Berkeley Voices

Berkeley Voices


Latest Episodes

102: Exploring the sound of the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz
November 08, 2022

Ethnomusicology student Everardo Reyes' research looks at how radio and music were used during the 1969 takeover to capture mass attention and amplify the Red Power movement.

101: 'Interior Chinatown' is about roles and how we play them
August 24, 2022

Incoming UC Berkeley students read the 2020 novel, which goes inside the mind of a young Asian American man trying to make it in Hollywood.

100: How Roe v. Wade radically changed American culture
June 29, 2022

When abortion was legalized in the U.S. in 1973, it changed everything, says Kristin Luker, a professor emerita of law and of sociology at UC Berkeley. It was so revolutionary I argue it was on a

99: Indi Garcia lives and breathes the 'abolitionist philosophy'
May 05, 2022

The Berkeley Law student is graduating on May 13 with pro bono honors for her work on the Post-Conviction Advocacy Project.

98: How one student finds hope in her 'fellow earthlings'
April 15, 2022

UC Berkeley student Hope Gale-Hendry shares in her own words how she discovered her deep interconnectedness with all living things, and why she decided to study the American pika.

97: Biologist confronts deep roots of climate despair
April 01, 2022

Bree Rosenblum, a professor of global change biology at UC Berkeley, talks about why we need to stop blaming each other for the environmental crisis that were in, and instead confront its root causes

96: Should we bring back woolly mammoths?
March 18, 2022

'The Edge' podcast hosts talk to experts about de-extinction how it works, if we should do it and its unintended consequences

95: 'The past will be present when Roe falls’
March 04, 2022

Berkeley Law professor and anthropologist Khiara Bridges discusses the history of reproductive rights in the U.S., whats at stake when Roe v. Wade is overturned and why we should expand our fight for

94: How the seven-day week made us who we are
February 18, 2022

The week has been used as a timekeeping unit and calendar device to organize society for about 2,000 years, but it's only for the past 200 years in the U.S. that it has had a grip on our daily lives.

93: Making and remaking music of the Great Migration
February 04, 2022

How the migration of 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and the West transformed the sound of America