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The University of California, Berkeley presents the Graduate Lectures. Seven lectureships comprise the Graduate Lectures, each with a distinct endowment history. These unique programs have brought distinguished visitors to Berkeley since 1909 to speak on a wide range of topics, from philosophy to th…

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On Uncertainty: Wittgenstein: Habits of Thought and Thoughts of Habit

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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens

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Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts

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Why Do People Reject Good Science?

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Souls in Other Selves and the Immortality of the Body

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Defending Liberty in the Age of Trump: Lessons from the Front

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The Language of Friendship: The Role of Talk in an Understudied Relationship

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Conversations on the Small Screen: Talking over Social Media

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Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics

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Food Politics and the Twenty-First Century Food Movement with Marion Nestle

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The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today

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The Real 'Skin in the Game': The History of Naked Sweaty and Colorful Skin in the Human Lineage

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Can We Create Good Institutions?

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Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

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Embodied Souls — Lessons from Neurology with V.S. Ramachandran

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The Intrigue of Wine Gold and California Today with Frances Dinkelspiel

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Why We Have Effective Agreements to Protect the Ozone Layer But Not to Stabilize Climate

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Imagine America without Los Angeles: Applying Science to Understand the Vulnerability of Modern Society to Natural Disasters

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The Challenges of Science Communication: What Does Storytelling Have to do with Climate Change?

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The Switch: Reinventing American Freedom with John Fabian Witt

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The Creative City: Can Cities Remain the Catalysts of Creativity?

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The Generic City: Can the 21st Century Ever Build Special Places?

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Federalism Localism and the Shape of Constitutional Conflict

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Women's Work in the World Economy: A Personal and Political Perspective from Laura Tyson

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The Children of the Revolution

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Were the Framers Right About Constitutional Design? The US Constitution in Comparative Perspective

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A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - 2014

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The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle

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The First U.S. ‘War on Terror’: The 1798 Sedition Act and Constitutional Politics in the Age of Jefferson

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