Peter Eichstaedt speaks about his most recent book, First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army.

Join us for a day with some of the most experienced reporters and editors in the business. The conference will focus on the nuts and bolts of working outside the United States.

Please see the full event details for the day's agenda.

Limited Space. Reservations must be made by Apri

Dallas Morning News Mexico Bureau Chief Alfredo Corchado and Sacramento Bee Assistant City Editor and former Latin America correspondent Ricardo Sandoval will explore U.S. - Mexico border issues.

A talk by Bob Herbert, who joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in 1993.

Presented by Cody's, with Cal's Graduate School of Journalism and Goldman School of Public Policy, Jeffrey Toobin discusses THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, in a conversation with Cynthia Gorney.

Paul Steiger, Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, conducted a three hour workshop with students from the Journalism School on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Steiger discussed the recent sale of the Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Visiting Lecturer Siddharth Varadarajan discusses nuclear politics, a topic he has extensively covered, during the Asia Colloquium on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 4-6 p.m. in the Library.

Lecture by Peter Maass, Contributing Writer to The New York Times Magazine and author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

Choosing the President: Campaigning and Governing in War and Peace

A series of panels, conferences, and lectures sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies
and the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Choosing the President - Campaigning and Governing in War and Peace

JSchool graduate Aryn Baker ('01) launches the fall semester Covering Asia program on August 27 with a talk on her recent coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Aryn was inside the Red Mosque in Islamabad when the tear gas assault started in July.

A panel of reporters and editors from The Washington Post will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Iraq bureau chief and author of "Imperial Life in Emerald City;" Steven Fainaru, a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Iraq coverage; Post stri

Conference on free speech and open-government featuring Arianna Huffington, Dan Ellsberg, Judith Miller, conservative essayist Gabriel Schoenfeld (of Commentary Magazine), political columnist Dan Weintraub (for the Sacramento Bee) and experts in law, journalism and public policy.

Bob Calo, Associate Dean will introduce Myra MacPhearso as she discusses how I.F. Stone taught journalists to doubt government propaganda, dig for facts in documents, and find the whistleblowers who told the truth. "All governments lie but disaster lies in wait for countries whose leaders smoke t

Michael Gordon of the New York Times will give a seminar on his new book, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, co-authored by Retired Lieutenant General Bernard E. Trainor.

Wednesday, March 8: The fifth in the 2006 Food Politics lecture series, cultural psychologist Paul Rozin discusses "Why, What, and When Do We Eat: Implications for Food Policy." Rozin is a Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

A panel of leading war correspondents from publications around the world will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes John Burns from The New York Times, Dean Orville Schell, and writers from The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Preceding the discussion will b

North Korea is still largely inaccessible to journalists, scholars, and policy makers. Please join us to hear Mike Chinoy offer a veteran Asia reporter's look behind the curtain of secrecy and misunderstanding that screens North Korea from outside view.

BEHIND CALIFORNIA'S SPECIAL ELECTION - Professor Bruce Cain, director of Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and newly appointed head of the University of California Center in Washington D.C., discusses the political and policy consequences of the Nov. 8 Special Election.

Seymour Hersh, an award-winning investigative reporter, will give the 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and receive the Young Activist Award. The lecture is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996).

Please join us for an evening with Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor and Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, in conversation with Dean Orville Schell of the Graduate School of Journalism.

Got a book that needs publishing? The changing media landscape is giving authors new options in royalty publishing, copublishing, and more. To learn how you can you benefit, join the ASJA and editors from five of the Bay Area's leading publishing houses at this event - free to UC Berkeley facult

Please join us for a panel discussion with the staff of Human Rights Watch and this year's 2005 Human Rights Watch Monitor honorees; Omid Memarian, Salih Mahmoud Osman and Beatrice Were.

Craig Crawford, author of the upcoming book Attack the Messenger: How Politicians Turn You Against The Media, will discuss his views on the relationship between politicians and the media.

Please join us to hear Brook Larmer discuss his upcoming book, Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar. Larmer was the Newsweek bureau chief in Buenos Aires, Miami, Hong Kong, and most recently Shanghai, where he now lives.

Please join us for a talk by George Packer, author of the new book, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. Packer has made four tours on assignment in Iraq for The New Yorker and won the Overseas Press Club Award in 2003 for his reporting.

You are cordially invited to join us for an information session for prospective students, a reception for alumni and friends and a talk by Dean Orville Schell on, "Making Newspapers Viable: What We Can Learn From Alternative Business Models."

In conjunction with the exhibition at the ASUC Art Studio, photographer Matt O'Brien will discuss Looking For Hope, his exploration of the public schools, immigration, and growing up in inner city Oakland.

Stefano DellaVigna, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley.
Robert Calo, Associate Professor Graduate School Journalism,UC Berkeley.
Laura Stoker, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley.

David Kilgour, a member of the Canadian Parliament and leading human rights advocate, and Mark Brecke, a war photographer who documented the genocide in Darfur, will discuss their first hand experiences regarding the genocide in Darfur, Sudan and shed light on this continuing tragedy.

Come learn about reporting on science and the environment with journalists from various media. This event is in conjunction with the National Science Foundation 'Science Communication and the Mass Media' Workshop on Climate Change, at the J-School, November 8 & 9th.

In their new book, "Mao -- The Unknown Story," Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for a reevaluation of China's leader Mao Tse-Tung as a tyrant worse than Stalin or Hitler. Chang and Halliday will discuss Mao's role with Dean Orville Schell.

Please join us for a half-day investigative reporting workshop that will feature a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lowell Bergman and panels on business investigations, computer-assisted reporting, public records research and local watchdog reporting.

Martin Sherwin, co-author of the recent biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Jonathan Schell, Sr. Fellow at the Institute For the Study of Globalization at Yale University & author The Fate of the Earth, The Unconquerable World,

What's it like to live suspended between communism and capitalism in Cuba?

Capitalism, God and a Good Cigar describes what the collapse of the Soviet Union has meant for ordinary Cubans. These changes have been documented in the book edited by Lydia Chavez, associate professor at

Documentary Filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud show excerpts from their
10-part Discovery Times Channel television documentary about a
National Guard unit from Clarksville, Arkansas during its 1 year deployment to Iraq. Named by the Financial Times as one of the top 10 television program

An Evening of Crucial Disclosures by brilliant New Yorker reporter Jane
Mayer in conversation with Neil Henry, author and UC Graduate School of
Journalism Interim Dean

Sociologist Paul Starr will discuss the shaping of communications in Europe and the U.S. from the 17th to mid-20th centuries. His new book argues that political decisions from the founding of the republic led to America's comparative advantage in communications and to American media's wide impact

A conversation with Arthur Gelb, former managing editor of The New York Times and author of "City Room," due out in paperback in November. "City Room" covers Gelb's five decades at the Times, where he began as a night copy boy in 1944 and retired 45 years later as managing editor.

Former L.A. Times reporter, Victor Merina, was a member of the paper's projects team and shared in the paper's 1993 Pulitzer for spot news coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots. He has continued to contribute essays to the Los Angeles Times Sunday Opinion and Magazine sections. Merina, currently a seni

J-School Dean Emeritus Ben Bagdikian will give a talk on his new book, "The New Media Monopoly," at Cody's bookstore on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley at 7:30 pm on Friday, June 4.

Robert McChesney, author of "The Problem of the Media" and co-founder of the media reform group Free Press, discusses the problems as well as possibilities for a new media system. Also, John Nichols of The Nation magazine, and Jerry Mander, the president of the International Forum on Globalizatio

A talk by Robert Rosenthal,Vice President and Managing Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle

Roger Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries, including two dozen in Africa.  Co-authors Thurow and Kilman have teamed up to produce a stream of page 1 stories in the Journal that have broken new ground in our understanding of the forces behind famine.