Trevor Jackson, "Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830"
Recorded on December 5, 2023, this Authors Meet Critics panel focused on Impunity and Capitalism: the Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2022), by Trevor ...
18 Dec 20231h 23min
Authors Meet Critics: Sharad Chari, "Gramsci at Sea"
Recorded on November 28, 2023 as part of the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix "Authors Meet Critics" series, this panel focused on Gramsci at Sea, a book by Sharad Chari, Associate Professor in Geogr...
16 Dec 20231h 18min
Authors Meet Critics: Dylan Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights"
Recorded on November 14, 2023 at UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix, this "Authors Meet Critics" panel is focused on Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, by Dylan Penningrot...
16 Dec 20231h 21min
Matrix on Point: New Directions in Gender and Sexuality
While the last 20 years have marked a significant change in increased acceptance of varied gender expressions and sexual orientations, these changes haven't made the importance of gender and sexuality...
15 Dec 20231h 19min
Racial and Ethnic Difference in South Africa and the USSR: An Interview with Hilary Lynd
How did South Africans and Soviets think about how to manage difference--in their home contexts and in decades of conversation with one another? In this episode of the Matrix podcast, Hilary Lynd, a P...
13 Dec 202343min
California Spotlight: From Boom to Doom in San Francisco
During the peak of the most recent tech upswing, downtown San Francisco was booming. Now, after the pandemic and a new round of tech layoffs, commentators fear that the so-called "doom loop" has come ...
13 Nov 20231h 17min
Authors Meet Critics: Massimo Mazzotti, "Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity"
Recorded on October 17, 2023, this video features an "Authors Meet Critics" panel on the book Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity, by Massimo Mazzotti, Professor in the UC Berkeley Departm...
10 Nov 202356min
Matrix on Point: The Future of College
The pandemic has rocked higher education. From Zoom classrooms to students leaving higher education, colleges have needed to change modalities to adapt to public health risks and the emergence of new ...
21 Okt 20231h 21min
