Andrew Jones, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley James A. Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities Wang Wenzhang, Vice Minister, Ministry of Culture of China
A behind the scenes look at the Cal Bears preparation for the 2006 Holiday Bowl game vs. Texas A&M.
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Islamic Norms in Secular Public Spheres Conference: political problems, legal issues, and social practices
UC Berkeley, May 7th-8th 2009
Panel 2 What is Sharia in Muslim and Non Muslim context?
Chair: Saba Mahmood, UC Berkeley
Muhammad Khalid Masud, Council of Islamic Ideology
Andrew March, Yale University
Cedric Baylocq, CNRS Bordeaux
Olivier Roy, UC Berkeley
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Cal Performances kicked off its 2010/11 season on Sunday, September 26, with its first Fall Free for All, a full day of free performances on the University of California, Berkeley campus. More than a dozen performances were given by a diverse line-up of artists, including the Kronos Quartet, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Mark Morris Dance Group, San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows, the Cal Band and John Santos Sextet, among others.
Global Capitalism, Labor Markets, and Inequality -
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard labor economist Richard B. Freeman for a discussion of globalization and its complex consequences for inequality in national and global contexts. He analyzes the implications of the feminization of the labor market, the effect of immigration on national job markets, the shift of policy innovation in the U.S. from the federal government to the states, and the benefits of international labor standards.
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Herbert M'cleod (Special Advisor, Office of the President, Sierra Leone) spoke about how post-conflict countries should seek to allow for changes to policy based on evidence rather than to recreate the government and economy that led to the conflict. In practice, however, the post-conflict environment is complex, mired in the need for short-term solutions and the rush to return to a sense of "normalcy".