UC Santa Cruz (Audio)
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- Duration: 29:43:33
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Programs from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Episodes
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Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial and Mine
10/03/2008 Duration: 01h17minProfessor James Young, Commissioner of Germany’s National Memorial to Europe’s Murdered Jews, and juror for the WTC Site Memorial Competition, discusses the history of memorial projects. [Humanities] [Show ID: 14091]
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The Ethics of Human Experimentation for National Security Purposes
10/03/2008 Duration: 01h13minJonathan Moreno, nationally distinguished bioethicist, presents an overview of the ethical issues raised by state sponsored human medical experimentation. [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 13672]
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The Prison: A Sign of Democracy?
04/02/2008 Duration: 59minUC Santa Cruz professor Angela Davis explores the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She urges her audience to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. Series: "The Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz presents" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13826]
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Intimate Politics: A Roundtable
01/10/2007 Duration: 01h22minA distinguished panel of scholar-activists gather to reflect on Bettina Aptheker’s memoir - Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel - the historical movement she recounts and the broader political issues raises by this intimate history of left activism. Panelists include Johnetta Cole, Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins and Blanche Wiesen Cook. Series: "The Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz presents" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13166]
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What is Our Legacy?
16/07/2007 Duration: 01h17minAs a Superior Court Judge in the Southern California city of Compton, Kelvin D. Filer sees more than his share of cases involving murder, drugs, and gang violence. As a product of the same neighborhood, Filer is a powerful role model who has devoted himself to "reaching out and helping others as I've been helped." He addresses an audience at his alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, on today’s youth. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12595]
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Creation of the Special Relationship between Israel and the United States
09/07/2007 Duration: 51minDavid Tal of Tel Aviv University and UC Santa Cruz history professor David Kenez discuss the origins of the relationship between the US and Israel. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13023]
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The Faginization of Shylock: Victorian Burlesque of The Merchant of Venice
18/06/2007 Duration: 01h21minBoth Dickens’s Fagin and Shakespeare’s Shylock are portrayed as the stereotype grotesque and villainous Jew. Join Michael Shapiro from the University of Illinois to explore what these characters and their creators have in common. [Humanities] [Show ID: 12411]
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Nathaniel Mackey
16/04/2007 Duration: 28minPart antiphonal rant, part rhythmic whisper, Nathaniel Mackey reads from his new book of poetry and talks about his writing to an audience at UC Santa Cruz where he is a professor of literature. Mackey recently received the 2006 National Book Award for poetry. [Humanities] [Show ID: 12221]
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Monetary Policy in a Global Environment
22/01/2007 Duration: 47minJanet Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco dicusses the notion that Federal Reserve policy making has been affected by globalization as part of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [Business] [Show ID: 12071]
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The CIA's Secret War with Dana Priest
20/03/2006 Duration: 58minDana Priest returns to UC Santa Cruz to receive the first annual Social Sciences Division "Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award" and deliver a lecture on the secret CIA-run prisons for terror suspects she exposed as the national security correspondent for the Washington Post. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11488]
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Rethinking Anti-Semitism: The Holocaust and the Contemporary World
29/08/2005 Duration: 01h12minThis program evaluates the roles and themes of both government-inspired and populist antisemitism. Featuring Peter Kenez, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, and historian and Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This program is presented as part of the Santa Cruz Jewish Studies Lectures. [Humanities] [Show ID: 9422]
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War and Democracy in the Ancient and Contemporary Middle East
23/08/2004 Duration: 01h16minVictor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno, leads a discussion on the nature of war throughout civilization and how it might enlighten us about the contemporary troubles in the Middle East. Presented as part of UC Santa Cruz's Jewish Studies Lectures. [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8856]
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Human Genome Symposium: Panel Discussion
27/05/2002 Duration: 01h29minIn 1985 a group of eminent scientists came to UC Santa Cruz to discuss a vision that would become the Human Genome Project. Now, many of the same scientists have gathered again to celebrate the realization of their vision. Listen in to the panelists to hear more about what went in to decoding the human genome and what scientists hope it is going to tell us. [Show ID: 6546]
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Human Genome Symposium: Francis Collins
20/05/2002 Duration: 59minIn 1985 a group of eminent scientists came to UC Santa Cruz to discuss a vision that would become the Human Genome Project. Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, shares the latest information on this project as well as his thoughts about the positive and negative ways in which this new technology might be used. [Show ID: 6545]
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My Yiddishe Momme McCoy
09/07/2001 Duration: 20minA heart-warming look at a Jewish elder's talent for keeping both her rebellious spirit and her joie de vivre intact. [Humanities] [Show ID: 5847]