# california issues (video feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover california issues. Page: Feed: --- ## [Janelle Iglesias on Art Identity and Collaboration](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41254) _2026-07-11 · Education Channel (Video)_ Art can connect personal history, community, and social change. Janelle Iglesias, Assistant Professor of Studio Art at UC San Diego, traces her path from a multicultural childhood in Queens to anthropology, ceramics, sculpture, and public art. She explains how objects in her family home sparked an interest in material culture, and how a reconciliation program in South Africa changed her view of… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41254.mp4) ## [Extreme Events in California’s Changing Climate](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41412) _2026-05-22 · Education Channel (Video)_ How does global warming connect to the extreme weather people experience close to home? Drawing on the work of the Weather Extremes and Climate Impacts Analytics group, Sasha Gershunov of Scripps Institution of Oceanography outlines the accelerating warming trend, the role of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide, and the greenhouse effect, and how it relates to extreme weather. He also traces key… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41412.mp4) ## [The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41447) _2026-05-15 · Human Rights (Video)_ 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/vod/41447.mp4) ## [Extended Studies: Lifelong Learning That Expands Opportunity](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41108) _2026-02-25 · Education Channel (Video)_ UC San Diego’s Division of Extended Studies broadens the university’s public impact by connecting campus expertise to the evolving needs of people and workplaces. Dean Hugo Villar, Ph.D., M.B.A., describes a mission centered on lifelong learning that helps individuals build skills, pursue new opportunities, and stay adaptable as work and technology change. He explains how the division develops… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41108.mp4) ## [Paola Capó-García: Poet Laureate on Humor Intimacy and Voice in Poetry](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41024) _2026-01-07 · Education Channel (Video)_ Poetry becomes more approachable when it reflects everyday language, humor, and lived experience. San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García explores how graduate study, mentorship, and workshops shape her writing and sense of voice. Capó-García describes building poems through experimentation, including physically cutting and rearranging pages, and links her work to family stories and identity. As… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41024.mp4) ## [Engineer Turned Restaurateur: Cris Liang’s Journey](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40974) _2025-11-29 · Education Channel (Video)_ Cris Liang, a UC San Diego alumnus trained in engineering, explains how a cross-border upbringing and family entrepreneurship guided his move from engineering to hospitality. He grew up between Mexico and the United States, spoke Cantonese and Spanish at home and in the community, and came to see food as a bridge that connects cultures and neighborhoods. His restaurants focus on community,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40974.mp4) ## [Dealing with Difficult People](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40599) _2025-11-15 · Education Channel (Video)_ If you feel like there's more rudeness in the world, you're not alone. According to John O'Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," there's a pandemic of incivility. O'Brien says we're seeing bad behavior everywhere, from the streets to the workplace to even the operating room. As part of our Osher Author Talk series, host Henry DeVries talks with O'Brien about the physical and mental… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40599.mp4) ## [Linguistics and the Law](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41041) _2025-11-01 · Law and Justice (Video)_ 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/vod/41041.mp4) ## [Mobile Mental Health for Students: Triton CORE](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40955) _2025-10-31 · Education Channel (Video)_ Campus-based mental health response matters everywhere, providing timely help that prevents crises and keeps students thriving. At UC San Diego, Triton CORE’s mobile, trauma-informed clinicians meet students where they feel safest and connect them to least restrictive care. Series: "Education Channel" \[Health and Medicine\] \[Education\] \[Show ID: 40955\] [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40955.mp4) ## [The Great Philosophers: Augustine](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41056) _2025-10-25 · Education Channel (Video)_ Peter Bolland, professor of philosophy and humanities at Southwestern College, explores the lasting influence of Augustine of Hippo. Born in North Africa in 354, Augustine—now known as Saint Augustine—is remembered as one of Christianity’s most important thinkers. He shaped core beliefs like the doctrine of original sin and wrote The City of God, a work meant to comfort Christians after Rome fell… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/41056.mp4) ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HNfV3FEhUyHq) _2025-10-25 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Chasing Hope in a Time of Crisis with Nicholas Kristof](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40914) _2025-09-24 · Human Rights (Video)_ 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/vod/40914.mp4) ## [The History of Food: The Universalization of Regional Food Practices](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40966) _2025-09-17 · Education Channel (Video)_ Stanley Chodorow, Emeritus Professor of History at UC San Diego, traces the evolution of food preservation, preparation, and production from ancient times to the modern era. He explores early methods such as drying, salting, and ice cellars, advances like iceboxes, refrigeration, and flash freezing, and innovations in cooking technology from open fires to gas and electric stoves. Chodorow examines… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40966.mp4) ## [From Sleepy Lagoon to Zoot Suit: The Irreverent Path of Alice McGrath](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40985) _2025-09-16 · Human Rights (Video)_ 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/vod/40985.mp4) ## [The Exploration of Space Asteroids: The Fossils of the Universe](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40964) _2025-09-06 · Education Channel (Video)_ Asteroids, often called “fossils of the solar system,” are remnants from its formation that offer clues about planetary origins and the potential beginnings of life. Dr. Neil Farber, Solar System Ambassador for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains that some, known as near-Earth objects, pose impact risks—though large, dangerous collisions are rare—and NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40964.mp4) ## [The Times of Possibility](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40431) _2025-08-05 · Law and Justice (Video)_ 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/vod/40431.mp4) ## [Times of Change: Possibility Virtue and a Democratic Politics of Time](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40430) _2025-08-02 · Law and Justice (Video)_ 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/vod/40430.mp4) ## [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 (Video)_ 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/vod/40877.mp4) ## [Subjects and Citizens: The Possibility Condition Law and Democracy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40429) _2025-07-05 · Law and Justice (Video)_ 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/vod/40429.mp4) ## [Personhood: The New War over Reproductive Rights and Justice](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40704) _2025-04-29 · Human Rights (Video)_ 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/vod/40704.mp4)