April 14, 2021 @ 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM 2021 Summer Internship & Career Fair Online via Zoom The Cal Career Center is pleased to invite you to attend the virtual 2021 Summer Internship & Career Fair. Still looking for a summer internship or full-time job? The Summer Internship & Career Fair is our last fair of the recruiting season! This fair is for all class levels and majors, and all opportunities: engineering, science, tech, business, nonprofit, public service and more! This fair is open only to currently-enrolled UC Berkeley students and eligible alumni (less than five years past graduation with an active Handshake account). All majors and degree levels are welcome to attend.
June 10, 2021 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Moving From Resistance to Writing Virtual Have you been putting off your writing all year by promising yourself that summer is when you'll buckle down and get it done? Are you finding yourself continuing to procrastinate and avoid your writing even though summer has arrived? Have you ever wondered why it is that you really want to write, but just don't do it until there's a looming external deadline? In this webinar, you will learn: What resistance is and why academic writers experience it in pursuit of work we want and need to complete. How to identify what's holding you back from writing and completing your ___________ (article, dissertation, book manuscript, grant proposal, etc...). The three most common types of writing funk and how to move around them. How to create the types community, support and accountability for your writing that will help you to ride through whatever type of writing funk you are currently experiencing.
June 24, 2021 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Faculty Success Program Preview Webinar: 5 Secrets to a Super-Productive Semester Virtual Do you need to have a breakthrough in your writing and research productivity? Do you promise yourself every term that you're going to be highly productive, but end up falling short year after year? Do you want to learn why our Faculty Success Program consistently improves over 90% of participant's productivity every session? If so, join us for one of our most popular webinars where you will learn: How to avoid the biggest mistakes academic writers make during the academic term How to maximize your research and writing productivity How to combat professional isolation and create a supportive writing community Activate your free institutional membership Presented by: National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity
October 27, 2021 @ 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM Counterfactuals, Compatiblism, and Rational Choice Virtual The University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce our upcoming virtual Howison Philosophy Lecture on October 27 with Professor Robert Stalnaker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We hope you can join us for this live streamed event on the Berkeley Graduate Lectures website. As an audience, you're encouraged to submit questions during the event using a Google form on this lecture's webpage. Counterfactuals, Compatibilism and Rational Choice October 27, 2021 at 4:10 p.m. Robert Stalnaker, Lawrence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This lecture will be streamed live on the Berkeley Graduate Lectures website. About the Lecturer and Lecture Robert Stalnaker is the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stalnaker’s interests are wide-ranging, from philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and decision theory to pragmatics. Of his lecture, he notes: “I will discuss a puzzle about counterfactuals and determinism that parallels a more familiar puzzle about free will and determinism, arguing first, that the general puzzle gives us reason to look more closely at the details of the semantics for counterfactuals, and second that the parallel with the standard argument for incompatibilism gives us reason to look more closely at the central role of counterfactuals in practical reasoning. In this context, I will look at some debates about the foundations of decision theory, and at the interaction of causal, epistemic, and temporal concepts in reasoning about what to do, and about how to explain why rational agents do what they do.” A prolific writer, Stalnaker is the author of four books: Inquiry (MIT Press, 1984), Our Knowledge of the Internal World (Oxford, 2007), Mere Possibilities (Princeton Press, 2012), and Context (Oxford, 2015). His most recent book, Context, explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He recently published, “Counterfactuals and probability” as a chapter in Conditionals, Paradox and Probability: Themes from the philosophy of Dorothy Edgington, Oxford University Press (2021). Robert Stalnaker received his PhD from Princeton University in 1965, and subsequently taught, over the next fifty years, at Yale University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University and MIT. In addition to the works mentioned above, he has published three collections of papers, all with Oxford: Context and Content (1999), Ways a World Might Be (2003), and Knowledge and Conditionals (2019). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
February 9, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe Virtual Live-Stream Join William D. Phillips, Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics, University of Maryland NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology for a Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture on the topic of Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe. This will be a lively, multimedia presentation, including exciting experimental demonstrations and down-to-earth explanations about some of today’s hottest (and coolest) science.
February 10, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM A New Measure: The Revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System Virtual Live-Stream Join William D. Phillips, Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics, University of Maryland NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology for a Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture on the topic of A New Measure: The Revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System. The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since its origins during the French Revolution. This talk will describe why this reform was needed and how it is done.
March 3, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:15 PM Excavating “Ground Truth” in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data Virtual Live-Stream Join Kate Crawford, Research Professor of Communication and STS, Senior Principal Researcher, USC Annenberg, Microsoft Research for a Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values on the topic of Excavating “Ground Truth” in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data. A public seminar discussion on March 4th will follow this event. In this lecture, Kate Crawford will share new work that reflects on what’s at stake in the architecture and contents of training sets, and how they are increasingly part of our urban, legal, logistical, and commercial infrastructures. Professor Crawford’s lecture is one of seven special Obert C. Tanner Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values. The six other participating universities in this series are Stanford University, University of Utah, University of Michigan, Yale University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. This virtual event will be available to UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff and the greater Berkeley community virtually via live-stream video on the lecture webpage. Like all Berkeley Graduate Lectures, this event is free and open to the public. Please register to receive updates regarding the event. Register for the event For more information about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Tanner Lectures webpage.
March 4, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:10 PM Excavating “Ground Truth” in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data — Seminar Discussion Virtual Live-Stream Join Kate Crawford, Research Professor of Communication and STS, Senior Principal Researcher, USC Annenberg, Microsoft Research for a Tanner Seminar Discussion on the topic of Excavating “Ground Truth” in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data. This event follows Crawford's lecture on the same topic on March 3, 2022 and includes commentary by Marion Fourcade, Angjoo Kanazawa and Trevor Paglen.
April 12, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:15 PM Lecture I: The Fork in the Road: Adolescence, Education, Economic Fatalism, and Populism Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Caroline Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University for a Tanner lecture on the topic of The Fork in the Road: Adolescence, Education, Economic Fatalism, and Populism. This event is the first of three lectures in The Imperative of Investing in Adolescent Education series. Subsequent lectures in this series will take place on April 13 and 14, 2022. One of the world’s leading scholars in the field of education economics, Hoxby’s lectures will draw upon economics, neuroscience, and education. In her first lecture, she will show that early adolescence is the point at which most people either join the path towards advanced cognitive skills or not. Hoxby will argue that, in a highly industrialized economy like that of the United States, it is not unreasonable for people on the non-advanced-cognitive-skills path to exhibit “economic fatalism”—despair at their long-term economic prospects. Please be advised that this event is currently being offered virtually and in person, though that is subject to change. This virtual event will be available via live-stream on the lecture webpage. Like all Berkeley Graduate Lectures, this event is free and open to the public. Please register to receive updates regarding the event. Register for the event For updates about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Tanner Lectures webpage.
April 13, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:15 PM Lecture II: Smart Money: Educational Investments in Adolescents Earn Higher Returns Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Caroline Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University for a Tanner lecture on the topic of Smart Money: Educational Investments in Adolescents Earn Higher Returns. This event is the second of three lectures in The Imperative of Investing in Adolescent Education series. The third and final event in this series will take place on April 14, 2022. One of the world’s leading scholars in the field of education economics, Hoxby’s lectures will draw upon economics, neuroscience, and education. In her second lecture, Hoxby will argue that the logical flip side of her argument is that early adolescence is the crucial period for improvements in education. She will provide rigorous evidence that the returns to successful educational interventions are higher in early adolescence than at other ages. However, she will also show that much less money is spent on adolescents’ education than on that of younger or older students. Hoxby will argue that the neglect of adolescent education could have profound consequences, not just on economic outcomes but political and social outcomes, due to a substantial share of the population’s failing to develop advanced cognitive skills. Please be advised that this event is currently being offered virtually and in person, though that is subject to change. This virtual event will be available via live-stream on the lecture webpage. Like all Berkeley Graduate Lectures, this event is free and open to the public. Please register to receive updates regarding the event. Register for the event For updates about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Tanner Lectures webpage.
April 14, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:15 PM The Fork in the Road: Seminar and Discussion Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Caroline Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University for a Tanner seminar and discussion on The Imperative of Investing in Adolescent Education. This is the third and final event in The Imperative of Investing in Adolescent Education lecture series. One of the world’s leading scholars in the field of education economics, Hoxby’s lectures will draw upon economics, neuroscience, and education. This seminar and discussion includes commentary by Jan-Werner Müller, Erik Hurst, and Silvia Bunge. Please be advised that this event is currently being offered virtually and in person, though that is subject to change. This virtual event will be available via live-stream on the lecture webpage. Like all Berkeley Graduate Lectures, this event is free and open to the public. Please register to receive updates regarding the event. Register for the event For updates about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Tanner Lectures webpage.
April 27, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Steven Yablo, David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a Howison Lecture on the topic of The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy. Philosophy almost alone among disciplines appears to lack a distinctive subject matter. The world has chemical, biological, and political aspects, but no philosophical aspects. If subject matter does have a role to play here, it’s to do less with the field’s descriptive ambitions than the genealogy of philosophical problems. This lecture will be streamed live on the Berkeley Graduate Lectures website. It is currently also being offered in person, though that is subject to change. Like all Berkeley Graduate Lectures, this event is free and open to the public. Please register to receive updates regarding the event. Register for the event For more information about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Berkeley Graduate Lectures webpage.
October 17, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM UC Berkeley Tanner Lecture: Charles Beitz on For the People? Representative Government in America: Intimations of Failure Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Charles Beitz, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University for an Obert C. Tanner Lecture on the Intimations of Failure. Political scientists, constitutional lawyers, and democratic theorists consider norms of democratic representation in literature whose paths cross too seldom. They do not agree about the meaning of fair and effective representation. Democratic theory is perhaps the area to which one would look for insight, but for the most part it has been too remote from political practice to illuminate the problems of our recent institutional history. These lectures will try to bring the theory of democratic representation into closer contact with its troubled American practice. For those interested in the moral basis of representative democracy, the narrative of malfunction raises two questions. First, are the symptoms documented by political scientists really failures? What norms of democratic representation do they infringe? This is a problem of diagnosis. Second, approaching the subject more constructively, what would successful democratic representation look like? If we grant that democratic politics is unavoidably a form of regulated rivalry, what would it mean for its regulation to be fair and effective? The first lecture will address the problem of diagnosis. Please be advised that this event is currently being offered in person. The in-person event will be held at Toll Room, Alumni House, on the UC Berkeley Campus.
October 18, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM UC Berkeley Tanner Lecture: Charles Beitz on For the People? Representative Government in America: Regulating Rivalry Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Charles Beitz, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University for a Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Regulating Rivalry. Political scientists, constitutional lawyers, and democratic theorists consider norms of democratic representation in literature whose paths cross too seldom. They do not agree about the meaning of fair and effective representation. Democratic theory is perhaps the area to which one would look for insight, but for the most part it has been too remote from political practice to illuminate the problems of our recent institutional history. These lectures will try to bring the theory of democratic representation into closer contact with its troubled American practice. This lecture will be for those interested in the moral basis of representative democracy, the narrative of malfunction raises two questions. First, are the symptoms documented by political scientists really failures? What norms of democratic representation do they infringe? This is a problem of diagnosis. Second, approaching the subject more constructively, what would successful democratic representation look like? If we grant that democratic politics is unavoidably a form of regulated rivalry, what would it mean for its regulation to be fair and effective? The first lecture addresses diagnosis. This lecture will discuss prescription. Please be advised that this event is currently being offered person. The in-person event will be held at Toll Room, Alumni House, on the UC Berkeley Campus.
October 19, 2022 @ 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM Seminar & Discussion: Charles Beitz on For the People? Representative Government in America Alumni House, Toll Room Berkeley, United States Join Charles Beitz, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University for an Obert C. Tanner Lecture on the Intimations of Failure. This is the third and final event For the People? Representative Government in America lecture series. Political scientists, constitutional lawyers, and democratic theorists consider norms of democratic representation in literature whose paths cross too seldom. They do not agree about the meaning of fair and effective representation. Democratic theory is perhaps the area to which one would look for insight, but for the most part it has been too remote from political practice to illuminate the problems of our recent institutional history. These lectures will try to bring the theory of democratic representation into closer contact with its troubled American practice. For those interested in the moral basis of representative democracy, the narrative of malfunction raises two questions. First, are the symptoms documented by political scientists really failures? What norms of democratic representation do they infringe? This is a problem of diagnosis. Second, approaching the subject more constructively, what would successful democratic representation look like? If we grant that democratic politics is unavoidably a form of regulated rivalry, what would it mean for its regulation to be fair and effective? The first lecture addresses diagnosis. The second lecture discusses prescription. This seminar and discussion includes commentary on these topics by Martin Gilens, Pamela S. Karlan, and Jane Mansbridge. The in-person event will be held at Toll Room, Alumni House, on the UC Berkeley Campus. The event will also be available virtually via live stream on the lecture webpage. Please be advised that this event is not being offered virtually, though a recording of the lecture will be available on the Tanner website following the event. Former messaging mistakenly included references to a live stream, which will not be available. For updates about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Tanner Lectures website.