Video PUP Speaks: Chris Bail on polarization and the pandemic November 07, 2022 In this video Chris Bail, PUP Speaks speaker and author of Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing, demonstrates how the cracks that showed in our societies during the COVID-19 pandemic threaten to split us in two. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Jennifer Carlson on the racialization of gun policing July 07, 2022 When asked their policy preference on guns, police prioritize gun rights over gun control on a ratio of 3:1. The application of the law is therefore governed by the same biases found in all areas of American society鈥攁nd particularly by racial disparity. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Eddie Cole on town and campus conflict June 30, 2022 锘匡豢In recent months the media have closely followed the issues of student housing at Berkeley, highlighting the tensions that frequently arise between university campuses and those living around them. Here, PUP Speaks speaker Eddie R. Cole explores the racialized history of campus expansion and community conflict, and the role that university leadership has played鈥攆or better and worse鈥攊n the battle for racial equity on campus. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Marybeth Gasman on poor faculty diversity June 08, 2022 The diversification of the academy will not be achieved under within the current academic environment. In this video, PUP Speaks speaker Marybeth Gasman explains what must change for equity to be achieved. Read More
Video In Dialogue with Lucas Bessire and Emmet Gowin April 29, 2022 In聽The One Hundred Circle Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. In this short discussion with anthropologist and National Book Award finalist Lucas Bessire, author of Running Out, Gowin offers insight into his powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on landscape. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake on correcting economic disappointments March 18, 2022 The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened to the future they were promised. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: 鈥淭he neighborhood is no longer what it used to be鈥� February 09, 2022 鈥淭he neighborhood is no longer what it used to be. The experience of blackness is not either.鈥� Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. explains how talking to Jacksonians about their food choices helped him to understand more about their changing racial and cultural identities. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Cynthia Miller-Idriss on the anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack January 05, 2022 The 2021 attack on the Capitol changed the face of the United States. As the events of January 6th unfolded they were televised across the world, allowing a global audience to experience a violent response to an election held in what was once considered the world鈥檚 foremost democracy. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Chryl Laird on the social experiment that helped her understand Black voters December 15, 2021 Steadfast Democrats聽author聽Chryl N. Laird聽explains what a social experiment taught her about the way group behavior of Black voters is shaped by social networks.聽锘� Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Kyle Harper on a germ鈥檚-eye view of history November 30, 2021 In the immortal words of the rock band The Doors, people are strange. From nature鈥檚 perspective, human beings are highly unusual. Kyle Harper shows how humans became the irresistible hosts of so many diseases, and how it has shaped us as a species. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Rachel Gable on The Hidden Curriculum October 11, 2021 Are universities designed to trip up those individuals they should most be trying to include? Rachel Gable, PUP Speaks speaker and author of聽The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities, presents the results of her investigation into the difficulties first generation students must overcome to succeed. Read More
Video Hosts and Guests: Readings by poet Nate Klug October 07, 2021 Nate Klug has been hailed by the聽Threepenny Review聽as a poet who is 鈥渁n original in Eliot鈥檚 sense of the word.鈥� In聽Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. Read More
Video Not Meant as Poems October 05, 2021 Rain in Plural聽is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by聽The Rumpus聽as 鈥渁 master of musicality and enlightening allusions.鈥� Read More
Video Jemma Wadham on Ice Rivers September 15, 2021 In Ice Rivers, renowned glaciologist Jemma Wadham offers a searing personal account of glaciers and the rapidly unfolding crisis that they鈥攁nd we鈥攆ace. Read More
Interview Anne-Marie Slaughter on Renewal September 07, 2021 Like much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history.聽Renewal聽is Anne-Marie Slaughter鈥檚 candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organizations, and nations can move backward and forward at the same time, facing the past and embracing a new future. Read More
