Jabberwalking with Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera, former U.S. Poet Laureate
With support from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy
Magdalena Yesil interviewed by Laura Tyson
Sponsored by Strong Legacy Planning
Income Inequality: A World Gone Mad, Mean and immoral
Steven Clifford, Jeff Clements, Robert Reich, moderated by John Diaz
With support from the Stephen M. Silberstein Foundation
A Revolution in Food
Alice Waters and Jonathan Kauffman interviewed by Tom Philpott
Sponsored by Mother Jones
Smart Activism: History and Hope
L.A. Kauffman and Rebecca Solnit
Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design
Timeless Wisdom: Greg Sarris on Telling Tales and Native American Literary Tradition
Greg Sarris
Sponsored by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria
The Power of Literature to Create a Better World: Closing Keynote with Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer and John Freeman
The Common Good with Robert Reich (Saturday Night Keynote)
Robert Reich
Lidia Yuknavitch in Person: On Fearlessness, Truth, and Misfits
Lidia Yuknavitch, interviewed by Daphne Gottlieb
Viet Thanh Nguyen on Art and Politics
Viet Thanh Nguyen interviewed by Karen Tei Yamashita
Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design
Wrestling with the Devil: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Conversation
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o interviewed by Namwali Serpell
Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design
Resisting Hate with Free Speech
Nadine Strossen interviewed by Erwin Chemerinsky
Sponsored by UC Berkeley Arts + Design
What Makes a Life Worth Living? Powerful Memoirs of Love and Loss
Lucy Kalanithi, Rebecca Soffer, Elizabeth Percer, moderated by Elizabeth Scarboro
Sponsored by SACHI – Society for Art & Cultural Heritage of India
Gary Snyder & Kim Stanley Robinson: Mt. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, and Naming What Can’t Be Named
Gary Snyder, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laurie Glover, introduced by Jack Shoemaker
Sponsored by the Journal of Alta California
JCC East Bay Presents: Thriving Past Trauma—Holocaust Survivor Dr. Edith Eger with The Choice
Dr. Edith Eger interviewed by Elizabeth Rosner
Sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of the East Bay with the generous support of Eve Gordon-Ramek; in memory of Mayer Goldberg and Henry Ramek