9islands

Found this resource page for some great lectures from the Townsend Center at UCBerkeley. I went to the Terry Eagleton: Death of Criticism? lecture last month and the panel discussion with Bill Viola who also gave a lecture titled The Movement in the Moving Image. And just finished listening to Rebecca Solnit on gardens. Nice stuff.

“Shame on you.” Friday morning in the rain. KTVU coverage (with a familiar face).

This video includes a great discussion on the growing privatization of public education with Bob Samuels, president of the UC American Federation of Teachers.
Video from November 17 – a discussion with Laura Nader, professor of social cultural anthropology, Ananya Roy, Professor in the Department of City & Regional Planning, Blanca Misse, UC Berkeley graduate student and organizer, and Michael Cohen, lecturer in American studies and co-chair of the Solidarity Alliance.