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2002 Audio On-Demand & Program Descriptions
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January 2002

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January 31, 2002
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Contingent Valuation
Richard T. Carson, Jr. – Professor in the Economics Department at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Using Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method
David Schkade – Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in New Jersey
J. Mark Schuster – Visiting Scholar at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, and co-author of Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for Implementation

January 30, 2002
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America's Role in International Affairs
Joseph Nye: Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His latest book is The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
Steven Kull - Director of the Center on Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland. He is the co-author of Misreading the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism

January 29, 2002
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Regulating Corporate Practices
Lawrence Mitchell – Professor of Law at George Washington University, and author of Corporate Irresponsibility: Americas Newest Export
Sam Peltman – Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
Michael Greenstone – Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

January 28, 2002
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Museums In Public Life
Steven Conn – Author of Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926
Ivan Karp – Editor of Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Kimerly Rorshach – Director of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

January 25, 2002
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Contemporary Black Cinema in the USA
Sergio Mims – Film critic for NewCity Chicago and Faculty in the Film and Video department at Columbia College
Michael Gillespie – Instructor in the Program of Film and Video at Duke University
Anna Everett – Associate Professor in the Department of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of the anthology Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909

January 24, 2002
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The Death Penalty
J. Budziszewski - Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Revenge of Conscience
David Novack - Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto
Thomas Geraghty - Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Clinic at Northwestern University

January 23, 2002
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Network Culture
Wim Wiewel – Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Taylor – Author of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture, and director of the Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts
Judith Donath – Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab

January 22, 2002
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Oceans, Ice Caps, and Climate Stability
Raymond Pierrehumbert – Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago
David Archer – Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago
Richard Alley – Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University

January 21, 2002
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The Changing Definition of Criminal Evidence
Ken Alder – Professor of History at Northwestern University
Stephen Stigler – Professor of Statistics at University of Chicago
Jennifer Mnookin – Professor of Law at the University of Virginia

January 18, 2002
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Categorizing art
Vera Zolberg – Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology at the New School University in New York City, and co-editor of Outsider Art: Contested Boundaries in Contemporary Culture
James Yood – Assistant Chair and Lecturer in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, and author of Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists
Michael Bonesteel – Board member at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and author of Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings

January 17, 2002
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Plagiarism
David Plotz - Washington Correspondent for Slate, the online magazine
Daniel Born - Editor of The Common Review and the chief of staff at the Great Books Foundation
Neal Bowers - Poet and the author of Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist

January 16, 2002
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The relationship between newspapers and their readers
Loren Ghiglione – Dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Jay Rosen – Professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at New York University in Manhattan, and author of What Are Journalists For?
Jim Warren – Deputy Managing Editor and former Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune

January 15, 2002
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How the Drug War became entrenched government policy
Professor Andrew Rich – Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Professor Charles Manski – Professor in the Department of Economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Professor Mark Kleiman – Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Research at the University of California - Los Angeles

January 14, 2002
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Property rights and the public interest
Richard Epstein – Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and the author of Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain
David Dana – Professor of Environmental Law at the Northwestern University School of Law

January 11, 2002
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Gretchen Helfrich and guests
  Gretchen Helfrich and guests
Early Black Cinema and Its Audience
Jacqueline Stewart – Member of the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and author of the forthcoming book Migrating to the Movies: The Emergence of Black Urban Film Culture, 1893-1920
Gerald R. Butters, Jr. – Professor of History at Aurora

University in Illinois, and author of the forthcoming Man and the Hood: Portrayals of Black Masculinity in American Silent Films
Pearl Bowser – Filmmaker and Founder of African Diaspora Images - a collection of historical and contemporary African-American and African films and memorabilia, and author of Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

January 10, 2002
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"Outing" Historical Figures
Deborah Nelson - Faculty member at the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago.
Jonathan Ned Katz - Author of Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality
Larry Gross - Author of Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America

January 9, 2002
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Urban Wildlife
Stephen Pruett-Jones – Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago
Harriet Ritvo – Chair of the History Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and author of The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age
Joel Brown – Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago

January 8, 2002
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Women and Universal Rights
Ellen Willis – Director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program at New York University
Ann Snitow – Professor of Women's Studies at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School University
Anthony Chase – Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Human Rights Program of the University of Chicago

January 7, 2002
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Argentina and the International Monetary Fund
Robert Aliber – Professor of International Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago
Paul Blustien – Author of The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF
Mark Weisbrot – Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Social Policy Research.

January 4, 2002
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Big Government
Roger Pilon - Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.
David Strauss - Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Professor in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago

January 3, 2002
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Nano-technology
Richard Van Duyne - Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University
Heinrich Jaeger - Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago

January 2, 2002
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African - American Political Thought
Michael Dawson - Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African - American Political Ideologies
David Bositis - Scholar at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the author of Diverging Generations: The Transformation of African American Policy Policy Views

January 1, 2002
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Video Games and Gender
Henry Jenkins – Professor of Literature and Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
Gerard Jones – Author of Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy Games, Superheroes, and Make Believe Violence
Jeanne Funk – Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo in Ohio


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