Apr 062009
Shaun Kenney, Former Director of Communications for The Republican Party of Virginia joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the ousting of Jeff Frederick as Chairman of the Virginia GOP.
Steven Edenbo as Thomas Jefferson
Founding Father, international diplomat, and University of Virginia Founder Thomas Jefferson of Monticello addressed the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on Friday, March 27, 2009. Though he claimed to not be “an adept at public speaking,” he spoke to the assembled guests on a variety of topics ranging from the contentious election of 1800 to the dangers of holding our political leaders in too exalted an esteem.
Steven Edenbo has been a Thomas Jefferson impersonator, historian, and motivational speaker
with the American Historical Theatre since 1999.
Apr 052009
On the April 5 edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick talks with Herman Schwartz, UVa professor of international relations and author of “Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital and the Housing Bubble.” In a wide-ranging discussion covering global lending practices, Prof. Schwartz explains how the entire financial crisis is actually the fault of a single homeowner in Modesto, California.
Byrne Murphy
In BusinessCast 108, Ken is joined by Class of 1989 alumnus Byrne Murphy, author of “LeDeal,” a book about his entrepreneurship adventures, which was named Best Business Memoir of 2008. In the Darden headlines: “The UVA Venture Summit,” “Darden Students are Winners,” “Senator Warner to Visit,” and “The Catalyst in Washington.”
MARC J. SELVERSTONE moderated this Virginia Festival of the Book event, a discussion with JAMES G. BLIGHT and JANET M. LANG of Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies about their new book, Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived: Virtual JFK (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). Blight and Lang co-direct critical oral history projects on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the collapse of U.S.-Soviet détente in the Carter-Brezhnev period, and the Vietnam War. They served as advisers to Errol Morris’ Academy Award-winning documentary film, The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Blight is the author of a dozen books on the recent history of U.S. foreign policy, and Lang is also an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Boston University’s School of Public Health.
The forum took place at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on March 20, 2009.
Apr 032009
Nathan Moore
Nathan Moore was Anne Williams’ guest this morning on Acoustic Sunrise. He played three brand new unreleased songs. Nathan is playing on Sunday night with Devon Sproule at the Blackfriar’s Playhouse in Staunton.
William Wulf
Professor William Wulf addressed the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on Friday, March 13, 2009, on the topic, “Responsible Citizenship in a Technological Democracy.” His lecture addressed the importance of science and technology education in promoting an informed citizenry.
William Wulf is the AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. From 1988 to 1990, Dr. Wulf served as Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, where he headed the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Dr. Wulf is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAS. In 1968 Dr. Wulf received the first Computer Science Ph.D. ever awarded at the University of Virginia.
Ted Genoways, Editor, of the Virginia Quarterly Review joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss the latest issue of the publication.
Sarah Allen Benton joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss her book “Understanding The High Functioning Alcoholic.“
Apr 022009
Commonwealth of Virginia Lt. Governor, Bill Bolling, joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss Virginia politics and his re-election campaign.
William Cochran
William Cochran addressed the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on Friday, February 20, 2009, drawing on his work as a public landmark artist to illustrate his lecture, “The Power of Seeing Differently.” Afterwards he took questions from the audience.
William Cochran creates landmark public artworks in paint, glass, masonry, bronze, steel, stone and light. These projects frequently engage the community directly in the creative process. They explore local history and the meaning of place in ways that illuminate common ground. The artworks are carefully woven into their social and architectural environments, yet they retain a strong sense of the human hand.
William and his partner Teresa work with a wide range of government, private, community-based and non-profit organizations to develop and implement these projects. This work often involves master planning and visioning processes for public art and placemaking.
Apr 012009
Mark Lorenzoni, owner of the Ragged Mountain Running Shop joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss Saturday’s Charlottesville 10 Miler.
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