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Pianist Sarah Cahill plays and talks about the music of Frederic Rzewski, including his masterpiece 36 Variations on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated."
New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for California's Levees: The recent flooding and devastation of the greater New Orleans region during hurricane Katrina represented the most costly peace-time failure of an engineered system in North American history. Extensive investigations and analyses have been performed by several major teams in the wake of this disaster, and some very important lessons have been learned. Many of these have very direct and urgent applications to California's levee systems and flood risk exposure, and to the security of our State's vital water supply systems. UC Berkeley Professor Ray Seed discusses what California can learn from New Orleans and how to prevent a...
In this video Q&A, English professor Scott Saul discusses his new book, Becoming Richard Pryor.
The richly researched biography about the comedian is accompanied by a website, “Richard Pryor’s Peoria,” which presents more than 200 photographs and documents from Pryor’s first two decades in Peoria, Ill.
Saul, who says he is especially interested in “how particular artists are catalyzed by the history they are living through,” worked on the book for more than six years.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/12/17/berkeley-prof-on-becoming-richard-pryor/
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Undocumented, Unafraid, and Unapologetic
DREAM Activism and the Queering of Democratic Citizenship
Cristina Beltrán
Associate Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis
New York University
Date: March 7, 2013
Time: 4:00 -- 5:30 PM
Location: Shorb House, Berkeley, CA
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Is fake news undermining the truth? That question, hashed out by Berkeley and industry experts, drew a crowd that filled Banatao Auditorium’s seats and spilled into the aisles Thursday night.
Speaking were:
Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s vice president of news feed, who manages the team responsible for delivering relevant content to the 1.8 billion people using Facebook, and has recently focused on addressing fake news on the platform.
Craig Newmark, a web pioneer, speaker and philanthropist who recently donated $1 million to the Poynter Institute for Media Studies to promote verification, fact-checking and accountability in journalism.
Laura Sydell, National Public Radio’s digital culture correspondent whose interview with the owner of Disinfomedia, a company with many faux news sites, aired in November.
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