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The University of California, Berkeley presents the Graduate Lectures. Seven lectureships comprise the Graduate Lectures, each with a distinct endowment history. These unique programs have b...
Embodiment affects how we understand personhood, moral status, and whether this life is our only life. Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam Universit...
A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can posse...
Contemporary populism is almost everywhere; a right wing phenomena that focuses on a politics of white working class grievance. A set of gri...
How do you navigate a nonlinear, “squiggly line” career in science and public health? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific...
Espiritismo traces its roots to the sacred knowledge of West and Central African peoples carried into the Americas by enslaved ancestors bet...
Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden...
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciou...
Legal scholar Annabel Brett explores the idea of “moral possibility”—the boundary between what laws demand and what people can realistically...
Political theorist Annabel Brett of Cambridge University explores how the concept of “moral possibility” shapes law, politics, and public ob...
It's time for a new narrative for the ocean, one that reflects current scientific knowledge and acknowledges innovative new partnerships and...
Three major global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity and its benefits, and inequality and inequity among people – are typica...
There's a powerful idea in the history of European legal and political thought: that laws must be possible for people to follow. Annabel Bre...
The "energy transition" is actually a shift from relying on fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) to using metals to generate energy. Howev...
Historian and political commentator Heather Cox Richardson joins UC Berkeley professor of law and history Dylan Penningroth in a timely conv...
We are at a critical moment in our society. While we advance efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, across the globe, millions...
Does giving cash up front improve the health and wellbeing of people in poor communities? In this program, Edward (Ted) Miguel, professor of...
This program explores the decolonizing potential of Indian aesthetic-social philosophy by challenging two entrenched colonial prejudices: th...
What defines a person’s character, and how does it shape who they are? In this lecture, Susan Wolf, emeritus professor of philosophy at the...
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet face...
In this program, Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA, examines how police in...
Placing the U.S. in comparative perspective, Daniel Ziblatt, professor of government at Harvard University, discusses uniquely American coun...
America’s contemporary democratic predicament is rooted in its historically incomplete democratization. Born in a pre-democratic era, the co...
America’s contemporary democratic predicament is rooted in its historically incomplete democratization. Born in a pre-democratic era, the co...
What does it mean when we use the first-person pronoun ‘I’? And how does it relate to self-consciousness? In this program, Béatrice Longuene...
Where did the American Dream of hard work equals upward mobility go? And what will it take to bring it back? In this talk, Raj Chetty, direc...
Children’s chances of earning more than their parents have fallen from 90% to 50% over the past half century in America. How can we restore...
California’s deepest problems — the skyrocketing cost of housing, the lagging development of clean energy, the traffic choking the state — r...
Modern slavery, which encompasses 45 million people around the world, is intricately linked to the economy, politics, violence and war, gend...
There are 45 million enslaved people in the world today. The links between slavery, conflict, environmental destruction, economics and consu...
As the delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia in 1789, there was no experience, anywhere in the world, of a suc...
The world has lived through 2+ years of the COVID-19 pandemic, heightening the awareness of the links between health and other aspects of li...
A hallmark of every developed nation is the provision of a social safety net – a collection of public programs that deliver aid to the poor....
Disability rights activist Judy Heumann has been fighting for inclusion for over six decades, in ways that transformed legal and societal un...
The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) began in 1991 sponsored by the World Bank and the World Health Organization to fill a critical gap...
Philosophy almost alone among disciplines appears to lack a distinctive subject matter. The world has chemical, biological and political asp...
The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since its origins...
At the beginning of the 20th century, Einstein changed the way we think about time. Now, early in the 21st century, the measurement of time...
There is a puzzle about counterfactuals that parallels a more familiar puzzle about free will. The familiar puzzle is the apparent incompati...
If having a gun really made you safer, then America would be one of the safest countries in the world. It's not. Gary Younge (Manchester Uni...
Twentieth-Century African American Freedom Struggles transformed both US and World History. These seminal liberation struggles include the i...
This lecture by South African writer, playwright and academic Jane Taylor considers Ludwig Wittgenstein’s paper, “On Certainty” in which the...
By virtually any measure, prisons have not worked. They are sites of cruelty, dehumanization, and violence, as well as subordination by race...
It is widely held today on grounds of prudence if not realism that in designing public policy and legal systems, we should assume that peopl...
The view that the sciences make progress, while the arts do not, is extremely common. Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at...
Jennifer Granholm, former Governor of Michigan, identifies some of the most interesting policy ideas to address the problems of displaced wo...
Myths symbolize ideas, values, history and other issues that are important to a people. They may be true or false, mundane or fantastic; the...
Scientists are often puzzled when members of the public reject what we consider to be well-founded explanations. They can’t understand why t...
Deborah Tannen discusses how interacting via text messaging services challenges relationships. Tannen is on the faculty of Georgetown Univer...
Sometimes the soul seems a more precise concept than the body. In this lecture Marilyn Strathern, goes to a place and time where all kinds o...
The ACLU is committed to civil rights and civil liberties issue. David Cole, National Legal Director of the ACLU and Georgetown law professo...