Unscripted with Alan Flurry is a podcast series featuring interviews with University of Georgia faculty members as well as distinguished guests to the UGA campus. In partnership with WUGA-FM, Unscripted presents conversations with extraordinary members of the UGA community. In the course of the conversational back-and-forth, guests share their expertise and experience, as well as opinions on topics of interest in the world today.
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As disruptive and divisive as artificial intelligence can seem, is AI also a force that can push people closer together in status and value? An Unscripted interview with AI influencer and transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins who creates experiences that spark dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Dinkins holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art at Stony Brook University and visited the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art as a visiting artist and lecturer.
3 Jan 2023
Conversation with Coleman Barks on the poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
The author of twenty-one volumes, including the bestselling “Essential Rumi” (1995) and “Rumi: The Big Red Book” (2010), which collects 34 years of his work on Rumi’s ghazals and rubai, Coleman Barks has spent the past sixty years exploring the possibilities of American ecstatic poetry through his translations of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.
University of Georgia professor emeritus of English, Barks was inducted into the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2009. An exhibition, Praying Aloud in Public: The Papers of Coleman Barks, opened in the Rotunda Gallery of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries in 2019.
14 Nov 2022
Why we need Ruskin now
Unscripted interview with Yale University professor of art history Tim Barringer on the subject of Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin and his writing, including on the Political Economy of Art.
"He saw the connection between the way we organize our society and the inherent unfairness of it, and the kind of art that gets produced."
Instrumental in providing the liberating spark to re-evaluate the question, what is wealth? Tim Barringer explains why we need Ruskin now.
18 Jul 2022
Nutritional neuroscience: how a better diet can boost women's health
Interview with Billy R. Hammond, a professor in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of psychology behavioral and brains sciences program and co-author of a fascinating new research study that describes how lifestyle choices can help protect us from degenerative diseases later in life, as we age. The study detailed several degenerative conditions, from autoimmune diseases to dementia that, even controlling for lifespan differences, women experience at much higher rates than men.
17 Jun 2022
Expedition to Antarctica
Interview with UGA marine sciences professor Patricia Yager, who served as co-chief scientist and lead P.I. on the project Artemis on the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The research team's 65-day expedition to the Amundsen Sea Polynya in western Antarctica was designed to better understand the impact of melting glaciers and ice shelves on the coastal ocean's biological productivity.
26 Feb 2020
Teaching Kids Philosophy
Unscripted interview with Thomas Wartenberg, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, author of “Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children's Literature” and “A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries: Finding Wisdom in Children's Literature.”
Along with maintaining a popular website (http://teachingchildrenphilosophy.org/) for teaching children philosophy, Wartenberg teaches an innovative course in which his students teach philosophy to elementary school children.
26 Feb 2020
Exploring the Georgia Bight on the RV Savannah
On a weekend voyage 80 miles off the Georgia coast, oceanography professor Patricia Yager and UGA undergraduate and graduate students collected phytoplankton, water and CO2 samples along a vertical route in the ocean and shared details about the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on marine life in ocean and estuarine habitats.
23 Jan 2020
P-Values, Probabilities, and Uncertainty: Statistics professor Nicole Lazar
Interview with UGA professor of statistics and Fellow of the American Statistical Association Nicole Lazar. One of three co-authors of an editorial published in a special issue of The American Statistician in March 2019 that addressed a compelling issue effecting research and clinical trial results across the sciences, Lazar speaks with Alan Flurry about the use of statistical significance in research findings.
The entire issue, “Statistical Inference in the 21st century: A world beyond P,” contained 43 papers by statisticians around the world calling for an end to using this specific probability value.
11 Dec 2019
Global political trends in Cyberspace and their impact on Security, Privacy and Human Rights
The very idea there is such a thing as the internet is an invention of science fiction. When William Gibson coined the term cyberspace in 1984 in the book Neuromancer, he described it as “a consensual hallucination." In this Unscripted interview, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland Sebastian Kaempf explains why it is important not to think of the internet as a special kind of magic. Kaempf's general expertise lies in the areas of international security, the transformation of violent conflict, ethics and the laws of war, and the role a transforming global media landscape plays in contemporary conflicts.
Kaempf is the author of ‘Saving Soldiers or Civilians? Casualty-aversion versus Civilian Protection in Asymmetric Conflicts’ (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
19 Nov 2019
Chadwick Smith on the Trail of Tears and the Unlearned lessons of Populism Today
Interview with three-term former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith on the rise of hard-edged populism going back to Andrew Jackson, leading to Cherokee Removal from their homeland in Georgia and elsewhere in the Southeast. Smith relates that example to what it tells us about the current political situation in the United States.
A major figure in Indian affairs, Smith has advocated on Native issues nationally and internationally, including at the United Nations. Smith served as a professor at Dartmouth College teaching Cherokee History and Native American Law. He is an author of books on leadership, art and Native American worldviews, including “Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: Learn From All I Observe.”
6 Nov 2019
Conversation with author and journalist Paul Tough
Is the system of higher education still capable providing real opportunity for young Americans, as well as reinforcing the societal stability on which American democracy depends? In this interview, New York Times bestselling author Paul Tough talks about his new book, THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST, which delivers fresh insight on how the American system of colleges and universities helps and hinders young people, especially low-income and first generation students.
15 Oct 2019
Unscripted interview with UGA professor Barbara McCaskill
On August 6, 2019, the great American writer Toni Morrison passed away at the age of 88. Her extraordinary achievements in fiction – a Nobel Prize in Literature and multiple best-selling novels exploring black identity in America – established a new benchmark not only in American arts and letters, but in literature worldwide.
Alan Flurry spoke with UGA professor of English Barbara McCaskill by phone the day of Morrison’s passing for an article (https://franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2019/soaring-legacy-toni-morrison), and now the two expand on that conversation in this episode of the Unscripted podcast.
17 Sept 2019
Unscripted interview with UGA professor Martin Kagel
A.G. Steer Professor of German and associate dean in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Martin Kagel is co-director of the Berlin Seminar in Transnational European Studies. A joint initiative of the University of Georgia Franklin College and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the week-long residency in Berlin each June is in its second year of expanding the understanding of transnational Europe among U.S.-based scholars and advancing the discourse on campus on issues related to Europe, the E.U., and Germany's role in the European Union.
Alan Flurry and Kagel discuss political, economic and human rights issues from the most recent Berlin seminar including climate change, Brexit, Immigration, nationalism, populism, film, photography, the media, migration, and more.
15 Sept 2019
Unscripted interview with UGA professor Nik Heynen
Professor Nik Heynen is the co-director of the UGA Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land and Agriculture on Sapelo Island. Georgia. One of the natural treasures among the barrier islands along the Georgia coast, Sapelo is the home of the only remaining Gullah-Geechee community in America. The island and its people face threats from rising seas as well as exurbanization. Heynen explains the Cornelia Walker Bailey Program and reflects on the island's past, present and future, including a variety of fascinating subjects, from sugar cane to one of the earliest Islamic texts found in North America.
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