University of California Video Podcasts (Video)

Brown v. Board of Education was hailed as a landmark decision for civil rights. But decades later, many consider school integration a failure. UC Berkeley professor Rucker C. Johnson's new book Children of the Dream shows the exact opposite is true. The book looks at decades of studies to show that students of all races who attended integrated schools fared better than those who did not. In this interview with Goldman School of Public Policy Dean Henry E. Brady, Johnson explains how he and his team analyzed the impact of not just integration, but school funding policies, and the Head Start program. Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Show ID: 34358]

Director Jeremy Podeswa joins Pollock Theater Director Matt Ryan for a Script to Screen discussion of the season 7 finale of Game of Thrones, “The Dragon and the Wolf.” Podeswa recalls his admiration for the cast, the challenges of creating a show that transcends the episode length and production values of typical television programming, and his creative influences. The talk focuses in particular on shooting a complicated ensemble showdown where many main cast members finally share a scene simultaneously and what was involved in bringing that moment to the screen. Series: "Script to Screen" [Show ID: 34755]

Jean C. Robertson, Chief of Special Education Services, Chief of Special Education Services, San Francisco Unified School District.

Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34660]

William Scott, Chief of Police, San Francisco Police Department. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34661]

Maanasa Indaram, MD, Ophthalmology, UCSF. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34664]

Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH from Stanford University. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34658]

Eva C. Ihle, MD, PhD, UCSF Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34666]

Diana Coffa, MD, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34665]

It is widely held today on grounds of prudence if not realism that in designing public policy and legal systems, we should assume that people are entirely self-interested and amoral. But it is anything but prudent to let "Economic Man" be the behavioral assumption that underpins public policy. Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute) supports his position using evidence from behavioral experiments mechanism design and other sources, and proposes an alternative paradigm for policy making. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Show ID: 34354]

John Caldwell, UCLA media studies professor, ethnographer, and filmmaker, discusses his film Land Hacks: Masculine Media Anxiety Disorder (2018). Caldwell is joined by moderator, Jennifer Holt of the Department of Film and Studies at UCSB. Their conversation covers the inspiration and significance of the film which sets out to explore white male victimization in the Trump era. Caldwell’s film uses advertisements, excerpts from Hollywood films, and documentary footage to highlight a series of masculine anxieties for the modern era, and particular to California’s Central Valley. The Q&A contextualizes Caldwell’s development of the film, which explores the politics of industry and labor in the Central Valley, the birthplace of the UFW, and a bastion for California conservatism through the lens of Caldwell’s own health concerns during the filmmaking process. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Show ID: 34591]