The Goldman Forum on the Press & Foreign Affairs and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism present:
America In the Second Nuclear Age
The live event took place on April 30, 2003 in Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley.
A conversation with: Jonathan Schell , Author and Fellow at The Nation Institute and Senior Fellow at the Center for Globalization at Yale University
Frances FitzGerald, Author of Fire In The Lake and Way Out There In The Blue
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A wide-ranging conversation on art forgers, prophets and purists between artist and writer Jonathon Keats, gallerist and author Richard Polsky,and curator and author Nancy Boas. Visit UC Berkeley Extension at extension.berkeley.edu.
Scott Saul is a historian and critic who has written for The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Nation and other publications. He is the author of Becoming Richard Pryor, the first thoroughly researched biography of the comedian, and the creator of Richard Pryor's Peoria (www.becomingrichardpryor.com), a digital archive of materials from Pryor's formative years in that Midwestern city. He teaches courses in American literature and history at UC Berkeley, where he is an associate professor of English. He lives in Berkeley, CA, with his wife and son.
The Post-Employment Benefits Task Force visited UC Berkeley to talk about its work and the range of options it is considering for pension and retiree health benefits. The Task Force also shared the results of the recent employee preference survey. Two sessions were offered: A morning session for staff and staff retirees, and an afternoon session for faculty and professors emeriti.
The April meeting follows-up on meetings held last fall at which time task force members laid out the issues confronting UC in sustaining the current pension and retiree health benefits. UC President Mark Yudof appointed the Task Force in March 2009, and charged it with reviewing current retirement benefits and developing options for balancing the long-term costs of pension and retiree health benefits with the need to provide sustainable post-employment benefits to faculty and staff. The Task Force has been studying the issues and weighing input from the UC community. It will make recommendations to President Yudof later this summer on ways to change the funding and policies for post-employment benefits.
For more information on the Post-Employment Benefits Task Force, including a recording of the fall forums presentation, visit theFuture of UC Retirement Benefits website at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucrpfuture/emp_task.html
Lawrence Hall of Science, the Office of Equity & Inclusion, the Office of Faculty Equity and the Office of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley are pleased to host this opening reception for RACE: Are We So Different? The exhibit provides an opportunity to understand race from a biological, cultural and historical perspective through engaging, hands-on science experiences; real artifacts; and videos that present peoples unique stories. Speakers include Charis Thompson, Kimberly TallBear, Elizabeth Stage, Kalie Sacco, Michael Omi, Nailah Suad Nasir, Harry LeGrande, Fritz Foo, Gibor Basri and Robert J. Birgeneau. The exhibit is open to the public 10am to 5pm January 30 - May 2, 2010.
Sponsors:
Lawrence Hall of Science http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/race
KQED http://www.kqed.org
Best Buy Children's Foundation http://www.bestbuyinc.com/community_relations/index.htm
American Anthropological Association http://www.aaanet.org/
Science Museum of Minnesota http://www.smm.org/race/
Renowned harpsichordist and UC Berkeley musicologist Davitt Moroney will perform a unique weekend-long marathon of J. S. Bachs masterpiece "The Well-Tempered Clavier" Books 1 and 2 October 24 & 25 presented by Cal Performances at Hertz Hall. How does he prepare for such a Herculean effort? Watch and listen as Prof. Moroney explains. (Length: 3:00)