webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events

PDF Accessibility and Useability Issues

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Sean Keegan) — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The Portable Document Format (PDF) may be one of the most popular formats for posting documents to the Web, but it can also present a variety of barriers to access for people using screen-reading technologies. In this presentation, Sean Keegan, a premier expert on document and web accessibility, will address usability and accessibility issues of the PDF, strategies for the creation of accessible electronic documents, and the appropriate use of software applications to ensure accessibility of web documents.

Sean Keegan is the Web Accessibility Instructor at the High Tech Center Training Unit for the California Community Colleges. The High Tech Center Training Unit provides training and technical support to higher-education faculty and staff on the use of assistive computer technology for students' with disabilities. As part of this continuing mission to improve access for students with disabilities, Sean conducts workshops and trainings to faculty and staff in the area of accessible web design, web usability, captioning of web-based multimedia, and the use of assistive computer technology.

The Death of Environmentalism

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michael Pollan - Moderator) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800

In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger sparked a firestorm of controversy with their essay "The Death of Environmentalism." In it, they argued that the politics used to help reduce acid rain and smog would not work to diminish global warming. Environmentalism must die, they said, so that something new can be born.

Journalism professor Michael Pollan talks to the authors about their new book, Break Through -- a conversation about how best to address the threat of global warming and the larger failure of American liberalism to reinvent itself.

Sponsored by The Knight Program in Science & Environmental Journalism

South America : Untold Stories

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Panel Discussion) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Introductions:

Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Ted Genoways, Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review

Panelists:

"South America in the 21st Century"
Daniel Alarc�n, novelist and Associate Editor of the Peruvian monthly Etiqueta Negra

"The Last Commons: Drilling in the Peruvian Amazon"
Kelly Hearn, Buenos Aires-based freelance reporter

"The White Train: Cartoneros in Buenos Aires"
Gabrielle Weiss, videographer and photojournalist

"Soy in the Amazon"
Pat Joseph, Current Affairs Editor for the Sierra Club website

Co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

The Art of Political Cartooning: Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Kallaugher, Kevin) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

The UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Welcomes The Economist's political cartoonist, Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher to discuss the iterpretation of news through drawing cartoons. Learn how to draw George Bush in five minutes and discover how to draw like a professional cartoonist.

Food Fight: A Teach-in On the 2007 Farm Bill

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Michael Pollan moderates a panel discussion of the 2007 farm bill, now being debated, with guests Dan Imhoff, the author of Food Fight: A Citizen's Guide to the Farm Bill; George Naylor, Iowa corn farmer and president of the National Family Farms Coalition; Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley school system, and other leaders in the effort to reform federal agricultural policies.

Every five years or so, the President signs an obscure piece of legislation that determines what happens on a couple of hundred million acres of private land in America, what sort of food Americans eat (and how much it costs) and, directly as a result, the health of our population. The American food system is a game played according to a precise set of rules that are written by Congress, typically with virtually no input from anyone beyond a handful of farm-state legislators. Nothing could do more to reform the American food system --an by doing so improve the condition of America's environment and public health-- than if the rest of us were to start paying attention to the farm bill.

The Past, Present, and Future of Food

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Pollan, Michael) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Please Note: This video contains graphic imagery which may not be suitable to viewers under the age of 18. Viewer discretion is advised.

Whole Foods Market is the largest organic and natural retailer in the world. The co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey will offer a multimedia presentation of the past, present, and future of food. John Mackey will then join Michael Pollan in conversation, continuing in person the exchange of views the two have been conducting since the publication of Pollan's 2006 book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma."

Their correspondence, which has explored such issues as organic and local food, animal agriculture, and the role of Whole Foods, is available at www.wholefoods.com/blogs/jm/ and www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=80.

Manifesto for Change

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Geneva Overholser) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Manifesto for Change

A Sheila McHugh event with Journalist Geneva Overholser

Geneva Overholser holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, in its Washington D.C. bureau. She is a frequent print, broadcast and online media critic. With Kathleen Hall Jamieson, she co-edited the recent book, The Press as an Institution of Democracy.

Overholser was editor of The Des Moines Register from 1988 to 1995. She has also been a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, an editorial board member of The New York Times, ombudsman of The Washington Post, editorial writer and deputy editorial page editor of The Des Moines Register and a reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun. She also wrote a blog for the Poynter Institute Website and a regular column for the Columbia Journalism Review. She spent five years overseas, working and writing in Kinshasa and Paris.

She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Wellesley College, a master's in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a French language certificiate from the University of Paris. She has received honorary doctrates from Grinnell College and St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and alumnae achievement awards from Wellesley, Northwestern and Medill.

Overholser was a Nieman fellow at Harvard and a Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science Association. She was named "Editor of the Year" by the National Press Foundation and "Best in the Business" by the American Journalism Review. Under her leadership, the Register won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for a series on the rape of an Iowa woman, using her name and photographs. In 2002, Overholser received the Anvil of Freedom Award. She has been named a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Consequences of the War on Terrorism: George Soros

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Soros, George) — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Presented by:
The Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor's Office, the World Affairs Council and the Graduate School of Journalism

Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Introduced by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

A video archive of this event will be available approximately 48 hours after the event has concluded. Please return to this page later.

George Soros
Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Institute, Financier, Philanthropist, and author of The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Lowell Bergman
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for Public Service, and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism

Dana Priest
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Security Correspondent for The Washington Post

Mark Danner
Author of "The Secret Way to War" and "Torture and Truth," MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Christopher Edley, Jr.
Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley

Moderated by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley

National Security, the War on Terror, and the Constitution: A Forum

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0800

2006 Constitution Day Event
National Security, the War on Terror, and the Constitution: A Forum

A campus wide forum held in honor of Constitution Day and the 5th anniversary of the Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the United States quickly responded with a wide range of statutes, executive orders and public policy statements reflecting the perceived need for more effective information gathering, as well as new understandings of traditional constitutional concerns.

This forum will look at a wide range of statutes, and public policy positions taken by Congress, and the President during the past five years. These range from privacy concerns and the use of electronic surveillance; the status of combatants and non-combatant collaborators; the treatment of military prisoners in the United States and in Guantanamo; interrogation techniques; and the applicability of international treaties. The Forum will bring together a wide range of constitutional scholars, historians and political scientists, to consider, evaluate and debate the impact 9/11 has had, and continues to have on the American Constitution.

Featuring:
Gordon Silverstein, UC Berkeley Travers Political Science Dept.
Rich Abrams, UC Berkeley History Dept.
Lowell Bergman, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Stephen Maurer, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy
Vikram Amar, UC Hastings College of Law
Pete McCloskey, former congressman
Tom Gede, Conference of Western Attorneys General

China U.S. Climate Conference

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (various) — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

8:30 AM

Opening Session: The University, Scientific Research, and Climate Change

Running Time: 1 hour, 22 minutes
This panel will highlight the mutual vulnerability of China and the U.S. to climate change, and the indispensable role of scientific research in understanding the problem and developing solutions.

9:45 AM

What's at Risk? Climate Model Predictions and Physical and Biological Impacts

Running Time: 1 hour, 17 minutes
This panel of climate scientists will describe the state of scientific knowledge regarding changes in the global climate system, the role of humans in causing these changes, and the likely impacts on earth's ecosystems.

11:15 AM

What's at Risk? Economic, Social and Political Impacts and Adaptation Costs

Running Time: 1 hour, 51 minutes
This panel of ecologists, economists, and insurers will examine the economic and social risks of climate change, the vast differences in the vulnerability of different nations and social groups to those risks, and the scale of investment needed to adapt to climate change as its impacts increase.

1:45 PM

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Use

Running Time: 1 hour, 5 minutes
This panel will discuss the pivotal role of energy use as a source of greenhouse gases, and what strategies will be required if the U.S. and China are to greatly reduce emissions, especially from coal-fired power plants, while maintaining strong economies.

3:15 PM

What Must Be Done? Emission Limits, Ethics, and the Right to Development

Running Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes
This panel will address the strategic and ethical issues that underlie the international climate policy debate, and the implications of prioritizing the right of poor countries to economic development.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

8:30 AM

Policies, Measures, and Strategies

Running Time: 1 hour, 53 minutes
This panel of economists and policy experts will address the policy options available for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon taxes, emissions trading, R&D investment, and technology transfer, and the political challenges of domestic implementation of international agreements.

10:30 AM

Innovation: Promising Technologies

Running Time: 1 hour, 13 minutes
This panel will argue the merits of a wide range of emerging technologies for reducing CO2 emissions from energy use, including energy efficiency, renewable energy, and nuclear power, and their prospects in China and the U.S.

11:45 AM

Business Perspectives on Climate Change

Running Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Speakers from oil, high-technology, and venture capital firms will discuss the ways in which businesses perceive and respond to the climate challenge, and how government policy and market signals must interact to provide the enormous investment in clean energy required in the decades ahead, especially in developing countries such as China.

2:00 PM

Sustainable Cities and States: Action at the Sub-National Level

Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes
This panel of state officials, scholars, and NGO representatives will look at the example of states and municipalities that have made bold moves to promote sustainable energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even when their national governments have been reluctant to do so.

3:45 PM

The Media, Public Information, and Climate Change

Running Time: 1 hour, 7 minutes
This panel will discuss the challenges facing scientists, politicians and the media in communicating to the public the complex facts about the climate crisis, and facilitating a national discussion about the problem and its solutions.

5:00 PM

Closing Session

Running Time: 9 minutes
This final session will highlight some key messages from the conference and the prospects for continuing collaboration on climate change research between U.C. Berkeley and other stakeholders in China and the U.S.

Dan Rather: Is the Media Failing in America?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Rather, Dan) — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800

A San Francisco Chronicle Herb Caen Lecture featuring Dan Rather, who was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and now serves as a correspondent for 60 Minutes and hosts and produces long form programming examining major global topics and events for the Discovery Channel, will be in conversation with Orville Schelll, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

Often referred to as "the hardest working man in broadcast journalism," Rather lives up to the description. His recently published seventh book, The American Dream, chronicles the stories of a wide cross-section of Americans, describing how they achieved their versions of the American dream.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Pollan, Michael) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Running time: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Knight Professor of Journalism Michael Pollan, discusses his new book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals," with Davia Nelson of NPR's The Kitchen Sisters and co-author of "Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes & More".

What should we have for dinner? According to Michael Pollan the answer may determine our survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves?

The omnivore's dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What's at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.

Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Leading war correspondents discuss their experience covering Iraq:

John Burns Baghdad Bureau Chief, The New York Times, 1993 and 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting
Jackie Spinner Staff Writer and Former Baghdad Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Anna Badkhen Staff Writer, The San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Danner Regular Contributor, The New York Review of Books and Professor, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism
Orville Schell Dean, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism

Can Newspapers Survive and Serve the Public Interest

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Alan Rusbridger) — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800

A conversation between Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Jouranlism, and Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian newspaper in London.

The Guardian, which was founded in 1821, is a leading national newspaper with a long history of editorial and political independence. He has been editor of The Guardian since 1995. Rusbridger was previously a reporter, columnist, features editor and deputy editor of The Guardian. Rusbridger worked for The Observer and as Washington Editor of the London Daily News before returning to The Guardian in 1987.He is a member of the main board of The Guardian Media Group and of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian.

Bancroft at One Hundred: Bancroft Centennial Symposium

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (various) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Friday, February 10, 2006

8:30 AM	Welcome
	Running Time: 5 minutes Paul Grey, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley

9:45 AM	Mexico
	Running Time: 49 minutes William B. Taylor, UC Berkeley, Chair Jessica Delgado, UC Berkeley Rachel Chico, UC Berkeley Sean McEnroe, UC Berkeley

11:00 AM	Nineteenth-century California
	Running Time: 38 minutes J.S. Holiday, Chair Susan Lee Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Miroslava Ch�vez-Garc�a, UC Davis

1:15 PM	Twentieth-century California
	Running Time: 36 minutes Joyce Mao, UC Berkeley William Deverell, University of Southern California

2:20 PM	Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri
	Running Time: 35 minutes Todd Hickey, UC Berkeley, Chair Brian Muhs, University of Leiden

3:45 PM	Biotechnology and the Biological Revolution
	Running Time: 56 minutes David Farrell, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Sally Hughes, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Daniel Kevles, Yale University

4:45 PM	Mark Twain and His Era
	Running Time: 25 minutes Robert Hirst, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University

Saturday, February 11, 2006

9:00 AM	Artistic and Literary Perceptions of California
	Running Time: 1 hour, 5 minutes Jack von Euw, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Isabel Breskin, UC Berkeley Michelle Morton, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Margaretta Lovell, UC Berkeley

10:30 AM	The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
	Running Time: 16 minutes Theresa Salazar, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Philip Fradkin, environmental historian

1:00 PM	Big Science and Big Bridges
	Running Time: 25 minutes John Heilbron, UC Berkeley

2:15 PM	Modern Literary Manuscripts
	Running Time: 53 minutes Tony Bliss, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Kathleen Cleaver, Emory University Kevin Killian, Poet and Critic Nancy Peters, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA

3:45 PM	The Environmental Movement
	Running Time: 45 minutes Anne Lage, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, Chair Sylvia McLaughlin, Save the Bay Susan Schrepfer, Rutgers University

4:45 PM	The Beats
	Running Time: 57 minutes Michael Davidson, UC San Diego Michael McClure, poet

The Economics of Open Content - II

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0800

On January 23-24, 2006, Intelligent Television hosted the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster.

Besides the streaming video links below, the whole set of the presentations under a Creative Commons attribution license on WGBH.

Day One | Day Two

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

The Economics of the Public Domain
Duration: 30:30 David Pierce, Copyright Services

Industry Study VI: The Economics of Film and Television - Part I
Duration: 28:07
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television
Frank Moretti and John Frankfurt, Columbia University
Jay Fialkov, WGBH

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Duration: 58:40
Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School

Industry Study VI: The Economics of Film and Television - Part II
Duration: 1:14:42
Marsha Kinder, University of Southern California
Victor Edmonds, University of California Berkeley
Jeff Ubois, Archival.tv

Industry Study VII: The New Economics of Gaming
Duration: 51:43
Henry Jenkins, MIT
David Edery, MIT

"Everything is Miscellaneous"
Duration: 19:55
David Weinberger, Berkman Center, Harvard University

Business Interests in Open Content
Duration: 36:10
Eric Saltzman, Creative Commons
Dave Marvit, Fujitsu

Next Steps: Cooperation across Institutions and Industries
Duration: 27:51
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television
Paul Courant, University of Michigan
David Dawson, Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council, UK
Jeff Ubois, Archival.TV

Event co-sponsored by Intelligent Television and MIT Open CourseWare with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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The Economics of Open Content - I

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Besides the streaming video links below, the whole set of the presentations under a Creative Commons attribution license on WGBH.

Day One | Day Two

Monday, January 23, 2006

Welcoming Remarks
Duration: 22:16
Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare
Cathy Casserly, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television

New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age
Duration: 49:23
Paul Courant, University of Michigan
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management

Collaboration and the Marketplace
Duration: 18:38
Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

Keynote address: "Openness as an Ethos"
Duration: 32:15
James Surowiecki, staff writer, The New Yorker, and author, The Wisdom of Crowds

Keynote Follow-up Panel
Duration: 22:48
James Surowiecki
Paul Courant
Eric von Hippel
Mark Cooper

Industry Study I: The Economics of Open (Free) Software
Duration: 9:03
Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation

The Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good
Duration: 48:58
John Willinsky, University of British Columbia

Industry Study II: The Economics of Open Courseware
Duration: 59:59
Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare
Steve Carson, MIT Open CourseWare
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT Open CourseWare

Industry Study III: The Economics of Open Text
Duration: 1:02:38
Fred Beshears, University of California - UC Berkeley
Ellen W. Faran, MIT Press
John Willinsky, University of British Columbia

Industry Study IV: The Economics of the Music Industry
Duration: 1:19:43
Terry Fisher, Harvard Law School

Industry Study V: The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries - Part I
Duration: 1:21:31
David Dawson, Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council, UK
Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Industry Study V: The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries - Part II
Duration: 54:20
Howard Besser, New York University
Ellen Dunlap, American Antiquarian Society

Event co-sponsored by Intelligent Television and MIT Open CourseWare with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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An Evening With Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Birgeneau, Robert J.) — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0800

An evening with Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, in conversation with Dean Orville Schell of the Graduate School of Journalism.

Jung Chang & Jon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Chang, Jung) — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0800

In their new book "Mao: The Unknown Story" Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for a reevaluation of Mao - as a tyrant worse than Stalin or Hitler. Based on a decade of research into previously untapped sources worldwide and on unprecedented interviews with Mao's inner circle and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book raises new questions about Mao's role in the rise and success of the Chinese Communist movement.

Jung Chang is the author of "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China", a best-selling memoir that chronicles the sufferings of her family under Mao. Jon Halliday, her husband, is a British historian.

Seymour Hersh: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Hersh, Seymour) — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0800

One of America's premier investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh shocked the world with his expose of the military's treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His revelation of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He writes regulary for The New Yorker on military and security matters and is the author of many books.

The 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote the ideals and values he struggled to advance throughout his life; and recognize and encourage young activists to build a more humane and just society.

Being Opinionated in America: Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 16 May 2005 00:00:00 +0800

Maureen Dowd and Thomas Friedman
in conversation with
Professors Cynthia Gorney and Mark Danner

Thomas Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC and oil-related news and later served as the Chief Diplomatic, Chief White House, and International Economics Correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, US domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His Foreign Affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to 700 other newspapers worldwide.

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent. She also wrote a column, "On Washington," for The New York Times Magazine. Ms. Dowd joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter in 1983. She began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for The Washington Star, where she later became a sports columnist, metropolitan reporter and feature writer. When the Star closed in 1981, she went to Time magazine.

Sponsored by the UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, Goldman Forum on The Press and Foreign Affairs, and The Office of the Chancellor.

Journalists Under Fire: Vietnam & Iraq

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0800

Photographers Catherine Leroy, David Lesson and Don McCullin & Journalists Jonathan Schell and Mike Cerre share their experiences and expressions of war in the field.

This event took place on April 19, 2005 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

Judith Miller - The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Miller, Judith) — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0800

New York Times reporter Judith Miller faces up to 18 months of jail time for "contempt of court" after refusing to reveal her sources in the probe of who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press. In this event for the Graduate School of Journalism, she will discuss "The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail" in conversation with Lowell Bergman, an adjunct professor at the Graduate School.

Miller is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who focuses on national security issues, with special emphasis on terrorism, the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction. Bergman is one of the founding members of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He spent 16 years as a producer with CBS's 60 Minutes; the story of his investigation of the tobacco industry for 60 Minutes was chronicled in the feature film "The Insider." He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and did graduate work at UC San Diego.

This event took place on March 17, 2005 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

Al Gore: Global Climate Change

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Gore Jr., Al) — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0800

Al Gore speaks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, following a presentation on global climate change.

Please note: we are unable to show Gore's full presentation due to copyright restrictions from his staff.

This event was webcasted live on October 26, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

Sponsored by The Graduate School of Journalism, Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs and The Office of the Chancellor, Commonwealth Club of California.

Has the Press Failed in Iraq? War, Torture and Accountability

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0800

This event took place on Monday, October 25, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

A panel discussion with:

Robert Silvers
Co-editor, New York Review of Books

Michael Massing
Writer and author of Now They Tell Us

Mark Danner
Professor, Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.

Moderated by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

Sponsored by The Graduate School of Journalism�E s I.F. Stone Endowment, The New York Review of Books, The Office of the Chancellor.

Seymour Hersh: California First Amendment Coalition Annual Assembly

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Hersh, Seymour) — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0800

California First Amendment Coalition Annual Assembly
Featuring Seymour Hersh
Interviewed by KQED talk-show host Michael Krasny.

This event took place on October 8, 2004.

Journalist and The New Yorker writer Seymour Myron Hersh is the premier practitioner of investigative reporting, whose stories on the military, intelligence-gathering, and national security have shaped the American political agenda for three decades. Hersh is a veteran American investigative journalist who's work first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

His book, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House won him the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times book prize in biography. Hersh has written 8 books and contributed to the PBS television documentary, Buying the Bomb (1985). Hersh currently contributes regularly to The New Yorker.

Sponsored by the California First Amendment Coalition and the Graduate School of Journalism.

Molly Ivins: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ivins, Molly) — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0800

Eighth Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award
Featuring Molly Ivins

This event took place on 10/6/04 in Zellerbach Hall.

Molly Ivins, a nationally-syndicated political columnist, is the author of Bushwhacked! Life in George Bush's America and the new Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.

Presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), spokesperson for the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964; to celebrate the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote the ideals and values Mario Savio struggled to advance throughout his life; and to recognize and encourage young activists who are trying to build a more humane and just society.

Sponsored by The Board of Directors of the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award, in cooperation with the Free Speech Movement Cafe, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Graduate School of Journalism, and the UC Berkeley Library.

Conversations with History: Ambassador Joseph Wilson

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Wilson, Joseph) — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0800

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Conversations with History Presents:
"A Diplomat's Odyssey"

A Conversation with Ambassador Joseph Wilson

This interview took place on May 27, 2004.

Ambassador Joseph Wilson has spent more than two decades serving his country in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Washington. He is the author of a memoir, "The Politics of Truth".

Did We Get It Right: The Media at War in Iraq

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0800

A panel discussion with:

John Burns - Correspondent, New York Times
Maher Abdallah Amad - Correspondent, Al Jazeera
Lindsey Hilsum - Diplomatic Correspondent, Britain's ITN Channel 4 News
Martin Smith - Correspondent, Frontline/PBS.
Leroy Sievers - Executive Producer, ABC Nightline
Robert Scheer - Syndicated Columnist, Los Angeles Times
Hania Mufti, Senior Middle East Researcher, Human Rights Watch

Moderated by Loren Jenkins, Senior Foreign Editor, National Public Radio.

This event took place on March 18, 2004 in Zellerbach Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

For more information, visit the Graduate School of Journalism's event website.

Sponsored by: The UCB Graduate School of Journalism, The Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs, the Human Rights Center, The Office of the Chancellor, and The Open Society Institute.

Co-sponsors: The Commonwealth Club of California, the San Francisco Chronicle and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

The (Real) State of the Union: Atlantic Monthly Panel

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0800

This event took place on February 24, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

A town hall featuring a panel of The Atlantic Monthly writers who produced the special January/February 2004 Atlantic Monthly issue. The panel will include writer Jim Fallows, one of founders of the New America Foundation think tank, who wrote the lead article, and a few other Atlantic writers. Michael Kinsley, of Slate, will moderate. Introduced by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.

The event is sponsored by The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and "The Atlantic Monthly" magazine.

For more information, please visit the Journalism School's website for this event.

Selling Out the First Amendment: The Collision of News, Entertainment and Politics

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Carrol, John) — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:00:00 +0800

The event took place on Thursday February 19, 2004 in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

Selling Out the First Amendment:
The Collision of News, Entertainment and Politics

John Carrol
Editor and Executive Vice President
The Los Angeles Times

in conversation with

Michael Krasny
KQED-FM Forum Host
Introduction by Orville Schell
Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

The event is sponsored by The Graduate School of Journalism, The Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Office of the Chancellor.

For more information, please visit the Journalism School's website for this event.

Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Terkel, Studs) — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0800

Studs Terkel in conversation with Harry Kreisler, Producer and Host of Conversations with History. Introduced by Dave Eggers.

This event took place on October 29 2003 at UC Berkeley.

Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies, KPFA Free Speech Radio, and "Mother Jones Magazine".

Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0800

Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain

The Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism present a panel discussion with:

Wendell Berry
Farmer and author of The Unsettling of America and Citizenship Papers

Carlo Petrini
President and Founder, Slow Food International

Michael Pollan
Contributing writer, New York Times Magazine and professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Eric Schlosser
Journalist and Author, Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness

Vandana Shiva
Activist and author, Monocultures of the Mind and Biopiracy

Introduced by Alice Waters
Chef and Owner, Chez Panisse Restaurant

Moderated by Orville Schell
Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

This event took place on November 24, 2003 in Wheeler Auditorium, University of California, Berkeley

Co-sponsored with the Office of the Chancellor.

Helen Thomas - The Bush White House: How Covering the Beat has Changed

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Thomas, Helen) — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0800

This event took place on September 30, 2003 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley.

Helen Thomas
Hearst newspaper columnist, United Press International and White House bureau chief for 57 years.

Daniel Schorr
Veteran reporter-commentator, senior news analyst for NPR.

Scott Lindlaw
White House Correspondent, The Associated Press.

Moderated by: Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley.

Introduced by: Phil Bronstein, Executive Editor of The San Francisco Chronicle.

For more information, please visit the Journalism School's website for this event.

Looking at America from Abroad: A European Media Perspective

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0800

UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism presents:

Looking at America from Abroad: A European Media Perspective

The live event took place on Tuesday, April 2, 2003 in Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

A conversation with:

Italy
Federico Rampini
West Coast Editor and Pacific Rim Correspondent, La Repubblica

France
Patrick Jarreau
Washington Bureau Chief
Le Monde

Annette Levy-Willard
West Coast Bureau Chief
Lib�ration

Germany
Olivia Schoeller
U.S. Correspondent
Berliner Zeitung

Great Britain
Godfrey Hodgson
Journalist and former Director, The Reuter Foundation Programme for Journalists at Oxford University

Moderated by Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

War, The Press & U.S. Power: Diplomacy & Conflict in the Post-9/11 World

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Talbot, Danner, Tarnoff, Schell) — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0800

The Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs and
UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism present:

War, the Press & U.S. Power: Diplomacy & Conflict in the Post-9/11 World

This event took place on Monday, March 17 in Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley.

A conversation with:

Strobe Talbott. President, The Brookings Institution and Former Deputy Secretary of State, Former Editor-at-Large & Columnist, Time
Mark Danner, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism and Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Peter Tarnoff, Goldman Diplomat-in-Residence, Graduate School of Journalism and Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
Introduced by Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism

The Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs is a series of lectures, dialogues and scholarships meant to foster debate about how critical world issues are covered in the American press -- and how they can be covered more effectively.

Co-sponsored by The Commonwealth Club of California & The World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Mario Savio Memorial Lecture with Christopher Hitchens & Adam Hochschild

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Hitchens, Christopher) — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0800

The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture features Christopher Hitchens in a free-wheeling discussion with author-journalist Adam Hochschild.

The topic of the lecture is "Fault Lines: Rights, Wrongs & Responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and The Nation".

The event took place Thursday, November 21, 2002 at 7:30pm in the Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union.

Christopher Hitchens, recently resigned columnist for The Nation and the 2003 I.F. Stone Fellow at the UC Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Letters to a Young Contrarian, The Mission Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and many other books and articles. He is known for his rapier wit, his commitment to human rights, and his ability to upset and offend people of all political persuasions.

Adam Hochschild is the prize-winning author of King Leopold's Ghost, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey, The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin, and many other books and essays. He is the co-founder of Mother Jones Magazine, and teaches at the UC Graduate School of Journalism.

For more information, visit the Graduate Assembly website.

This event is held in cooperation with the Free Speech Movement Cafe, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Graduate Assembly, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and the UC Berkeley Library.

Setting the Agenda? The New York Times and America's View of the World

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Sultzberger Jr.& Raines) — Mon, 18 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0800

The New York Times and America's View of the World. A conversation with Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (publisher) and Howell Raines (executive editor) of the New York Times, and Dean Orville Schell and Professor Mark Danner from the Graduate School of Journalism.

The live event was held on November 18, 2002, 7:30 p.m. in the Zellerbach Auditorium, on the UC Berkeley campus.

Sulzberger and Raines discuss how decisions are made about The Times' foreign affairs coverage, how that coverage has been adapted to the post-Sept. 11 world, and how the newspaper influences American attitudes about the country's role in the world.

Leading the discussion is Orville Schell, dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and Mark Danner, a professor at the journalism school, a staff writer for The New Yorker and director of the new Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs, which sponsored the event.

The event inaugurated the Goldman Forum on the Press and Foreign Affairs, a series of lectures, dialogues and scholarship to foster debate about how the American press covers critical world issues and how it might better meet the needs of an increasingly diverse public. In addition, a series of "Goldman Dialogues" will be held on campus featuring salon-style discussions aimed primarily at the campus community.

This event is part of the Focal Points New York Times event. Please visit their website for more information on the live event, including entrance fee and directions.

More information about the speakers and subject can be found in the UC Berkeley Campus News press release.

The Ecology of Food - Panel with M. Pollan and Others

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Pollan, Various) — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0800

This panel entitled "Ecology of Food" convenes to follow-up on Michael Pollan's lecture: "Cannabis, Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire". This event occurred Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 4:00 pm in the Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall.

Panelists include:

Michael Pollan, Writer, Avenali Lecturer 2002-2003
Ignacio Chapela, Environmental Science, Policy, Management
Catherine Gallagher, English
Patricia Unterman, Restaurant Owner and Food Writer

Factory Food: Are the Alternatives Viable?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0800

Experts on food and the environment gathered at the University of California, Berkeley, to address whether organic, community-scale agriculture and food production can replace conventional, large-scale agribusiness, and the likely costs of such a dramatic shift.

Speakers include food heavyweights Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, Mark Hertsgaard, Corby Kummer, and moderator Orville Schell.