Public Affairs (Audio) Podcast
1) Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba
Is sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement. From the 1980s to the present, this practice has protected undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation b...Show More
2) A Conversation with Ezra Klein about Liberalism
California’s deepest problems — the skyrocketing cost of housing, the lagging development of clean energy, the traffic choking the state — reflect an inability of Democratic governments to build real ...Show More
3) Visualizing Abolition is Changing the Narrative Linking Prisons to Justice
The Visualizing Abolition Initiative seeks to change the narrative linking prisons to justice, contributing instead to the unfolding collective story and alternative imagining underway to create a fut...Show More
4) Japan and Korea in the Indo-Pacific
How do Japan and South Korea view the geodynamics of the Indo-Pacific region? What are their needs, wants and fears regarding their alliance with the U.S., and how do they view China? How do they view...Show More
5) The United States Pandemic Response: Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic of 2009
Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius explore the H1N1 Pandemic of 2009 and what lessons that pandemic might have for our...Show More
The United States Pandemic Response: Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic of 2009
1:28:40 | Nov 1st, 2021
6) From Cal Student to Mayor of Berkeley
The Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement (CCDE) at the Goldman School of Public Policy presents a special 2021 UC Berkeley Homecoming lecture featuring Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin. CCDE Facult...Show More
7) Defending Against the Ravages of Disinformation
Disinformation - the intentional dissemination of false information to shape political and social outcomes - is an increasingly pernicious feature of the US political landscape. In just the past 18 mo...Show More
8) Human Rights Investigations Lab Documents a Year of Crisis in Chile
Students at the UC Santa Cruz Human Rights Investigations Lab collaborated with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center on open-source research focused on the ongoing human rights crisis in Chile, where mas...Show More
9) Policies to Slow COVID-19
UC Berkeley researchers found that travel restrictions, business and school closures, shelter-in-place orders and other non-pharmaceutical interventions averted roughly 530 million COVID-19 infections...Show More
10) Tracking Coronavirus in Our Sewers
UC Berkeley researchers have developed a unique, easy, and effective method for testing the presence of the Coronavirus in the wastewater flowing through municipal sewer systems. Testing of wastewater...Show More