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HIV, Families & Permanency Planning: Addressing New Realities
| Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00
Click here to watch the live webcast of this event. The live webcast of this event will be available approximately 5 minutes before the scheduled start time. Progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS has created new possibilities for families and their children. Please join us for this FREE webinar featuring a panel of experts - attorneys, social workers, and PWHAs - who have current information, experiences and insights to share about future care and custody planning for children whose parents have HIV/AIDS. Speakers for this event include: * Jeanne Pietrzak, Director...
21st Annual Benjamin Ide Wheeler Society Lecture and Tea
Download Now · | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:00
Professor Ananya Roy "Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes in the New Millennium"
Download Now · | Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:00
President Michelle Bachelet will discuss the current challenges Chile faces and what the new Chile-California agreement means for her country. Moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau
Proposition 13 at 30: The Political, Economic and Fiscal Impacts
| Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks Panel I: The Political Dimensions Keynote speaker Panel II: The Economic Impacts Panel III: The Public Finance Arena This conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of California's Proposition 13 examines the political, economic, and fiscal legacy of this revolutionary amendment to the state constitution. Proposition 13 imposed a 1% cap on the local property tax rate for Californians and launched a national tax revolt movement. The one-day conference consists of three panels, with a mix of academic, policy experts, and journalists, that assesses the...
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 3
Download Now · | Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00
Technical Session 3 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Beyond - Alexander G. Szalay Building the World Wide Telescope - Curtis Wong Search Survey for S/V Tenacious - Ed Saade Exploring Ocean Data - James G. Bellingham and Michael Godin Closing - Donna Carnes Technical Session Program Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer...
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 2
Download Now · | Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00
Technical Session 2 Not Just Correct, but Correct and Fast - David J. DeWitt and Charles Levine Scalability and Immortality - C. Gordon Bell Is There Life Outside Transactions? Writing the Transaction Processing Book - Andreas Reuter TerraServer and the Russia Adventure - Tom Barclay Technical Session Program Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary...
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - General Session
Download Now · | Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00
General Session Welcome - Shankar Sastry Opening Remarks - Joseph Hellerstein A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss - Pauline Boss The Amateur Search - Michael Olson Jim Gray at Berkeley - Michael Harrison Knowledge and Wisdom - Pat Helland Why Did Jim Gray Win the Turing Award? - Michael Stonebraker Jim Gray Chair - Stuart Russell 500 Special Relationships: Jim as a Mentor to Faculty and Students - Ed Lazowska Jim Gray: His Contributions to Industry - David Vaskevitch A "Gap Bridger" - Richard Rashid Thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard - Paula Hawthorn General Session...
Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 1
Download Now · | Fri, 30 May 2008 16:00
Technical Session 1 Opening - Michael Stonebraker Jim Gray at IBM - Bruce G. Lindsay Jim Gray's Tandem Contributions - Wendy Bartlett, Jerry Held and John Nauman Technical Session Program Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer science pioneer, missing at sea since Jan. 28, 2007. Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database...
GSPP 2008 Commencement Ceremony
Download Now · | Fri, 16 May 2008 16:00
Commencement Speaker: Ann Veneman, Executive Director of the United Nation's Childrens Fund (UNICEF) A native of Modesto, California, Ann received her Bachelor's degree from UC Davis and her Master of Public Policy degree from GSPP. She also holds a juris doctorate degree from UC Hastings College of Law. Prior to joining UNICEF, she was US Secretary of Agriculture from 2001-2005, the only GSPP graduate to date to hold a Cabinet position. From 1995 to 1999 she was Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Download Now · | Tue, 13 May 2008 16:00
International and Area Studies 2008 Commencement Ceremony
Download Now · | Mon, 12 May 2008 16:00
Keynote speaker: Craig Newmark, Customer Service Representative and Founder, craigslist
Addressing Global Hunger & Poverty through Agricultural Development
Download Now · | Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00
An expert panel and public forum that will address the critical issues of agricultural development in Africa and South Asia will discuss the challenges and opportunities to improve the lives of smallholder farmers and their families. Presented by The College of Natural Resources and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Eyes on Activism: Celebrating Social Change in Israel Through the Visual Arts
Download Now · | Thu, 08 May 2008 16:00
Join Kesher Enoshi: Progressives for Activism in Israel for a chance to engage with activism in the country through a photography and art exhibition representing activists working for social change. Many different movements will be represented, including LGTBQ rights activism in Jerusalem, environmental justice in Tel Aviv and many more. The gallery will also include original art inspired by social change movements in Israel and produced by the student activists of Kesher Enoshi. This gallery portion will be followed by a presentation by Israeli-American photographer, artist and activist Nili Yosha,...
PDF Accessibility and Useability Issues
Download Now · | Mon, 05 May 2008 16:00
The Portable Document Format (PDF) may be one of the most popular formats for posting documents to the Web, but it can also present a variety of barriers to access for people using screen-reading technologies. In this presentation, Sean Keegan, a premier expert on document and web accessibility, will address usability and accessibility issues of the PDF, strategies for the creation of accessible electronic documents, and the appropriate use of software applications to ensure accessibility of web documents. Sean Keegan is the Web Accessibility Instructor at the High Tech Center Training Unit for...
Download Now · | Thu, 01 May 2008 16:00
Special Spring Workshop: The Beijing Olympics Speakers: Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal "Building the Dream: The Making of Beijing's Olympic Image" You-tien Hsing, Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley "From Property Rights to Residents' Rights: Urban Construction and Grassroots Resistance in Beijing" Youjeong Oh, Graduate Student, Geography, UC Berkeley "State- and Citizen-driven Nationalisms in Mega Sport Events: Comparison of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and the 2002 World Cup Game between South Korea and Japan" Sponsored...
The Holloway Series in Poetry - Lytle Shaw
Download Now · | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00
Lytle Shaw's books of poetry include Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel (Shark, 1998), Cable Factory 20 (Atelos, 1999), and The Lobe (Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). He is a regular contributor to Cabinet Magazine and has recently written art catalog essays on Gerard Byrne (for Koenig Books), on Robert Smithson (for Dia Center), and on The Royal Art Lodge (for The Drawing Center). Since 2004 Shaw has co-edited...
Download Now · | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00
One of the year's most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley's creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications. Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean's office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from...
Special Forum on Post-1998 Indonesia, with guest speakers Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Hilmar Farid
Download Now · | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:00
This special forum was held in conjunction with the UC Berkeley-UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, with the theme "Ten Years After: Reformasi and New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008". The conference was held on the Berkeley campus from April 25-26,2008. Nursyahbani Katjasungkana is a member of the Indonesian parliament, representing the National Awakening Party (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa), the party of former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid. She is also a prominent human rights lawyer and the founder of the NGO, Women Association for Justice (Lembaga Bantuan...
The Holloway Series in Poetry - Ariana Reines
Download Now · | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00
Fierce and wild poetry from the winner of Fence Book's Alberta Prize.
Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching Lecture: Ananya Roy's "Ideal Last Lecture"
Download Now · | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00
The Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching is presented by the students of UC Berkeley to honor those professors who teach with energy ? inspiring, demonstrating passion, and showing care in the classroom. It is the only teaching award at UC Berkeley conferred by the students. The award is intended to recognize those teachers who consistently teach each lecture as if it were their last.
2008 Distinguished Teachers Video
Download Now · | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00
Profiles of the 2008 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award: Nezar AlSayyad Professor, Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Associate Dean, College of Environmental Design Karl Ashoka Britto Associate Professor, French and Comparative Literature Stefano DellaVigna Assistant Professor, Economics Kaja Silverman Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies View the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony
2008 Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony
Download Now · | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00
The Berkeley campus' most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching. Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact. While acknowledging the fact that the Berkeley faculty comprises many outstanding teachers, the Committee on Teaching is extremely selective in determining the recipients of this award: only 227 faculty have received the award since its inception in 1959. The 2008...
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy
Download Now · | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy "The Dawn of Creation: The First 2 Billion Years" Steven Beckwith, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, University of California, Office of the President The beauty of the universe, the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and most of the stars, got its start in the first billion years after the beginning of time, the Big Bang. Every deep picture of the sky reveals thousands of these galaxies, each made up of billions of stars like the Sun. The intricate spiral structures of the Milky Way as well as the very smooth distributions...
Novel Enzymes, Rapid Structure Determination, and an Online Computer Game
Download Now · | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00
Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) and Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley present: David Baker: "Novel Enzymes, Rapid Structure Determination, and an Online Computer Game" Professor David Baker, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Washington
On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of Culture
Download Now · | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00
Homi Bhabha Department of English, Harvard University
