Hosted by Robert Hass and university librarian Thomas C. Leonard, the kickoff features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.
http://lunchpoems .berkeley.edu
California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy
Opening Speaker:
Dr. Steven Chu, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
http://ccelp.berk eley.edu
"Domestic Politics and International Relations"
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Steve Walt of Harvard University for a discussion of how domestic politics influences the making of U.S. policy on the Middle East.
"Descent into Chaos"
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Pakistani Journalist Ahmed Rashid for a discussion of United States foreign policy and the failure of nation building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Recorded June 12, 2008
http://globetrott er.berkeley.edu/iis/ Kreisler.html
http://globetrott er.berkeley.edu/conv ersations/
The Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics presents a lecture by Nobel Laureate and Berkeley grad, David Gross, of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He will discuss "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics."
The lecture is part of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics Opening Symposium on October 19 and 20.
Robin Blaser emerged from the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and '50s along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and later established himself as one of Canada's foremost experimental poets. In addition to numerous works of poetry, criticism, and translation, Blaser has also penned an English and Latin opera libretto entitled The Last Supper in collaboration with Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
