Berkeley Voices

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Episodes: 126

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Interviews with people who make UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is.

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Episode Date
123: One brain, two languages
Apr 16, 2024
122: A language divided
Apr 05, 2024
121: A linguist's quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish
Mar 29, 2024
120: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects
Mar 05, 2024
119: Art student's photo series explores masculine vulnerability
Feb 22, 2024
118: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley
Feb 01, 2024
117: Bonobos and chimps show 'a rich recognition' for long-lost friends and family
Jan 26, 2024
Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy
Jan 08, 2024
116: How WWII incarceration fueled generations of Japanese American activists
Dec 14, 2023
115: They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.
Nov 14, 2023
114: Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley
Oct 17, 2023
113: Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution
Sep 05, 2023
112: How the Holocaust ends
May 18, 2023
111: Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has
May 10, 2023
110: Gericault De La Rose knows who she is and won't change for anyone
May 08, 2023
109: Ali Bhatti on Ramadan and how his faith guided him through deep loss
Mar 23, 2023
108: 'Be the Change': Purvi Shah on the moments of beauty as a civil rights lawyer
Mar 22, 2023
107: 'Be the Change': Nazune Menka on creating the course, Decolonizing UC Berkeley
Mar 15, 2023
106: 'Be the Change': Khiara M. Bridges on claiming her voice as a prominent Black woman
Mar 08, 2023
105: 'Be the Change': A podcast that aims 'to remove the mystery of making change'
Mar 01, 2023
104: Ty-Ron Douglas: Bridging the academic and athletic worlds
Feb 09, 2023
103: Law student Hoda Katebi: Iran's protests are about 'total liberation'
Dec 07, 2022
102: Exploring the sound of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz
Nov 08, 2022
101: 'Interior Chinatown' is about roles and how we play them
Aug 24, 2022
100: How Roe v. Wade radically changed American culture
Jun 29, 2022
99: Indi Garcia lives and breathes the 'abolitionist philosophy'
May 05, 2022
98: How one student finds hope in her 'fellow earthlings'
Apr 15, 2022
97: Biologist confronts deep roots of climate despair
Apr 01, 2022
96: Should we bring back woolly mammoths?
Mar 18, 2022
95: 'The past will be present when Roe falls’
Mar 04, 2022
94: How the seven-day week made us who we are
Feb 18, 2022
93: How the Great Migration transformed American music
Feb 04, 2022
92: California needs a new water supply. Could wetlands be an answer?
Jan 21, 2022
91: From a $16 keyboard to a symphony
Dec 10, 2021
90: Giving up Twitter with Michael Pollan
Nov 26, 2021
89: Cups for conversations — about war
Nov 11, 2021
88: Recycling isn't what we thought it was. So, what now?
Oct 29, 2021
87: How Nobel winner David Card transformed economics
Oct 15, 2021
86: Disabled and empowered: How Mariana Soto Sanchez found self-advocacy at Berkeley
Oct 01, 2021
85: Ballet folklórico: Celebrating Mexican culture through dance
Sep 17, 2021
84: Maryam Karimi: This generation in Afghanistan will not give up
Sep 03, 2021
83: How wildfire can create healthier forests
Aug 20, 2021
82: When the personal, political and historical collide — in our bodies
Aug 06, 2021
81: Nature's unsung superheroes? Mushrooms! (revisiting)
Jul 23, 2021
80: Chancellor Carol Christ: 'I always felt like a pioneer' (revisiting)
Jul 09, 2021
79: The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it possible (revisiting)
Jun 25, 2021
78: En pointe for her Ukrainian culture (revisiting)
Jun 04, 2021
77: How do we talk about the Asian experience with Asians at the center?
May 21, 2021
76: How the Asian American movement began at Berkeley, sparked creativity and unity
May 14, 2021
75: Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda on growing up in California after World War II
May 07, 2021
74: Berkeley MFA student Fred DeWitt: George Floyd never wanted to be in my art
Apr 20, 2021
73: The uncertain outcome of the Chauvin trial
Apr 06, 2021
72: Power corrupts even the best of us. But there’s an antidote.
Mar 30, 2021
71: How we create ‘imagined communities’ with celebrity gossip
Mar 16, 2021
After Thoughts: ‘I’m American, regardless of how my ancestors got here’
Mar 09, 2021
70: What crocodile mummies can tell us about everyday life in ancient Egypt
Mar 02, 2021
After Thoughts: Dacher Keltner on the science of awe and psychedelics
Feb 22, 2021
69: Language is more than how we speak — it's home
Feb 16, 2021
68: Building community one person at a time
Feb 02, 2021
67: How state courts use disability to remove Native children from their homes
Nov 24, 2020
66: How the U.S. government created an ‘insane asylum’ to imprison Native Americans
Nov 20, 2020
65: Savala Trepczynski on Breonna Taylor and the elusive nature of racial justice
Sep 25, 2020
64: The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who made it possible
Feb 11, 2020
63: Oral history project reveals '20 shades of Jerry Brown'
Jan 21, 2020
62: After Parkland shooting, student fights for mental health resources in schools
Dec 17, 2019
61: What does it mean to be a Native artist today?
Nov 26, 2019
60: Fighting injustice with poetry
Nov 25, 2019
59: Teeter totters as activism: How the border wall became a playground
Oct 08, 2019
58: The military isn't out to 'crush anybody who’s different'
Sep 03, 2019
57: Staffer's search for birth mom reveals dark history of Guatemalan adoption
Jul 09, 2019
56: The ministry of being out
Jun 11, 2019
55: Why are there so many Filipino nurses in the U.S.?
May 28, 2019
54: How a botched train robbery led to the birth of modern American criminology
Apr 30, 2019
53: Chancellor Carol Christ and Professor Emerita Carol Clover on women in the academy, then and now
Apr 16, 2019
52: 'Mouthpiece' says what many women never say
Mar 18, 2019
51: For Malika Imhotep, devotion to black feminist study is a life practice
Mar 11, 2019
50: In campus records 49 years and still loving it
Mar 04, 2019
49: Black history cemetery tour: Abraham Holland and the Sweet Vengeance Mine
Feb 19, 2019
48: Cal alumni leader gives hope to students who need it most
Feb 11, 2019
47: For international relations staffer, ballet kept her family’s Ukrainian culture alive
Jan 22, 2019
46: Berkeley Haas Chief of Staff Marco Lindsey lives like his 80-year-old self is watching
Dec 11, 2018
45: Native American 'Antigone' explores universal values of honoring the dead
Nov 20, 2018
44: Academic counselor Quamé on standing out, dreaming big—and letting go
Nov 05, 2018
43: 'White voice' and hearing whiteness as difference, not the standard
Oct 16, 2018
42: The history of why some say women sound shrill, immature 
Oct 09, 2018
41: At Berkeley, nobody stuffs a bird like Carla Cicero
Sep 25, 2018
40: From the archive: On Berkeley time? He keeps Campanile's clocks ticking
Sep 18, 2018
39: AileyCamp — so much more than a dance camp
Sep 04, 2018
38: Margaret Atwood: 'Things can change a lot faster than you think'
Aug 28, 2018
37: Bringing people together, one puppet at a time
Jul 25, 2018
36: For disability advocate, helping students navigate campus is personal
Jul 18, 2018
35: Peregrine falcons, zipping through campus at top speeds, are here to stay
Jul 10, 2018
34: A biology prof on growing up gay in rural Minnesota
Jul 03, 2018
33: How a tender message helped win the fight for same-sex marriage
Jun 25, 2018
32: Billy Curtis, an S.F. Pride grand marshal, on building inclusivity
Jun 14, 2018
31: With music as his guide, Haas graduating senior envisions a better Nigeria
May 10, 2018
30: On Worthy Wage Day, early childhood educators fight for support
May 01, 2018
29: From pollution cleanup to building houses, what can't mushrooms do?
Mar 29, 2018
28: Creating the world you want, by seeing a world that's possible
Mar 12, 2018
27: For Ula Taylor, it's all about harnessing the leader within
Feb 28, 2018
26: Staff director sees great strength in diversity
Feb 21, 2018
25: For comics fan staffer, Black Panther was 'life changing'
Feb 14, 2018
24: For Ph.D. student Kenly Brown, collecting data is about people
Feb 12, 2018
23: For alumni leader, giving hope is her life's mission
Feb 05, 2018
22: Here’s what an earthquake sounds like
Jan 12, 2018
21: Quit your giggling: the straight dope on cannabis
Jan 08, 2018
20: For aspiring triple major, piano is a way of life
Dec 09, 2017
19: Growing up without free speech is like 'prison for your mind'
Nov 21, 2017
18: Student musicians on learning from the best
Oct 18, 2017
17: How generosity in disaster flows in both directions
Sep 27, 2017
16: Students & alumni reflect on free speech, Ben Shapiro
Sep 15, 2017
15: Roaya and Nissma on their surprise connection
Aug 28, 2017
14: Students discuss social impact of Hamilton (with a cappella performance)
Aug 21, 2017
13: Same system with a different name for African Americans
Jul 26, 2017
12: One young Republican's pursuit of the 'Freedom to Marry'
Jun 23, 2017
11: For Sayah Bogor, an arduous road from refugee to health researcher
May 08, 2017
10: ‘Brooms up!’ Oski, meet Harry Potter
Apr 07, 2017
09: From a border wall to a cultural bridge
Apr 05, 2017
08: The carefully crafted sound of Zellerbach Hall
Dec 22, 2016
07: How Moscow’s Tsar Bell found its voice — at Berkeley
Apr 21, 2016
06: Is CDC’s alcohol warning paternalistic? Why some women think so
Feb 18, 2016
05: Like GPS, but for your sex drive
Feb 11, 2016
04: Berkeley Law professor Melissa Murray on the darker side of marriage
Nov 10, 2015
03: The ‘Big Idea’ that’s leading the push to make UC carbon-neutral
Oct 02, 2015
02: On Berkeley time? He keeps Campanile's clocks ticking
Jul 28, 2015
01: Trudy's bloom raises a stink
Jul 27, 2015