UC Santa Barbara (Audio) Podcast
1) Genes Communicate Through Twisting: The Story of Supercoiling in DNA
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, Associa...Show More
2) Panic!: Fresh Kill - A Conversation with Shu Lea Cheang
Thirty years after the film’s release, Fresh Kill has been remastered by the Fales Library & Special Collections of New York University. Fresh Kill director/producer Shu Lea Cheang traveled with filmm...Show More
3) CWC Global: Corazón Azul
Director Miguel Coyula and actor Lynn Cruz join UC Santa Barbara's Kiley Guyton Acosta and Cristina Venegas to discuss their film, Corazón Azul. They discuss the allegorical significance of its imager...Show More
4) CWC Global: Whale Rider
Māori novelist Witi Ihimaera, author of the 1987 novel The Whale Rider, joins moderator Nicola Daly (University of Waikato) for a post-screening discussion of Niki Caro’s 2002 film Whale Rider. Ihimae...Show More
5) Cannibalism Warfare And Food Shortages In Renaissance Rome
In Rome in 1644, four butchers were accused of killing seven of their fellow Roman citizens, stripping the meat from their bones, and grinding it together with pork to make sausage, which was then sol...Show More
6) The Shapes of Stories in Games and Comics
What are the shapes of stories? This is a longstanding question in narrative arts, from the plot arcs of novels and rhyme schemes of poems to the shot sequences of films. This program discusses two na...Show More
7) From Brain to Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and Back
Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have been extremely successful in predicting, optimizing, and controlling the behavior of complex interacting systems. Robustness and explainabilit...Show More
8) Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias
Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities across the country have been subjected to increased hate incidents, including verbal harassment, civil rights v...Show More
9) Big Screen: Gaslight
Shelley Stamp (Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz) joins moderator Kelsey Moore (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) in a post-screening discussion on George Cukor’s classic 1944 film Gaslight, sharing tho...Show More
10) Asian American Activism: Drawing on History Inspiring the Future
Asian/Pacific Islander American communities have a long history of activism in the United States, particularly in response to anti-Asian racism and exclusion. In their struggle for equality and libera...Show More