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ST Presents Museum Confidential: The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
June 16, 2020 19:59 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOn this installment of ST, we share a Museum Confidential podcast from our archives that feels especially timely, given what's going these days across the nation and, indeed, all over the world. The podcast episode is from the fall of 2018, when we spoke with Dr. David Pilgrim, founder and curator of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University in Michigan. This museum was born out of his personal collection, one that began decades ago, when Dr. Pilgrim was growing up ...
"Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health"
June 15, 2020 21:52 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest on ST Medical Monday is Dr. Bon Ku, an ER doc and Assistant Dean for Health and Design at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Ku is also the co-author of a new book, "Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health." This novel and fascinating work argues that the principles of human-centered design can and should be applied to today's health care challenges. The book's focal points range from the design of drug packaging an...
"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" (Encore)
June 12, 2020 17:03 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of ST, a discussion from our archives. In 2017, we spoke with Richard Rothstein, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Widely seen as a leading authority on U.S. housing policy, Rothstein told us about his then-new book, "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America." This book has recently entered The New York Times Bestseller List, which makes se...
Eviction in Tulsa: An Update
June 11, 2020 16:59 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBThe current pandemic has brought keen economic hardship, of course, to a vast number of individials and families within various levels of American society. Given that so many folks who rent a house or apartment in our community now require extra time to acquire their unemployment checks and/or federal benefits, the Tulsa City Council voted unanimously last night to ask Gov. Stitt for a statewide moratorium on evictions. In addition to this, Tulsa County has historically had one of the highest...
The Data Behind How Getting (or Not Getting) an Abortion Affects Women's Lives: "The Turnaway Study"
June 10, 2020 16:51 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBWhat happens when a woman seeking an abortion in the U.S. is turned away? Our guest is Diana Greene Foster, PhD, who set out to answer this question as definitively as possible. Her new book is "The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having -- or Being Denied -- an Abortion." It is an up-close exploration of abortion access across America today; it's also the first long-term study of American women's lives to document the consequences -- physical, financial, ...
The Possibilities and Practicalities of Police Reform: A Chat with Drew Diamond
June 09, 2020 17:07 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBAre the cops whom we all rely on "law enforcement officers," or are they "peace officers"? As historic protests continue across the nation -- and across the globe -- following the murder of George Floyd while in police custody in late May, conversations, debates, and civic strategies are focusing more and more on police reform. What should such reform look like? How would it be realized? How can police accountability be increased in communities across the US? And indeed, how can public trust ...
"When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia"
June 08, 2020 16:54 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest on ST Medical Monday is Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist who writes regularly for The New York Times. He tells us about his new book, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia." This work carefully examines leukemia in its different forms as well as the development of drugs to treat it. As noted by Kirkus Reviews: "What makes this narrative so compelling is the author's ability to bring readers with him on his rounds as he meets each patient and family member, ...
The John Hope Franklin Center's 11th Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium
May 22, 2020 17:40 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBTulsa's John Hope Franklin Center will soon present the 11th Annual Reconciliation in America National Symposium, from May 27th through June 2nd. Given the pandemic, the symposium this year will happen online, and it will carry the theme of "Reconciliation and Technology: Neutral Resources for Social Good." This theme, per the John Hope Franklin Center website , "unites us as change agents, researchers of effective practices, and peacemakers in the intentional journey of reconciliation. By co...
"The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States"
May 21, 2020 16:44 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is Walter Johnson, the Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His new book is a far-reaching, unflinching, and complicated account of race relations in his hometown: St. Louis, Missouri. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, the course of American events, Johnson argues, has been charted in St. Louis. His book moreover shows how the imperialism, racism, and capitalism that have def...
"A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic"
May 20, 2020 16:39 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Eric Eyre, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win that prize for investigative reporting. His new book, based on the work that won him that prize, details his investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns at the outset of America's opioid crisis. "Death in Mud Lick" tells the riveting and shameful story of a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, which distributed 12 million opioid pills in th...
"The World: A Brief Introduction"
May 19, 2020 16:40 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose new book is a primer on world history -- specifically, world history as it's understood in our current global era. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made all too clear, we live in an age when things happening thousands of miles away can directly (and drastically) affect our own lives. As Haass explains on StudioTulsa, he wrote this book in order to help readers of all backgrounds make sense of this complicated, interc...
Research Is Now Being Done as to Whether Dogs Can Be Used to Detect COVID-19
May 18, 2020 16:58 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBCould dogs be used -- at some point in the future -- to effectively "sniff out" COVID-19 among human beings infected with the virus? We don't know. But research is now being done in various labs to explore this question. On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we get an update from journalist Maria Goodavage, whose previous books include "Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America's Canine Heroes" and "Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca." She actually spoke with us about six months ago, whe...
ST Presents Museum Confidential: "Metropolitan Stories"
May 14, 2020 23:32 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOn this edition of ST, we present another installment in our Museum Confidential podcast series , which is a popular co-production of Public Radio Tulsa and Philbrook Museum of Art. This time out, MC speaks with longtime NYC-museum veteran Christine Coulson, who worked at The Met for a quarter of a century in a variety of roles. She left a couple of years ago to write full-time, and now comes her widely acclaimed and rather experimental debut novel: "Metropolitan Stories."
"Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy"
May 13, 2020 18:39 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guests are the journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano, who are also the co-authors of "Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy." The book documents the super-destructive wildfire that consumed the town of Paradise, California, in early November of 2018, when a community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire. "Fire in Paradise" offers a moving, far-reaching narrative based upon hundreds of interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Gee...
TU's 20th Annual Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture to Happen Online
May 13, 2020 16:01 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBThe University of Tulsa College of Law's 20th Annual Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture was originally scheduled for earlier this year, but it was delayed due to inclement weather. It will now happen tonight, Tuesday the 12th, in an online-only presentation beginning at 6pm . Our guest, with whom we actually spoke earlier, will deliver this lecture: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Denver. His talk is titled “Migrating to...
"On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring about Your Patients"
May 11, 2020 19:21 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBWhat do we mean by the phrase "patient-centered care"? And why is this expression being used more frequently in medical circles? Our guest on ST Medical Monday is Dr. Saul J. Weiner, a professor of medicine, pediatrics, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He tells us about his new book, "On Becoming a Healer," which is essentially a memoir/study/critique/guidebook focused on how to become a more competent, more compassionate physician. As was noted of this work by ...
A Medical Researcher Shifts His Focus to COVID-19
May 06, 2020 23:01 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOn this edition of StudioTulsa, we meet immunologist Dr Eric Fajgenbaum, a researcher on the fairly rare disorder, Castleman's Disease. A survivor of this lymphatic condition himself, Fajgenbaum has devoted his work to discover how FDA-approved drugs can be repurposed to effectively fight Castleman's. A key similarity between Castleman Disease and COVID-19 is the cytokine storms that can occur with the most severe cases, where the patient's immune system attacks vital organs along with the vi...
"Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic" (Encore Presentation)
May 06, 2020 22:59 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Matt McCarthy, MD, a bestselling author, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell, and staff physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he also serves on the Ethics Committee. He's the author of "Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic," which was originally released last summer. Kirkus Reviews called the book "a riveting insider's look at the race to find a cure for antibiotic-resistant infections, one of the most pressing challenges in modern medicine.... Insigh...
"The Heartland: An American History"
May 06, 2020 22:58 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBThe term "the Heartland" is often used by politicians trying to connect with people, and is also used to define a national identity, often in a way that excludes some people within the country. The heartland has become a term of mythology that defines a place and a people that inhabits it, and in the US, it evokes ruralness, or small town values, agriculturally or Main Street oriented, overwhelmingly white, and suspicious of the outside world. University of Illinois historian Kristin Hoganson...
"Economics in the Age of COVID-19"
April 30, 2020 20:18 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of areas where government was unprepared despite years of preparation, but it has also revealed a very un-governmental nimbleness in responding to the economics of the pandemic-induced recession. Economist Joshua Gans says there was no pandemics playbook on how to keep an economy running in a situation like this, and despite the real hardships many are facing today, policymakers have made more right decisions than wrong to this point. Gans is a Profe...
Medical Monday: "OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose"
April 30, 2020 19:54 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, it's important we don't lose sight of other epidemics that have impacted the nation's health. The opioid epidemic has contributed to lower life expectancy for non-college-educated whites in the U.S. in each of the last three years. Our guest today, author Nancy Campbell, has written a compelling social history of the drug Naloxone ("Narcan"), the best-known opioid reversal agent we have, and how it has evolved from a drug used only in scientific and medical setti...
"Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back To Save Democracy"
April 29, 2020 22:52 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBIn the wake of the US Supreme Court's Common Cause v. Rucho case which ruled that gerrymandering cases are a non-justiciable issue, citizen grassroots efforts have emerged to use other means to prevent partisan gerrymandering and other voter suppression efforts. These locally organized efforts have led to initiative petition victories to create non-partisan redistricting commissions in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Utah, expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in Idaho, and re...
C-SPAN Winning Documentary Films from Jenks HS
April 29, 2020 22:51 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBThis month on C-SPAN, the public affairs network has been airing short documentaries created by Jenks High School students, winners in the network's annual Student Cam video documentary competition. Leviathan Lee and Mason Chow won 1st Prize for their documentary on the opioid crisis "200,000." Several other Jenks student entries won awards which featured over 5400 entries nationwide. This is a common occurrence for the documentary filmmaking program at Jenks. My guest today is their teacher ...
"The Great Influenza" Historian John Barry Reflects on COVID-19
April 22, 2020 21:54 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBAs our current pandemic continues, we hear from historian John M. Barry, who wrote one of the definitive accounts of the worst American pandemic, the Influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Barry is the author of the 2004 book, "The Great Influenza: The Story of The Deadliest Pandemic in History." Barry says that the most important lesson from the influenza pandemic is that truth is the strongest weapon available to man in a pandemic. In 1918, truth and transparency were among the first casualties of ...
ST Medical Monday: "The Undying" (Encore)
April 21, 2020 19:24 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KB(Note: This program first aired last year.) Our guest is the Kansas City-based poet and teacher Anne Boyer, who joins us to discuss her bold, well-written memoir of cancer. The book is called "The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care." As was noted of this book by The New York Times: "The pink ribbon, that ubiquitous emblem of breast cancer awareness, has long been an object of controversy and derision, but the poet and essay...
"Jonas Salk: A Life" (Encore)
April 21, 2020 19:10 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBToday, in labs and clinics all over the globe, the search for a COVID-19 vaccine is moving incredibly fast. On this edition of ST, we offer an interesting and optimistic account from the vaccine-related annals of American history as we revisit a 2015 interview from our archives. At that time, we spoke with Dr. Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs about her biography, "Jonas Salk: A Life." The book also offers a fascinating cultural hitory of polio in the US.
Helping the Elderly in These Trying Times: A Chat with the CEO of LIFE Senior Services
April 21, 2020 18:48 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Eileen Bradshaw, the recently-named CEO of the vitally important Tulsa nonprofit known as LIFE Senior Services. She brings us up to date on the various efforts that LIFE is now, in the age of Coronavirus, putting toward assisting the elderly in our community. These actions include (as detailed at the LIFE website ) utility and telephone help, mental and behavioral health services, food resources, COVID-19 testing-site data, details on special shopping hours for seniors, and so on...
A Chat with Jimmy Webb, the Legendary Oklahoma-Born Songwriter (Encore Presentation)
April 14, 2020 18:57 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBThe latest batch of historic recordings to be annually inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress was announced last month. Among them was the 1968 single, "Wichita Lineman," which was a big hit for Glen Campbell. That song was written by Jimmy Webb, the Oklahoma native who's widely seen as one of America's finest pop songwriters -- and who had a remarkable run of hit songs in the 1960s and early 1970s. On this edition of ST, we listen back to our 2017 conversati...
Clarehouse Will Soon Present Tulsa Healthcare Decisions Day
April 14, 2020 18:43 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBThe Tulsa nonprofit known as Clarehouse has been providing care for dying people in need for more than 15 years. It offers its services for free, and it partners with groups and organizations from all over the health care vortex in our community. Clarehouse will soon be presenting a virtual Tulsa Healthcare Decisions Day, which we learn about on this edition of ST Medical Monday. Per the Clarehouse website : "Only 22% of Oklahomans have an advance directive. Because of this, Clarehouse is lea...
Notes on Sheltering in Place: Music Suggestions from Julie Watson with "Live From Cain's"
April 14, 2020 18:24 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBLooking for new tunes to check out as you pass away all those homebound hours of late? We have some great tips on this edition of ST as we welcome Julie Watson to our show. She's long been a fixture of Tulsa's local music scene, writing about musicians and bands, presenting concerts, promoting new and emerging artists, and so forth. Watson formerly hosted a fine public-radio show on another station, "Tune In Tulsa," which mixed great conversations with compelling playlists, and she's also a f...
Notes on Sheltering in Place: Some Books to Read, and Some Shows to Watch
April 14, 2020 18:04 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBLots of time at home these days...for so many of us...as we continue to shelter in place, for the safety of ourselves and everyone else, in the Age of Coronavirus. On this installment of ST, we have tips regarding books to read as well as videos to watch during these days of prolonged self-isolation. Our guests are Rebecca Howard with the Tulsa City-County Library and Chuck Foxen with the Circle Cinema.
ST Medical Monday: Combatting COVID-19 in Hospitals
April 14, 2020 17:54 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of our program, we speak with two different doctors -- one in Boston, and one here in Tulsa -- about the current medical, hospital-level fight in the U.S. against coronavirus. First we hear from Dr. Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital who is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. Then we hear from Tulsa native Dr. Jabraan Pasha, an associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency program at OU-Tulsa.
How Community Food Efforts are Ramping Up During COVID-19
April 03, 2020 20:26 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOn this edition of StudioTulsa, we hear from two institutions which are gearing up to feed more Tulsans and Oklahomans during the pandemic. Jorge Robles is the Chief Operating Officer of the Tulsa Public Schools, which instituted a feeding program that is now serving lunch and breakfast for 23,000 children a day at school sites and bus stops throughout the district. With the addition of "Tulsa Kitchens Unite," a collaboration between restaurants, Hunger Free Oklahoma, TPS, and other community...
How Arts & Cultural Groups are Adapting to COVID-19
April 03, 2020 20:09 - 29 minutes - 1.7 KBToday on StudioTulsa, we hear from three arts officials on how their institutions and constituencies are being affected by "shelter in place" orders due to COVID-19 pandemic. Katie Dale heads up the Red Dirt Relief Fund and shares the impact venue closures have had on gigging musicians; and Marcello Angelini from Tulsa Ballet, and Scott Stulen from Philbrook Museum of Art describe how they are working to serve their audiences when there are no performances and exhibitions to attend.
Perspectives from the 'COVID Tent' at NYC's Bellevue Hospital
March 30, 2020 16:06 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this special COVID-19 edition of StudioTulsa Medical Monday, host John Schumann speaks with Bellevue Hospital attending physician and writer Dr. Danielle Ofri, who penned a recent essay for the New York Times about doctoring in a specialized COVID clinic in New York City. Currently, there are more than fifty thousand confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has commandeered a convention center for the surge in hospitalized patients there. Dr. Ofri is the founder and ...
ST Medical Monday: "This Is Your Brain on Birth Control" (Encore Presentation)
March 17, 2020 18:46 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KB(Note: This program originally aired back in the fall.) Our guest is Dr. Sarah E. Hill, a professor at TCU in Ft. Worth, Texas. She's seen as an authority on evolutionary approaches to psychology and health, and her new book, which she tells us about, is "This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences." As was noted of this work by Dr. Jolene Brighten (author of "Beyond the Pill"): "[This book] validates what generations ...
"Shadow on the Mountain: A Yazidi Memoir of Terror, Resistance, and Hope"
March 17, 2020 18:35 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Katharine Holstein, an American-Canadian writer and human rights advocate. She's also the co-author of a new book, which she tells us about: "Shadow on the Mountain: A Yazidi Memoir of Terror, Resistance, and Hope." As was noted of this work by The New York Journal of Books: "A spellbinding tale woven with gorgeous phrasing, compelling you to finish its journey at a breakneck pace along with Shaker Jeffrey, a hero of Promethean proportions.... [The book offers] a class-ten white-...
A Poetic Justice Exhibit Now at ahha: "Not a Number"
March 17, 2020 18:25 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBIt's well-known that Oklahoma has the highest rate of female incarceration in the US. On this edition of StudioTulsa, we profile Poetic Justice, an important nonprofit that, per its website , aims to "reveal the individuality and experiences of the women who inhabit [our] state's prisons. Poetic Justice seeks to [thus emphasize] the voices of incarcerated women through restorative and transformative workshops in writing, drama, and art." Our guests are the founder/director of this organizatio...
Wanted: Driven, Talented Remote Workers Who'd Like to Live in Tulsa
March 12, 2020 16:47 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of ST, we learn about Tulsa Remote, the talent-recruitment initiative of George Kaiser Family Foundation that's now in its second year -- and that has received, since it began, more than 10,000 applications from all over the globe (and all over the nation). Our guest is Tulsa native Aaron Bolzle, the executive director of this increasingly popular program. As per the Tulsa Remote website , it was "created...to enhance Tulsa's talented and successful workforce community by brin...
"When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains"
March 11, 2020 16:33 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is Ariana Neumann, a journalist born and raised in Venezuela who's now based in London. She joins us to discuss her first book, just out, which is a work of memoir/history that digs deeply into the secrets of her own father's past. That is, the years he spent hiding from the Nazis in Berlin, the murder of many of his family members in the Holocaust, and the brave choice he finally made to create a new life for himself. As noted in a starred reviw of this work in Booklist: "Profound,...
ST Medical Monday: An Update on COVID-19 in Tulsa County
March 09, 2020 18:31 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBPublic health officials in Tulsa -- and everywhere else, of course -- are now monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new coronavirus, COVID-19. This virus was first identified in China in January. Late last week, the first confirmed COVID-19 case was announced in Tulsa County: a man in his fifties who had recently visited Italy. On this edition of ST Medical Monday, we offer an update on this still-evolving, fast-changing situation. Our guest is the Tulsa Health Department'...
Getting to Know Tulsa's Center for Employment Opportunities
March 09, 2020 18:17 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of ST, we learn about Tulsa's Center for Employment Opportunities (or CEO). CEO is a nationwide nonprofit that helps people who've just come out of prison find jobs and/or acquire skills and training. The Tulsa CEO branch opened in 2011; our guest is Adrienne Yandell, who directs the Tulsa outlet. Per the CEO Tulsa website : "CEO guarantees every participant who completes a one-week job-readiness orientation up to four days a week of transitional work on a crew and daily pay -...
Tonight at Duet Jazz in Downtown Tulsa: OK Electric 2020, Featuring Cellist Inbal Segev
March 05, 2020 18:35 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of StudioTulsa, we welcome the Tulsa-based composer, musician, and music teacher Noam Faingold back to our show. He's also the curator for the fifth-annual OK Electric Festival of Electroacoustic Music, which he tells us about. This special event (presented by Living Arts of Tulsa) happens tonight, Thursday the 5th, at Duet Jazz; more info, including how to get tickets, is posted here . The evening will feature the internationally acclaimed cellist Inbal Segev -- as well as su...
"Luba Lukova: Designing Justice" -- A Remarkable New Show by a Feagin Visiting Artist Here at TU
March 04, 2020 18:46 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is the well-known, New York-based graphic artist, Luba Lukova. Her bold, accessible images have appeared in The New York Times, Time, and other leading publications, and her prints and posters are also in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Library of Congress. She is currently a J. Donald Feagin Visiting Artist here at TU, and an exhibit of her socially-aware work, "Luba Lukova: Designing Justice," will soon go on view at the Henry ...
An Upcoming Public Lecture at TU: "Black | Power: Race, Empire, & Privilege in Enlightenment France"
March 03, 2020 18:55 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of ST, we speak with the scholar who will deliver the free-to-the-public 2020 Cadenhead-Settle Memorial Lecture here at TU tonight (Tuesday the 3rd). Our guest is is Dr. Christy L. Pichichero, whose work focuses on the racial (geo)politics of the early modern era in France. Her talk is titled "Black | Power: Race, Empire, & Privilege in Enlightenment France." Dr. Pichichero is an Associate Professor of French and History at George Mason University in Virginia; more about her t...
ST Medical Monday Looks at the "Moral Injury of Healthcare"
March 02, 2020 20:42 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOn this edition of our show, we explore the "Moral Injury of Healthcare." Our guests are Dr. Wendy Dean and Dr. Simon G. Talbot, who have together created a new nonprofit aiming to (as noted at the nonprofit's "fix moral injury" website ) "help all of us change the conversation about healthcare. This is NOT about burnout. It is about taking care of ourselves by taking care of patients.... The crisis of clinician distress is not just a professional issue for [Dean and Talbot]. It is also a per...
"Women Who Changed Art" at Philbrook Museum
February 28, 2020 18:18 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBOur guest is Bridget Quinn, a writer, art history scholar, and educator based in San Francisco. She joins us to discuss her 2017 book, "Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History." Quinn will deliver a sold-out "Women Who Changed Art" lecture tonight (Friday the 28th) at Philbrook Museum -- and that lecture will be based, in large part, on this book.
"U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court: Where Do We Go from Here?"
February 27, 2020 21:07 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBWe chat with Todd F. Buchwald, who served as Special Coordinator for the U.S. State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice from December 2015 through July 2017, and was conferred the rank of Ambassador by President Obama in July 2016. Prior to this, Mr. Buchwald served as a lawyer in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, including a stint as the Assistant Legal Adviser for Political-Military Affairs during the Clinton and Bush Administrations. He recently gave an address...
"Play in the Fantasy Realm: Young Children's Relationships with Imaginary Companions"
February 27, 2020 20:51 - 28 minutes - 1.7 KBWhy do some kids -- but not all kids -- develop imaginary friends? And how exactly do kids benefit from their relationships with imaginary companions? What do they acquire from these relationships? Our guest is Tracy Gleason, a developmental psychologist and professor of psychology at Wellesley College. She will speak about her interesting research on young children's imaginary companions at 7pm on Thursday the 27th in TU's Tyrrell Hall. More info on this gathering is posted here .
A Chat with Leona Mitchell, the Iconic Operatic Soprano and Oklahoma State Cultural Ambassador
February 27, 2020 20:33 - 29 minutes - 1.73 KBOur guest is Leona Mitchell, the legenday American opera star, Grammy Award-winning soprano, and member of Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma -- and now based there, after a long career that took her to famous opera houses all over the world -- Mitchell is perhaps best known for her 18 seasons as a leading spinto soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2014, she was inducted into the Oklahoma African-American Hall of Fame. She joins us to look back on her...