Wall-to-wall people filled Sproul Plaza to watch on the big screen as Barack Obama took the oath of office as the nation's 44th president. Barack Obama's inauguration brought a joyful, mellow crowd of some 10,000 to Sproul Plaza, perhaps the biggest gathering ever in the storied history of Berkeley's most sacred spot.
Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian/ Media Relations
Press release and video at: http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit2#http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/01/22_obama-video.shtml
Session 1 of "The Google Books Settlement and the Future of Information Access".
Moderator: Eric Kansa;
Panelists:
Peter Brantley, Director of Access, Internet Archive;
Jim Pitman, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
More information: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20090828googlebooksconference
"Iran, Israel, and the United States"
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Trita Parsi,President of the National Iranian American Council, for a discussion of the struggle for
power in the Middle East. Drawing on the perspective of the Realist School of International Relations Theory, he focuses on the region's dominant powers--Israel and Iran--and examines the evolution of their relations with each other and with the United States, the world's only superpower.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/