UCLA (Audio) Podcast
1) Curing SCID and Treating Sickle-Cell with Gene Therapy
The story of how CIRM-supported research conducted by UCLA's Don Kohn pioneered a total cure for SCID, also known as bubble-baby disease, and how he hopes to employ the same gene-therapy strategies to...Show More
2) 6 Feet Apart - Social Engagement During COVID-19
Social distancing does not mean social isolation. In just a short time, our lives have changed dramatically. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has challenged us all in different ways to cope, a...Show More
3) Socio-Economic Equality and Rights - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
Socio-economic equality and rights have historically been marginalized in the human rights system but remain a front of racial discrimination. Panelists will engage with this history, identify contemp...Show More
4) Migration - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
Panelists consider global and national displacement, rights and protection regimes, and the ways that race and political economy drive policy decisions and institutional and normative responses to mig...Show More
5) Transnational Perspectives on Race and Empire at the Intersection of TWAIL and CRT
Contemporary global and national political crises, many of which threaten the human rights of millions and even the international system itself, bring into sharp relief enduring colonial legacies of r...Show More
Transnational Perspectives on Race and Empire at the Intersection of TWAIL and CRT
1:27:26 | Feb 25th, 2020
6) Emergencies and Crisis - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
Emergency law permits states to derogate from globally agreed upon norms of human rights. While some rights cannot be suppressed, states still use emergency law to justify policies that reproduce inhe...Show More
Emergencies and Crisis - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
1:01:20 | Feb 25th, 2020
7) America's Imperial Unraveling - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
The keynote presentation of the Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire Symposium features Aziz Rana whose research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political developmen...Show More
America's Imperial Unraveling - Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
56:40 | Feb 25th, 2020
8) Stress Eating and Weight Stigma
We live in a society that is obsessed with weight loss and dieting. Weight stigma and fat-shaming pervade our everyday lives– turning eating into something that is no longer an enjoyable act, but one ...Show More
9) The Neuroscience Of Music
What are the origins of hearing? What is the evolutionary benefit of music? And why do we get chills when we listen to certain songs? This episode of UCLA's LiveWell podcast features UCLA neuropsychol...Show More
10) Empowering Communities to Thrive
D'Artagnan Scorza wears many hats - from lecturer in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA to Founder and Executive Director of the Social Justice Learning Institute, a non-profit organization ...Show More