Ranked #1
Zucked with Roger McNamee - Helen Edison
Zucked with Roger McNamee - Helen Edison
Noted tech venture capitalist Roger McNamee, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, woke up to the serious damage Facebook ... Read more
7 Mar 2019
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51mins
Ranked #2
Game of Thrones - Script to Screen
Game of Thrones - Script to Screen
Director Jeremy Podeswa joins Pollock Theater Director Matt Ryan for a Script to Screen discussion of the season 7 final... Read more
16 Apr 2019
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57mins
Ranked #3
Inventing Languages: A Conversation in Language Construction
Inventing Languages: A Conversation in Language Construction
Constructed languages, or conlangs, are well-known in science fiction and fantasy literature as ways of creating an imme... Read more
25 Feb 2019
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58mins
Ranked #4
Beatles Revolutions - A Hard Day's Night
Beatles Revolutions - A Hard Day's Night
Screaming girls, overwhelmed security, and segregated auditoriums all arise in musicology Professor David Novak (UC Sant... Read more
21 Feb 2019
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39mins
Ranked #5
Dawn Solér - Powerful Music Supervisor Who is Changing the Way We Watch TV
Dawn Solér - Powerful Music Supervisor Who is Changing the Way We Watch TV
As a music supervisor and executive on such films as The Big Lebowski, Sweet Home Alabama and Dead Man Walking, Dawn Sol... Read more
28 Jan 2019
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57mins
Ranked #6
Computer-Mediated Communication and Hyperpersonal Interaction
Computer-Mediated Communication and Hyperpersonal Interaction
Communicating through the Internet is different than face-to-face interaction. No matter how familiar people are with em... Read more
19 Sep 2018
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29mins
Ranked #7
Texting Etiquette Varies by Generation
Texting Etiquette Varies by Generation
Deborah Tannen discusses how interacting via text messaging services challenges relationships. Tannen is on the faculty ... Read more
18 Sep 2018
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4mins
Ranked #8
Saturday Night Live's Laraine Newman - Script to Screen
Saturday Night Live's Laraine Newman - Script to Screen
When Saturday Night Live debuted in 1975, it gave the sketch/variety show format a twist, offering high-concept comedy s... Read more
19 Jun 2018
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45mins
Ranked #9
Shakespeare on Film: Chimes At Midnight Orson Welles
Shakespeare on Film: Chimes At Midnight Orson Welles
Orson Welles direction and his performance as Shakespeare’s legendary Falstaff are at the center of this conversation ab... Read more
4 Jun 2018
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41mins
Ranked #10
She's The Man - Script to Screen Shakespeare on Film
She's The Man - Script to Screen Shakespeare on Film
Karen McCullah and Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith are one of the most prolific and successful female writing teams in Hollywood. A... Read more
28 May 2018
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43mins
Ranked #11
Shakespeare on Film: Macbeth
Shakespeare on Film: Macbeth
Screenwriters Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff join moderator Jim Kearney (UCSB, English) for a conversation about their 20... Read more
7 May 2018
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37mins
Ranked #12
Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma with Amit Pinchevski - Holocaust Living History Workshop
Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma with Amit Pinchevski - Holocaust Living History Workshop
In his new book, Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life ... Read more
23 Jun 2020
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57mins
Ranked #13
Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan
Uncovered: Health Care Conversations with Ady Barkan
Contextualizing the fight for healthcare reform, honoring the connection between nurses and patients, and personalizing ... Read more
18 Dec 2019
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38mins
Ranked #14
Icons of Dissent with Jeremy Prestholdt
Icons of Dissent with Jeremy Prestholdt
Jeremy Prestholdt examines how Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden are major "dissenters" who hav... Read more
25 Nov 2019
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51mins