webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events

The Transformation of Chile

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michelle Bachelet - President of Chile) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800

President Michelle Bachelet will discuss the current challenges Chile faces and what the new Chile-California agreement means for her country.

Moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken

Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Proposition 13 at 30: The Political, Economic and Fiscal Impacts

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Panel I: The Political Dimensions

Keynote speaker

Panel II: The Economic Impacts

Panel III: The Public Finance Arena

This conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of California's Proposition 13 examines the political, economic, and fiscal legacy of this revolutionary amendment to the state constitution. Proposition 13 imposed a 1% cap on the local property tax rate for Californians and launched a national tax revolt movement. The one-day conference consists of three panels, with a mix of academic, policy experts, and journalists, that assesses the varied fiscal, economic, social, and political ramifications of this watershed tax movement.

More information and materials from many of the day's presentations are available at http://igs.berkeley.edu/events/prop13.html

Sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies, the UC San Diego Department of Sociology, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Stanford University Press

GSPP 2008 Commencement Ceremony

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ann Veneman) — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Commencement Speaker: Ann Veneman, Executive Director of the United Nation's Childrens Fund (UNICEF)

A native of Modesto, California, Ann received her Bachelor's degree from UC Davis and her Master of Public Policy degree from GSPP. She also holds a juris doctorate degree from UC Hastings College of Law.

Prior to joining UNICEF, she was US Secretary of Agriculture from 2001-2005, the only GSPP graduate to date to hold a Cabinet position.

From 1995 to 1999 she was Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Choosing the President in 2008: The Evolving Process and its Effects

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Topics of panels at this conference will include the campaign finance system, the impact of early primaries in creating a "front-loaded" nominating process, a retrospective on the outcome of the primaries, and an evaluation of presidential elections generally, including the need for potential reforms.

For more information, visit the IGS: Choosing the President in 2008 website.

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

California's natural resources, economy, demographics and political system have made it a unique laboratory for environmental policy over the past half century. As a result, California has often led both the nation and the world in recognizing environmental challenges, and in fashioning creative and effective solutions to them.

This conference will bring together leading environmental policymakers, scholars and legal practitioners to address California's current and future role at the forefront of environmental law and policy development. In the process, speakers will map for conference attendees California?s environmental policy agenda for the coming decades. That agenda, in turn, has broad ramifications, inasmuch as California's environmental dilemmas are a microcosm of those faced nationally and globally. The environmental solutions California devises to those problems will doubtless prove influential far beyond our borders.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Welcome & Keynote

The Potential and Limitations of Litigation in Furthering Climate Change Policy

Lunch Keynote - Jared Huffman

Ocean Resources: New Opportunities, New Threats

The Green Chemistry Revolution: A new Paradigm for Reducing and Managing Hazardous Wastes

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - From California to the World

Friday, April 11, 2008

Opening Speaker - Dr. Steven Chu

California's Regulatory Response to Climate Change - Implementing AB 32

Integrating Land Use and Transportation Policy in California

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Closing Remarks

Wildavsky Forum: Discussion on Professor Kruglanski's Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy Discussion: A panel discussion on Professor Kruglanski's lecture on "Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Moderator: Jack Glaser, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy

Panelist: James N. Breckenridge, PhD, Associate Director, Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT), Professor and Co-Director, PGSP-Stanford Consortium

Speakers:
Arie W. Kruglanski, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
Michael Nacht, Aaron Wildavsky Dean & Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy

Wildavsky Forum: Arie W. Kruglanski

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Arie W. Krunglanski) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy

"Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award (Career Award), the Senior Humboldt Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and social Psychology (SPSP), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), The Award for Scholarship and Creativity from the Regents of the University of Maryland, and the Revesz Award from the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Kruglanski was also Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist.

He has recently served as member of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security, and is serving on the NAS Board for Cognitive, Social and Sensory Processes. Kruglanski also serves as a co- PI at START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland.

Professor Kruglanski's lecture will examine recent analyses of the motivations for suicidal terrorism. This lecture will suggest that heterogeneous factors identified as personal causes of suicidal terrorism (e.g. trauma, humiliation, social exclusion), the various ideological reasons assumed to justify it (e.g. liberation from foreign occupation, defense of one?s nation or religion), and the social pressures brought upon candidates for suicidal terrorism may be profitably subsumed within an integrative framework that explains diverse instances of suicidal terrorism as attempts at significance restoration, significance gain, and prevention of significance loss.

Can Democracy Afford to Neglect the Poor?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Alejandro Toledo) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Alejandro Toledo, Ph.D., is the former president of Peru (2001?06) and the founder and current president of the Global Center for Development and Democracy which focuses on the interrelationship between poverty and inequality and the future of democracy. He is a Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, both at Stanford.

Sponsored by the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Latin American Studies.

The Thomas C. Schelling Symposium

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Introduction by Dean Michael Nacht
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Schelling, Strategy, International Relations

Chair:
   Robert Powell, UC Berkeley, Political Science
Panelists:
   Charles Glaser, University of Chicago, Public Policy
   Scott Sagan, Stanford University, Political Science

Schelling, Strategy, Industrial Organization

Chair:
   Richard Gilbert, UC Berkeley, Economics
Panelists:
   George Akerlof (Nobel 2001, Economics), UC Berkeley, Economics
   Joseph Farrell, UC Berkeley, Economics
   Carl Shapiro, UC Berkeley, Business & Economics

Schelling and Scary Stuff

Chair:
   Michael Nacht, UC Berkeley, Public Policy
Panelists:
   Kenneth Arrow (Nobel 1972, Economics), Stanford University, Economics
   Henry Rowen, Hoover Institution
   Charles Wolf, RAND Corporation

Schelling, Micro Motives and Macro Behavior

Chair:
   Robert MacCoun, UC Berkeley, Public Policy
Panelists:
   Alexandre Mas, UC Berkeley, Economics
   Daniel McFadden (Nobel 2000, Economics), UC Berkeley, Economics
   Mark Kleiman, UCLA, Public Policy
   Robb Willer, UC Berkeley, Sociology

Thomas C. Schelling Symposium Dinner

Lawrence Hall of Science

One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What it is Becoming

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michael Katz) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The Institute for the Study of Social Change and the Goldman School of Public Policy present:

One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What it is Becoming

Michael Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

with Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, as respondent

Professor Katz's book, One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What it is Becoming, which he co-authored with Mark J. Stern (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006), and Professor Reich's book, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Knopf, 2007), will be available for sale and signing at this event.

Since the mid-twentieth-century America has experienced two great social movements: the civil rights movement and the women's movement. Although neither movement reached all its goals, each achieved major successes. Yet, in the years of these movements' greatest accomplishments, Americans became massively more unequal. How and why did this happen? At this colloquium, Professor Katz will discuss several key arguments of his book (co-authored with Mark J. Stern), One Nation Divisible, which seeks to clarify why America remains one nation divisible, what those divisions are, and the powerful role played by government in both mitigating and exacerbating them. In the book, Katz and Stern trace the impact and consequences of economic globalization at both ends of the century and argue that today the nation is undergoing economic and social transformations as profound as the ones driven by the industrial revolution of past centuries.

Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Harvard, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton), the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; he also has held a fellowship from the Open Society Institute. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Education, National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Society of American Historians. His work has focused on three major areas: the history of American education, the history of urban social structure and family organization, and the history of social welfare and poverty. His numerous works include, among many others, The Irony of Early School Reform (1968, reprinted with a new introduction, 2001); Reconstructing American Education (1987); The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism (1981); In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (1986, expanded edition 1996); The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (1990, a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award); and The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Metropolitan/Holt, 2001; Owl Books, 2002).

Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a member of the faculties of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and of Brandeis University. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, his M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations, which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet, and his most recent book, Supercapitalism. His articles have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founding editor of The American Prospect magazine. His weekly commentaries on public radio's "Marketplace" are heard by nearly five million people. In 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclev Havel Foundation Prize, by the former Czech president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2005, his play, Public Exposure, broke box office records at its world premiere on Cape Cod. As the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor, Reich implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act, led a national fight against sweatshops in the U.S. and illegal child labor around the world, headed the administration's successful effort to raise the minimum wage, secured worker's pensions, and launched job-training programs, one-stop career centers, and school-to-work initiatives.

Berkeley China Initiative: China's Environment

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Berkeley China Initiative) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800

China's Environment: What do we know and how do we know it?

Day One
1. Opening Remarks & Keynote Address (54:49)
2. Panel I: Getting the Data Out - Institutions, Media, and Government Policy (1:50:36)
3. Panel II: Tracing Invisible Threats: Disease and the Environment (1:33:34)
4. Panel III: Cycles, Predictions, and Policy: Issues of Local and Global Air Pollutants (1:35:12)
5. Keynote Address: Jan Hamrin (45:04)

Day Two
6. Panel IV: The Green Market (1:30:50)
7. Panel V: When Abundance Becomes Scares: Managing China's Water Supply (1:26:59)
8. Keynote Address: Pollution Map and China's Green Choice (1:11:19)
9. Panel VI: Sustaining Development: Inhabiting Urban and Rural Space (1:44:52)
10. Final Keynote: Environmental Journalism in China - The View from Beijing (1:08:00)

Organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, UC Berkeley.
Funded by the Luce Foundation.

December 7-8, 2007
For more information, go to http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2007.12.07w.html

Same-Sex Marriage Debate

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Public Lands & Climate Change Symposium

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Part 1

Welcome and Overview
Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, University of California, Berkeley Law School

Purpose and Expectations
Ruth Coleman, Director, California State Parks

Climate Change and Impacts to California Habitat and Wildlife
Marc Hoshovsky, Senior Environmental Scientist, Department of Fish and Game

San Francisco Bay Area Regional Strategy for Climate Change
Will Travis, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Part 2

Planning Wetland Restoration and Acquisition as Sea Level Rises and Coastal Erosion Accelerates
Sam Schuchat, Executive Officer, State Coastal Conservancy

Part 3

Clean Energy Strategies for Environmental Sustainability
Daniel M. Kammen, Professor, Energy and Resources Group, Director, Public Policy, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Relationship Between Evolutionary Hotspots and Climate Change in California
Craig Moritz, PhD, Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Professor, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Protecting and Managing Valley Oak in the Face of Climate Change
Victoria Sork, Chair and Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Part 4

Range Modeling, Forest Restoration and Risk Management at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego County
Lydia Ries, PhD, Research Scientist, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Wells, PhD, Superintendent, Colorado Desert, California State Parks

Designing Landscape Reserves in Light of Climate Change
Michael White, PhD, Conservation Biology Institute

Part 5

Future Changes in Conservation and Resource Management and Keeping Up with Climate Change Research
Rebecca Shaw, PhD, Chief of Science and Planning, The Nature Conservancy
Donald Neubacher, Superintendent, Point Reyes National Seashore, National Park Service
Susan Hackwood, PhD, Executive Director, California Council of Science and Technology

Moving Forward
Ruth Coleman, Director, California State Parks
Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, University of California, Berkeley Law School
Michael R. Eaton, Executive Director, Resources Legacy Fund

U.S., Syria and the New Old Middle East: Confrontation or Cooperation?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ambassador of Syria, Dr. Imad Moustapha) — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Dr. Imad Moustapha has been Syria's Ambassador to the United States since March 2004. Prior to that, he was Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Damascus, and Secretary General of the Arab School on Science and Technology. He co-founded the Network of Syrian Scientists, Technologists and Innovators Abroad (NOSSTIA), and was an active consultant to international and regional organizations on science and technology policies in the Middle East. He was also a member of the Syrian team responsible for drafting reform strategies for the ministries of Culture, Education, and Higher Education.

Dr. Moustapha is a versatile writer with a long list of publications in English and Arabic. His writings cover the political scene in Washington, US policies, and book, art and music reviews. He has published extensively in Teshreen, Abiad-wa-Aswad, al-Hayat, al-Ahram al-Douali, Forward, the LA Times, and the Washington Post. His credits include more than 200 published articles, and he has authored, co-authored and edited several books (The Echoes of Orpheus, Creativity out from the Windows of Hell, and Concurrent Engineering). He is co-author of the UN sponsored Human Development Report in the Arab World (2003).

He has appeared in almost all major US, British, Syrian, and Arab TV news programs and shows, and presented a large number of public lectures in various Arab and American cities. He is also a blogger commenting on life, culture and friends in Washington (imad_moustapha.blogs.com). Imad Moustapha holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Surrey, UK. He is fluent in both English and French.

About EIP
Executive and International Programs (EIP) offers executive education programs for mid-career government officials and public policy professionals. EIP also coordinates a variety of international events providing students and faculty with the opportunity to interact directly with public policy practitioners from the U.S. and around the world.

How Institutions Can Innovate--Creativity in the Public Sector

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michael R. Peevey) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Goldman School of Public Policy

Board of Advisors dinner

Speaker:
Michael R. Peevey
President of the California Public Utilities Commission

Introductory Speakers:
James D. Marver, Chair, GSPP Board of Advisors
Mason Willrich, member, GSPP Board of Advisors

New Public Policy Perspectives and the Power of Engaged Citizens

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Robert B. Reich; David L. Kirp; Carol Chetkovich) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Goldman School Professors Robert B. Reich and David L. Kirp and Mills College Professor Carol Chetkovich discuss their latest publications with Moderator Steve Silberstein, member, Goldman School of Public Policy Board of Advisors.

US-UK: Still a special relationship?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Goldman School of Public Policy
Executive and International Programs
International Public Policy Speakers Event

Speaker:
Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams

Agriculture for Development: Implications for Latin America?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Alain de Janvry) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0800
With 75 percent of world poverty concentrated in rural areas, the forthcoming World Development Report "Agriculture for Development" argues that the role of agriculture as an instrument for development has been badly underused by governments and donors, with high social and environmental costs. Does this apply to Latin America ? The region is highly urbanized, new developments in production and marketing threaten the competitiveness of smallholders and agricultural labor markets have been poorly remunerative. The model followed has often been rapid growth in commercial farming with poverty mitigated through cash transfers. Can Latin America do better? The authors of the report argue that it can.
Alain de Janvry is Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.

Bear in Mind: A Conversation with the Chancellor of UC Berkeley

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Birgeneau, Robert J.) — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0800
The Chancellor of UC Berkeley, Robert Birgeneau, in conversation about:
�An unprecedented grant from the Hewlett Foundation designed to sustain faculty excellence.
�The new Energy Biosciences Institute that will be funded by a $500 million research grant from BP, the global energy corporation.
�The role and responsibilities of the new Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion
�Recent initiatives to increase financial aid for undergraduates.
�The role and mission of an elite public university.

Entertainment Media, Democracy and Policy - What's the Story?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Multiple) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

From fables to modern cinema, stories are more than entertainment. They are a powerful way to inform, influence and persuade. The Goldman School of Public Policy is hosting a unique panel of media producers and commentators on Monday, April 30. With Linda Schacht Gage moderating, panelists will explore what policy leaders and citizens can learn from the media - our culture's consummate storytellers with sophisticated understanding of audience - about promoting public policy options.

Panelists:
- Linda Schacht Gage, Emmy award winning broadcast journalist
- Norman Pattiz, Founder and chair of Westwood One, America's largest radio network company
- Sid Ganis, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and founder of Out of the Blue Entertainment
- Nancy Hult Ganis, Producer/Writer
- Robert Reich, public policy professor at the Goldman School and former U.S. Secretary of Labor.

Biosecurity for a New Era

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Dr. Craig Hooper) — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Terrorists and Biological Weapons: Considering new targets and the capability of old methods
Dr. Craig Hooper, UC Berkeley, Goldman School Lecturer

Biosecurity for a New Era

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Prof. Malcolm Dando) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Biotechnology in the 21st Century
Prof. Malcolm Dando, Professor of International Security and Director of the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre at the University of Bradford, UK
A series of 50 interactive seminars carried out over the last two years in six countries on three continents has shown that most practicing life scientists see little connection between the work they do and biowarfare and bioterrorism. Yet careful studies, for example in the US National Academies Fink and Lemon reports, show that there are real reasons for concern in that the ongoing revolution in the life sciences could facilitate malign misuse around the world. The presentation examines some of the relevant characteristics of modern biotechnology and assesses its potential impact on international security. Three future scenarios ranging from the benign to the malign are then outlined. Despite the obvious dangers, and the difficulties of agreeing effective international action, it is argued that there are opportunities to build on the relative success of the 2006 6th Five Year Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) and that life scientists can make an effective contribution to strengthening the prohibition of the malign misuse of the life sciences.

A Crisis in Human Rights: Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Multiple) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Focusing on the crisis in Darfur, the speakers will offer a comprehensive view of how and why a conflict evolves into a full-fledged genocide. The Darfur genocide has involved not just the outright immediate killing of people, but also the creation of conditions that have made life impossible by chasing people out into the desert and destroying their homes, villages, food supplies and livelihoods. Speakers will present eyewitness accounts of events on the ground in Darfur as well as academic research into conflict and peace within and between nations.

Featured panelists:

Shane Bauer is a current undergraduate student in UCB's Peace and Conflict Studies Department. The first year away from his home in Minnesota, he witnessed war for the first time in Macedonia at the impressionable age of 19. Following this traumatic yet illuminating exposure to war, he traveled as a photojournalist, documenting conflict and genocide around the world. Last year, Shane traveled to Chad and Sudan.

Martha Saavedra is the Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies, an interdisciplinary research center supporting basic research on Africa. Her research includes agrarian politics and ethnic conflict in Sudan.

David Tuller is a doctoral student in the School of Public Health and has a special interest in looking at public health through a human rights lens. He investigated some of Darfur's mass atrocities as part of a team from Physicians for Human Rights in 2005.

War, Crime, Terror, Law: The Post-9/11 Constitution

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Professor Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford Law School) — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

THE AARON WILDAVSKY FORUM FOR PUBLIC POLICY
Professor Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford Law School
The US Constitution, unlike most of its counterparts, lacks an emergency provision allowing for its own temporary suspension in times of national crisis. Nonetheless, wartime presidents have derogated from constitutional principles, from Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus to FDR's internment of west coast residents of Japanese descent. Where on the continuum between the rule of law and the realm of unchecked executive discretion should we situate the current response to new national security threats posed by terrorism? Have executive policies on detention and trial ofenemy combatants, warrantless wiretapping, and government secrecy in the "global war on terror" gone too far? Which branch is best positioned to check the executive if so--Congress or the courts? Can "emergency" changes made now become effectively permanent?

Biosecurity for a New Era

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Dr. Laurie Zoloth) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Secrets: The Ethics of Concealment and the Ethics of Science in Synthetic Biological Research

Dr. Laurie Zoloth, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University

Increasingly sophisticated techniques allow for increasing powerful and creative tools of biology to create new or altered forms of life. Such synthetic biology may offer unprecedented avenues for drug development, alternate energy sources, and medical therapeutics. Yet increasing unease also mounts about the possible misuse of such biology, and governments, scientists and citizens turn their attention to the question of how protect academic freedom in an age of terror. Are the fears of dual use of synthetic biology overblown? Or are such fears prudent? Who should protect the secrets of science, or is it simply inappropriate to conceal knowledge from the broadest possible community? What are the fair limits of concealment in science? Are the arguments of the marketplace and the need for competitive secrecy applicable to open source knowledge? How can the core ethical principle and praxis of veracity be balanced with the problem of security? How can the core ethical principle of confidentiality be reconciled with open source research? What is the difference between holding secrets and deceit? This lecture will raise some preliminary framing questions in the emerging field of synthetic biology, a field that has been a subject of attention and concern since its inception.

Shift Left: Technology and Healthcare

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Andy Grove) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Edward E. Penhoet Annual Lecture on Biology, Behavior and Environment

The Edward E. Penhoet Annual Lecture focuses on how biology, behavior, and environment intersect to produce health.

Andy Grove, cofounder and senior adviser to executive management, Intel Corporation, will discuss the role of technology in solving the crisis in the U.S. health care system.

The Economics of Climate Change

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Stern, Nicholas) — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800
Thank you for your interest in this event. An archive of the live event will be available for on-demand viewing within two business days. Please check back here for updates.
The Economics of Climate Change: Is tackling climate change a pro-growth strategy for California?" - a talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, is hosting the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
Stern will explain how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars. He will also address investment in low carbon energy sources, issues of international competition and the importance of China and other emerging economies.

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.

Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Multiple) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

Welcome & Opening Remarks
- George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley
- Eric Stover, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
Keynote Address - "The Responsibility to Protect: The Power of an Idea "
- Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group

Panel: Introduction to R2P
This panel will explore the political, historical, and legal underpinnings of the responsibility to protect. It will address the promise and potential of the emerging norm, as well as the challenges to its practical implementation. The discussion will consider the perspectives of scholars, policy makers, local and national government officials, UN representatives, and military personnel, among others.
- Jerry Sanders, Peace and Conflict Studies, UC Berkeley, moderator
- Richard Cooper, R2P Coalition
- Steve Crawshaw, Human Rights Watch
- Heidi Hulan, Canadian Mission to the United Nations
- Ramesh Thakur, UN University

Panel: R2P and International vs. National Policy Perspectives
International commitments have occasionally been at odds with U.S. priorities at home. How does R2P fit within current U.S. foreign policy and what are the challenges to embracing its principles? Which organizations, policy makers and politicians have been instrumental in promoting the idea? What theoretical and practical obstacles must be overcome for R2P to become an influential part of U.S. foreign policy? Issues to be discussed include a range of interventions, including use of force.
- Donald Steinberg, International Crisis Group, moderator
- Lee Feinstein, Council on Foreign Relations
- Victoria (Tori) Holt, Henry L. Stimson Center, author of The Impossible Mandate? Military Preparedness, the Responsibility to Protect, and Modern Peacekeeping
- Takahiro Katsumi, Foreign Policy Aide, Diet of Japan
- Hansj�rg Strohmeyer, Chief, Policy Development and Studies Branch, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN

Panel: Building a Social Movement: An Examination of Current and Past Campaigns
How can lessons learned from successful campaigns be applied to the anti-genocide and R2P campaign? Models include the anti-slavery campaign, the campaign to ban landmines, and the campaign for the creation of the ICC.
- Anita Sharma, ENOUGH, moderator
- Mark Hanis, Genocide Intervention Network
- William Pace, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy, Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- Ken Rutherford, Landmine Survivors Network
- Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, M.D., My Sister's Keeper

Closing Remarks
- Juan M�ndez, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and President, International Center for Transitional Justice

Hosted by Human Rights Center in cooperation with Genocide Intervention Network, Human Rights Watch.

Conference partners include: Amnesty International, Center for American Progress, Consulate General of Canada, International Crisis Group, Progressive Students of Faith, San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, STAND-UC Berkeley, World Affairs Council of Northern California, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy.

UC Berkeley co-sponsors:Boalt Hall Committee for Human Rights, Center for African Studies, Canadian Studies Program, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Ethnic Studies Department, Graduate School of Journalism, Institute of International Studies, International and Area Studies, International Human Rights Law Clinic, International Legal Studies Program, Peace and Conflict Studies, Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program.
Supported by Humanity United, with additional funding from the Darian and Rick Swig Philanthropic Fund.

Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Milton Leitenberg) — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

BIOSECURITY FOR A NEW ERA
Lecture Series

Biological weapons (BW) have been a significant national security preoccupation for nearly 15 years. The events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks that followed have magnified these concerns by orders of magnitude while shifting the context almost entirely to "bioterrorism." Over the past four years, the federal government has spent nearly $30 billion to counter the anticipated threat. Strangely, these responses took place in the absence of virtually any threat analysis. This talk will describe recent work to fill this gap by describing what is known about recent state and terrorist group efforts to obtain, develop, and use biological weapons (BW); reviewing how US agencies have portrayed the BW threat through exercises and planning scenarios; and examining how recent and projected expansions in the US biodefense program interact with the Biological Weapons Convention.

Milton Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM), trained as a scientist and moved into the field of arms control in 1966. In 1968, Leitenberg was the first American to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He also worked with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Center for International Studies' Peace Studies Program at Cornell University. His research is widely published. He has authored two major studies at CISSM, Biological Weapons Arms Control (1996) and Participation of Japanese Military Forces in UN Peacekeeping Operations (1996). His most recent books are "The Problem of Biological Weapons" and "Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat."

9th Annual International Health Conference: War, Poverty and Population

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800

The Relationship between Population Growth and Poverty
Robert Engelman, Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC.

Numbers: Mind the Gap
Theogene Rudasingwa,, Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States.

The Return of the Population Factor
Martha Campbell,, Co-founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD), UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Why Does Peace Break Out?
Malcolm Potts,, Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Presented by The School of Public Health. This event was sponsored by the Bixby Program in Population, Family Planning, and Maternal Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0800
What the Energy Biosciences Institute means for UC Berkeley
On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.
In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing series of webcasts about campus issues, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau delves into the details of the university's winning proposal and emerging plans for a new Energy Biosciences Institute.
Part one: The chancellor is joined by two people who played a significant role in crafting the proposal: Vice Chancellor for Research Beth Burnside and Dan Kammen, a professor in the campus's Energy Resources Group (ERG). They discuss their goals for the institute's research endeavors, its potential impact on graduate and undergraduate education, and the proposal's intellectual property provisions.
Part two: Steve Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, joins Birgeneau to review the scientific challenges the new institute will confront, the role and importance of public-private partnerships in addressing the energy crisis and climate change, and the roots of Chu's passionate commitment to developing renewable, carbon-neutral sources of energy.

The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (John Micklethwait) — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0800

The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?

John Micklethwait, the newly appointed Editor of The Economist, talks with Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism about the direction he is taking the magazine, and about America's role in the world.

Presented by: The Graduate School of Journalism, The Economist, Haas School of Business, Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley, and the World Affairs Council.

Discover Cal - UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0800
Spring 2007 Lecture Series
Northern California Kickoff Event

UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century
Speakers for this Lecture
- Steven Chu, Physics, 1997
- Donald A. Glaser, Physics, 1960
- Yuan T. Lee, Chemistry, 1986
- Daniel L. McFadden, Economics, 2000
- George F. Smoot, Physics, 2006
- Charles H. Townes, Physics, 1964

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Zenghelis, Dimitri ) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800
Dimitri Zenghelis, UK government economic adviser who spent the last year working with Sir Nicholas Stern on the Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown

Institute of Industrial Relations 60th Anniversary Program

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Institute of Industrial Relations 60th Anniversary Program

Globalization and Labor's Response
Moderator: Katie Quan
Speaker: Richard Walker
Discussants: Clair Brown, James Lincoln
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The Immigration Debate: New Research and Policy Proposals
Moderator: Steven Pitts
Speaker: Steven Raphael
Discussants: Irene Bloemraad, Maria Echaveste
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The Labor Movement: Organizing California's Future
Moderator: Carol Vendrillo
Speakers: Tom Rankin, Kim Voss
Discussants: Veronica Carrizales, Carol Zabin
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Public Policies for a Better California
Moderator: Michael Reich
Panel: Netsy Firestein, Ken Jacobs, Marcy Whitebook
Award Ceremony
Speaker: John F. Cummins, Associate Chancellor/Chief of Staff
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Infectious Disease Research in Latin America: A Platform for Scientific Capacity Building and ...

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Eva Harris) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Dr. Eva Harris discusses her work on dengue fever in Nicaragua: clinical investigations, vaccine trial sites, and promoting community participation in mosquito control. Her work illustrates how such research can empower scientists and community members alike.

Eva Harris is Associate Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley, specializing in infectious diseases. She is also the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute (SSI), a non-profit organization based in San Francisco. Professor Harris was awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 1997.
- Interview with Professor Harris at the Institute for International Studies
- New York Times interview with Professor Harris (from the Acumen Fund website)
- The Sustainable Sciences Institute

What Are Americans Voting For?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

What Are Americans Voting For?

This panel examines where political ideas arise, how they are framed in political dialogue, and the part they play in determining what happens in November.

Panelists:

Joan Blades, mediator and author of several books, including coauthor of The Motherhood Manifesto; cofounder of Berkeley Systems, a software company known for the After Dark screensaver; and cofounder of Moveon.org and Momsrising.org.

George Lakoff, Senior Fellow of the Rockridge Institute; Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley; author of several books, including Don't Think of an Elephant, Whose Freedom? and Thinking Points, A Manual for Progressives.

Markos Moulitsas, attorney and former U.S. Army officer; coauthor of Crashing the Gates; and founder of one of the most popular "netroots" movements in the world, Daily Kos, which draws over 20 million unique visitors each month.

Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; former secretary of labor under the Clinton Administration; author of ten books including Reason; and weekly commentator on "Marketplace" radio.

Moderator:

Bruce Cain, Director of the University of California Washington Center and of the Institute of Governmental Studies; Robson Professor of Political Science.

Co-sponsored by the Center on Institutions and Governance, the Center on Politics and The Rockridge Institute.

Afta Thoughts On Nafta

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Brad DeLong) — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Brad DeLong

"Afta Thoughts On Nafta"

"I was a true believer in NAFTA--the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now my faith is not gone but shaken." So states Brad DeLong, economist and creator of one of the net's most popular weblogs on economics, at www.j-bradford-delong.net.

J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Political Economy major at the University of California at Berkeley. He also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy.

Goldman School Homecoming Faculty Seminars

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Robert Reich & Michael Nacht) — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0800

Homecoming Weekend 2006

Faculty Seminars

National Security in a Turbulent Era
Dean Michael Nacht
(Runtime is approx. 72 minutes)

Where is America Going?
Professor Robert Reich
(Runtime is approx. 61 minutes)

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 and Intellectual Freedom

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (UC Berkeley Faculty Panel) — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0800
In fighting todays 'war on terror', how do the new post-9/11 national security laws, executive orders and policies infringe on our traditional freedoms of inquiry? Are they an important weapon in keeping Americans more secure? Do they benefit society and do they help keep us a free people? UCB faculty will discuss these issues in an evening that celebrates and honors the US Constitution of the 18th century.
The panelists are:
Michael Nacht, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and national security scholar
Tom Campbell, Dean of the Haas School of Business, formerly California State Senator and US Congressman
Tom Goldstein, Professor, Graduate School of Journalism and Director of the Mass Communications Program
Moderated by: Tom Leonard, University Librarian and Professor, Graduate School of Journalism.

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

Women in Politics: Applying the Lessons

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

What barriers face women who choose to enter political life? How can young women be inspired to consider taking an active role in political affairs? Do women bring a special or unique perspective to politics and policy-making? Join Jack Citrin of the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and some of the country's most distinguished women political practitioners and academic researchers for a conference examining these and other issues.

Day Two - Applying the Lessons
Saturday, June 10th
Watch Opening Remarks and Practitioner Roundtable 1
Opening Remarks
Holly Hatcher, Center for Politics, University of Virginia
Jack Citrin, Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Practitioner Roundtable 1: Seeking Office
Moderator: Jennifer Lawless, Brown University
Joanne Davis, Principal, The Davis Group
Ginny Douglas, California Executive Director, The WISH List
Mary Hughes, President, Staton Hughes
Assemblywoman Carol Liu, California State Assembly, D-La Canada Flintridge

Watch Practitioner Roundtable 2: Administration and Policy

Practitioner Roundtable 2: Administration and Policy
Delaine Eastin, former California Superintendent of Public Instruction
Loretta Lynch, former chairwoman, California Public Utilities Commission
Margita Thompson, press secretary, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Watch Practitioner Roundtable 3: Governing
Practitioner Roundtable 3: Governing
Moderator: Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley
Assemblywoman Wilma Chan, California State Assembly, D-Oakland
Jennifer Dunn, former Member of Congress, R-Washington
Lynne Leach, former member, California State Assembly, R-Walnut Creek
U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-California

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.

The GSPP Class of 2006 Commencement

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800

The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), founded at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, is one of the nation's first graduate programs of its kind. Today it is ranked among the very top policy programs in the country and is recognized nationally and internationally as a source of incomparably qualified professionals in the field.

The GSPP Class of 2006 Commencement was held May 20th, 2006 at Sibley Auditorium in Bechtel Hall.

Diversity in Action: Strengthening Excellence in our Workplace

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800
This forum launched a new project on staff equity and diversity, designed to strengthen the excellence in our workforce necessary to achieve the research, teaching and public service mission of the university. Participants were asked to provide input into the priorities and criteria that should guide this new project.
Morning Sessions

Afternoon Sessions

Jane Goodall: The Bixby Symposium on Population and Conservation

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Goodall, Jane) — Sat, 06 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800
The Bixby Symposium on Population and Conservation, an afternoon conference on the trends and impacts of population growth and family planning efforts in developing countries. One issue that will be examined is the relationship between family planning, population and conservation.
One of the world's leading primatologists, Jane Goodall has dedicated her life to speaking out about threats facing chimpanzees and other environmental crises. She is an advocate of people taking personal responsibility for the environment through lifestyle choices and activism.
For more information please visit the Jane Goodall Institute (www.janegoodall.org).

Berkeley Synthetic Biology Town Hall Meeting

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800
The webcast archive will be available for on-demand viewing On Wednesday, 4/19.
Over the past few years, synthetic biologists have thought hard about how to improve biosafety and biosecurity. Most of these ideas would require new regulations, laws, or treaties. Some, however, can be implemented at the community level. Day 3 of the upcoming Synthetic Biology 2.0 conference will give us a chance to debate, vote and launch community initiatives. If we can take meaningful action on biosafety and biosecurity, that will be time well spent.
For the past three months, UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy has worked to find proposals (a) that can be implemented by community vote, (b) have broad support among the more than two dozen synthetic biologists interviewed for the Berkeley project, and (c) can potentially reduce the already-small risks posed by our discipline. The Berkeley group has identified six possible interventions which they believe fit these criteria. You can download the paper (which will be periodically updated to reflect community input) at http://gspp.berkeley.edu/iths/UC%20White%20Paper.pdf.
The next step is to see what the community thinks. Over the next three weeks, we need to decide whether one or more of these proposals deserves a full debate and vote at SB2.0. We urge you to read and think about the attached white paper and contribute to the discussion. There are at least four channels for you to do this:
* MIT Town Hall Meeting: We will hold a second meeting at the MIT campus on Friday, April 21 between 4.00 and 6.00 p.m. East Coast (US) time.
* EU-USA Synthetic Biology Workshop: The organizers have offered to discuss the proposals as part of their previously scheduled workshop in Warren, Virginia (US) on April 23.
* We have established a listserv for interested parties. You can join by sending an e-mail to starrt@berkeley.edu.

webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events

The Transformation of Chile

Proposition 13 at 30: The Political, Economic and Fiscal Impacts

GSPP 2008 Commencement Ceremony

Choosing the President in 2008: The Evolving Process and its Effects

April 10, 2008

April 11, 2008

April 12, 2008

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008

Wildavsky Forum: Discussion on Professor Kruglanski's Lecture

The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy Discussion: A panel discussion on Professor Kruglanski's lecture on "Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Wildavsky Forum: Arie W. Kruglanski

Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy

"Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Can Democracy Afford to Neglect the Poor?

The Thomas C. Schelling Symposium

One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What it is Becoming

Berkeley China Initiative: China's Environment

China's Environment: What do we know and how do we know it?

Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Public Lands & Climate Change Symposium

U.S., Syria and the New Old Middle East: Confrontation or Cooperation?

How Institutions Can Innovate--Creativity in the Public Sector

Goldman School of Public Policy

New Public Policy Perspectives and the Power of Engaged Citizens

US-UK: Still a special relationship?

Agriculture for Development: Implications for Latin America?

Bear in Mind: A Conversation with the Chancellor of UC Berkeley

Entertainment Media, Democracy and Policy - What's the Story?

Biosecurity for a New Era

Terrorists and Biological Weapons: Considering new targets and the capability of old methods

Biosecurity for a New Era

Biotechnology in the 21st Century

A Crisis in Human Rights: Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

War, Crime, Terror, Law: The Post-9/11 Constitution

THE AARON WILDAVSKY FORUM FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Biosecurity for a New Era

Secrets: The Ethics of Concealment and the Ethics of Science in Synthetic Biological Research

Shift Left: Technology and Healthcare

Edward E. Penhoet Annual Lecture on Biology, Behavior and Environment

The Economics of Climate Change

The Art of Political Cartooning: Kevin "Kal" Kallaugher

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

Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect

Keynote Address - "The Responsibility to Protect: The Power of an Idea "

Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat

BIOSECURITY FOR A NEW ERA Lecture Series

9th Annual International Health Conference: War, Poverty and Population

Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute

The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?

The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?

Discover Cal - UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates: Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

Institute of Industrial Relations 60th Anniversary Program

Institute of Industrial Relations 60th Anniversary Program

Globalization and Labor's Response

The Immigration Debate: New Research and Policy Proposals

The Labor Movement: Organizing California's Future

Public Policies for a Better California

Infectious Disease Research in Latin America: A Platform for Scientific Capacity Building and ...

What Are Americans Voting For?

What Are Americans Voting For?

Afta Thoughts On Nafta

Brad DeLong

Goldman School Homecoming Faculty Seminars

Homecoming Weekend 2006

Consequences of the War on Terrorism: George Soros

Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Introduced by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

National Security and Intellectual Freedom

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

Women in Politics: Applying the Lessons

China U.S. Climate Conference

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

The GSPP Class of 2006 Commencement

Diversity in Action: Strengthening Excellence in our Workplace

BIOSECURITY FOR A NEW ERA
Lecture Series