| December
29, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Writing on Drugs
Sadie Plant, author of Writing on Drugs
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| December
28, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Democracy in America by Alexis de
Tocqueville
Richard John – Associate professor of history at the University
of Illinois at Chicago and the author of, Spreading the News:
The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
Neal Harris – A social and cultural historian and the acting
chair of the history department at the University of Chicago.
His latest book is Building Lives: Constructing Rites and
Passages
Harvey Mansfield – Professor of government at Harvard University
and translator of a new edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy
in America
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| December
27, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Bird
Migration
Scott Weidensaul – author of, "Living on the Wind: Across the
Hemisphere with Migratory Birds"
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| December
22, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Film Forum: The Coen Brothers
Jonathan Miller –
Teaches film studies at I.I.T. and reviews film for 848
Lee Gerstien –
Reviews film for LesBiGay Radio and is the entertainment editor
for Gab Magazine
Jim Chandler –
Professor in english language and literature and a member of
the committee on cinema and media studies at the University
of Chicago
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| December
21, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Social
Capital
Robert Sampson – professor in the department of sociology at
the University of Chicago
Jody Kretzmann – co-director of the Asset-Based Community Development
Institute and senior research associate at the institute for
policy research at Northwestern University
Robert Putnam – professor of public policy at Harvard University
and the author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival
of American Community
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| December
20, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Affirmative Action
Richard Epstien – James Parker Hall distinguished service
professor of law at the University of Chicago
Mary Anne Case – Professor of law at the University of Chicago
Barbara Ransby – Assistant professor in the departments of history
and African American studies at the University of Illinois at
Chicago
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| December
19, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Happy Birthday, Quantum Theory!
Chris Quigg – Theoretical Physicist at Fermilab
Mark Ratner – Professor of chemistry at Northwestern University
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| December
18, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Election Wrap Up
Alan Gitelson – Professor of political science at Loyola
University - Chicago
Charlie Madigan – Senior writer at the Chicago Tribune
David Strauss – The Harry N. Wyatt professor of law, the Russell
Baker scholar, and director of the legal theory program at the
University of Chicago Law School
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| December
15, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Holiday Films (or how I learned to stop
watching It's a Wonderful Life)
Ron Fazone - Teaches in the film department at Columbia
College
Susan Doll - Teaches film studies at Oakton Community College
and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Joe Steiff - Teaches in the film department at Columbia College
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| Some of the Holiday
Movies Recommended by the Panel on Odyssey's Film Forum (in no particular
order): |
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Holiday
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Remember the Night
Heaven Can Wait
Hope and Glory
Ressurrection
Fearless
The Ref
Soul Food
The Homecoming
Holiday Affair
Last Night
Nightmare Before Christmas
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Christmas Holiday
Ice Storm
Lethal Weapon
Strange Days
I'll Be Seeing You
Die Hard
Batman Returns
A Christmas Story
Gremlins
Edward Scissorhands
The Bishop's Wife
Shop Around the Corner
Lemon Drop Kid
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| December
14, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
E-Literature
Scott Rettberg – Executive director of the Electronic Literature
Organization and the co-author of The Unknown, a hypertext novel
Rob Wittig – Director of the Tank 20 literary studio and a member
of the literary advisory board of the Electronic Literature
Organization. He is also a design consultant at Thirst, a Chicago
design firm
John Unsworth – Professor of English and director of the institute
for advanced technology in the humanities at the University
of Virginia
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| December
13, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Supreme Court Decides Bush v. Gore
Tom Merrill – The John Paul Stevens professor of law at Northwestern
University
Elizabeth Garrett – Professor of law and deputy dean of academic
affairs in the law school at the University of Chicago
Charles Lipson – Associate professor of political science and
director of the program on international politics, economics
and security at the University of Chicago
Steve Lubet – Director of the program on advocacy and professionalism
and professor of law at Northwestern University
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| December
12, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
The Latest News from the World of Medicine
with Dr. Quentin Young
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| December
8, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Jonathan Rosenbaum - Film critic for the Chicago
Reader and the author of Movie Wars: How Hollywood and
the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See
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| December
7, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
The New President's Economy
John Frendreis - Associate vice president of planning and
analysis and a professor in the political science department
at Loyola University - Chicago. He is also the co-author of
The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy
Bill Barnhart - Markets columnist at the Chicago Tribune
Owen LaMont -Associate professor of finance at University of
Chicago's graduate school of business
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| December
6, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of
Life
by Jonathan Lear, the John U. Nef distinguished professor in
the committee on social thought and the department of philosophy
at the University of Chicago
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| December
5, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Astronomy: Solar Eclipse on Christmas
Doug Duncan – Associate professor in astronomy and astrophysics
at the University of Chicago
More info at Doug
Duncan's website
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| December
4, 2000 Audio |
hosted
by Gretchen Helfrich |
Presidential
Politics
Tom Merrill - Professor at the Northwestern University School
of Law
David Strauss - Professor in the Law School at the University
of Chicago
Charlie Madigan - Senior Writer at the Chicago Tribune
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