Berkeley Lectures

Daniel Ziblatt is Eaton Professor of Government at Harvard University and director of the Transformations of Democracy group at Berlin’s WZB Social Science Center. He is the author of four books, including How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018), co-authored with Steve Levitsky,  a New York Times best-seller. The lecture will discuss America’s contemporary…

Join disability rights activist Judith Heumann for a Jefferson Memorial Lecture on the topic of “The Status Quo Loves To Say No”: Disability Rights and the Battle against Structures of Exclusion.  This lecture, delivered in a conversational format, will focus on aspects of Heumann’s journey that…

  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,…

  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,…