Zócalo Public Square Podcast
1) Will California's Future Be Exceptional?
Zócalo Public Square presents two back-to-back panels moderated by Zócalo’s California columnist Joe Mathews to ask: How exceptional do we want California to be? The first panel features expert voic...Show More
2) Can Music Change Minds?
It used to be that Spanish-language artists had to perform in English to succeed in the U.S. Today, they can sing in their native tongue and top the charts. But with increased visibility, does increas...Show More
3) How Is Migration Woven Into America?
This program is inspired by "So, I told her I was half-Indian" (2025) by Chicanx and Punjabi American weaver Kira Dominguez Hultgren. The piece, multiple looms woven together as a suspended sculpture,...Show More
4) Can Hip-Hop Be the Soundtrack for Change?
Medusa, the “Godmother of West Coast Hip-Hop,” and reparations advocate and business manager to the stars Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad aka Friday Jones, discuss the role of women in hip-hop. Hip-hop is...Show More
5) 2025 Zócalo Book Prize: Can We Reimagine How We Feed Ourselves?
Jean-Martin Bauer is the author of “The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century” and the winner of the 2025 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize. He’ll visit Zócalo to explore the role h...Show More
6) How Do We See Ourselves In Each Other?
This program is inspired by "Coatlicue & Las Meninas: The Stanford Edition" (2007/2025) by Mexican American artist Pedro Lasch, commissioned by IAJS and on view at Asheville Art Museum from April 16 t...Show More
7) 2023 Zócalo Book Prize: How Does a Community Save Itself? With Michelle Wilde Anderson
America’s high-poverty cities and counties have suffered for decades, enduring skyrocketing inequality, the opioid epidemic, rising housing costs, and widespread disinvestment. Governments have offere...Show More
2023 Zócalo Book Prize: How Does a Community Save Itself? With Michelle Wilde Anderson
1:04:15 | Apr 28th, 2025
8) What Alliances Do We Need In Perilous Times?
Live from the Arizona State University California Center Broadway in Los Angeles, CA: As coalitions, partnerships, and allegiances shift and emerge, Zócalo and an alliance of partners convene two bac...Show More
9) How Can Our World Rethink Climate Mobility?
Live from the Natural History Museum Commons Theater in Los Angeles, CA: Artist Tanya Aguiñiga, paleobotanist and curator Regan Dunn, climate mobility scholar Liliana Gamboa, and New Nomad Institute ...Show More
10) Is Sport the Final Frontier for Queer Acceptance?
Actors and athletes alike dress up and stage plays to entertain large audiences. Why is queerness so readily exhibited and accepted in the theater and still so taboo on the field? Can history show us ...Show More