SEASON FINALE:
May 22 & 29, 2007
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College, talks about the book she co-authored with Margarite Fernandez Olmos entitled: Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo, in a two-part interview to be aired May 22nd and May 29th.
Listen: Part 1 (61:11 min.) Part 2 (54:50 min.)
May 15, 2007
Eve D'Ambra, art historian and Professor of Art at Vassar College, talks about the subject of her new book, Roman Women, published this year by Cambridge University Press.
55:57 min.
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May 8, 2007
A program of recordings about libraries, reading, and education including music and poetry by George Abbe, Alasdair Clayre, Earl Robinson, Caetano Veloso, Calypso artist Walter Gavitt, and featuring a 1960's recorded interview (23 minutes) with R. Buckminster Fuller entitled, "The Educational Mind," from Folkways recordings in the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries collections.
61:03 min.
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May 1, 2007
A special program of music and poetry in honor of May Day from Folkways recordings in the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries database.
57:30 min.
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April 24, 2007
Renowned Franco-Algerian intellectual and journalist Henri Alleg talks with Patricia-Pia Célérier about politics, state-sponsored torture, censorship, and the Algerian War of Independence, on the occasion of a new English translation of his regime-shaking book, La Question, published by Nebraska University Press. Written from his prison cell and smuggled out for publication in 1958, The Question is the book that opened the torture debate in France during the brutal period of France's "War Without a Name," and was the first book since the eighteenth century to be banned by the French government for political reasons.
57:25 min.
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April 17, 2007
Perry Willett, Head of the Digital Library Production Service of the University of Michigan Libraries, discusses the U of M's role in the Google Books Library Project and Google's endeavor to translate the book holdings of the world's major research libraries into digital form for universal access via Google Book Search.
28:52 min.
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April 3, 2007
Emily Sheketoff, Associate Executive Director of the American Library Association and head of the Washington Office of the ALA, talks about the important public policy issue of Network Neutrality and the threat that AT&T, Verizon, and other corporate media entities pose to equal access to information on the Internet.
27:17 min.
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March 27, 2007
Susan M. Bielstein, Executive Editor for Art, Architecture, Classical Studies and Film at the University of Chicago Press, talks about her book: Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk About Art as Intellectual Property.
42:14 min.
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February 27, 2007
Meg E. Stewart, Academic Computing Consultant for Geographical Information Systems at Vassar College, talks about the use of GIS applications inside and outside of the classroom.
31:59 min.
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February 20, 2007
Andrew Watsky, art historian and professor of art at Vassar College, discusses his award-winning book about the Japanese island of Chikubushima, it's history, architecture, and art.
49:59 min.
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February 13, 2007
To continue our program from February 6 of subject matter related to the New Deal, we will be airing WPA field interviews from 1940-41 with Farm Security Administration migrant camp inhabitants, along with a re-creation of a camp cultural event, from WPA recordings in the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Collection of the Library of Congress.
60:20 min
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February 6, 2007
Patricia Phagan, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Frances Lehman Loeb Center at Vassar, talks about the exhibition: For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, on view January 12 - March 11, 2007.
36:02 min
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January 30, 2007
Grace Roosevelt, Professor of History and Education at Metropolitan College of New York and author of Reading Rousseau in the Nuclear Age, talks about the history of the liberal arts curriculum, the encroachment of market forces on higher education, and the relation between liberal education and liberal politics.
42:12 min.
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