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Long Story Short - Holiday Schamalady
Mark Summers returns to Long Story Short as Dara and Cody gather round the holiday tree and get festive! This time: learn about the holidays and feel the "cheer."
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism
By studying Brazilian films released between 1976 and 2005, Gordon examines how the films both define the national community and influence viewer understandings of "Brazilianness." Though the films he examines span decades, they all communicate their revised version of Brazilian national identity through a cinematic strategy with a dual aim: to upset ingrained ways of thinking about Brazil and to persuade those who watch the films to accept a new way of understanding their national community.
The First Chapter of Wired with Louis Hahn
Nathan DeWall is a professor in the Psychology Department and has also served as one of the faculty co-directors of Wired since its start in 2011. He sat down with Wired alum Louis Hahn to talk about his experiences in the living learning program and how it has helped shaped his college experience.
This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.
Office Hours with Matt Giancarlo and Susan Roberts
Still looking for an opportunity to travel this summer? Tune in to this week's Office Hours as we speak with Matt Giancarlo, from the Department of English, and Susan Roberts, from the Department of Geography, about the education abroad trips that they will be leading this summer.
UK's Yeager Part of Team That Finds Missing Deepwater Horizon Oil
Since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, also referred to as the BP oil spill, occurred in 2010, scientists have been searching for millions of gallons of unaccounted oil — 11 to 30 percent of the oil estimated to have been spilled — in the Gulf of Mexico.
New Faculty 2014: Meet Mairead Moloney
The Department of Sociology is excited to welcome Assistant Professor Mairead Moloney to its faculty!
This podcast is part of a series highlighting the new faculty members who joined the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall 2014 semester.
This podcast was produced by Casey Hibbard.
Office Hours with Mary K. Anglin and Matt Page
Join us for this fourth episode of Office Hours, where we talk to Professor Mary K. Anglin about her research on breast cancer and the Appalachian region, and Professor Matt Page about his work in music. Office Hours is produced by the College of Arts & Sciences and airs on WRFL FM 88.1 every Wednesday from 2-3 p.m.
This podcast was produced by David Cole.
Introducing the book: Landesque Capital: The Historical Ecology of Enduring Landscape Transformations.