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Matrix Podcast

Social Science Matrix

The Matrix Podcast features interviews with social scientists from across the University of California, Berkeley campus (and beyond). It also features recordings of events, including panels and lectures. The Matrix Podcast is produced by Social Science Matrix, an interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley.

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117 episodes

  1. Desmond Jagmohan: "Two Concepts of Patriotism: Nationalist and Civic" 1:12:21
  2. New Directions: Green Transitions 1:17:58
  3. Dr. Norma Alarcón: "Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)" 1:19:18
  4. California Spotlight: Wealth & Poverty 59:25
  5. Authors Meet Critics: "Demos: How the People Ruled Athens" by Daniela Cammack 1:10:36
  6. Authors Meet Critics: "Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide" 1:08:14
  7. Benjamin Recht: "The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us" 1:21:46
  8. Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine 1:12:05
  9. Authors Meet Critics: Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" 1:21:47
  10. Matrix on Point: The U.S. Dollar Hegemony in Transition 1:00:58
  11. Julien Migozzi: "Algorithms of Distinction: Class, Credit Scores, and Property in South Africa" 43:07
  12. California Spotlight: Higher Education Under Attack 1:06:30
  13. Matrix Teach-In: Ula Taylor, "The Making of Frances M. Beal's Black Feminist House" 42:57
  14. Matrix on Point: Corruption in America 1:00:44
  15. "Some College" and the Social Function of Higher Education: An Interview with Sarah Payne 30:15
  16. Alexis Madrigal: "To Know A Place" 57:13
  17. Maximilian Kasy: "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)" 1:07:25
  18. Matrix Teach-In: Seth Lunine 1:05:36
  19. Matrix on Point: Financializing Disaster 52:48
  20. Matrix on Point: Spaces for Thriving 1:04:58
  21. Matrix on Point: Conspiracy Theories 1:23:07
  22. Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence 1:20:23
  23. Legitimation by (Mis)identification: Credit, Discrimination, and The Racial Epistemology of Algorithmic Expansion 51:47
  24. New Directions: Borderlands 1:03:08
  25. Technology and China in the New Political Economy 1:24:05
  26. Governing Giants: Law, Politics, and Antitrust 1:18:43
  27. 150 Years of Border Control: The Legacy of the 1875 Page Act 1:27:13
  28. Matrix on Point: The New Gender Gap 1:01:25
  29. Authors Meet Critics: "Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims" 1:22:28
  30. Social, Spatial, Ecological, and Racial fixes in New Deal South Carolina: Interview with Morgan Vickers 44:05
  31. Consequential Sentences: Computational Analyses of California Parole Hearing Transcripts 1:03:06
  32. Alex Roehrkasse: The New Contours of Mass Incarceration 1:04:13
  33. Matrix on Point: Mainstreaming Psychedelics 1:17:47
  34. The State of Higher Education: Interview with Lorna Finlayson 58:10
  35. Los Angeles Wildfires: Risk, Resilience, and Collective Action 1:14:42
  36. Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order 1:25:18
  37. Interview with Julia Sizek: Regulating Off-Roading in the California Desert 59:14
  38. New Directions in the Study of Fringe Politics 1:19:49
  39. The Future of California Agriculture 1:21:18
  40. Making Sense of the Elections of 2024 1:23:05
  41. Gendered Violence in Insurgencies: Interview with Tara Chandra 46:51
  42. New Directions in the Study of Labor 1:25:13
  43. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States 1:23:48
  44. Authors Meet Critics: "Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China" 1:17:23
  45. Emotion, Race, and Gender: Interview with Gold Okafor 39:33
  46. Matrix on Point: Shifting Alignments in the 2024 Election 1:22:00
  47. The Imperiled Place of Universities and Democracy in the USA: Interview with Todd Wolfson 48:14
  48. Matrix on Point: Voices from the Heartland 1:21:59
  49. Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era 1:22:56
  50. Matrix on Point: War is Back 1:22:01