# african/african-american studies (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover african/african-american studies. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Moment of Decision](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41450) _2026-07-20 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ What is a decision, and why does decision-making matter in politics, history, war, and public life? This panel examines how decisions differ from choices, when decisions become political, and how theories of rational choice, game theory, cognitive bias, neuroscience, and emotion shape our understanding of judgment. They explore how constitutional, legal, cultural, and social frameworks influence… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41450.mp3) ## [The Moment of Decision](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41450) _2026-07-20 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ What is a decision, and why does decision-making matter in politics, history, war, and public life? This panel examines how decisions differ from choices, when decisions become political, and how theories of rational choice, game theory, cognitive bias, neuroscience, and emotion shape our understanding of judgment. They explore how constitutional, legal, cultural, and social frameworks influence… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41450.mp3) ## [The Decision in History](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41449) _2026-07-18 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Decision-making in history affects how societies understand power, responsibility, and change. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how narratives turn moments of decision into markers of sovereignty and political action. Clark examines real and ostensible decisions, deterministic political environments, and modern pressures from democracy,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41449.mp3) ## [The Decision in History](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41449) _2026-07-18 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Decision-making in history affects how societies understand power, responsibility, and change. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how narratives turn moments of decision into markers of sovereignty and political action. Clark examines real and ostensible decisions, deterministic political environments, and modern pressures from democracy,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41449.mp3) ## [What is a Decision?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41448) _2026-07-17 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Political decision-making affects governments and societies in important ways. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how choices become decisions within political, legal, and cultural systems. Clark examines rational choice theory, cognitive bias, and decisions about war, helping clarify how power acts under pressure. This work helps explain… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41448.mp3) ## [What is a Decision?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41448) _2026-07-17 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Political decision-making affects governments and societies in important ways. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how choices become decisions within political, legal, and cultural systems. Clark examines rational choice theory, cognitive bias, and decisions about war, helping clarify how power acts under pressure. This work helps explain… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41448.mp3) ## [From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction Semiotic Skill and the Authority of AI Chatbots](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41542) _2026-07-03 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ As chatbots trained on Large Language Models become more sophisticated, their responses can sometimes seem uncanny, as if they come from a source that is mysterious, inexplicable, or even divine. Webb Keane, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, examines what happens when people treat artificial intelligence as a kind of “metahuman.” He explains how this reflects a broader human… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41542.mp3) ## [The 2000-Year History of Rome and Its Lessons Today](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41602) _2026-07-01 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Rome survived for 2,000 years. Edward Watts explores the long history of the Roman state and the lessons it offers for the modern world. From its beginnings as a small Italian city-state to its transformation into a Christian empire centered in Constantinople, Rome maintained a remarkable sense of political continuity across centuries of cultural and religious change. Watts examines how Roman… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41602.mp3) ## [How to Not Know with Simone Stolzoff](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41267) _2026-06-23 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ In an age obsessed with expertise, certainty, and endless self-optimization, author and journalist Simone Stolzoff invites audiences to rediscover the power of curiosity, humility, and not having all the answers. His new book, How to Not Know, challenges the cultural pressure to define ourselves by what we do or what we know—and instead celebrates the richness of uncertainty as a pathway to… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41267.mp3) ## [Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41541) _2026-06-02 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ What does it mean to rethink religion from the ground up? University of Colorado's religious studies professor Sam Gill draws on biology, philosophy, and decades of research and dance practice to argue that we are moving, whole organisms before we are divided into mind and body. Gill proposes that humans possess a biologically enabled capacity to hold together what we know to be different as if it… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41541.mp3) ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xtPLIOgeaNfV) _2026-06-02 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Climate Faith and Collective Responsibility with Bill McKibben](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41265) _2026-05-23 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben has helped shape how the world understands climate change. In this conversation with Marco Werman, host of The World, McKibben offers a clear-eyed look at the climate crisis and the solutions that could help reduce the damage of a warming planet. As part of the Burke Lectureship at UC San Diego, McKibben also explores the moral and spiritual questions at… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41265.mp3) ## [The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41447) _2026-05-15 · Human Rights (Audio)_ Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson examines transgender identity and politics through the lens of American liberalism, arguing that anti-transgender politics cannot be understood by analyzing conservatism alone. She traces the emergence of transgender identity from middle-class cross-dressing cultures, the development of transgender medicine, and the class tensions surrounding transition.… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41447.mp3) ## [Is This Your Only Life?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41446) _2026-04-17 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Embodiment affects how we understand personhood, moral status, and whether this life is our only life. Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam University Professor, Princeton University, explains how competing theories of mind and matter shape the question of whether a will could have an embodiment other than its present one. Johnston examines the failures of functionalism, reductive and non-reductive… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41446.mp3) ## [A Conversation with Judy Woodruff - Writer's Symposium By the Sea 2026](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41203) _2026-03-30 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Widely regarded as one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism, Judy Woodruff is known for her decades-long career covering politics and current events. She is also the author of the book, This Is Judy Woodruff at the White House. Renowned for her calm, balanced reporting and commitment to journalistic integrity, Woodruff has covered every U.S. presidential election since… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41203.mp3) ## [Three Ages and Three Intelligences: Exploit Explore Empower with Alison Gopnik](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41068) _2026-02-18 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can possess more or less of this intelligence. Cognitive science, in contrast, suggests that there are multiple forms of intelligence and that these intelligences trade-off against each other and have a distinctive developmental profile and evolutionary history.… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41068.mp3) ## [It’s Not So Simple: An Examination of How the Internal Revenue Code Fails to Contemplate the Economic Realities of Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41178) _2026-02-16 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Families with disabled students often face extra out-of-pocket costs—costs they wouldn’t have if their child weren’t disabled—to secure the same education other students receive for free, yet tax relief for those expenses is limited and unclear. Garret Hoff, J.D., argues that Internal Revenue Code Section 213 and its interpretations reflect a time when disabled people were not viewed as worth… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41178.mp3) ## [Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41069) _2026-02-11 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Contemporary populism is almost everywhere; a right wing phenomena that focuses on a politics of white working class grievance. A set of grievances that are to be addressed, when in power, with policies of expulsion, exclusion, and domination. Attempts by liberal states to deal with such movements paradoxically rely on a similar politics of exclusion, such as building so-called firewalls against… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41069.mp3) ## [Water Wealth and the Ancestral Circular Economy with Kamanamaikalani Beamer](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41295) _2026-02-04 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ The extractive linear economy and policies focused on endless growth have produced unparalleled socioeconomic inequality and the climate crisis. Communities around the world are calling for new economic models that are regenerative towards people, place, and ecosystems. Ancestral ʻŌiwi (indigenous Hawaiian) economic systems were built around people's relationships and understandings of wai… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41295.mp3) ## [Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41294) _2026-01-28 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions concerning repatriation, land access, education, and diverse forms of sovereignty, our panelists explore the intersection of Indigenous religious traditions and law. The discussion begins at the regional level, with specific reference to Chumash contexts, and… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41294.mp3) ## [Technology's Influence on Self-Esteem](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41214) _2026-01-14 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ We’re surrounded by digital devices — from phones and tablets to streaming platforms and social media. In this excerpt, Kristy Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB, shares findings on how cognitive self-esteem can change if a person is using a personal mobile device. Series: "GRIT Talks" \[Science\] \[Show ID: 41214\] [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41214.mp3) ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HYGriUCcAlB9) _2026-01-14 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [The Squiggly Line with Katelyn Jetelina](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41067) _2026-01-03 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ How do you navigate a nonlinear, “squiggly line” career in science and public health? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific communicator, explores challenges of science communication within academia—from cultural resistance to misaligned incentives—and why so much vital research never reaches the public. Joined by Dr. John Schwartzberg, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41067.mp3) ## [Technology's Influence on Decision-Making](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41215) _2026-01-02 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ We’re surrounded by digital devices — from phones and tablets to streaming platforms and social media. In this excerpt, Kristy Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB, shares research on how digital media shapes the way we see ourselves and the way we behave. Series: "GRIT Talks" \[Science\] \[Show ID: 41215\] [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41215.mp3) ## [The Soul – Spirit is My Altar with Marta Moreno Vega](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40425) _2025-12-20 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Espiritismo traces its roots to the sacred knowledge of West and Central African peoples carried into the Americas by enslaved ancestors between the 15th and 19th centuries. Marta Moreno Vega, Ph.D., scholar and co-founder of Corredor Afro, explores how these traditions—sustained in Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Puerto Rico, other Caribbean islands, and U.S. urban centers—function as systems of memory,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40425.mp3) ## [Public Health: How to Make the Invisible Visible with Katelyn Jetelina](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41066) _2025-12-15 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden behind paywalls. In a world of eroding trust and rising falsehoods, Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific communicator, explores how we can make the value of public health visible: by telling better stories with data, making science more… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41066.mp3) ## [Addressing Antisemitism Islamophobia and Religious Intolerance](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40703) _2025-12-13 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ A collaborative effort examines how organizations confront religious intolerance, focusing on antisemitism and Islamophobia. It maps an ecosystem of practices across individual, community, and structural levels. Using surveys, interviews, and existing research, the project documents what people and organizations do and why. Approaches include education and skills training; supports for healing and… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40703.mp3) ## [Evolution and Animal Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41065) _2025-12-06 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciousness by surveying animal evolution and the emergence of felt experience in several lineages. He examines two central philosophical questions: how such experience might arise gradually, existing in partial forms, and whether it represents a single unified… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41065.mp3) ## [Genes Communicate Through Twisting: The Story of Supercoiling in DNA](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41040) _2025-11-21 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ It is well known that inside nearly every living cell on this planet, there are instructions powering the dynamics of everything in the cell, known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Enoch Yeung, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC, Santa Barbara, explains how DNA is the genetic code that tells cells where to live, how to live, and how to adapt when things get tough. Editing DNA has… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41040.mp3) ## [Following Nature's Lead: Chemistry in Water](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41029) _2025-11-10 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ Nature has been running chemistry experiments for over 4 billion years—yet today, much of modern organic chemistry still depends on wasteful, resource-heavy methods that rely on oil-based solvents. These solvents aren’t recycled, and when burned, they release CO2, adding to climate change. But what if chemistry could be done differently? Bruce Lipshutz, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41029.mp3) ## [Thinking in a Digital World](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41030) _2025-11-03 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ We’re surrounded by digital devices—from phones and tablets to streaming platforms and social media. With so many options at our fingertips, each of us faces choices about when and how to use technology in ways that align with our goals and values. In this talk, Kristy Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at UCSB, shares research on how digital media shapes the way we… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41030.mp3) ## [Linguistics and the Law](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41041) _2025-11-01 · UC Santa Barbara (Audio)_ Language and the law is a field growing in size and importance. While some forensic linguistics applications -- e.g. authorship attribution -- have a wider tradition, this growth is particularly acute in the domain of legal interpretation, which is increasingly using corpus data and methods. Stefan Gries, Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara, discusses two recent applications. One is from… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41041.mp3) ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XfuPquFWWGDi) _2025-11-01 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [Chasing Hope in a Time of Crisis with Nicholas Kristof](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40914) _2025-09-24 · Human Rights (Audio)_ How do you find hope in a deeply fractured and polarized world? In this timely and powerful conversation, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nicholas Kristof pulls from decades of reporting from global conflict zones and overlooked American communities to bring a deeply human perspective to today’s most urgent moral and civic challenges. In an era marked by division and misinformation, this program… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40914.mp3) ## [From Sleepy Lagoon to Zoot Suit: The Irreverent Path of Alice McGrath](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40985) _2025-09-16 · Human Rights (Audio)_ The Sleepy Lagoon case of 1942 became one of the most racially charged trials in U.S. history. Twenty-two Mexican American youths, mostly teenagers, were tried en masse for the death of José Díaz, though no witness placed them at the scene and the cause of death was never established. Denied fair treatment, they faced a biased judge and jury, with twelve sentenced to San Quentin. In this… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40985.mp3) ## [Righting Wrong When Sorry Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations with Grace Yia-Hei Kao](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40876) _2025-08-30 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ How should federal governments attempt to right, or at least remedy, past wrongs? Is it appropriate for victims of group-based harms or their descendants to press current generations to atone for the sins of their predecessors? Grace Kao, Professor of Ethics and the inaugural Sano Chair in Pacific and Asian American Theology at Claremont School of Theology, explores these questions by drawing upon… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40876.mp3) ## [The Times of Possibility](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40431) _2025-08-05 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Legal scholar Annabel Brett explores the idea of “moral possibility”—the boundary between what laws demand and what people can realistically or ethically be expected to do. Drawing from early modern thinkers like Aquinas, Suarez, and Hobbes, Brett shows how moral impossibility has long shaped debates about legal obligation, resistance, and political agency. Commentators Melissa Lane and David… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40431.mp3) ## [Times of Change: Possibility Virtue and a Democratic Politics of Time](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40430) _2025-08-02 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Political theorist Annabel Brett of Cambridge University explores how the concept of “moral possibility” shapes law, politics, and public obligation. She explains that laws must be realistic for people to follow—what is morally possible varies by individual, culture, time, and circumstance. Drawing on early modern Catholic legal theory, Brett discusses how extreme demands (like enduring war or… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40430.mp3) ## [Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40877) _2025-07-26 · Human Rights (Audio)_ Is sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement. From the 1980s to the present, this practice has protected undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation by offering them refuge in churches, where federal immigration agents to this day still fear to tread. In this lecture, Lloyd Barba, Assistant Professor of Religion and Core Faculty in Latinx and Latin… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40877.mp3) ## [Seas the Day: A New Narrative for the Ocean](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40427) _2025-07-15 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ It's time for a new narrative for the ocean, one that reflects current scientific knowledge and acknowledges innovative new partnerships and solutions that center the ocean in our future. In this program, Jane Lubchenco, Professor of Marine Biology at Oregon State University and with expertise in the ocean, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being, talks about… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40427.mp3) ## [Science in the White House: Integrating Solutions to the Triple Crises of Climate Change Loss of Biodiversity and Inequality/Inequity](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40426) _2025-07-09 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Three major global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity and its benefits, and inequality and inequity among people – are typically tackled within three separate silos. However, scientific knowledge tells us that the three are inextricably linked. If the problems are not considered together, solutions to one may undermine solutions to the others. Moreover, more holistic, integrated… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40426.mp3) ## [Subjects and Citizens: The Possibility Condition Law and Democracy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40429) _2025-07-05 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ There's a powerful idea in the history of European legal and political thought: that laws must be possible for people to follow. Annabel Brett, professor of Political Thought and History at Cambridge University, describes how from ancient times through the Renaissance, thinkers believed that demanding the impossible—whether physically or psychologically—was a hallmark of tyranny. A classic example… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40429.mp3) ## [Rain of Ash: Roma Jews and the Holocaust](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40533) _2025-06-28 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ What paradoxes arise when victims of related persecution tell their stories next to, and after, each other? This question is at the heart of Ari Joskowicz’s highly acclaimed book “Rain of Ash,” which examines the unlikely entanglement of the histories of Jews and Romani people—the only two racialized groups the Nazis targeted for wholesale extermination. Joskowicz, professor of Jewish Studies at… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40533.mp3) ## [The Moral Economy of Resource Extraction and the Future of Industrialization](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40428) _2025-06-10 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ The "energy transition" is actually a shift from relying on fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) to using metals to generate energy. However, extracting metals has always been a significant environmental and political issue, especially for cities. This problem has been around for centuries, even ancient Roman writers wrote about it. In this program, Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40428.mp3) ## [Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40704) _2025-04-29 · Human Rights (Audio)_ What’s next for the battle over abortion? In this lecture, Mary Ziegler argues that undoing Roe v. Wade was never the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the 14th Amendment, making abortion unconstitutional. The battle for personhood also aims to overhaul the regulation of in vitro fertilization… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40704.mp3) ## [Forging a New Political System 2024 and Beyond](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40424) _2025-04-07 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Historian and political commentator Heather Cox Richardson joins UC Berkeley professor of law and history Dylan Penningroth in a timely conversation about the reshaping of the United States’ two major political parties. A professor of 19th century American history at Boston College, Richardson provides an incisive perspective on current politics to the more than three million readers of her… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40424.mp3) ## [Addressing Antisemitism on Campus: Lessons from History Challenges for Today](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40249) _2025-04-04 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ John A. Pérez, Regent Emeritus of the University of California, sits down with Robert Williams, Ph.D., CEO and Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation, for a critical conversation about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses. They explore how history shapes present-day challenges, the dangers of misinformation, and the role of higher education in confronting hate.… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40249.mp3) ## [Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40423) _2025-03-03 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ Through a focus on Spanish-speaking Catholics, Amanda Baugh sheds light on environmental actors hiding in plain sight. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted across Los Angeles, Baugh, Professor and Associate Chair of Religious Studies and Director of the MA Program in Sustainability at California State University, Northridge, demonstrates that minority communities are not merely victims of… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40423.mp3) ## [The Arc of Energy Justice: A Pursuit to Ensure Affordable Reliable and Clean Energy for All](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40223) _2025-02-17 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ We are at a critical moment in our society. While we advance efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, across the globe, millions are experiencing issues of energy affordability, reliability and equitable access to modern energy technologies. In this program, Tony Reames, Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, explores… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40223.mp3) ## [Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40374) _2025-02-03 · Religion and Spirituality (Audio)_ The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence went viral in conservative media in June 2023 when the L.A. Dodgers announced plans to honor the local house of the order at the team’s annual Pride Night. Reporting on the ensuing scuffle focused largely on sports, politics, and culture wars, not on religion, and it largely misrepresented or overlooked the international order of queer and trans nuns at the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40374.mp3) ## [Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40309) _2025-01-27 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Does giving cash up front improve the health and wellbeing of people in poor communities? In this program, Edward (Ted) Miguel, professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley, talks about his work in Kenya on the impact of cash transfers on infant mortality, leveraging a unique large-scale census of local households’ birth histories. The findings… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40309.mp3) ## [The Search for Paradise](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40222) _2024-12-02 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ This program explores the decolonizing potential of Indian aesthetic-social philosophy by challenging two entrenched colonial prejudices: the supposed radical dissimilarity and inferiority of pre-modern Indian traditions compared to modern social theory. Through an analysis of the Upanishads and Vaisnava theology and poetry, Sudipta Kaviraj, professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History at… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40222.mp3) ## [Character and Agency](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40221) _2024-11-23 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ What defines a person’s character, and how does it shape who they are? In this lecture, Susan Wolf, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, challenges traditional ideas about character. She argues that character is more than just a set of traits or values an individual endorses—it can include aspects of ourselves we may not even recognize or approve of. Wolf explores… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40221.mp3)