CiTR -- UBC Arts On Air
by CiTR & Discorder Magazine
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.
Episodes
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A walk-and-talk with Professor Santa Ono
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.
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The past, present and future of information studies
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.
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The awesome complexity of human speech
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?
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An opera classic and teaching Indigenous texts
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.
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Pipeline politics and the performing arts
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...
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War Lawyers and The Death and Life of the Single Family House
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…
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Talking Indigenous history with Professor Charles Menzies
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...
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Talking media innovation and artful documentaries
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...
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Talking pride as the secret to human success
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...
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Talking storytelling with award-winning journalist Deborah Campbell
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…
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Talking Babies and Language with Psychologist Janet Werker
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,...
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Arts on Air Fundrive Episode
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.
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Ira chats with Carmen Miranda Barrios and Juan Hernandez from UBC Hispanic Studies
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...
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Ira chats with Philosophy Graduate students Richard Sandlin and Ian Heckman
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.
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Music Professor Eve Poudrier talks Music and Cognition
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...
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Sociology Professor Renisa Mawani on Migration and Legalties of Nature
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...
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A talk with Germanic Studies Professor Kyle Frackman
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...
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UBC Arts on Air 12-Nov-2015 Mohamed Fahmy
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.
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Political Science Professor Max Cameron on Canada Election's Results
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...
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Professor Joshua Mostow on Japanese Culture and his Royal Ontario Museum Exhibition
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.
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Professor Herbert Rosengarten talks 100 years of UBC History
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...
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UBC Arts on Air 23-Oct-2013
Wednesday, October 23rd Join Ira Nadel (English) as he interviews UBC’s 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.…
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UBC Arts On Air 08-May-2013
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
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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.
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