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Book Review: "Paris to the Pyrénées - A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James"
Why on earth would a skeptic take on a pilgrimage along a Christian route? Crime novelist David Downie wrote a book about this concept:...
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Jan 14, 20212 min read


Start Up Series: Workshop on Sales and Negotiations
Last April, Catherine Ivari, the Berkeley Club of France's VP Entrepreneurs and Start Up organized and hosted our very first start up...
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Jul 21, 20192 min read


Interview with Clara Olivares, PhD candidate in music composition
Les Gens de Berkeley met with UC Berkeley PhD candidate in music composition Clara Olivares, who is enrolled in a doctoral program...
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Jul 9, 20196 min read


Interview With composer Nicklas Schmidt on Scoring "Becoming Astrid"
Les Gens de Berkeley met with Danish composer Nicklas Schmidt to talk about his score of “Astrid”, a biopic on Astrid Lindgren, the...
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Jul 8, 20195 min read


Interview with Film Critic Peter Cowie on Berkeley in the Sixties
Peter Cowie, film critic and author of more than thirty books on film, has fond memories of UC Berkeley campus and the Pacific Film...
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Sep 25, 20187 min read


Interview with Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman on Berkeley as a Metaphor
Frederick Wiseman is a critically acclaimed filmmaker, documentarian and theatre director, who has recently directed "At Berkeley", a...
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Sep 25, 20182 min read


To Be Or Not To Be...Inside The Classroom
Cartoonist David Blanc may or may not have been musing about time lost (or gained) whilst skipping class. Regardless, if you look at the...
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Sep 23, 20181 min read


What Happens Inside the Classroom...Stays in the Classroom
Cartoonist David Blanc created a hilarious character who happens to be a self-confident student in spite of his less than great grades....
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Sep 23, 20181 min read


Event: The Annual Reception With The U.S. Ambassador
In June, the Berkeley Club of France attended the 2018 Annual Embassy Reception with the Ambassador of the United States of America....
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Sep 23, 20181 min read


Interview: Being a Physics Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1978
What was the physics mecca in the late 70’s? It was the Lawrence Berkeley Lab, according to Jean-Pierre Sursock Ph.D.’78. In this...
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Sep 23, 20184 min read


Opinion: Nuclear Energy as a Transition to Renewable Energy
Should there be a role for nuclear energy in a world transitioning towards renewable energy? Here is the opinion piece written by...
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Sep 23, 20184 min read


Event: A Tour of Station F, the World's Biggest Startup Campus
In May, Catherine Ivari '09, Berkeley Club of France Vice President Startups & Entrepreneurship, invited alumni to a private tour of the...
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Sep 23, 20181 min read


Verre des Bears #2: Summer To Autumn Happy Hour
Thursday, 20 September, 2018 marked the Berkeley Club of France's kickoff event at bar-club Gatsby. The team welcomed new alumni and...
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Sep 23, 20181 min read


Interview: Being a Computer Science Postgrad at Berkeley in 1967
When Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech on the Vietnam War in Berkeley, François de Verdière M.S. ‘67, was a postgraduate in computer...
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Sep 23, 20182 min read
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