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Event Date: April 9th, 2026
12:00pm-1:30pm
Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
Please join us on Thursday, April 9th from 12-1:30pm for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book "Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine," by Charles Briggs, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Professor Briggs will be joined in conversation by Elinor Ochs and Eric Snoey.
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Article
Published May 12, 2015
After the Maidan
UC Berkeley scholars present diverse viewpoints on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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Article
Published May 7, 2015
Battling Ebola
A UC Berkeley professor has been part of a network of researchers working to apply local anthropological knowledge in the fight to contain the most deadly Ebola outbreak in history.
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Article
Published May 7, 2015
Liz Carlisle: “Lentils to the Rescue”
Can lentils save American farms from drought? As California struggles with a water crisis, a UC Berkeley fellow shows how legumes can reduce dependence on irrigation.
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Article
Published May 5, 2015
Center on the Politics of Development
A UC Berkeley research center advances mixed-methods research on development, envisions public policy solutions, and advocates for sustainable changes to the governance of developing communities.
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Published April 23, 2015
Emmanuel Letouzé: “Data for Development”
UC Berkeley demographer (and cartoonist) Emmanuel Letouzé seeks to reduce the gap in statistical data available about populations in developing nations.
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Published April 15, 2015
Thomas Laqueur: “Long Live the Dead”
In a forthcoming book, UC Berkeley Professor of History Thomas Laqueur examines how the peculiar relationship between the living and dead has evolved over time.
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