2003-52 (12/28/03)

Jesus and Empire

Richard Horsley, author, Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder; professor of Religion, UMass Boston.

Capoeira: A Unique Expression of Brazilian Culture

Deraldo Ferreira, director, Brazilian Cultural Center of New England.

2003-51 (12/21/03)

Christmas Traditions

Bisse Bowman, member, St"mbandet; Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, assistant professor of Sociology, UMass Boston; Jonas Stundza, president, Boston Chapter, Lithuanian Folk Arts Institute.

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2003-50 (12/14/03)

Remembering Harlem

Katherine Butler-Jones, author, Deeper Roots: A Personal Odyssey

Yiddish: A Nation of Words

Miriam Weinstein, author, Yiddish: A Nation of Words.

2003-49 (12/7/03)

The Urban Nutcracker

Anthony Williams, director; founder, The Urban Nutcracker and BalletRox.

Ana Vinagre Sings from the Soul: The Art of Portuguese Fado

Another in a special series on folk arts in Massachusetts brought to you by Maggie Holtzberg, Folk Arts and Heritage Program Manager for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

2003-48 (11/30/03)

Before the Microwave

Joe Carlin, founder, Food Heritage Press; regional nutirtion specialist, U.S. Administration on Aging.

The Massachusetts Cranberry Industry

Jeffrey LaFleur, executive director, Cape Cod Cranberry Growers Association.

2003-47 (11/23/03)

Thanksgiving: Memory, Myth and Meaning

Richard Pickering, special projects writer, Plimoth Plantation,

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2003-46 (11/16/03)

The Annals of Improbable Research

Marc Abrahams, editor, Annals of Improbable Research (AIR); founder, Ig Nobels Ceremony.

Animals and Religion

Paul Waldau, assistant professor, Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine.

2003-45 (11/9/03)

The Creative Habit: A Discussion with Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp; choreographer; dancer; author, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life.

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2003-44 (11/2/03)

Irish Cultural Center of New England

Brian O'Donovan, acting executive director, Irish Cultural Center of New England.

Joe Durrane: The Greatest Comeback in the History of Irish Music

Another in a special series on folk arts in Massachusetts brought to you by Maggie Holtzberg, Folk Arts and Heritage Program Manager for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

2003-43 (10/26/03)

The Great Boston Molasses Flood

Steve Puleo, author, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.

The Poetry Slam

Michael Brown, host, Boston Poetry Slam; professor of Communications, Mt. Ida College.

2003-42 (10/19/03)

Learning From the Land

Meg Coward, program director, The Farm School

Take Back Your Time Day

Barbara Brandt, activist; national staff person, Shorter Work-Time Group; Erika Salloux, co-producer, Take Back Your Time Day Speak Out.

2003-41 (10/12/03)

A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

Pete Nelson, author, Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianopolis.

Uniting Boston's Communities of Color

Lydia Lowe, Jose Masso & Leah Randolph, Steering Committee Members, The New Majority Conference: Uniting Boston's Communities of Color.

2003-40 (10/5/03)

Cambridge Latino Oral Histories

Deborah Pacini Hernandez, associate professor of Anthropology, Tufts University; Ariana Flores, senior, Tufts University.

Master Craftsman Gives New Life to the Puerto Rican Cuatro

The second in a special series on folk arts in Massachusetts brought to you by Maggie Holtzberg, Folk Arts and Heritage Program Manager for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

2003-39 (9/28/03)

Parenting At a Challenging Time

Paula Rauch, MD, director, Parenting At a Challenging Time, MGH Cancer Center.

Preserving Gloucester's Maritime Heritage

Harriet Webster, executive director, and Geoff Richon, president, Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center.

2003-38 (9/21/03)

Teen Ink Magazine

John Meyer, publisher, Teen Ink; Blair Hurley, student, Brookline High School.

Art and Invention

Part II in our discussion with Craig Bloodgood, sculptor; inventor; curator, Art Complex Museum.

2003-37 (9/14/03)

The Boston Folk Festival

Linda Wheeler, coordinator, Boston Folk Festival.

Arts and Performance of Incarcerated Women

Gail Burton, founding director, New Freedwoman Project.

2003-36 (9/7/03)

Ambassador of the Dead: A Novel by Askold Melnyczuk

Askold Melnyczuk, author, Ambassador of the Dead; director, Creative Writing Program, UMass Boston.

Building a High-Tech Partnership

Deborah Boisvert, director, Boston Area Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC); John Ciccereli, Assistant to the Chancellor for Economic Development, UMass Boston.

2003-35 (8/31/03)

A Working Peoples' Heritage Trail of Boston

James Green, professor of History and Labor Studies, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston.

Below the Dirt and the Detours: Exploring Folk Traditions in the Big Dig Tunnels

The first in a special series on Massachusetts folk arts and traditions, brought to you by Maggie Holtzberg, Folk Arts and Heritage Program Manager for the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

2003-34 (8/24/03)

Witness to the Truth: A Story of the Struggle for Human Rights

Cleo Scott Brown, author with John H. Scott, Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana

Marsalis Music

Bob Blumenthal, creative consultant and director, Marsalis Jams, Marsalis Music.

2003-33 (8/17/03)

Leaving Pico: A Coming-of-Age Story

Frank Gaspar, author Leaving Pico

Native American Heritage and Literature

Ron Welburn, author, Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures; director, Native American Indian Studies Program, Umass Amherst.

2003-32 (8/10/03)

Racism and Heart Disease

Brian Gibbs, project director, Cherishing Our Hearts and Souls, Harvard School of Public Health; Valerie Batts, executive director, Visions Inc.

Floating Scuptures: New England Decoys

Craig Bloodgood, special projects curator, Art Complex Museum.

2003-31 (8/3/03)

Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease

Jonathan Edlow, author Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease.

Lifelong Learning

Wichian Rojanawon, director, Life Enrichment Through Studies Program (LETS), Gerontology Institute, UMass Boston.

2003-30 (7/27/03)

Rhymes with Orange: A Discussion with Hilary Price

Hilary Price, cartoonist; author, Reigning Cats and Dogs: A Rhymes with Orange Tribute to Those Who Shed.

Designcamp: Hands-On Engineering for Kids

Douglas Prime, director, Designcamp; director, K-12 Educational Outreach, UMass Lowell College of Engineering.

2003-29 (7/20/03)

New England's Earthquakes

John Ebel, professor of Geology and Geophysics; director, Weston Observatory, Boston College.

Teenage Parenting

Nicole Bell, home visitor, Healthy Families Blue Hills Program; Kelly Murray, parent; participant, Healthy Families Blue Hills Program.

2003-28 (7/13/03)

Supporting Women in Music

June Millington, founder, The Institute for the Musical Arts; former member of the rock-group Fanny.

Gender, Culture and Sexuality

Connie Chan, clinical psychologist; co-director, Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston.

2003-27 (7/6/03)

Menopause in Society

Lynette Leidy-Sievert, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UMass Amherst.

Coping With Cancer

Harriet Berman, Program Director and Yasemin Turkman, Participant, The Wellness Community of Greater Boston.

2003-26 (6/29/03)

Deborah Samson: Revolutionary Soldier

Joan Gatturna, storyteller; actress.

Haitian Voodoo

Marc Prou, assistant professor, Africana Studies, UMass Boston.

2003-25 (6/22/03)

Writers in Times of War: An International Panel

Christopher Agee, poet (Northern Ireland); Adisa Basic, poet (Bosnia); Jean-Marie Kayishema, playwright (Rwanda); Sejla Sehabovic, poet (Bosnia); Nguyen Quang Thieu, poet, novelist (Vietnam).

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2003-24 (6/15/03)

The Greatest Stories Never Told

Rick Beyer, author, The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder and Stupefy; executive producer, Smash Entertainment Group.

The Music of Drugs, Guns and Guerillas

Elijah Wald, author, Narcocorrido: A Journey Into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas.

2003-23 (6/8/03)

Birding: A Talk with David Sibley

David Sibley, author; artist; naturalist; birder.

The Creation of a Trail

Larry Anderson, author Benton MacKaye: Conservationalist, Planner and Creator of the Appalachian Trail.

2003-22 (6/1/03)

Building Community through Dance

Anara Frank, founder and executive director, Jam'nastics, Inc.

After the Referendum: Bilingual Education

Donaldo Macedo, director, Applied Linguistics Graduate Program, UMass Boston.

2003-21 (5/25/03)

Bedroom Theatre

Gabriel Boyer, performer.

Music and the Brain

Mark Tramo, director, Institute for Music and Brain Science; assistant professor of neurology, Harvard Medical School.

2003-20 (5/18/03)

Designing the Rose

Mary Guzzy, director, Rose Playhouse Theater, Shakespeare and Company; and Ron Goldman, director of Education at Boston Architectural Center.

Children with Down Syndrome Get Up and Dance

Gianni DiMarco, dancer and choreographer, Boston Ballet.

2003-19 (5/11/03)

Presenting the Streetfeet Women

Elena Dodd and Li Min Mo, members, The Streetfeet Women.

Celebrating the Life of a Hometown Native: W.E.B. DuBois

Ellen Broderick, coordinator, W.E.B. DuBois Centennial Celebration, Berkshire Country Day School.

2003-18 (5/4/03)

The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

Robert Thorson, author, Stone By Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls; professor of Geology and Geophysics, University of Connecticut.

The Surprising Science of Our Sun

Leon Golub, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; co-author, Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun.

2003-17 (4/27/03)

A Personal History by Howard Zinn

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2003-16 (4/20/03)

The Northampton Silk Project

Preserving the Arts in Massachusetts

Dan Hunter, executive director, Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities (MAASH)

2003-15 (4/13/03)

Uncovering the Historical Record of Sacco and Vanzetti

Michael Comeau, assistant archivist, Massachusetts Archives.

Immigration, Law and Civil Liberties

Nancy Murray, director of the Bill of Rights Education Project, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

2003-14 (4/6/03)

Surveying New England's Invasive Plant Species

Bryan Connolly, invasive plant survey coordinator, New England Wild Flower Society.

A Theory of the Origins of Species

Lynn Margulis, co-author, Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species; distinguished professor of Geosciences, UMass Amherst.

2003-13 (3/30/03)

Women of the Arabic and Islamic Worlds

Wafaa' Salman, founder Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies.

Gender, Culture and Sexuality

Connie Chan, clinical psychologist; co-director, Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston.

2003-12 (3/23/03)

Lucy Stone

Judith Black, storyteller.

Florence Luscomb

Sharon Strom, author, Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform.

2003-11 (3/16/03)

Grandmother's Hands: Part II

A Women's History Month Special with host, Barbara Neely. Part II looks at the effects of divorce, geographic seperation and other factors that have complicated grandmother-grandchild relationships.

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2003-10 (3/9/03)

Grandmother's Hands: Part I

A Women's History Month Special with host, Barbara Neely. Part I looks at the traditional roles of grandmothers around the world and through time.

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2003-09 (3/2/03)

Is Our Food Safe?

Warren Leon, co-author, Is Our Food Safe?: A Consumer's Guide to Protecting Your Health and the Environment; executive director, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.

The Harmony Grove Research Center for the African Diaspora

Edwina Weston-Dyer, founder and president, Harmony Grove Research Center for the African Diaspora

2003-08 (2/23/03)

The Memoir of James Jackson: The First African American Biography

Lois Brown, discoverer and editor, The Memoir of James Jackson, The Attentive and Obedient Scholar Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833 Aged Six Years and Eleven Months by his Teacher, Susan Paul; assistant professor of English, Mount Holyoke College

The Harlem Renaissance and It's Legacy

Jordan Love, curator, The Harlem Renaissance and It's Legacy, Worcester Art Museum

2003-07 (2/16/03)

Portraying Magicians from the Past

Robert Olson, Magician; Consultant, Historical Conjuring and Entertainments

Vietnamese-American Community Organizing

Long Nguyen, Executive Director, Vietnamese American Initiative for Development Inc.

2003-06 (2/9/03)

French-Canadians and the Bread and Roses Strike

Part II in our discusion with James Beauschesne, Visitor Services Supervisor, Lawrence Heritage State Park.

The Globalization of the US Apparel Industry

Ellen Rosen, Author, Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the US Apparel Industry; Resident Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University.

2003-05 (3/2/03)

Capital Punishment and the Legacy of Lynching

William Holmes, faculty member, College of Public and Community Service, UMass Boston.

Women in Politics

Carol Hardy-Fanta, director, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, UMass Boston.

2003-04 (1/26/03)

Supporting Women in Music

June Millington, founder, The Institute for the Musical Arts

Marsalis Music

Bob Blumenthal, creative consultant and director of Marsalis Jams, Marsalis Music

2003-03 (1/19/03)

Forest Hills Cemetery in History and Culture

Bud Hanson, president, Forest Hills Cemetery.

A Discussion with Musician Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith, musician

2003-02 (1/12/03)

Native American Heritage and Literature

Ron Welburn, author, Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures; director, Native American Indian Studies Program, Umass Amherst.

Returning Home to a Changed South Africa

Vernon Domingo, professor of Geography, Bridgewater State College.

2003-01 (1/5/03)

Executioner's Current: The Invention of the Electric Chair

Richard Moran, author, Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair; professor of Sociology, Mount Holyoke College

The Search for the Steamer Portland

John Fish, vice president, American Underwater Search and Survey