Podcast

This episode features CCNY's Dr. Lesley Lokko, Dean of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. The themes include: the relevance of architecture to human rights; race and architecture as a field of study and practice; inequality in South Africa; and the Rhodes Must Fall and Black Lives Matter Movements.  

This episode features CCNY Professor Rajan Menon, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science, on themes concerning US national security and foreign policy; Russia and Ukraine; China; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect doctrine; and inequality, "deaths of despair," and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

This episode features Dr. Vanessa K. Valdés, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Black Studies Program at CCNY. The conversation is centered on women writers in the Americas and the influence of African spirituality on the construction of womanhood in their works; and Diasporic Blackness, her book about Arturo Alfonso Schomberg and his efforts to collect and preserve materials pertaining to black history and culture in the United States and beyond. The discussion also focuses on CCNY's Black Studies Program and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

The short pilot focuses on undocumented workers in the United States and the impact of COVID-19 on their already precarious circumstances. It features Dr. Susanna Rosenbaum, associate professor of anthropology at the City College of New York Downtown.

This episode features Bruce Cronin, CCNY Professor of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Minor. The discussion centers on Prof. Cronin's latest book publication, Bugsplat: The Politics of Collateral Damage in Western Armed Conflicts. It also includes such themes as humanitarian intervention, international security and cooperation, China, authoritarianism, and technology.