Masha Gessen at the Uncharted Ideas Festival in 2015. Listen to her conversation with Lance Knobel on the Uncharted:Berkeley podcast. Photo: Pete Rosos Looking for something good to listen to when driving, working out, walking the dog, or simply lounging on the couch? Berkeleyside has just released five more podcasts of the conversations that took place […]
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Unveiled: Full program for Uncharted Ideas Festival
Appearing at Uncharted Festival on Oct. 16-17 in Berkeley (clockwise, from top left): Jamelle Bouie, Masha Gessen, W. Kamau Bell, Tiffany Shlain, Nicholas Dirks and Meklit Hadero The full program for the third annual Uncharted Ideas Festival was unveiled today, and is published below. The festival takes place at the Berkeley Rep, the Freight & Salvage, […]
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Announcing Uncharted Berkeley Festival of Ideas 2015
A coffee break at the Berkeley Rep at Uncharted 2014. This year’s Ideas Festival is on Oct. 16-17, still in downtown Berkeley. Photo Nancy Rubin A coffee break at the Berkeley Rep at Uncharted 2014. This year’s Ideas Festival is on Oct. 16-17, still in downtown Berkeley. Photo Nancy Rubin Austin has SXSW. Aspen has […]
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Uncharted, Berkeley’s first ideas festival is 1 week away!
Some of the world’s leading, and most entertaining, experts will be participating at Uncharted on Oct. 25-26 Some of the world’s leading, and most entertaining, experts will be participating at Uncharted on Oct. 25-26 The finishing touches are being applied to the program, the speakers, all world experts in their fields, are tweeting about their […]
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Uncharted: Program unveiled, day-passes now available
With the opening of Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas coming up soon, the full program for the two-day extravaganza of speakers and experiences has now been unveiled. We’ve also released Friday-only and Saturday-only tickets for those interested in attending one day of Uncharted. Uncharted opens at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 25 with a […]
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Brazilian activist Maria Luisa Mendonça; inequality chronicler Chrystia Freeland will be at Uncharted
Maria Luisa Mendonça, director of Brazil’s Network for Social Justice and Human Rights (and director of the documentary about sugar plantation slaves embedded below), is the latest speaker to be sign up to be part of the exciting program at Uncharted: The Berkeley Festival of Ideas, which is being produced by Berkeleyside in downtown Berkeley, October […]
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I spy with my little eye… another Prius
The ubiquity of Priuses in Berkeley is a commonplace. But environmental writer Todd Woody reckons Berkeley serves as a harbinger of the future of transportation in the country: With months to go before the first mass production electric cars hit American streets, the $41,000 question (before rebates and tax incentives) is whether drivers will buy them en […]
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DeLong view of the future
Ask Berkeley economist and blogger Brad DeLong about the future of higher education as digital technology develops and you’ll get a disquisition about Erasmus of Rotterdam and the puzzle about how the idea of the university survived Gutenberg and 1435. DeLong enjoys pointing out that UC Berkeley is the only university to have named four […]
