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Events Archive
Our main Events page lists only the 100 most recent events sponsored by the J-School, while this page archives both recent and historical J-School events. Click event titles for detailed descriptions.
May 6, 2008
Grand Theft Childhood?
May 5, 2008
Writing Your First Book
April 25, 2008
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
April 24, 2008
Berkeley Science Review- Science Writing Seminar
April 22, 2008
A Special Report on The Future of Energy from Mother Jones
April 21, 2008
Apple APERTURE 2.0 Program
April 18, 2008
Amy Arbus Photographer
April 17, 2008
Screening of "Citizen McCaw"
April 16, 2008
Covering Poverty
April 16, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center April 2008 Lecture Series
April 12, 2008
Covering the Digital Campaign
April 11, 2008
Fourth Annual International Reporting Conference
March 25, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center March 2008 Lecture Series
March 20, 2008
The Art of Interviewing
March 19, 2008
Race and Ethnicity in the 2008 Presidential Contest
March 13, 2008
Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right
March 12, 2008
The Crime Beat
March 6, 2008
3rd Annual First Amendment and the Environment Symposium
March 5, 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
February 28, 2008
The "War on Terror" and Human Rights
February 28, 2008
Life, Death and Committing Journalism Along the U.S. Mexican Border
February 27, 2008
Creating A World Through Journalism: Ron Leshem
February 22, 2008
Ami Vitale
February 20, 2008
The Future of Newsrooms
February 15, 2008
Ethnic Media Crossing the Digital Divide:
February 13, 2008
Film Criticism and the 2008 Academy Awards
February 11, 2008
Silicon Valley Spotlight: Covering Takeovers, Titans & Technology
February 6, 2008
Election 2008: Looking Beyond The Bush Years
February 6, 2008
Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters
January 7, 2008
SF Documentary screening:
January 6, 2008
Knight Digital Media Center January 2008 Lecture Series
January 2, 2008
All Pickleweed
December 16, 2007
Knight Digital Media Center December 2007 Lecture Series
December 6, 2007
No End in Sight
November 28, 2007
Asia Colloquium: Reporting across Boundaries, Views of Japan
November 15, 2007
Beyond Endless War:
November 14, 2007
DIGITAL TV AND THE WORLD "Chinese Voices: Reports from San Francisco and Guangzhou"
November 14, 2007
Asia Colloquium: Voices from Pakistan, Crisis and Context and Burma Update
November 13, 2007
Ruth Gidley from Reuters Presents AlertNet
November 7, 2007
In the Shadow of Armies
November 7, 2007
Asia Colloquium: Focus on Women, India and Mongolia
November 7, 2007
There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America
November 5, 2007
The Death of Environmentalism
November 5, 2007
Strategic Options for U.S. Foreign Policy
November 5, 2007
Extraordinary Rendition
November 1, 2007
Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, Presenting Angela Davis, UCSC Professor of History Consciousness and Feminist Studies
October 31, 2007
Asia Colloquium: Photographers at Work in Tibet and Kashmir
October 30, 2007
Food and Farming Film Series "King Corn"
October 27, 2007
play: The Berkeley Digital Media Conference
October 25, 2007
Archival Film Storytelling Panel Discussion
October 25, 2007
Expose: America's Investigative Reports -- Screening and Panel Discussion
October 24, 2007
QUEST: A Multimedia Screening and Discussion
October 24, 2007
Asia Colloquium: North Korea Imaged and Imagined
October 23, 2007
Mike Sager Revenge Tour--CANCELLED
October 22, 2007
Documentary Film Maker Norma Marcos with her film "Waiting for Ben Gurion"
October 18, 2007
A Conversation with Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
October 18, 2007
Food and Farming Film Series - Pollen Nation and Three Short Films
October 17, 2007
Asia Colloquium: Filming India's Uncovered Stories
October 17, 2007
The 21st Century Family
October 11, 2007
The Emergent World of Citizen Media
October 11, 2007
Spotlight on Burma
October 8, 2007
Gypsy Caravan
October 4, 2007
Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
October 4, 2007
Jeffrey Toobin in a conversation with Cynthia Gorney
October 3, 2007
Asia Colloquium: AGENT ORANGE A Personal Requiem, a documentary screening and discussion with Masako Sakata
September 29, 2007
East Meets West 2007
September 28, 2007
The Photographs of Jason Eskenazi
September 27, 2007
So Far From Mexico City, So Close to God
September 24, 2007
2007 Grantham Prize Seminar on the State of Environment via LIVE WEBCAST
September 19, 2007
Journalist Reese Erlich presents Covering the Iraq Surge: Opinions, Facts and Fairytales
September 18, 2007
The Constitution Day Speakers Forum
September 18, 2007
Workshop with Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal Editor at Large
September 5, 2007
Asia Colloquium: Nuclear Politics: India and Iran
August 29, 2007
Islam, Global Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
August 27, 2007
Inside the Red Mosque
July 23, 2007
Religion in Second Life
May 20, 2007
Spring New Media Lecture Series (May 2007)
May 8, 2007
1967: Israel's Longest Year
May 5, 2007
The CIA in Fact and Fiction
April 28, 2007
Wonders Are Many
April 27, 2007
Screening and Discussion: FRONTLINE/World's Hour on Global Media
April 23, 2007
"Wonders Are Many" Film Workshop with Jon Else
April 21, 2007
Turning Journalism into History
April 21, 2007
North Gate Professional Seminar
April 20, 2007
Alumni Documentary Screening & Panel
April 20, 2007
Alumni Weekend
April 19, 2007
Careers in Business Journalism
April 14, 2007
Third Annual International Reporting Conference
April 4, 2007
National Writers Union Event with Reese Erlich
March 28, 2007
Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Fund 2007 Award
March 25, 2007
Spring New Media Lecture Series (March 2007)
March 21, 2007
Food Fight: A Teach-in On the 2007 Farm Bill
March 15, 2007
How I Learned To Love the Law by Writing About It, Not Practicing It
March 13, 2007
Stopping Mass Atrocities
March 12, 2007
Writing for the Greater Good: Celebrating the New Issue of Greater Good Magazine
March 7, 2007
Press and the European Union
March 3, 2007
2007 Women In Leadership Conference
February 27, 2007
"News War": A four-part "Frontline" documentary series
February 27, 2007
The Past, Present, and Future of Food
February 26, 2007
The China Economic Miracle: How Stable Is It?
February 20, 2007
China's Media and the Environment
February 15, 2007
Charlie LeDuff -- Reporter, Writer and Multimedia Master for the New York Times & Others
February 14, 2007
Tom Engelhardt: Editor, Publisher, and Blogger
February 13, 2007
Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate
February 8, 2007
John Pomfret, "Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China"
February 7, 2007
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media by Eric Klinenberg
February 6, 2007
The View From Abroad: Is America Broken?
January 25, 2007
Manifesto for Change
January 11, 2007
News War
January 8, 2007
Free Speech & Human Rights in China and the US
December 12, 2006
Lynn Sherr
December 10, 2006
Winter New Media Lecture Series (December 2006)
November 15, 2006
The New Yorker College Tour
November 14, 2006
GMOs and the Law
November 13, 2006
How The New Yorker Covers The World
November 9, 2006
Kevin Sites: Conflict Journalism in the Digital Age
November 9, 2006
Nation Writers on the State of the Nation
November 8, 2006
Digital TV and the World: Reports From Latin America and India
November 7, 2006
Adventuring the African Apocalypse
November 5, 2006
EYEWITNESS II
November 2, 2006
10th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
October 23, 2006
Images of Race, and the News Media
October 20, 2006
"Covering Private Companies and Non-Profits"
October 19, 2006
The Washington Post at War
October 17, 2006
9-11 Aftermath Photo Exhibit by Joel Meyerowitz
October 9, 2006
Broken Home
October 6, 2006
James Fallows, Author of "Blind into Baghdad"
October 5, 2006
Barry Lopez
October 4, 2006
Ethics and Journalism: Should We Trust the Media?
September 29, 2006
Free Speech Conference
September 22, 2006
Working in America Today
September 19, 2006
Consequences of the War on Terrorism
September 19, 2006
IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
September 16, 2006
J-School Documentary Screening
September 16, 2006
East Meets West 2006 (see the 2007 event page to register for the current event)
September 12, 2006
"All Governments Lie," an I.F. Stone Lecture by Myra MacPherson
August 28, 2006
Edith Irvine's Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
June 28, 2006
American Liberalism, Opinion Journalism, and the War on Terror
May 23, 2006
Al Gore's Film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
May 23, 2006
China - U.S. Climate Change Forum
May 21, 2006
Summer New Media Lecture Series (May 2006)
May 11, 2006
James Nachtwey, Photographer
May 4, 2006
"The Lemon Tree" with Author Sandy Tolan
May 3, 2006
Early Signs: Report from a Warming Planet
May 3, 2006
Careers in Digital Journalism
May 2, 2006
The Growing Movement to Protect Rivers in China
May 1, 2006
The Reality and Legacy of The Iraq War (And Will Iran Be Next?)
April 27, 2006
Which Way Israel? The Jewish State After Elections
April 26, 2006
War, Children and Accountability
April 25, 2006
Is the Media Failing America?
April 24, 2006
What to Eat: Sensible Food Choices in this Era of Corporate and Scientific Confusion
April 20, 2006
India: Behind the Economic Boom
April 17, 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma
April 13, 2006
Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply
April 11, 2006
Screening of "Jonestown: The Life And Death of The People's Temple"
April 11, 2006
China Syndrome: The 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
April 11, 2006
Who Says Business is Boring?
April 8, 2006
From Newscast to Podcast: The Future of Radio Journalism
April 8, 2006
Alumni Weekend
April 8, 2006
North Gate Professional Seminar
April 6, 2006
California: America's High-Stakes Experiment
April 6, 2006
Covering HIV/AIDS in China
April 5, 2006
Dan Gillmor on the Rise of Grassroots Journalism
April 4, 2006
Katy McColl, JANE Magazine Writer and Editor
April 1, 2006
Watching Guadalcanal Village
March 27, 2006
Spring New Media Lecture Series (March 2006)
March 23, 2006
The Writer in the Digital Age
March 22, 2006
Playing with Food
March 21, 2006
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
March 21, 2006
Elizabeth Kolbert on Global Warming
March 20, 2006
Bush's New Energy Policy: Visionary Solution or Cynical Snake Oil?
March 15, 2006
Food Politics: Alice Waters
March 13, 2006
Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines
March 13, 2006
Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas
March 10, 2006
Reporting Overseas
March 9, 2006
Occupation: Dreamland
March 8, 2006
Food Politics: Paul Rozin
March 7, 2006
Life on the Foreign Desk of The Washington Post
March 6, 2006
Can Newspapers Survive and Serve the Public Interest?
March 1, 2006
Food Politics: How Big Food Resists Government Regulation
March 1, 2006
How Big Food Resists Government Regulation
February 15, 2006
Clash of Civilizations: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
February 15, 2006
Mark Ritchie: Putting the Politics into Food Politics
February 13, 2006
Impressions from Baghdad
February 10, 2006
Should Coal Be King? Confronting the Human & Environmental Costs
February 9, 2006
North Koreans Beyond the Border
February 8, 2006
The Forgotten War in Northern Uganda
February 8, 2006
Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio
February 7, 2006
Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
January 30, 2006
Writing for the Greater Good: A Launch Party for Greater Good Magazine
December 13, 2005
China and the Media
December 5, 2005
The Press in Kenya
December 2, 2005
Information Session for Prospective Students
November 21, 2005
Grassroots Media & Social Justice in India
November 16, 2005
Are Big Business, Government and Wall Street Undermining the American Dream?
November 16, 2005
Investigative Business Journalism Workshop
November 15, 2005
Darfur, Sudan: The Violence Continues
November 15, 2005
Jack Hitt: The Art of the Query
November 14, 2005
George Packer, New Yorker Staff Writer
November 10, 2005
Choose Your Publisher!
November 10, 2005
Looking For Hope: Public Schools and Growing Up in the Inner City
November 10, 2005
Monitoring Human Rights Around the World
November 9, 2005
An evening with Robert J. Birgeneau Chancellor and Professor of Physics
November 9, 2005
Reporting on Climate Change: Student Q&A with Science Reporters
November 7, 2005
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday: "Mao: The Unkown Story"
November 4, 2005
The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting
November 2, 2005
Operation Yao Ming
November 1, 2005
Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media
October 29, 2005
Investigative Reporting Workshop
October 27, 2005
9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
October 26, 2005
Mike Chinoy, CNN's Senior Asia Correspondent
October 21, 2005
China's Cultural Revolution
October 21, 2005
A Talk by Photographer Li Zhensheng
October 20, 2005
Mao's Revolution: What Remains
October 19, 2005
Report From Shanghai
October 6, 2005
UC Regents Lecture Series: Hilton Als
October 5, 2005
Controlling Nuclear Weapons From Oppenheimer to the Present
October 4, 2005
Political Dinner Seminar: Prof. Bruce Cain
October 3, 2005
Off to War
October 3, 2005
100 Suns
September 29, 2005
Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO, Salesforce.com
September 22, 2005
Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century
September 21, 2005
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
September 15, 2005
Does America Have a Free Press?
September 15, 2005
Climate Change: The International Perspective
September 12, 2005
John Battelle on Google
May 23, 2005
New Media Summer Public Lecture Series (May 2005)
May 13, 2005
Maureen Dowd and Tom Friedman
May 4, 2005
Off to War
April 25, 2005
At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention
April 22, 2005
John Kenneth Galbraith's Legacy--and His Lessons for Today
April 19, 2005
Journalists Under Fire: Vietnam & Iraq
April 14, 2005
All the News That's Fit to Sell
April 14, 2005
The Changing Economics of News
April 5, 2005
Reporting on Labor in a Globalized World
April 2, 2005
Covering Iraq
March 30, 2005
Founding Mothers
March 21, 2005
New Media Public Lecture Series (March 2005)
March 17, 2005
The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail?
March 10, 2005
Cambodian Profiles: Digital TV Reports
March 3, 2005
Rena Effendi: Lost & Found
March 2, 2005
Japan's Foreign Policy Challenges in East Asia: US, China and Korea
February 25, 2005
Paul Fusco and Magnum Stories
February 24, 2005
Beyond Organic: The Story of Polyface Farm
February 22, 2005
Profiling the Powerful in Politics and Technology
February 22, 2005
The Feel-Good Factory: Mass Media Vs. Mass Reality
February 16, 2005
State of U.S. Media: Where is it headed?
February 9, 2005
Report From Baghdad: What Really Happened in the Iraqi Election
February 7, 2005
The Quest for Safety in a Networked World
January 31, 2005
History as Journalism; Journalism as History
January 26, 2005
The Creation of The Media
January 25, 2005
The Vietnam War
January 15, 2005
UNDER FIRE: VIETNAM WAR
January 11, 2005
FRONTLINE/World Season Premier
November 22, 2004
Darfur: How to Respond to Genocide
November 19, 2004
Migrant Tales: Life in China's Boomtowns
November 16, 2004
From "No Child Left Behind" to the New SAT
November 13, 2004
Regents Lecturer Victor Merina will conduct a free workshop for the public and the Bay Area journalism community
November 12, 2004
Regents Lecture Series: Victor Merina
November 9, 2004
Five Decades Behind the Scenes At The New York Times
November 1, 2004
South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China
October 27, 2004
The Photographer As Activist
October 26, 2004
Global Climate Change: What Are The Facts?
October 25, 2004
Has the Press Failed in Iraq: War, Torture and Accountability
October 18, 2004
Potent Presidential Politics: Inequality, Race, and Welfare Reform
October 12, 2004
Bush Science
October 8, 2004
California First Amendment Coalition Annual Assembly
October 6, 2004
8th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
October 5, 2004
Indian Muslims: The Creation of a Minority
October 4, 2004
Debate: Does America Need A New President?
October 1, 2004
Award-winning American Photographer Eugene Richards
September 30, 2004
Up from Zero: A conversation about the future of the World Trade Center site with New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger.
September 29, 2004
Vermeer in Bosnia
September 28, 2004
Humanity 2.0: Will Your Grandchildren Be Genetically Modified?
September 20, 2004
Sahel: The End of the Road
July 23, 2004
BlogOn 2004 Conference
June 4, 2004
Bagdikian to Discuss the New Media Monopoly
May 26, 2004
Press Credibility & The 2004 Elections
May 26, 2004
American Masala
May 5, 2004
An Evening with Bob McChesney, John Nichols and Jerry Mander
May 4, 2004
Social Justice & Social Empathy: Where Did They Go? How Can We Regain Them?
April 30, 2004
China's Digital Future
April 30, 2004
Disrupting the News Industry
April 30, 2004
Revisiting Virtual Communities
April 29, 2004
Living With The Genie
April 28, 2004
The Importance of Being Famous
April 28, 2004
Transition to What?
April 27, 2004
Biotech & Nanotech - Remaking Nature in the Image of Technology
April 22, 2004
Changing World Views of the U.S.: An International Panel Discussion
April 20, 2004
Our Own Worst Enemy
April 20, 2004
Journalism Without a Net: The Freelance Life
April 19, 2004
Howard French
April 15, 2004
Joe Domanick
April 14, 2004
Susan Meiselas
April 14, 2004
Journalism Under Siege
April 13, 2004
Film Screening: Citizen King
April 12, 2004
PBS - Love It / Hate It / Can't Live Without It
April 12, 2004
Taking sides in the newsroom
April 9, 2004
When the Storm Came
April 7, 2004
Sri Lanka: Taking sides in the shooting
April 6, 2004
Ian Johnson: Wild Grass
April 5, 2004
At the Mercy of the Saudis: Bush's Failed Energy Policy
April 4, 2004
Remembering Marlon Riggs, Part 3
April 3, 2004
Remembering Marlon Riggs, Part 2
April 3, 2004
North Gate Professional Seminar
April 2, 2004
Remembering Marlon Riggs, Part 1
March 31, 2004
Risk Analysis or the Precautionary Principle?
March 18, 2004
Did We Get it Right?
March 17, 2004
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Truth and Consequences
March 16, 2004
The Los Angeles Times at War in Iraq
March 16, 2004
Media At War Conference
March 4, 2004
Life Beyond Genes: The Trouble With Genetic Engineering
March 4, 2004
Life Beyond Genes
March 3, 2004
George Soros: The Bubble of American Supremacy
February 24, 2004
The Real State of the Union -- A Town Hall Meeting
February 19, 2004
Selling Out the First Amendment
February 18, 2004
The New York Times at War
February 4, 2004
The Fog of War
January 30, 2004
Shanghai: The Evolution of a City
January 13, 2004
The Jewish Community in Asia
January 8, 2004
The Lawless Sea
December 10, 2003
Pulse of Scientific Freedom
December 4, 2003
Voices From the Edge
November 24, 2003
Fast Food World
November 24, 2003
Fast Food World
November 19, 2003
The Politics of Obesity
November 14, 2003
Ecuador and the Price of Oil
November 6, 2003
Politics as Theatre
November 4, 2003
Hitchens v. Danner: Has Bush Made Us Safer?
November 4, 2003
Class of 2003 Documentaries Show
November 4, 2003
Has Bush Made Us Safer?
November 4, 2003
The Science of Medicine Comes of Age
November 2, 2003
Class of 2003 Documentaries
October 29, 2003
The High Price of Cheap Food
October 28, 2003
Comic Artist Visits School
October 20, 2003
Investigative Reporting
October 15, 2003
The Future of Food, Farming and the Wild
October 2, 2003
California Recall and the Environment
September 30, 2003
Covering the Bush White House
September 30, 2003
Helen Thomas - The Bush White House
September 29, 2003
Infectious Disease Conference
September 26, 2003
The War in Iraq and the American Economy
September 26, 2003
Paul Krugman: The War in Iraq and the American Economy
September 21, 2003
Eyewitness I
September 9, 2003
Covering Infectious Disease
June 3, 2003
War in Afghanistan
May 30, 2003
China and the Internet
May 19, 2003
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop II
May 19, 2003
Multimedia and Online Publishing Presentations
May 16, 2003
Class of 2003 Open House
May 12, 2003
Hearing on Media Consolidation
May 6, 2003
Reporting the Politics of Oil
May 5, 2003
Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha
May 4, 2003
A Presence of the Past
May 2, 2003
David Landau
May 1, 2003
War With Iraq
May 1, 2003
Ula Taylor
May 1, 2003
America In the Second Nuclear Age
April 30, 2003
Weapons of Mass Destruction In An Age of Terror
April 29, 2003
Turning Fact Into Fiction
April 27, 2003
Edwin Bayley Memorial Service
April 26, 2003
Proposed Media Ownership Rule Changes
April 18, 2003
Covering Business in California
April 17, 2003
Mystery of the Monkey
April 17, 2003
Geograhic Information Systems
April 16, 2003
The Weather Underground
April 16, 2003
U.S. war in Iraq
April 14, 2003
Spoils of War?
April 10, 2003
Weblogs, Information, and Society
April 10, 2003
Tom Standage
April 4, 2003
The Politics of Food
April 3, 2003
Looking at America from Abroad
April 2, 2003
Looking at America from Abroad
April 2, 2003
Visiting Scholar on KQED Radio Show
March 28, 2003
Connecting with the Wired Generation
March 27, 2003
UNAFF Traveling Festival Berkeley
March 24, 2003
Multimedia Reporting & Convergence Workshop I
March 20, 2003
The New Metropolis
March 20, 2003
Dialogues
March 18, 2003
Alice Waters
March 18, 2003
War, The Press & U.S. Power
January 29, 2003
Debate: How Should We Use Our Power?
November 18, 2002
Setting the Agenda: The New York Times and America's View of the World
September 26, 2002
Food and the Environment
September 17, 2002
Weblogs: Challenging Mass Media and Society
February 25, 2002
Mark Danner: Ideas in U.S. Foreign Policy
January 28, 2002
The US and the Islamic World I: Saudi Arabia
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