# /general (video feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover /general. Page: Feed: --- ## [Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41541) _2026-06-02 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/41541.mp4) ## [Climate Faith and Collective Responsibility with Bill McKibben](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41265) _2026-05-23 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/41265.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) ## [Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41294) _2026-01-28 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/41294.mp4) ## [Addressing Antisemitism Islamophobia and Religious Intolerance](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40703) _2025-12-13 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/40703.mp4) ## [Panic!: Swoon](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40927) _2025-10-18 · Film and Television (Video)_ Artist and filmmaker Tom Kalin joins moderator Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his 1992 film Swoon. Kalin discusses the historical background of the film (the famous 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case), how he reimagined the case through the lens of queer desire, and how he conducted archival research into the central figures of the murder. Kalin also discusses how… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40927.mp4) ## [CWC Docs: Facing the Falls](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40926) _2025-10-11 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film producer Liz Yale Marsh and mustang wrangler West Taylor join moderator and co-producer Wendy Eley Jackson to discuss their work on the documentary Facing the Falls, which follows disability rights advocate Cara Elizabeth Yar Khan and her twelve-day expedition through the Grand Canyon. They explore how Yar Khan’s muscle disease provided a unique challenge to navigating the Grand Canyon, as… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40926.mp4) ## [CWC Global: Captain Volkonogov Escaped](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40925) _2025-10-04 · Film and Television (Video)_ Filmmakers Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov join moderator Sasha Razor (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to discuss their film Captain Volkonogov Escaped. Merkulova and Chupov share how they work as a film making team, how they researched the period of Stalinist purges in the 1930s, and how they sought to make the period of the film feel contemporary. They go on to discuss their experience working… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40925.mp4) ## [CWC Global: Japanese Paper Films](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40924) _2025-09-27 · Film and Television (Video)_ Eric Faden (Bucknell University) discusses his work on the Japanese Paper Film Project, a project that has been preserving paper films made in Japan in the 1930s. Koto player Yoko Reikano Kimura and cellist Hikaru Tamaki (Duo Yumeno) joins Faden and moderator Alex Lilburn (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to talk about how the preservation work was carried out and their experiences presenting the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40924.mp4) ## [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) ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/V0nsb8WOYBGw) _2025-09-24 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [CWC Global: From Ground Zero](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40923) _2025-09-20 · Film and Television (Video)_ Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) and Elisabeth Weber (German and Slavic Studies, UCSB) join moderator Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies, UCSB) to discuss the film project From Ground Zero, an anthology of films made by Palestinian filmmakers since the beginning of the war in Gaza. They discuss how the films present a unique vision of Gaza, showing a vibrant society dealing… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40923.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) ## [Panic!: The Sound of Fury](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40919) _2025-09-13 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film historian Rebecca Prime joins moderator Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of the classic Hollywood film The Sound of Fury. Prime outlines the film’s production history and how its political and social commentary was shaped by its director, Cy Endfield, who would go on to be blacklisted due to his association with the Communist Party. They further discuss Endfield’s… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40919.mp4) ## [CWC Docs: American Homeboy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40921) _2025-09-06 · Film and Television (Video)_ Documentary subject and Chicano activist Jerry Ramirez joins moderator Clint Terrell (English, UCSB) for a discussion of the documentary film American Homeboy. They discuss Ramirez’s involvement with the film, his relationship to his Chicano identity, and how his experience being incarcerated fueled his activism, particularly in relation to Chicano issues. Ramirez and Terrrell reflect on how the… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40921.mp4) ## [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 (Video)_ 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/vod/40876.mp4) ## [Panic!: Hedwig and the Angry Inch](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40922) _2025-08-23 · Film and Television (Video)_ Over 20 years since its release, Hedwig and the Angry Inch remains as relevant as ever to the politics of the day. A child of division, Hedwig refuses to be caught between categories, instead evading gender description and embracing herself as lovingly as one can. Writer/director/actor John Cameron Mitchell joins moderator Patrice Petro, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, to discuss a… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40922.mp4) ## [Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40920) _2025-08-16 · Film and Television (Video)_ Film curators Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld join moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of their program “Archives of Anonymous Labor: From Farce to Liberation.” The program juxtaposes five films that about anonymity and labor, from silent films that show the invisible labor of housemaids and film editors to films that highlight the erased labor of decolonial struggle. This program is… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40920.mp4) ## [Panic!: CBS and the 1950s Blacklist](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40918) _2025-08-09 · Film and Television (Video)_ Carol Stabile (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) joins moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of “CBS and the 1950s Blacklist,” a program that included an episode of the television sitcom The Goldbergs and William N. Robson’s radio broadcast titled “Open Letter on Race Hatred.” They discuss the history of anti-communist activism in the U.S. and how CBS capitulated to the FBI and its… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/vod/40918.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 · Religion and Spirituality (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) ## [Rain of Ash: Roma Jews and the Holocaust](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40533) _2025-06-28 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/40533.mp4) ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q72uxE56UFfl) _2025-06-28 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [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) ## [Addressing Antisemitism on Campus: Lessons from History Challenges for Today](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40249) _2025-04-04 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/40249.mp4) ## [Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40423) _2025-03-03 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/40423.mp4) ## [Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40374) _2025-02-03 · Religion and Spirituality (Video)_ 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/vod/40374.mp4)