University of Virginia (U.Va.) Podcast, featuring lectures from across Grounds. Here you will find lectures, speeches and other events of interest to the University community.
Education Expert Gives U.Va. Ridley Lecture on Today's Education Challenges a...
Posted: February 2009Margaret Beale Spencer, the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education at the University of Chicago, gave the fourth annual Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Lecture at the University of Virginia on Feb. 23rd. Spencer is a developmental psychologist and professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She leads the Penn-Chicago W.E.B. DuBois Collective Research Institute, which engages in partnerships with racially, economically and ethnically diverse communities that have been traditionally underrepresented and under-resourced. Her talk was entitled "The 1954 Brown Decision and Contemporary Education Challenges and Opportunities," and was presented in the Rotunda Dome Room.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald Speaks on International Relations
Posted: February 2009Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Great Britain's ambassador to the United States, spoke in the Dome Room at the Rotunda Feb. 13 on international relations. His talk was free and open to the public. Following his address there was a discussion of his remarks, led by U.Va. history professor Philip Zelikow, former executive director of the 9/11 Commission and former counselor of the U.S. Department of State, and David A. Leblang, the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance & Professor of Politics.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Repairing History: The Ethic of Responsibility to Remember
Posted: February 2009Dean Maurice Apprey makes his remarks as part of the annual State of the Office of African-American Affairs address. The event took place in the Rotunda's Dome Room on February 9th at 7pm and was sponsored by the OAAA and the Black Leadership Institute.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Mr Art De Geus, Deputy Secretary General OECD
Posted: February 2009The University of Sydney has engaged the Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Mr Aart de Geus, to deliver a public lecture on the global economic crisis, on 3 February.The lecture "Problems of Tod".
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Architectural Historian and Museum Curator Bruce Ambler Boucher
Posted: January 2009Bruce Ambler Boucher, who has divided his career between education, scholarship and museum administration, will become the director of the University of Virginia Art Museum on March 1. He currently is the curator of European sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, a position he has held since 2002. Boucher was introduced to a group of gathered U.Va. administrators, faculty, museum staff, students and friends in the museum on January 29, 2009.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.King and Obama: The Dream, The Promise, The Fulfillment
Posted: January 2009This year's Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration panel discussion was called "King and Obama: The Dream The Promise, The Fulfillment." Speakers included Claudrena Harold (History/University of Virginia), Andrea Y. Simpson (Political Science/University of Richmond) and Corey Walker (Africana Studies/Brown University). Sponsors of the event were the Office of African-American Affairs, Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Equity, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia Library, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The panel took place on January 21, 2009, in the Harrison-Small Auditorium.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Walt Whitman recounted by VQR Editor Genoways; preview of next issue
Posted: January 2009Ted Genoways has recently been on sabbatacial from the Virginia Quarterly Review to write a book about Walt Whitman?s life from 1860 to 1882. Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America?s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860-1862 will be published by in July 2009 by the University of California Press. Ted was a guest on the January 7, 2009 edition of WINA?s ?Charlottesville?Right Now!? with Coy Barefoot.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.UVA Astronomy Professor Ed Murphy with the top 8 space stories of 2008
Posted: January 2009Ed Murphy is a professor of astronomer at the University of Virginia, and he joined Coy Barefoot on the January 7, 2009 edition of the WINA?s ?Charlottesville?Right Now!? to review the top space stories from the previous year.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.U.Va. Sets Teach-In on Issues Surrounding Recent Terror Incidents in Mumbai
Posted: December 2008A teach-in on issues surrounding the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, was held Wednesday, December 3rd, in Newcomb Hall Art Gallery at the University of Virginia. Faculty, students and members of the Charlottesville community were invited. Faculty with expertise in areas related to South Asia, such as history, economics, literature and anthropology, as well as representatives of various religious communities and Pakistani and Indian expatriates living in the community, discussed the tumultuous events of last week and the background and context in which they occurred. The event was sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and the International Studies Office.
An audio podcast in MP3 format."Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America" with Ezekiel ...
Posted: December 2008As part of the Law School's Future of Health Care Reform Lecture Series, Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., from the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, discussed guaranteed health care in America at the Law School Nov. 20. Emanuel is a breast oncologist, philosopher and author/editor of several books.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.Napolitano - Selected for Homeland Security Secretary
Posted: December 2008Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a 1983 graduate of the Law School, has been nominated as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level post. President-elect Barack Obama announced his decision today. Napolitano also spoke at the Law School?s 2007 commencement, where she challenged graduating students to make sense of the transformative nature of technology, international law and the rule of law.
An audio podcast in MP3 format.More than the Score: Score Big by Reaching your Financial Goals
Posted: November 2008Do you have financial goals and a plan in place to reach them? Karin Bonding, CFA, professor in the McIntire School of Commerce, offered alumni possible investment strategies during the final More than the Score lecture of 2008.
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