Judy Barrett Litoff - Professor of History, Bryant University - Aired 1/26/07
For more than 20 years, Judy Barrett Litoff has been collecting personal letters written during WWII. These stories are unlike anything you’ve ever read in your history books. Tune in to hear a unique perspective on life during wartime - including sound clips of some rare old “voice letters”.
More about Litoff here.
Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University - Aired 1/19/07
When Tricia Rose wrote her dissertation on hip-hop over ten years ago, academics warned her that the topic might be too obscure, a passing blip in music history. They sure turned out to be wrong. But hip-hop today is a very different thing than the culture that was born twenty years ago in the Bronx, and Tricia Rose calls for a resurgence in Black courage to face these changes. She also asks for courage in another one of her projects: documenting stories of Black female sexuality — stories that are too often oversimplified and layered in mythology.
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Scott Nixon, Professor of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography - Aired 1/12/07
We can all agree that Narragansett Bay is the heart of Rhode Island, but can we agree on how to take care of it? One of the nation’s leading experts on systems ecology, who has been studying the bay for over 30 years, is bucking conventional wisdom with some of his analysis of the bay’s problems, and he explains why on this show. Scott Nixon discusses new research on pollution and climate change, and explains how, despite our best intentions to clean the bay, we may be spending millions of dollars chasing, well… a red herring.
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James T. Campbell, Associate Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History at Brown University - Aired 1/5/07
New Englanders tend to think of their relationship to slavery as “the abolitionists”. But it was they, not the southerners, who made this “peculiar institution” into such a mainstay of American society when our country was first founded. After years of research, a committee at Brown University chaired by James Campbell has issued its report about slavery and its ties to Brown University. The report — along with a curriculum, videos, audio, and electronically archived source documents — can all be found here.
More about Campbell here.
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Chad Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Brown University - Aired 11/2/06
One day, robots will be a part of every life for all of us. Bill Gates recently wrote that the robotics industry is now in its infancy in the same way that the computer industry was when Gates was first getting his start, 30 years ago. And professor Chad Jenkins is on the cutting edge of robot scholarship. Oh yeah, and he also wants to figure how to make robots play soccer really really well.
Jenkins explains his approach to artificial intellegence, and how he sees robots fitting into our lives. More about Jenkins here.
Eugene Jarecki, Visiting Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University - Aired 5/9/06 In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of “destroying from within that which you are trying to protect from without.” He was talking about a new development in American history, which he called “the military-industrial complex”. Ike himself was a five-star general, but as he left office he was extremely worried that the powerful interests of the war industry would destroy American democracy. Tonight on Not Your Classroom, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (who is a visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University) talks about Eisenhower’s warning, which is the focus of his recent film “Why We Fight”. “Why We Fight” won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. More about Jarecki here.
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