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Civil War author on UVa’s Podcasting site

As you might have noticed if you check the links on the right-hand side of the page, The University of Virginia has begun posting audio files on their podcast page. They’re featuring news conferences, presentations by top university officials and lectures from star faculty.

English professor Stephen Cushman recently addressed a gathering of UVa alumni as part of the College of Arts and Science’s Book Club to discuss Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle. You can listen to it on the UVa podcast site here. In this talk, he laments the usage of the term “buff”, reads some of his Civil War poetry, and discusses how an English instructor teaches history.

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Virginia Talkers: Listening to Memorial Day

Today we present the first of a new series from documentary photographer David Duncan. Virginia Talkers will present stories of the people in the shots taken by David as he travels throughout the state. This piece was recorded last week while he was on assignment in Lynchburg, covering the Memorial Day services at Monument Terrace. Approaching the ceremony, David came across Patrick Hubble and his daughter Meagan, (see below) fully decked out in period costume. Luckily, he had a microphone.

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Wakeup Call: The current state of Central Virginia real estate

On this week’s edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wakeup Call, Rick Moore discusses the current state of Central Virginia real estate with Ken Mextorf, a loan originator with Suntrust, realtor Bob Hughes with Summit Realty and realtor Karen Kehoe with ReMax Excellence. The show was recorded on June 5, 2005.

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Storycorps Arrives in Charlottesville

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Storycorps is an organization with a mission to capture oral histories from around the world. You may have heard their work on NPR. For the next two weeks, the group is in Charlottesville with one of their Mobile Booths to collect stories from Central Virginia. We stopped by on the first day.

(Another version of this story originally aired on WVTF Public Radio)

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An Audio Postcard from Naples, Florida

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This audio postcard is a sonic glimpse into the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, near Naples, Florida from documentary photographer David Duncan. He’ll be posting more audio postcards in the weeks and months to come.

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Lecture on Nietzsche

Walter Sokel is Professor Emeritus of German and English at the University of Virginia. He came to the University from Stanford in 1972. Originally from Vienna, he migrated to the United States to escape fascism. On April 21, 2005, Sokel presented a paper entitled “The Birth of Eugenics and of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy: Reflections on the Dionysian in Nietzsche.” The lecture was recorded in Jefferson Hall, and runs for just under an hour. Sokel will explain in the first minute or so how the title of the presentation had to be amended for time considerations.

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Brown v. Board and the Civil Rights Movement

Fifty-one years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education ruling, clearing the way for the eventual desegregation of the nation’s schools. But, the transition was far from easy, according to Michael Klarman, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality.” On May 9, Klarman spoke at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library on Market Street as part of UVa’s Engaging the Mind series.




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“Take Back the Media” – A C-Ville Talks event

Who owns the media? Does media ownership affect how Americans are informed about the issues of the day? Which news sources can you trust to seek out the truth in an age when the conduits of information are controlled by so few companies?

On May 9, 2005, C-Ville Weekly assembled a group of independent journalists and media activists for a panel discussion called “Take Back the Media.” Jonathan Rintels is with the Center for Creative Voices in the Media, an organization that’s leading a campaign to create a Media Bill of Rights. Robert O’Neil is the founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the organization that hands out the annual Muzzle Awards. Roxanne Cooper is the sales director for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, and also runs a blog called Rox Populi. Jessica Coen is the editor of gawker.com, a hotspot for NYC-based pop culture and media gossip. And the moderator is syndicated cartoonist Jen Sorenson, whose Slowpoke runs in C-Ville Weekly every Tuesday.

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Charlottesville artist debuts photographic novel

Comic books are traditionally drawn by an artist who uses pen and ink to depict action on a page. These days, many people might be surprised to know that comics are often touched up with Photoshop. But the characters in a new graphic novel coming out this month from Charlottesville artist Colin Whitlow are real people, captured using a digital camera, resulting in a cross between a film and a comic. I talked with Whitlow earlier this month in his office in the University of Virginia’s Studio Art Department, where Whitlow is an Anspaugh fellow.

 




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Sissy Spacek: An Evening of Expression

In May 2005, writer and radio essayist Janis Jaquith interviewed Academy Award-winning actress Sissy Spacek at CharlottesvilleGuv,!v,,us Paramount Theater. The event was the kickoff of the successful campaign to raise the funds for the construction of The Community Chalkboard and Podium: A Monument to the First Amendment. The monument was dedicated in Charlottesville in April, 2006.

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A Look at Free Comic Day

Superheroes like Spiderman, Superman and Batman have made a lot of money on the big screen, but sales of the actual comics have been declining for decades. This Saturday’s Free Comic Book Day is an attempt by Diamond Distributors to remedy that by giving people a taste of the power of comics.

Two stores in Charlottesville are participating in the giveaway, including Atlas Comics on the Seminole Trail. We stopped by to get the low-down.

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Public Forum: Globalization and Inequality

We hear so much about globalization that it’s become just another word that many Americans tune out as soon as they hear it uttered.

Yet, many political scientists have serious concerns about how globalization affects the lives of Americans and people around the world. There’s a laundry list of developments that affect every human being including: the effects of an international economy on wealth for some and poverty for others, the threat of international terrorism, global pollution, to name just a few.

Four political scientists from across the country met in UVa’s Minor Hall on April 21, 2005, for a public forum called “Inequality and Difference in Developing Societies: How do Recent Trends Affect Americans?”

The panel includes Susanne Rudolph of the University of Chicago, Evelyne Huber of the University of North Carolina, and Valerie Bunce of Cornell University. This forum last 67 minutes, and is moderated by U-V-A political scientist John Echeverri-Gent.