The Carleton Radio Forum is back for a new season of exhilarating conversations featuring a variety of guests and speakers to Carleton's campus. This week, student host Madeline Schaefer sits down with Linda Williams, professor of film studies and rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley to discuss the definitions and methods of melodrama in American culture. Tune in tonight at 9:30PM to hear the divine wisdom of a film goddess as she breaks down the mystery and power of melodrama, from "The Titanic" to American foreign policy.
This week on the Forum, student host Kristen Johnson sits down with J. Drake Hamilton, Science Policy Director for Fresh Energy, for an informal conversation about energy policy, alternative sources of energy and the role of environmental issues in the coming election.
Guest host Hibah Hussein interviews Christopher Dunn, author of the book "Brutality Garden" in which he documents the Tropicalia movement in Brazil during the late sixties. They discuss Dunn's introduction and interest in the movement along with specific people and ideas within the Tropicalia movement itself.
This week on the Forum, student host Madeline Schaefer sits down with Gillian Sorensen, the Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation, to discuss the rocky relationship between the U.S. and the U.N, how this relationship can be improved, and how to be an informed, American global citizen.
Tune in for personal and provocative conversations with distinguished guests every week on the Carleton Radio Forum, Sundays at 9 PM.
This week on the forum, student host Madeline Schaefer sits down with Butch Thompson, the leader of the Doc Evans Centennial Band. Butch Thompson and several other jazz musicians teamed up to perform on Friday as part of Carleton's celebration of what would have been Doc Evan's 100th birthday. Madeline talked with Butch Thompson about his relationship with Doc Evans as well as his own successful jazz career.
Tune in each Sunday at 9PM for more conversations with Carleton's distinguished guests.
Student host Martin Miller sits down with President Rob Oden for a final conversation about Carleton's recently announced capital campaign including the new arts building and housing expansions.
Tune in for personal and provocative conversations with distinguished guests next year on the Carleton Radio Forum.
We'd like to thank Martin Miller for all his hard work over the years and we wish him the best of luck in the future. We are sure he will go far.
Student host Madeline Schaefer sits down with Shakespeare translator Jean Michel Deprats for a conversation about the challenges of translating Shakespeare into French, the possible advantages of this process, and the universality of Shakespeare's work.
Tune in for personal and provocative conversations with distinguished guests every week on the Carleton Radio Forum, Sundays at 9 PM.
Guest Bio
Jean-Michel Déprats is Senior Lecturer in English and Theatre Studies at the University of Nanterre (Paris X). He has translated about thirty of Shakespeare’s plays staged by famous French and foreign directors, and is preparing a new bilingual edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works. He has also translated plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries such as Christopher Marlowe, as well as those of modern British, Irish and American dramatists, including Oscar Wilde, and Tennessee Williams. He dubbed the French versions of Kenneth Branagh’s movie Henry V, and Franco Zeffirelli’s Hamlet.
Student host Martin Miller sits down with Steven Levitt for a conversation about how economics can solve big problems by asking small questions.
Tune in for personal and provocative conversations with distinguished guests every week on the Carleton Radio Forum, Sundays at 9 PM.
Guest Bio
University of Chicago Economics Professor Steven Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious. They could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. His book, "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything," was a New York Times bestseller. Levitt attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he led the quiz bowl team to nationals two years in a row, graduated from Harvard University and received his Ph.D. from MIT. Levitt was chosen as one of Time Magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006.
Student host Martin Miller sits down with Jacob Lief for a conversation about his experiences as an educator in South Africa, global philanthropy and how young people can make a difference.
Tune in for personal and provocative conversations with distinguished guests every week on the Carleton Radio Forum, Sundays at 9 PM.
Guest Bio
From a chance meeting in South Africa in 1998, Jacob Lief and Banks Gwaxula came to realize that they shared more than a common interest in soccer. The two shared an abiding belief in the power of education. During a trip to South Africa in the summer before his senior year of college, Lief was invited by Banks to live in his home as family and work with him as a teacher in his township school. Through this experience, he learned that the township schools lacked resources taken for granted in even the poorest communities in the United States. In the Xhosa language of South Africa, the word ubuntu refers to the belief in a universal bond of brotherhood and sharing. So it is fitting that when, six months later, Lief created a non-profit organization to improve education conditions in the black townships of that country, he named it the Ubuntu Education Fund. Today Ubuntu is reaching over 40,000 children with life-saving health and educational resources and services.
Student host Martin Miller sits down with Stuart Gibson for a conversation about accessing a culture through its art and the importance of dialogue for intercultural intercourse.
Tune in for personal and provocative conversations with distinguished guests every week on the Carleton Radio Forum, Sundays at 9 PM.
Guest Bio
Stuart Gibson is a fine arts and cultural heritage consultant who specializes in assisting cultural organizations and governments during economic and political transition, advising governments on how to save their national treasures. In addition, Gibson is the director of the UNESCO Hermitage Project in St. Petersburg, Russia, described by the Russian government as one of the most successful cultural projects undertaken by the United Nations in Russia. The State Hermitage Museum is one of the largest, oldest, most important and famous art galleries and museums of human history and culture in the world. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes international collaboration through education, science, and culture.
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