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Event Webcasts

Many GSPP sponsored events and campus events featuring GSPP professors are available for viewing via webcast.

Unless indicated otherwise, the events below were sponsored or co-sponsored by the Goldman School.

UCTV programming now available:

• Beyond the Borders of the Mind: My Journey as an Immigrant
  Speakers: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
  October 11, 2011

View complete Goldman School UCTV archive: http://www.uctv.tv/goldman/

Webcasts Available:

• Populism and the Tea Party in American Politics
  Speakers: Homecoming 2011
  Bill Whalen, Lawrence Rosenthal, Christine Trost, Henry E. Brady
  October 15, 2011
• Beyond the Borders of the Mind: My Journey as an Immigrant
  Speakers: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.
  October 11, 2011
• Can Americans Be Civil And Work Together To Solve Public Problems?
  Speakers: Dean Henry E. Brady, the Honorable Roger E. Dickinson (BA '73, JD '76 UCLA) and Professor Paul Pierson, with Q & A moderated by Richard "Dick" Beahrs (BA '68)
  April 16, 2011
• Oil and Money: The Twin Crises of 2010 (and how public policy can protect our vital interests)
  Speakers: Senator Bob Graham
  April 5, 2011
• Cracking the Code: Creating Jobs in America (in the wake of globalization)
  Speakers: Gov. Jennifer Granholm
  March 2, 2011
• Homecoming 2010
  Big Ideas to Fix the Golden State
  Speakers: Henry E. Brady, Bruce E. Cain, Sunne Wright McPeak and Richard H. "Dick" Beahrs
  October 9, 2010
• 2010 Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics and Public Policy
  The Mood of America and the 2010 Elections
  Speaker: Peter D. Hart
  April 27, 2010
• Health Care, Economic Policy, and Political Polarization in America
  Speakers: Susan Rasky, Richard Scheffler, Henry E. Brady, Peter Munoz and Selma Meyerowitz
  CalDay, April 17, 2010
• The Aaron Wildavksy Forum Lecture - Professor Katherine Newman
  Taxing the Poor: The Role of Consumption Taxes in Regional Poverty Regimes
   Speakers: Rourke O'Brien and Katherine Newman
   April 1, 2010
• Addressing Global Health: A Key Priority for Development
  The 9th Annual Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture in Health Policy
  Speaker: Ann M. Veneman (MPP '71), Executive Director UNICEF
  March 3, 2010
• Green Building, The Economy, and Public Policy
  A Two-Day International Symposium
  December 2, 2009
• Homecoming Lecture - The California Budget Crisis
  Speakers: Henry E. Brady, John Ellwood and Senator Carol J. Liu
  October 3, 2009
• YouTube, Blogs, Texting, the Web: How Are New Media Changing Politics?
  Panelists: Professors Henry Brady, Bruce Cain and Geoffrey Nunberg
  CalDay, April 18, 2009
• 2009 Wildavsky Forum Discussion- Dr. Rebecca Blank
  Changing Inequality: What produces and changes levels of inequality?
  Speakers: Dr. Rebecca M. Blank, Lee Friedman, Mike Hout, Steven Raphael and Robert Reich
  March 13, 2009
• 2009 Wildavsky Forum - Dr. Rebecca Blank
  Changing Inequality: What produces and changes levels of inequality?
  March 12, 2009
• The The New Administration's First 100 Days: So Much to Do - What to Do First?
  Panelists: Henry E. Brady, Daniel M. Kammen, John M. Quigley, Robert B. Reich
  Moderator: James D. Marver
  GSPP Board Dinner: December 3, 2008
• Political Rhetoric and Civility in the 2008 Presidential Election
  Panelists: Henry E. Brady, Bruce E. Cain, Robert B. Reich
  October 4, 2008
• Global Financial Market Turmoil: A Panel Discussion
  Panelists: J. Bradford DeLong, Aaron Edlin, Richard W. Jennings, Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee, John Quigley, Nancy Wallace. Moderator: George A. Akerlof. Sponsors: Institute of Governmental Studies, Center on Institutions and Governance, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy.
  October 2, 2008
• 2008 Wildavsky Forum - Arie W. Kruglanski
  Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance
  Discussion on Professor Kruglanski's Lecture
  April 3-4, 2008
• 2008 Commencement
  Class of 2008 Commencement Exercises (full ceremony)
  May 17, 2008
• Thomas C. Schelling
  The Thomas C. Schelling Symposium
  March 4, 2008
• Markus Fischer
  Towards an Automated Screening of Biorisk-Associated DNA and Protein Sequences
  November 15, 2007
• Dr. Imad Moustapha, Syrian Ambassador
  U.S., Syria and the New Old Middle East: Confrontation or Cooperation?
  November 6, 2007
• Michael R. Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission
  How Institutions Can Innovate--Creativity in the Public Sector
  GSPP Board Dinner, October 18 , 2007
• Robert B. Reich, David L. Kirp, Carol A. Chetkovich and Steve Silberstein
  New Public Policy Perspectives and the Power of Engaged Citizens
  October 15 , 2007
• Rt. Hon. Shirley Williams, British Politician and academic
  US-UK: Still a special relationship?
  October 3 , 2007
• Moderator: Linda Schacht Gage
  Entertainment Media, Democracy and Policy - What's the Story?
  Panelists: Nancy Hult Ganis, Sidney Ganis, Norman Pattiz, Robert Reich
  April 30, 2007
• ITHS: Bio-security for a New Era Lecture Series
  Dr. Craig Hooper, Lecturer, UC Berkeley
  Terrorists and Biological Weapons: Considering new targets and the capability of old methods
  April 25, 2007
• ITHS: Bio-security for a New Era Lecture Series
  Dr. Malcolm Dando, Professor of International Security, University of Bradford Director of the Bradford (WMD) Disarmament Research Centre
  Biotechnology and 21st Century International Security
  April 18, 2007
• 2007 Wildavsky Forum - Kathleen M. Sullivan
  War, Crime, Terror, Law: The Post-9/11 Constitution
  April 12, 2007
• ITHS: Bio-security for a New Era Lecture Series
  Dr. Laurie Zoloth, Center for Bioethics, Science and Society, Northwestern University
  Secrets: The Ethics of Concealment and the Ethics of Science in Synthetic Biological Research
  April 11, 2007
• ITHS: Bio-security for a New Era Lecture Series
  Milton Leitenberg, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM)
  Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat
  March 14, 2007
• Dan Kammen, Professor of Public Policy, GSPP
  Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute
  March 1, 2007
• Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP)
  Global Warming: A Time to Act (Cap & Trade Conference)
  February 23, 2007
• Dimitri Zenghelis, UK government economic adviser
  The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
  November 28, 2006
• 2006 Commencement
  Class of 2006 Commencement Exercises (full ceremony)
  May 20, 2006
• Berkeley Synthetic Biology Town Hall Meeting
  Berkeley Synthetic Town Hall Meeting
  April 18, 2006
• John Dilulio, Jr.
  What Would Franklin Do? A Centrist Civic Primer on Religion, Politics, and Community-Serving Programs. (Running Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes)
  April 6, 2006
• Robert Klein
  A Conversation on Stem Cell Research
  February 8, 2006
• Joseph Wilson IV, Ambassador
  A Conversation with Ambassador Joseph Wilson, IV
  November 9, 2005
• 2005 Commencement
  Class of 2005 Commencement Exercises (full ceremony)
  May 21, 2005
• Warren Beatty, Actor and Activist
  Class of 2005 Commencement Address
  May 21, 2005
• Irshad Manji, Author and Activist
  Confessions of a Muslim Dissident: Why I fight for Women, Jews, Gays...and Allah
  April 19, 2005
• Dr. Robert Reich, Distinguished Professor, GSPP; Former US Secretary of Labor; and Former Professor, Brandeis University
  How Unequal Can America Get Before We Snap?
  April 5, 2005
• Professor Charles Townes, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
  Class lecture discussing what it's like to advise the US government
  March 17, 2005
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Attorney and Professor
  Environment, Health and Democracy Seventh Annual Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Lecture in Health Policy
  March 3, 2005
• Dr. Robert Reich, Distinguished Visiting Professor, GSPP; Former US Secretary of Labor; and Professor, Brandeis University
  Why a Massachusetts Liberal Will Be the Next President (and Other Amazing Prophesies).
  April 13, 2004
• Panel Discussion
  Proposition 54: the Racial Privacy Initiative Partial Recording
  September 16, 2003
• Arriana Huffington, Columnist, Author and California Gubernatorial Candidate
  "Independent Streak" College Tour stop at UC Berkeley
  September 11, 2003
• John Brady Kiesling, Career Diplomat and former American Foreign Service Officer (resigned in protest over Bush's unilateral preventative war policy)
  Preserving America's Moral Capital
  May 16, 2003
• Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University 9th Annual Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy
  Ethno-Racial Classification in Public Policy: Does It Have a Future?
  May 15, 2003
• Panel Discussion (Dean Michael Nacht, et. al.)
  America In the Second Nuclear Age Sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism
  April 30, 2003
• Helen Caldicott Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility
  The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
  April 24, 2003
• Panel Discussion (Dean Michael Nacht, et. al.) 22nd Annual Presidential Panel
  George W. Bush: A Midterm Analysis
  Sponsor: The Institute of Governmental Studies
  April 21, 2003
• Alexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Committee on Defense, Russian State Duma & GSPP’s Regents’ Lecturer
  Superterrorism: Implications for a New Common Security Strategy
  April 17, 2003
• Marion Nestle, Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University
  How the Food Industry Influences Diet and Health
  April 1, 2003
• Alexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Committee on Defense, Russian State Duma & GSPP’s Regents’ Lecturer
  A Year and a Half After ‘Black September’: Problems and Prospects of International Anti-terrorist Coalition
  March 3, 2003
• David Kirp, Professor of Public Policy, GSPP
  GSPP Conversations: Professor David Kirp
• Hekmat Karzai, First Secretary, Embassy of Afghanistan
  Planting the Roots of Peace in Afghanistan
  February 12, 2003
• Henry Cisneros, Former HUD Secretary and Mayor of San Antonio
  Where Will The Poor Live? Housing Policy and the Location of Low-Income Households
  February 7, 2003
• Robert Reich, University Professor, Brandeis University; Maurice Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University; and former US Secretary of Labor
  Politics and Principles
  January 30, 2003
• Michael Nacht, Dean, GSPP
  Changing Paradigms in National Security Policy From the Series,
  Conversations with History
  Sponsor: The Institute of International Studies
  January 9, 2003
• Christopher Hitchens & Adam Hochschild, The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture
  Fault Lines: Rights, Wrongs & Responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and The Nation
  November 11, 2002
• Michael Nacht, Dean, GSPP
  Bear in Mind 3: Conversations with the Chancellor
  November 7, 2002
• Daniel Ellsberg, Lecturer, Writer and Activist
  Secrecy Freedom and Empire: Lessons for Today from Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
  October 23, 2002
• Michael Nacht, Dean, GSPP
  An Update on the War on Terrorism and Iraq
  October 3, 2002
• Panel Presentation,
  Beyond 50: Trends in Health Security
  October 3, 2002
• Amory Lovins, Chief Executive Officer - Research and Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute,
  Energy Policy for the 21st Century
  May 7, 2002
• Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate, Lawyer and Author
  Corporate & Government Responsibility
  April 26, 2002

Audio Available:

• Professor David Kirp - Interview with ABC Radio National
  The Sandbox Investment - the preschool movement and kids first politics
  Download Audio  
  June 14, 2007

Last Updated:  05/20/2010