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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. For a complete list of all webcasts sponsored by GSPP, visit: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

UCTV

Many of our events are televised on UCTV and are available online at UCTV's web site at www.uctv.tv.

Audio Available:

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

Webcasts Available:

• 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
• THE AARON WILDAVSKY FORUM
  Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and former Dean, Stanford Law School
  "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 Excercises (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
• Molly Ivins, Political Columnist and Author
  Eighth Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award Sponsored by The Board of Directors of the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award, in cooperation with the Free Speech Movement Cafe, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Graduate School of Journalism, and the UC Berkeley Library.
  October 6, 2004
• Gary Hart, Former senator (D-CO) and Presidential Candidate
  National Security in the Age of Terror.
  September 21, 2004
• 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
• David Kirp, Professor of Public Policy, GSPP
  Berkeley Writers at Work: David Kirp Sponsored by the College Writing Program
  March 31, 2004
• Amy Goodman, Host, Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio
  Fomenting Democracy: Independent Media In a Time of War and Elections
  November 20, 2003
• Elaine Jones, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
  Rekindling the Spirit of Brown v. Board of Education: A Call to Action
  November 13, 2003
• David Harrison, CEO of loveLife, South Africa
  Young, Beautiful and Dead Growing Up with Disease and Democracy in South Africa
  October 3, 2003
• Panel Presentation
  The Truth About Medical Marijuana
  October 2, 2003
• 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
• David Kirp, Professor of Public Policy, GSPP
  Berkeley's Bad Rap KQED Perspectives
  June 9, 2003 - 7:37 am
• Panel Discussion (Dean Michael Nacht, et. al.)
  America In the Second Nuclear Age Sponsored by the Graduate School of Journalism
  April 30, 2003
• Helen CaldicottFounder 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 AnalysisSponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies
  April 21, 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?
  April 10, 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
• 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
  March 20, 2003
• Alexey Arbatov, Deputy Chairman, Committee on Defense, Russian State Duma & GSPP’s Regents’ Lecturer
  Superterrorism: Implications for a New Common Security Strategy
  March 13, 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 Sponsored by the Institue 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

Last Updated:  03/25/2008