The J-School hosts numerous public events of interest to students and the general public. The events listed below are of particular interest to students in our program. Use the "Events View" picklist below to see events associated with other programs.
- Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
- Author/Journalist Anand Giridharadas in conversation with South Asian Journalists Association President Jigar Mehta
New York Times columnist and American-born author Anand Giridharadas has just released his first book, India Calling, and will discuss his perspective of the rise of modern India as well as the joys and challenges of overseas reporting.
- Thursday, April 29th, 2010
- Leaping Tigers, Hidden Dragons: A Wide Angle on India-China
China and India, two of the biggest developing countries and euphemistically referred to as the Asian Tigers, are poised to dominate the 21st century. Their economic growth continues to surprise the developed world even after the financial meltdown of 2009. Both countries have tremendous potential amid significant social problems.
- Monday, November 30th, 2009
- ROGER THUROW, Author and Journalist, Wall Street Journal - ENOUGH: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
Roger Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries, including two dozen in Africa. Co-authors Thurow and Kilman have teamed up to produce a stream of page 1 stories in the Journal that have broken new ground in our understanding of the forces behind famine.
- Thursday, March 12th, 2009
- Peter Eichstaedt
Peter Eichstaedt speaks about his most recent book, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army.
- Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
- International Quarterly Dispatches
- Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight, co-editors of the new quarterly dispatches, spoke to a groups of 1st and 2nd year students at the J-school Library on October 28 about their publication. The event was sponsored by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
- Friday, August 8th, 2008
- THE DARK SIDE:
An Evening of Crucial Disclosures by brilliant New Yorker reporter Jane
Mayer in conversation with Neil Henry, author and UC Graduate School of
Journalism Interim Dean- Friday, April 11th, 2008
- Fourth Annual International Reporting Conference
Join us for a day with some of the most experienced reporters and editors in the business. The conference will focus on the nuts and bolts of working outside the United States.
Please see the full event details for the day's agenda.
Limited Space. Reservations must be made by Apri
- Thursday, February 28th, 2008
- Life, Death and Committing Journalism Along the U.S. Mexican Border
Dallas Morning News Mexico Bureau Chief Alfredo Corchado and Sacramento Bee Assistant City Editor and former Latin America correspondent Ricardo Sandoval will explore U.S. - Mexico border issues.
- Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
- Election 2008: Looking Beyond The Bush Years
A talk by Bob Herbert, who joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in 1993.
- Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
- In the Shadow of Armies
Lecture by Peter Maass, Contributing Writer to The New York Times Magazine and author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
- Monday, November 5th, 2007
- Strategic Options for U.S. Foreign Policy
Choosing the President: Campaigning and Governing in War and Peace
A series of panels, conferences, and lectures sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies
and the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley- Thursday, October 4th, 2007
- Jeffrey Toobin in a conversation with Cynthia Gorney
Presented by Cody's, with Cal's Graduate School of Journalism and Goldman School of Public Policy, Jeffrey Toobin discusses THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, in a conversation with Cynthia Gorney.
- Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
- Workshop with Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal Editor at Large
Paul Steiger, Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, conducted a three hour workshop with students from the Journalism School on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Steiger discussed the recent sale of the Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
- Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
- Asia Colloquium: Nuclear Politics: India and Iran
Visiting Lecturer Siddharth Varadarajan discusses nuclear politics, a topic he has extensively covered, during the Asia Colloquium on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 4-6 p.m. in the Library.
- Wednesday, August 29th, 2007-Friday, August 31st, 2007
- Islam, Global Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Choosing the President - Campaigning and Governing in War and Peace
- Monday, August 27th, 2007
- Inside the Red Mosque
JSchool graduate Aryn Baker ('01) launches the fall semester Covering Asia program on August 27 with a talk on her recent coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Aryn was inside the Red Mosque in Islamabad when the tear gas assault started in July.
- Thursday, October 19th, 2006
- The Washington Post at War
A panel of reporters and editors from The Washington Post will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Iraq bureau chief and author of "Imperial Life in Emerald City;" Steven Fainaru, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Iraq coverage; Post stri
- Friday, September 29th, 2006-Saturday, September 30th, 2006
- Free Speech Conference
Conference on free speech and open-government featuring Arianna Huffington, Dan Ellsberg, Judith Miller, conservative essayist Gabriel Schoenfeld (of Commentary Magazine), political columnist Dan Weintraub (for the Sacramento Bee) and experts in law, journalism and public policy.
- Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
- "All Governments Lie," an I.F. Stone Lecture by Myra MacPherson
Bob Calo, Associate Dean will introduce Myra MacPhearso as she discusses how I.F. Stone taught journalists to doubt government propaganda, dig for facts in documents, and find the whistleblowers who told the truth. "All governments lie but disaster lies in wait for countries whose leaders smoke t
- Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
- Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Michael Gordon of the New York Times will give a seminar on his new book, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, co-authored by Retired Lieutenant General Bernard E. Trainor.
- Monday, March 13th, 2006
- Iraq: Reports from the Frontlines
A panel of leading war correspondents from publications around the world will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes John Burns from The New York Times, Dean Orville Schell, and writers from The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Preceding the discussion will b
- Wednesday, March 8th, 2006-Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
- Food Politics: Paul Rozin
Wednesday, March 8: The fifth in the 2006 Food Politics lecture series, cultural psychologist Paul Rozin discusses "Why, What, and When Do We Eat: Implications for Food Policy." Rozin is a Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
- Friday, December 2nd, 2005
- Information Session for Prospective Students
You are cordially invited to join us for an information session for prospective students, a reception for alumni and friends and a talk by Dean Orville Schell on, "Making Newspapers Viable: What We Can Learn From Alternative Business Models."
- Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
- Darfur, Sudan: The Violence Continues
David Kilgour, a member of the Canadian Parliament and leading human rights advocate, and Mark Brecke, a war photographer who documented the genocide in Darfur, will discuss their first hand experiences regarding the genocide in Darfur, Sudan and shed light on this continuing tragedy.
- Monday, November 14th, 2005-Friday, October 28th, 2005
- George Packer, New Yorker Staff Writer
Please join us for a talk by George Packer, author of the new book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. Packer has made four tours on assignment in Iraq for The New Yorker and won the Overseas Press Club Award in 2003 for his reporting.
- Thursday, November 10th, 2005-Monday, October 24th, 2005
- Choose Your Publisher!
Got a book that needs publishing? The changing media landscape is giving authors new options in royalty publishing, copublishing, and more. To learn how you can you benefit, join the ASJA and editors from five of the Bay Area's leading publishing houses at this event - free to UC Berkeley facult
- Thursday, November 10th, 2005
- Looking For Hope: Public Schools and Growing Up in the Inner City
In conjunction with the exhibition at the ASUC Art Studio, photographer Matt O'Brien will discuss Looking For Hope, his exploration of the public schools, immigration, and growing up in inner city Oakland.
- Thursday, November 10th, 2005
- Monitoring Human Rights Around the World
Please join us for a panel discussion with the staff of Human Rights Watch and this year's 2005 Human Rights Watch Monitor honorees; Omid Memarian, Salih Mahmoud Osman and Beatrice Were.
- Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
- An evening with Robert J. Birgeneau Chancellor and Professor of Physics
Please join us for an evening with Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, in conversation with Dean Orville Schell of the Graduate School of Journalism.
- Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
- Reporting on Climate Change: Student Q&A with Science Reporters
Come learn about reporting on science and the environment with journalists from various media. This event is in conjunction with the National Science Foundation 'Science Communication and the Mass Media' Workshop on Climate Change, at the J-School, November 8 & 9th.
- Monday, November 7th, 2005
- Jung Chang and Jon Halliday: "Mao: The Unkown Story"
In their new book, "Mao -- The Unknown Story," Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for a reevaluation of China's leader Mao Tse-Tung as a tyrant worse than Stalin or Hitler. Chang and Halliday will discuss Mao's role with Dean Orville Schell.
- Friday, November 4th, 2005
- The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting
Stefano DellaVigna, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley.
Robert Calo, Associate Professor Graduate School Journalism,UC Berkeley.
Laura Stoker, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley.- Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
- Operation Yao Ming
Please join us to hear Brook Larmer discuss his upcoming book, Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar. Larmer was the Newsweek bureau chief in Buenos Aires, Miami, Hong Kong, and most recently Shanghai, where he now lives.
- Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
- Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against the Media
Craig Crawford, author of the upcoming book Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against The Media, will discuss his views on the relationship between politicians and the media.
- Saturday, October 29th, 2005
- Investigative Reporting Workshop
Please join us for a half-day investigative reporting workshop that will feature a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lowell Bergman and panels on business investigations, computer-assisted reporting, public records research and local watchdog reporting.
- Thursday, October 27th, 2005
- 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award
Seymour Hersh, an award-winning investigative reporter, will give the 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and receive the Young Activist Award. The lecture is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996).
- Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
- Mike Chinoy, CNN's Senior Asia Correspondent
North Korea is still largely inaccessible to journalists, scholars, and policy makers. Please join us to hear Mike Chinoy offer a veteran Asia reporter's look behind the curtain of secrecy and misunderstanding that screens North Korea from outside view.
- Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
- Controlling Nuclear Weapons From Oppenheimer to the Present
Martin Sherwin, co-author of the recent biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Jonathan Schell, Sr. Fellow at the Institute For the Study of Globalization at Yale University & author The Fate of the Earth, The Unconquerable World,
- Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
- Political Dinner Seminar: Prof. Bruce Cain
BEHIND CALIFORNIA'S SPECIAL ELECTION - Professor Bruce Cain, director of Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and newly appointed head of the University of California Center in Washington D.C., discusses the political and policy consequences of the Nov. 8 Special Election.
- Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
- Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century
What's it like to live suspended between communism and capitalism in Cuba?
Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar describes what the collapse of the Soviet Union has meant for ordinary Cubans. These changes have been documented in the book edited by Lydia Chavez, associate professor at
- Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
- Off to War
Documentary Filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud show excerpts from their
10-part Discovery Times Channel television documentary about a
National Guard unit from Clarksville, Arkansas during its 1 year deployment to Iraq. Named by the Financial Times as one of the top 10 television program- Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
- The Creation of The Media
Sociologist Paul Starr will discuss the shaping of communications in Europe and the U.S. from the 17th to mid-20th centuries. His new book argues that political decisions from the founding of the republic led to America's comparative advantage in communications and to American media's wide impact
- Friday, November 12th, 2004
- Regents Lecture Series: Victor Merina
Former L.A. Times reporter, Victor Merina, was a member of the paper's projects team and shared in the paper's 1993 Pulitzer for spot news coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots. He has continued to contribute essays to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion and Magazine sections. Merina, currently a seni
- Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
- Five Decades Behind the Scenes At The New York Times
A conversation with Arthur Gelb, former managing editor of The New York Times and author of "City Room," due out in paperback in November. "City Room" covers Gelb's five decades at the Times, where he began as a night copy boy in 1944 and retired 45 years later as managing editor.
- Friday, June 4th, 2004
- Bagdikian to Discuss the New Media Monopoly
J-School Dean Emeritus Ben Bagdikian will give a talk on his new book, "The New Media Monopoly," at Cody's bookstore on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley at 7:30 pm on Friday, June 4.
- Wednesday, May 5th, 2004
- An Evening with Bob McChesney, John Nichols and Jerry Mander
Robert McChesney, author of "The Problem of the Media" and co-founder of the media reform group Free Press, discusses the problems as well as possibilities for a new media system. Also, John Nichols of The Nation magazine, and Jerry Mander, the president of the International Forum on Globalizatio
- Monday, April 12th, 2004
- Taking sides in the newsroom
A talk by Robert Rosenthal,Vice President and Managing Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
- Events Outside the J-School:
- UC Berkeley Campus
- School of Information
- Commonwealth Club
- Bay Area Journalism Calendar
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