
The Emotions of Dyadic Relationships: An Interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas
This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Jenna Wells and Felicia Zerwas, who at the time of the interview were Ph.D. candidates in the UC Berkeley Department of Psychology. The in...
31 Mai 202441min

Sugar and the Transformation of the American West: An Interview with Bernadette Pérez
For this episode of the Matrix Podcast, J.T. Jamieson, a 2022-2023 Matrix Communications Scholar, interviewed Bernadette Pérez, Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley. Pérez is a historian of ...
30 Mai 202453min

Storytelling and the Climate Crisis
Contemporary writers and activists have described the climate crisis as, in part, a crisis of the imagination, of culture, and of storytelling. Recorded on March 11, 2024, this panel featured a group ...
14 Apr 20241h 32min

New Directions in Greening Infrastructure
As the effects of climate change become more obvious, moving away from fossil fuels has only become more urgent. But to do so, new energy sources – and new infrastructure – are desperately needed. Rec...
14 Apr 20241h 16min

Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness
Recorded on March 18, 2024, this panel focused on Professor Alex V. Barnard's book, Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness. The book analyzes conservatorsh...
5 Apr 20241h 24min

Authors Meet Critics: "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics," Salar Mameni
Recorded on March 4, 2024, this Authors Meet Critics panel focused on Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics, by Professor Salar Mameni, Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies. Profe...
5 Apr 20241h 37min

Structural Determinants of Police Violence: Interview with Kimberly Cecilia Burke
Kimberly Cecilia Burke, a PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, researches the relationships between institutional violence and social stratification, utilizing multi-level mixed-methods analysis...
19 Mar 202427min

The Scandal of Access: An Interview with Zahra Hayat
This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Zahra Hayat, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She obtained her PhD in Anthropology at UC Berkele...
19 Mar 202447min



















