2023, discussion, Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr., his stepmother, Cal Brown, and Timmons consider the enduring significance of Ferguson in the nation’s racial landscape and ponder Black grief as a resource for social transformation.“A note on grief,” begins Timmons. “We grieve because we care. We grieve because we love. And we grieve b...
2023-08-251h 48
Berkeley TalksOppenheimer's Berkeley yearsIn Berkeley Talks episode 177, a panel of scholars discusses theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and how his years at UC Berkeley shaped him, and how he shaped the university.Oppenheimer, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s summer 2023 film Oppenheimer, came to Berkeley in 1929 as an assistant professor and over the next dozen years established one of the greatest schools of theoretical physics. He went on to direct the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, during which the first nuclear weapons were developed. He’s often referred to as “the father of the atomic bomb.”...
2023-08-171h 27Climate BreakClimate Change Litigation on Behalf of Young People, with Julia Olson (extended version)Youth-Led Climate LitigationWorldwide, litigants are turning to the courts as a forum for fighting climate change, filing lawsuits against governments in an attempt to force climate action. Plaintiffs in these lawsuits are often children and young adults, who represent those most affected by government climate inaction. A notable early example of youth-led litigation related to climate change was in the Philippines in the 1990s, where forty-three students sued the Philippine government to protect their village’s forest. Though the case was initially dismissed in lower courts on the ground that the students were children and did not...
2023-08-1534 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyKate MacKay: The Films of Luis Bunuel, 2023
Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator at Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, discusses a retrospective of the films of the great Spanish director Luis Bunuel playing through November 19, 2023, with host Richard Wolinsky.
Luis Bunuel began his career working with Salvador Dali on the film “Un Chien Andalou,” a masterpiece of the Surrealist movement. After working on another film with Dali, “L’Age d’Or,” and creating a documentary known today as “Las Hurdes” (Land Without Bread), he spent nearly two decades in the Mexican film industry before coming to Hollywood first, and then working with European producers to create master...
2023-07-161h 09
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – July 13, 2023: Stuart Klawans – Kate MacKayBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Links to assorted local theater & book venues
Two from Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive
Preston Sturges
Stuart Klawans, author of “Crooked but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
Stuart Klawans was film critic for the Nation from 1988 to 2021, and before that wrote a small press and poetry column for the magazine. His previous books were Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order, and a collection of his reviews and es...
2023-07-1359 min
KPFA - Full CircleFull Circle – July 7, 2023 – FEATURING COMMUNITY EVENTSYour cultural affairs radio magazine, produced by members and graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program right here in Huichin, in that part of occupied Ohlone Territory known as Berkeley, California.
Tonight Full Circle brings you sound from 2 of the wonderful community events that take place in consistently in the Bay Area. First we’ll hear from attendees and participants at East Oakland’s Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival, including
-The Black Operating Project
-Friends of San Antonio Park
-Phil Hutchins from the Eastside Arts Alliance collective.
Then we...
2023-07-0759 minKPFA - Corona CallsCorona Calls for 07.03.2023 – Covid correlation with pediatric diabetes, and moreFilling in for Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Jesse Strauss hosts Covid Calls this week, featuring Dr. John Swartzberg, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases at UC Berkeley.
Discussed in this episode:
Covid infectiousness correlated with particular blood types: https://fortune.com/well/2023/06/27/which-blood-type-greater-risk-getting-covid-19/
The childhood diabetes rate has risen in correlation with covid – we discuss whether there’s a causal link: https://www.ajmc.com/view/pediatric-diabetes-dka-rates-increased-during-early-covid-19-pandemic
In hindsight – are schools vectors for covid transmission?: https://missionlocal.org/2023/06/docs-reflect-on-race-schools-three-years-into-covid-19/
Podcast music credit: Now Son by Podington Bear, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.
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2023-07-0339 minClimate BreakClimate Change Litigation on Behalf of Young PeopleYouth-Led Climate LitigationWorldwide, litigants are turning to the courts as a forum for fighting climate change, filing lawsuits against governments in an attempt to force climate action. Plaintiffs in these lawsuits are often children and young adults, who represent those most affected by government climate inaction. A notable early example of youth-led litigation related to climate change was in the Philippines in the 1990s, where forty-three students sued the Philippine government to protect their village’s forest. Though the case was initially dismissed in lower courts on the ground that the students were children and did not...
2023-06-2701 min
KPFA - Pushing LimitsCA Budget – Disability Advocacy & Results – Pushing Limits – June 23, 2023
A week from today, Governor Newsom is expected to sign the 2023-2024 California state budget. In this program, we look at the deals that were struck and their impact on people with disabilities.
Then we widen our camera to talk about our yearly budget advocacy and how our community can become more powerful in this and other policy arenas.
Eric Harris, the director of Public Policy at Disability Rights California, breaks down how the state has chosen to invest its money for the next fiscal year.
Ligia Andrade Zúñiga, a member of the...
2023-06-2329 minKPFA - Full CircleFull Circle – June 16, 2023Your cultural affairs radio magazine, produced by members and graduates of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program right here in Huichin, in that part of occupied Ohlone Territory known as Berkeley, California.
Tonight’s program features 4 BIPOC farmers. It’s an archived program that originally played on
February 10, 2023.
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2023-06-1659 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – June 1, 2023: Martin Amis – Bill EnglishBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Bookwaves
Martin Amis (1949-2023), in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky for the “Probabilities” program, recorded in the KPFA studios November 26, 1991 while on tour for the paperback edition of “London Fields.” First of five interviews conducted over a 23 year span.
Martin Amis, who died of esophageal cancer on May 19th, 2023 at the age of 73, was a leading English novelist, essayist, memoirist and screenwriter. Known for such novels as London Fields, Money, Ti...
2023-06-0159 min
KPFA - Bay Area TheaterReview: “Let The Right One In” at Berkeley RepKPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Let The Right One In” at Berkeley Rep‘s Roda Theatre through June 25, 2023.
The post Review: “Let The Right One In” at Berkeley Rep appeared first on KPFA.
2023-05-3106 min
Berkeley TalksPulitzer-winner Natalie Wolchover: 'Knowledge of physics is a superpower'In this Berkeley Talks episode, Natalie Wolchover, a senior editor at Quanta Magazine and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, gives the keynote commencement speech to the Class of 2023 at Berkeley Physics"'Knowledge is power,' my grandpa always used to tell me," said Wolchover at the May 14 ceremony. "Well, I think knowledge of physics is a superpower. We tend to forget, when we're in a bubble of people who've studied physics, as we are in this auditorium, just how unusual it is to understand the laws of nature. Galileo wrote that 'the universe is w...
2023-05-3010 min
Berkeley Voices112: How the Holocaust endsGrowing up, Linda Kinstler knew that her Latvian grandfather had mysteriously disappeared after World War II. But she didn't think much about it."That was a very common fate from this part of the world," says Kinstler, a Ph.D. candidate in rhetoric at UC Berkeley. "It didn't strike me as totally unusual. It was only later when I began looking into it more that I realized there was probably more to the story."What she discovered was too big for her to walk away.In 2022, she published her first book, Come to...
2023-05-1828 min
Berkeley Voices111: Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she hasAt 6 months old, Britt H. Young was fitted with her first prosthetic arm. "The belief was that you would get started on using an adaptive device right away and that would be easiest for you, rather than learning to adapt to your body the way that it is, rather than learning about how to navigate the world with the body you have," said Britt, who is graduating from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in geography on May 15.Born missing part of her left arm, Britt never went to school without wearing her prosthesis. ...
2023-05-1018 min
Berkeley Voices110: Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won't change for anyoneGericault De La Rose is a queer trans Filipinx woman, and refuses to change for anyone."Being that queer trans person completely owning herself I hope gives other people permission to be themselves, too," she says. A master's student in UC Berkeley's Department of Art Practice, Gericault explores in her art Philippine mythology and her experience as a trans woman. One time, she dressed up like a manananggal — a kind of monster that detaches from her lower body at night to look for unborn babies to eat — and then slept in an art gallery for six h...
2023-05-0922 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyNorah Piehl, Bay Area Book Festival 2023
Norah Piehl, who is the Director of Literary Programs at the Bay Area Book Festival, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
The Bay Area Book Festival is in its 9th season and runs Saturday and Sunday May 6th and 7th in various venues around Berkeley, including the Berkeley Public Library and Freight & Salvage. Among the guests are singer and activist Joan Baez, novelist and cyber-expert Cory Doctorow, playwright V (Eve Ensler), historian Adam Hochschild, and novelists Dave Eggars and Jane Smiley.
Norah Piehl has been the Director of LIterary Programs since November, 2021 and before...
2023-04-3059 min
KPFA - Terra VerdeLegal Roadblock to Berkeley’s Building Electrification Law – April 28, 2023
On April 17, a federal court in San Francisco struck down the City of Berkeley’s first-of-its-kind law banning natural gas infrastructure from new buildings. The ruling can have implications beyond Berkeley, especially since more than seventy local and state jurisdictions around the country have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric new buildings, and many more are considering similar approaches. So just how big of a setback is this court ruling, really? What other avenues are open to cities and towns that would like to pass decarbonization ordinances? To find out, Terra Verde host and Earth Isla...
2023-04-2829 min
KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, WeekdaysKansas Republicans override Governor’s veto of nation’s most sweeping transgender bathroom bill; Former Vice President Mike Pence testifies to grand jury on attempts to overturn 2020 election; Berkeley vows to pursue electrification despite court ruling against natural gas ban: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – April 27, 2023
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Kansas Republican lawmakers override Governor’s veto of transgender bathroom bill
Texas Ag Commissioner promulgates employee dress code targeting transgender workers
Biden Administration announces new migrant border policies
Senator Patty Murray reintroduces ambitious child care legislation
Berkeley says it will pursue electrification plans despite court setback on natural gas hookups
Image by KPFA Reporter Gil Martel: Berkeley City Councilmember Kate Harrison
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2023-04-2759 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – April 27, 2023: Don Winslow – Norah PiehlBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Bookwaves
Don Winslow, author of “City of Dreams,” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on April 12, 2023
Don Winslow is the author of 22 novels, many of which focus on crime and the criminal underworld, including The Cartel, The Force, Savages (which became an Oliver Stone film), and The Border. His latest novel, “City of Dreams”, continues the saga of “City on Fire,” which told of a mob war using as a template the story of t...
2023-04-2759 min
KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, WeekdaysPresident Biden officially announces his re-election bid; Civil rights and entertainment giant Harry Belafonte dies at 96; Tulare Basin prepares snowmelt and floods: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – April 25, 2023
Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
President Biden makes expected announcement of his bid for a second term
Former President Trump’s rape trial is underway in New York
House Republicans prepare to vote on a debt ceiling and budget cut package
Tulare Basin braces for snowmelt and flooding
Public health and drug reform advocates warn against California bills to increase prison time for fentanyl sales
UC Berkeley students stage a sit-in to protest closure plans for the Anthropology Library
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2023-04-2559 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – April 20, 2023 – Gemma Whelan – Russell BanksBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Bookwaves
Gemma Whelan, whose latest novel is titled “Painting Through The Dark,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded via zencastr on April 5, 2023.
‘Painting Through the Dark” concerns a young ex-nun in Ireland, Ashling, who comes to America in 1981, specifically San Francisco, in order to get away from her family and from the control of the Catholic Church in Ireland. A dedicated painter, after spending time attempting to get a job at a local gal...
2023-04-2059 min
KPFA - Pushing LimitsJudy Heumann – Pushing Limits – April 7, 2023
On the 46th anniversary of the Section 504 sit-ins in San Francisco, we take a look back at the longest occupation of a federal building in U.S. history, the role the late Judy Heumann played in it, and the subsequent disability rights movement.
Producer and Host, Mark Romoser, is joined by Joan Leon, who has worked with the Berkeley Center for Independent Living (CIL) and its offshoot the World Institute on Disability. Ms Leon continues to sit on the board of the Berke...
2023-04-0729 min
Berkeley TalksJitendra Malik on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligenceJitendra Malik, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, gives the 2023 Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture called, "The sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence.""It's my pleasure to talk on this very, very hot topic today," Malik begins. "But I'm going to talk about natural intelligence first because we can't talk about artificial intelligence without knowing something about the natural variety."We could talk about intelligence as having started about 550 million years ago in the Cambrian era, when we had our first multicellular animals that could move about," he continues. "So...
2023-03-2455 min
Berkeley Voices109: Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep lossYesterday at sunset marked the start of Ramadan, the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic calendar. For Ali Bhatti, a Ph.D. candidate in science and math education at UC Berkeley, it’s a time to feel closer to God, to break habits and to remember what he’s thankful for. In this episode, Ali describes, in his own words, what the month means to him. He also talks about how 9/11 shaped his childhood in New Jersey, finding his Muslim community at Berkeley and how Islam, and the support of his family and Berkeley community, helped him get thro...
2023-03-2315 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/ Artwaves March 23, 2023: John Sayles – Nora EphronBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Bookwaves
John Sayles discusses his latest novel, “Jamie MacGillivray, The Renegade’s Journey,” along with his work as a writer and film-maker, with host Richard Wolinsky. Part One.
John Sayles is best known for his work as a director, screenwriter and actor, though this is his sixth novel. Among the films he directed are Lone Star, Sunshine State, Eight Men Out, Matewan, The Brother from Another Planet, Baby It’s You and Passi...
2023-03-2359 min
Berkeley Voices108: 'Be the Change': Purvi Shah on the moments of beauty as a civil rights lawyerIn this episode of Be the Change, host Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Purvi Shah.Shah is the founder and executive director of Movement Law Lab and a civil rights litigator, policy advocate and law professor who has spent over a decade working at the intersection of law and grassroots social movements.During their conversation, they talk about the nuts and bolts of founding a legal nonprofit in response to current events, and the intellectual and philosophical theory behind “movement lawyering,” a type of lawyering that aims...
2023-03-2240 min
KPFA - Bay Area TheaterReview: “Cambodian Rock Band” at Berkeley RepKPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Cambodian Rock Band” by Lauren Yee, at Berkeley Rep‘s Roda Theatre through April 2, 2023.
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2023-03-2000 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/ Artwaves March 16, 2023: Joe Ngo – Jesse GreenBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Artwaves
Joe Ngo, who plays the role of Chum, the father, in “Cambodian Rock Band,” by Lauren Yee, and won an Obie for his performance at the Signature Theatre in New York, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
Joe Ngo is an actor and musician, and has been performing in “Cambodian Rock Band” since its origins at the Ground Floor, Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work in 2016 before moving on t...
2023-03-1659 min
Berkeley Voices107: 'Be the Change': Nazune Menka on creating the course, Decolonizing UC BerkeleyIn this episode of Be the Change, host Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Nazune Menka.Menka is a lecturer at Berkeley Law and a supervising attorney for the campus’s Environmental Law Clinic. She is Denaakk’e from Alaska and Lumbee from North Carolina. In fall 2021, Menka designed and taught a new undergraduate legal studies course called Decolonizing UC Berkeley, and she taught Indigenous Peoples, Law and the United States at the law school in spring 2022.During their conversation, they talk about how to bring a deco...
2023-03-1545 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyJoe Ngo, actor/performer, “Cambodian Rock Band,” 2023Joe Ngo, who plays the role of Chum, the father, in “Cambodian Rock Band,” by Lauren Yee, and won an Obie for his performance at the Signature Theatre in New York, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky.
Joe Ngo is an actor and musician, and has been performing in “Cambodian Rock Band” since its origins at the Ground Floor, Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work in 2016 before moving on to Houston and New York. Previously he acted in regional theatre in both “King of the Yees” and “Viet Gone,” as well as other plays.
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2023-03-121h 26
Berkeley TalksThe rise and destruction of the Jewish fashion industryUwe Westphal, author of the 2019 book, Fashion Metropolis Berlin 1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry, discusses Berlin's once-thriving Jewish fashion industry and how the Nazi confiscations of Jewish-owned companies in the years before World War II led to the industry's demise."The destruction of the entire fashion industry meant forced labor, government-organized theft and the murder and the deportation of Jews," Westphal says. "Today, 78 years after the end of World War II, unlike most other industries in Germany, fashion producers small and large have not yet taken on responsibility for...
2023-03-101h 18
The Global BearsS3, Ep.5: The Politics of International SportsMarch 9th, 2023.
In this episode, we delve into various topics surrounding the controversies in international sports. Our discussion with fellow UC Berkeley students covers the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the Winter Olympics in China, the dual-nationality of players, and much more!
2023-03-1037 min
Berkeley Voices106: 'Be the Change': Khiara M. Bridges on claiming her voice as a prominent Black womanHost Savala Nolan, director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, interviews Khiara M. Bridges. Bridges is a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Law and a powerful public intellectual who speaks and writes about race, class, reproductive justice and the intersection of the three.During their conversation, they talk about the process of Bridges claiming and using her voice as a prominent Black woman. And they discuss the complexities of presentation and adornment for members of marginalized communities — especially in academia — and about approaching work with a sense of liberation, creativity and hustle.
2023-03-0851 min
Berkeley Voices105: 'Be the Change': A podcast that aims 'to remove the mystery of making change'Embodying the change you want to see in the world can feel ... well, intimidating. Impossible, even. But Berkeley Law's Savala Nolan wants to help us all figure it out — one step at a time — in her podcast, Be the Change. "We're talking about transforming the world and being the change and these very lofty concepts," says Nolan, director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. "But I hope what they see is that big, lofty concepts really contain lots of little, teeny, tiny steps that are repeated and built upon over time."In seaso...
2023-03-0120 min
KPFA - Bay Native CircleBay Native Circle – February 15, 2023: Tony Gonzales interviews Chief Gary HarrisonOn this edition of Bay Native Circle Tony Gonzales Interviews Chief Gary Harrison. BNC is weekly program presents special guests and explores today’s Native issues, peoples, cultures, music & events with rotating hosts Morning Star Gali, Tony Gonzales, Eddie Madril and Janeen Antoine. This rough transcript was made using the built-in transcription A.I. in Microsoft Word. There may be errors in this transcription. To listen to the original audio, go to https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20230215-Wed1900.mp3 to listen or download. Pictured is Chief Gary Harrison on the left and Tony Gonzales on th...
2023-02-1559 min
The BayAfter 6 Years, South Berkeley's Here/There Encampment ClosesThe Here/There homeless encampment was familiar to anybody who drove between Oakland and Berkeley. The camp had its roots in the Bay Area’s Occupy movements in the early 2010s, and was founded in 2017 to highlight the problem of homelessness. It once had its own structure, rules, and a good relationship with the neighborhood.But over the last few years, the camp changed. Its founders passed away and people moved on. And last week, the city officially closed it down.Read the episode transcriptGuest: Supriya Yelimeli, Berkeleyside housing and homelessness reporter...
2023-02-1020 min
Berkeley Voices104: Ty-Ron Douglas: Bridging the academic and athletic worldsWe’ve heard the acronym DEIBJ a lot on campus, especially in the past few years. For those who might not know, it stands for diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice. A growing number of people at UC Berkeley have positions dedicated solely to this incredibly important work.But sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what DEIBJ means, what it actually looks like in practice — now, in our day-to-day lives, but also in the future, when initiatives and policies and other on-the-ground work has transformed our institution.So, we talked with Ty-Ron Douglas. He's the as...
2023-02-0923 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – February 9, 2023: Jane Smiley – Fay WeldonBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Jane Smiley, whose latest novel is “A Dangerous Business,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
The author of seventeen adult fiction novels, two short story collections, five non-fiction works plus several young adult novels, Jane Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “A Thousand Acres,” and more recently The Last Hundred Years Trilogy. She current teaches creative writing.
“A Dangerous Business” takes us to Monterey, California in the early 1850s as Eliza Ri...
2023-02-0959 min
KPFA - Bay Area TheaterReview: “Clyde’s” at Berkeley Rep Peets TheatreKPFA theatre critic Richard Wolinsky reviews “Clyde’s” by Lynn Nottage, at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theatre through February 26, 2023.
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2023-02-0306 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – January 26, 2023: Dennis Lim – Russell BanksBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Artwaves
Dennis Lim, film critic and Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival and author of “Tale of Cinema,” an examination of the work of South Korean film-maker Hong Sang-soo, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
Dennis Lim was previously the the director of programming of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Before that he was film editor at the Village Voice, and has taught at Harvard University and NYU. His first book...
2023-01-2659 min
The Global BearsS3, Ep.4: Open Mic - Do you think the United Nations should Exist?January 1st, 2023.
Do you think the United Nations should Exist? In the half-hour special episode, Berkeley students share their thoughts on the UN's past actions and future outlooks.
2023-01-2333 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskySuzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023), “The Vampire Tapestry,” 1981
Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded over Halloween Weekend, 1981 at the World Fantasy Convention in the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley.
Suzy McKee Charnas, who died on January 2nd, 2023 at the age of 83, was a novelist and short story writer focusing on fantasy and science fiction. Over a career that began in 1974 with her first novel, Walk to the End of the World, she wrote eleven novels and several short stories, winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best short stories. She is best known for her tetralogy of novels, The Holdfast Chronicles...
2023-01-1558 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – January 12, 2023: Suzy McKee Charnas – Frank GalatiBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Bookwaves
Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023), in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded over Halloween Weekend, 1981 at the World Fantasy Convention in the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley.
Suzy McKee Charnas, who died on January 2nd, 2023 at the age of 83, was a novelist and short story writer focusing on fantasy and science fiction. Over a career that began in 1974 with her first novel, Walk to the End of the World, she wrote eleven novels and several s...
2023-01-1259 min
The Future of Work2023 PredictionsThis month, we chat with former guests Barry O'Reilly and Vaneese Johnson to future-cast what's in store for 2023! They look back on 2022: Did we learn anything new? Did any of our systems or practices change? They look forward to 2023: Will there be new ripples or upsets in the work place? What should leaders and employees do to prepare and succeed in 2023? Read the transcript @https://bit.ly/3XNlELv Learn more about UC Berkeley Extension @https://bit.ly/43fNOji
2022-12-2747 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyDerek Goldman, co-playwright/director, “Remember This” at Berkeley RepDerek Goldman, co-playwright (with Clark Young) and director of “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” starring David Straithairn, playing at Berkeley Rep’s Peets Theatre through December 18th, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Recorded by zencastr on November 16, 2022.
“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” tells the story of holocaust witness Jan Karski, who was sent to Poland to report back on what he’d seen. When he returned to the United States and Britain, no one believed him when he spoke of the atrocities he’d seen. The play uses Karski’s words and Straithairn’s ac...
2022-12-041h 24
The Buzz: The Berkeley High Jacket PodcastThe Buzz: What BHS Students do for Self-CareAs Berkeley High welcomes students back onto campus for the 2022-2023 school year, many are feeling overwhelmed by starting school. The best way to manage all of this? Take care of yourself and recognize your needs so that you can be at your best. Jacket Podcast producers Miriam Reichenberg and Sofia Rodriguez spoke to students about what they do to practice self-care.
This episode is the first in a series exploring students' mental health. It was executive produced by Miriam Reichenberg and Sofia Rodriguez, and was edited by Lucy Rickart-Webb. You can find more episodes and coverage o...
2022-08-1903 min
The Buzz: The Berkeley High Jacket PodcastMeet the Candidates: ASB President & Vice PresidentThis is one of three episodes interviewing the candidates for 2022-2023 student government at Berkeley High School.
2022-03-1818 minThe Buzz: The Berkeley High Jacket PodcastMeet the Candidates: Chief of ServiceThis is one of three episodes interviewing the candidates for 2022-2023 student government at Berkeley High School.
2022-03-1804 minThe Buzz: The Berkeley High Jacket PodcastMeet the Candidates: Chiefs of PublicityThis is one of three episodes interviewing the candidates for 2022-2023 student government at Berkeley High School.
2022-03-1812 min