UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures (Video) Podcast
1) The Fork in the Road: Investing in Adolescent Education
One of the world’s leading scholars in the field of education economics, Caroline Hoxby’s lectures draw upon economics, neuroscience, and education. She shows that early adolescence is the point at w...Show More
2) Embodied Souls — Lessons from Neurology with V.S. Ramachandran
There are two questions pertaining to the self – the metaphysical and empirical - that are often confounded. The latter is best approached through neurology as V.S. Ramachandran, Director of the Cente...Show More
3) Immortality - An Egyptian Dream
The Egyptians believed Pharaoh to be a god on earth who after his death would fly up to heaven and unite with the sun, his father. After the collapse of the Old Kingdom, this idea of royal immortality...Show More
4) The Switch: Reinventing American Freedom with John Fabian Witt
John Witt explores the subject of how American constitutional law was “reinvented,” as he proposes, during the early twentieth century. Taking up a small cast of characters who self-consciously aimed ...Show More
5) The Creative City: Can Cities Remain the Catalysts of Creativity?
Paul Goldberger holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. In this follow-up to his previous lecture (The Generic City), he discusses whether, despite ...Show More
6) The Generic City: Can the 21st Century Ever Build Special Places?
Architecture critic and The New School professor Paul Goldberger looks at whether cities are becoming more and more the same, and why, and what the implications for this are. Series: "UC Berkeley Grad...Show More
7) Federalism Localism and the Shape of Constitutional Conflict
Daniel B. Rodriguez, Dean of Northwestern University Law School, considers the dynamic relationship between structures of constitutional governance within the United States through an exploration of f...Show More
8) The Philosophy of As If with Kwame Anthony Appiah
A leading moral and political philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He explores the ideas of the philosopher Hans Vahinger, who argued that our t...Show More
9) The Children of the Revolution
UC Berkeley Professor Yuri Slezkine is an innovative historian whose work focuses on the early years of the Soviet Union. In this lecture, he focuses on the private lives of Bolshevik government offic...Show More
10) The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle
Sarah Broadie, a specialist in classical philosophy and professor at the University of St. Andrews, explores the human being as theoretical adventurer, through the eyes of Plato and Aristotle. Series:...Show More