UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures

A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - 2014 (11/3/2014)

The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle (7/14/2014)

The First U.S. ‘War on Terror’: The 1798 Sedition Act and Constitutional Politics in the Age of Jefferson (6/30/2014)

Why White People are Called “Caucasian” (Illustrated) (6/9/2014)

The Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery: Telomeres and Telomerase - Past, Present, and Future (6/2/2014)

How Can Telomeres Cause Age-Related Disease? (5/26/2014)

The Elephant in the Room: The Psychology of Innuendo and Euphemism (5/12/2014)

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (5/5/2014)

The Quest for Heaven is Local: How Spiritual Experience is Shaped by Social Life (2/24/2014)

Island Landscapes, or Sauer Among the Polynesians (2/17/2014)

Fulbright and the Importance of International Education (1/20/2014)

Reason, Genealogy, and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity with Robert Brandom (6/17/2013)

Considering Dogs with Alexandra Horowitz (6/10/2013)

Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower with Mary Ann Mason (4/8/2013)

Income Inequality: Evidence and Implications with Emmanuel Saez (3/11/2013)

A Passion for Waiting: Messianism, History and the Jews with Leon Wieseltier (1/7/2013)

Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines by Modeling the Brain with Jeff Hawkins (12/10/2012)

Intelligence and the Brain: Recent Advances in Understanding How the Brain Works with Jeff Hawkins (12/3/2012)

Happiness and Ultimate Good with Peter Singer (11/26/2012)

Obama, the Tea Party, and the Future of American Politics with Theda Skocpol (11/4/2012)