CiTR -- UBC Arts On Air: Recent Episodes
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Listen to the top writers, philosophers, researchers, singers and actors in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Creative and Performing Arts at UBC. Provocative interviews, expert commentary and the latest updates from the Faculty of Arts make for an informative and entertaining segment.
In this episode we speak with the president of UBC, Professor Santa Ono. And we head out on campus to meet some students and find out why they decided to study in the Faculty of Arts.
In this episode we visit the School of Library Archival and Information Studies — also known as the iSchool — to learn about the changing role of librarians, archivists and information scientists in the digital age.
For this episode we drop by the Speech in Context Lab to meet Professor Molly Babel and her team of linguistics students. They work to answer the question: how on earth do we understand each other when we all sound so different?
In this episode we speak with Dr. Margery Fee, Department of English professor and McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, about teaching Indigenous texts. We also drop by a UBC Opera rehearsal and meet the team behind the upcoming production of Eugene Onegin.
This episode features a conversation with political science professor and Acting Dean of Arts Kathryn Harrison about the politics of pipelines. The episode also drops into the Department of Theatre and Film to speak with MFA Theatre Directing Candidate Lauren Taylor about the department's latest production -- Love and Information.
This episode of Arts on Air features a conversation with Geography PhD candidate Craig A. Jones about his thesis and upcoming book, The War Lawyers, about the role that military lawyers play in the conduct and outcome of lethal targeting operations. The episode also talks to Department of Sociology professor Nathanael Lauster about his book, The Death and Life of the Single Family House.
In this episode we speak with Anthropology professor Charles Menzies about his new book People of the Saltwater, a historical ethnography of the Gitxaala people of British Columbia. We also meet some first year students at a term paper study session held by Totem Professor-in-Residence Michael Griffin.
The next episode of Arts on Air features a conversation with Taylor Owen, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs. We speak with him about his upcoming workshop on Canadian Media Innovation and about the role of information in democratic societies. The episode also features Nettie Wild, a Faculty of Arts graduate in Theatre, Film and Creative Writing, as her documentary KONELINE:our land beautiful premieres to Vancouver audiences.
This episode features Professor Jessica Tracy, director of the Emotion and Self Lab in the Department of Psychology at UBC. She is the author of the new book Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success. We also head over to the School of Music in this episode and chat with staff, performers and students about their weekly Wednesday Noon Hour concerts.
The first episode of this season features journalist and UBC Creative Writing professor Deborah Campbell talking about her new book, “A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War”. Recently nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Non-Fiction Award, this book deals with her search for her Iraqi fixer in Syria after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Janet is one of the world’s leading developmental psychologists and Canada’s Research Chair in Psychology. Her 30-year career has focused on understanding the roots of language acquisition through studying speech in infants. Her research has revealed much about babies’ speech perception, acquisition of native speech sounds and how this supports early world learning. For her contributions to the field and ongoing research, Janet was awarded the SSHRC 2015 Gold Medal Impact Award, SSHRC‘s highest distinction.
Listen as Ira chats with producers Natalie Walters and Daisy Xiong LIVE on air for the special CiTR Fundrive episode. We talk about how the show began, how it works and why Natalie and Daisy, both graduate students from the UBC School of Journalism, chose to pursue radio journalism.
For the second and final episode of our Student Series, which profiles graduate students in the Faculty of Arts, Ira spoke with UBC Hispanic Studies students Carmen Miranda Barrios and Juan Hernandez. Juan studies the portrayal of mining in Latin American literature. Carmen is studying Latin American radio and media in a Canadian context.
UBC Philosophy graduate students Richard Sandlin and Ian Heckman joined Ira in studio this week to talk about the ways food and dance stimulate human emotion. This is the first episode in a two part series exploring graduate student research in the Faculty of Arts.
Professor Eve Poudrier from the UBC School of Music has a background in music theory from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Throughout her academic career she has been drawn to the use of polymeter - the layering of different beats in one piece of music - in various musical genres. This research led to her interest in music and cognition, where she studies how listeners experience music and the cognitive systems that trigger these emotional reactions. She will be introducing a new course at UBC next Fall based on this research interest, which will be cross listed between the UBC School of Music and the Cognitive Systems Program. Eve Poudrier sat down with Ira discuss all this and more!
Renisa Mawani is an associate professor from Department of Sociology. She is a specialist in indigenous studies and non-European migration, especially to the west coast of Canada. She also has a special interest in legalities of nature, for example, the relationship between law and insects in the past decades.
Listen to Renisa's interview with Ira and get to know more about her and her research stories!
Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Frackman says German and Nordic culture always held a certain allure for him. First interested in the languages, he went on to study history, film and literature and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to further his studies in Hamburg. His research in recent years has focused on East Germany – more specifically, the social evolution and awareness of gender and sexuality. Catch Ira’s interview with Professor Frackman for more!
Award-winning journalist Mohamed Fahmy shares his thoughts on journalism, his new life in Canada/UBC, upcoming book and experiences in a high-profile Egyptian jail, including how he used a mock radio show to cope with the trauma of his incarceration.
UBC political science professor Max Cameron.talks with Ira about the results of this historic campaign, the expectations Prime Minister Trudeau now faces and how anyone thinking about a career in politics should prepare themselves.
Cameron is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and coordinated the first UBC Summer Institute for Future Legislators. He has also authored a number of publications focusing on his specialization in comparative politics in Latin America. Listen to his insightful interview here.
This week Ira sits down with Professor Joshua Mostow from the Department of Asian Studies, who is a specialist in Japanese culture and fine arts, and new fellow of Royal Society of Canada, to talk about his ongoing research and new show at Royal Ontario Museum.
This year marks UBC's centenary and to look back on 100 years of university history Ira sat down with English professor Herbert Rosengarten, author of UBC: The First 100 Years. Together they chart the school’s development from its inception back in 1908 and early relationship with McGill University, up to its most recent achievements.
Wednesday, October 23rd
Join Ira Nadel (English) as he interviews UBCs top writers, philosophers, singers and actors in the Humanities and Creative Arts. Provocative interviews, expert commentary and the latest updates from the Faculty of Arts make for an informative and entertaining segment.
How do machines generate rhetoric? What is the language of bar codes? How does media structure discourse? Dr. Ian Hill of UBCs English department will answer these and other fascinating questions.
Arts on Air is heard across the lower mainland every second week at 6 p.m. on CiTR 101.9 FM.
An archive of Arts on Air episodes can be heard at this link.
Here's Radio Free Stein Episode 1 on CiTR's Arts Project which alternates with UBC Arts On Air http://playlist.citr.ca/podcasting/audio/20130501-180536-to-20130501-182602.mp3