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Promoting Women's Freedom

March 30, 2011 Uncategorized

How might the inclusion of women in Afghanistan’s economic future improve the country’s stability? This hour, we’ll preview this week’s George W. Bush Presidential Center conference “Building Afghanistan’s Future: Promoting Women’s Freedom and Advancing their Economic Opportunity.” Our guests will include Jim Glassman, Executive Director of the Bush Institute and former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Melanne Verveer, Ambassador of Global Women’s Affairs at the US Department of State.

The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett

March 30, 2011 Uncategorized

Where do we get our image of the Wild West and just how accurate are the stories of cold-blooded outlaws and the lawmen sworn to bring them to justice? We’ll spend this hour with writer and Southwest Studies expert Mark Lee Gardner, author of “To Hell on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett” (Harper Paperbacks, 2011).

From the Archives: The Man Who Recorded the World

March 29, 2011 Uncategorized

From the Archives: Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America’s greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” (Viking, 2011).

Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon

March 29, 2011 Uncategorized

How did an advertisement for real estate become the symbol of fame, fortune and everything that goes with it? We’ll talk this hour with Leo Braudy, University Professor and Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature at the University of Southern California. He explores the history of one of the most famous signs in the world in his new book “The Hollywood Sign: Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon” (Yale, 2011).

What Talking with Computers Teaches Us

March 28, 2011 Uncategorized

Will computers one day do our thinking for us? We’ll talk this hour with Brian Christian whose new book is “The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive” (Doubleday, 2011). Christian will take us behind the scenes at the annual Turing test which pits artificial intelligence against the real thing.

A Sicilian Wine Odyssey

March 28, 2011 Uncategorized

What do culture, food and wine tell us about a specific place and time? We’ll spend this hour with journalist and travel writer Robert V. Camuto who explores the rugged island of Sicily in his new book “Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey” (Nebraska, 2010).

Type 1 and Juvenile Diabetes

March 24, 2011 Uncategorized

What are the latest developments in the fight against type 1 and juvenile diabetes? We’ll talk this hour with Dr. Gregory Clark of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Jeffrey Brewer, President and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Behind the Scenes with the DSO Concertmasters

March 24, 2011 Uncategorized

What is the role of the concertmaster? We’ll find out this hour and discuss Dallas’s classical music community with Alexander Kerr and Nathan Olson; they assume the roles of Dallas Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster and Co-Concertmaster on September 1st. We might even hear a bit of music!

1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

March 23, 2011 Uncategorized

Would you risk your life to achieve equality? This hour we’ll remember the brave individuals who did just that in the spring and summer of 1961 with Ray Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. His acclaimed book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice” (Oxford, Paperback, 2011) has just been published in an abridged 50th anniversary edition.

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

March 23, 2011 Uncategorized

What made Winston Churchill one of the great leaders of the 20th century? We’ll spend this hour with Celia Sandys, author of “We Shall Not Fail: The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill.” Sandys, who will address the World Affairs Council of Dallas Forth Worth this evening, is Churchill’s granddaughter.

The Dallas-Sendai Relationship & Japan's Economy

March 22, 2011 Uncategorized

What does the destruction in Japan mean for the Japanese and global economy and how will the tragedy affect our relationship with Japan? We’ll spend this hour with David Schnetzer, President of the Japan America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth and William Tsutsui, Dean of Dedman College at SMU. Tsutsui, a specialist in modern Japanese business and economic history, was actually in Tokyo when the massive earthquake occurred.

The Festival of Ideas & The Future of Journalism

March 22, 2011 Uncategorized

What are the current big ideas about power, journalism, religion and healthcare? We’ll preview the upcoming Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Festival of Ideas this hour with KERA’s own Lee Cullum, who’ll lead this weekend’s event. We’ll also be joined by George Getschow, writer-in-residence of UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference and “Future of Journalism and the Media” panelist at the festival.