选修课 Universus

About 选修课 Universus

成年人的博雅教育

Publisher

Zhichen Zhao

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 May 2024

Latest episode

14 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Sept 2026

   029 美国华人移民自闭症儿童家庭的沉默政治与父母抗争 Advocacy of Autistic Parents

   【聊了什么】 这一期是纽约文化沙龙线下活动的录音。我们从最基础的问题开始聊：自闭症到底是什么，为什么早诊断这么关键，为什么华裔家庭的诊断普遍偏晚。然后一路聊到更艰难的部分：神经多样性和残障权利框架之间的张力，高功能/低功能这套话语为什么害人，profound autism 这个新定义在争什么，ABA 到底该怎么看，以及所有家长最怕被问到的那个问题——我们老了、走了以后，孩子怎么办？ This episode is a recording of an in-person New York Culture Salon event. We start with the most basic questions: what autism actually is, why early diagnosis matters so much, and why diagnosis tends to come late in Chinese American families. From there we move into harder territory — the tension between the neurodiversity framework and the disability rights framework, why the high-functioning/low-functioning vocabulary does real damage, what's at stake in the new "profound autism" definition, how to think about ABA, and the question every parent dreads: what happens to our child after we grow old and are gone? 【时间轴】 00:50 (#t=00:50) 什么是自闭症：神经发育障碍，以及为什么"不说话"不等于"没有表达" 04:20 (#t=04:20) 冯爸讲 CAAC 的由来：研究者找不到社群，社群找不到资源 15:40 (#t=15:40) 联邦还是州？Autism CARES Act、CDC 监测、Medicaid waiver，以及伊利诺伊州的"抽签" 21:20 (#t=21:20) 神经多样性 vs 残障权利：两个框架之间的张力 26:40 (#t=26:40) 学校对移民家庭的默认策略 37:40 (#t=37:40) 倡导是一种劳动：制度排斥、资源缺口、同伴支持、生命危机 59:20 (#t=59:20) 怎么向 Georgetown 的研究者解释"枪打出头鸟" 72:30 (#t=72:30) 遗传有多大关系？公众最大的误解是什么？ 78:50 (#t=78:50) 终极问题：我们老了以后，孩子怎么办 84:00 (#t=84:00) 让医学生面对真实的残障"模拟病人" 00:50 (#t=00:50) What is autism: a neurodevelopmental disability, and why "nonverbal" doesn't mean "nothing to express" 04:20 (#t=04:20) Feng Ba on how CAAC began: researchers who can't find the community, a community that can't find resources 15:40 (#t=15:40) Federal or state? The Autism CARES Act, CDC surveillance, Medicaid waivers, and Illinois's "lottery" 21:20 (#t=21:20) Neurodiversity vs. disability rights: the tension between two frameworks 26:40 (#t=26:40) What schools default to when the family is an immigrant family 37:40 (#t=37:40) Advocacy as labor: institutional exclusion, resource gaps, peer support, life crises 59:20 (#t=59:20) How do you explain "the bird that sticks its head out gets shot" to a Georgetown researcher? 72:30 (#t=72:30) How much of it is genetic? And what's the public's biggest misconception? 78:50 (#t=78:50) The ultimate question: what happens to our children after we're gone? 84:00 (#t=84:00) Putting medical students face to face with real disabled "simulated patients" 【我们是谁 The Who】 选修课 Universus 是一档分享和探讨泛文化话题的中文播客，脱胎于2013年创办的纽约文化沙龙。 我们力求引发对学科方法和视角的认知和思考，而不仅仅是知识的传递。我们在组织活动的过程中积累了一些经验和人脉，尝试打造成年人的博雅教育，并在播客中拓展这样的探索。我们希望审视和反抗无意识的价值规训与随波逐流。我们希望冷酷地剖析自己的偏见，热忱地拥抱多元视角。我们希望去工具化，真诚地感知、理解、创造自己的生活和复杂的世界。我们追随原初的好奇而非代餐式的猎奇。话题可以轻松，方法力求严肃。在《选修课》里，我们互相映照，唤醒失落的维度。 嘉宾： Yovia Xu 许玥博士：伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校医学院罗克福德校区临床助理教授，伊利诺伊州LEND教员，美国华裔自闭症联合会研究副主席。 冯斌：纽约自闭症家长倡导者，养育一名自闭症及多动症的孩子成长，业余服务华裔自闭症家庭社区二十多年 选修课 Universus is a Chinese-language podcast created by the same people who founded the New York Chinese Cultural Salon (纽约文化沙龙）in 2013. The past decade of organizing events and talks put us in a position of creating a sort of liberal arts education experience for those who have left school. We strive to go beyond merely transmitting knowledge to reflecting on complex topics using cross-disciplinary perspectives. We strive to resist conformity, to dissect our own biases, and to embrace diverse schools of thought. Our goal is to help professionals resist becoming just a tool of production, and to understand the world around us in earnest. We let our genuine curiosity be our guide. With a light-hearted tone, we approach each topic seriously. We hope that “选修课 Universus” creates a space to explore lost dimensions. Guest: Dr. Yovia Xu (许玥): Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford, faculty member of Illinois LEND, and Vice President of Research at the Chinese American Autism Coalition. Feng Bin (冯斌): Autism parent advocate in New York, raising a child with autism and ADHD, and a volunteer serving the Chinese American autism community for over twenty years. 【拓展链接】 CAAC 美国华人自闭症协会 (https://caacedu.org) CDC ADDM 患病率数据（1/31） (https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/autism-epidemic-runs-rampant-new-data-shows-grants.html%20) 【买咖啡 Please Support Us】 如果喜欢这期节目并愿意想要给我们买杯咖啡： 打赏平台：www.patreon.com/universuspod 商务合作邮箱：universuspod@gmail.com If you like our show and want to support us, please consider the following: 打赏平台: www.patreon.com/universuspod Business Inquiries Email: universuspod@gmail.com

2. 

   15 Aug 2026

   028 硅谷遇上教宗通谕：谁有权力重新定义“人” Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical

   【聊了什么】 当下的硅谷正流行着一种“技术拯救主义”，试图通过AI实现意识上传、星际殖民，甚至彻底消灭死亡。在教宗良十四看来，这不过是披着科技外衣的古老诱惑。本期节目围绕最新通谕，展开了一场关于人论的思辨。我们探讨为什么“有限性”并非人性的缺陷、反而是成圣的阶梯，抨击了将人指标化、工具化的“被动式人文主义”。当AI开始模拟情感与直觉，人的边界在哪里？硅谷盛行的TESCREAL意识形态，为何被视为现代版的“巴别塔”？面对AI带来的功能性取代，宗教人本主义如何通过本体论捍卫人类尊严？ A kind of "techno-salvationism" is in vogue in Silicon Valley right now — the attempt to use AI to achieve mind uploading, interstellar colonization, even the total abolition of death. In the eyes of Pope Leo XIV, this is nothing but an ancient temptation dressed in technological clothing. This episode takes the latest encyclical as its starting point for a philosophical inquiry into the nature of the human person. We explore why "finitude" is not a defect in human nature but rather a ladder toward sanctification, and we take aim at the "passive humanism" that reduces people to metrics and instruments. As AI begins to simulate emotion and intuition, where does the boundary of the human lie? Why is the TESCREAL ideology so prevalent in Silicon Valley seen as a modern Tower of Babel? In the face of the functional replacement AI brings, how does religious humanism defend human dignity by way of ontology? 【时间轴】 00:00开篇介绍：教宗良十四通谕为何引起科技界关注 03:34信徒如何看待 AI：Magisterium AI、Hallow 与《万有真原》 12:40天主教与新教之别：圣经如何形成，为什么需要解释权 24:13教会没有定论的部分：神学 speculation 与 AI 的边界感 26:38教宗、通谕与教宗无误论的权力界限 36:16良十三与 1891 年《新事》通谕：对资本主义与马克思主义的双重批评 42:58此岸与彼岸之辨：天主教为何系统性关注世俗福祉 49:39梵蒂冈第二届大公会议：什么是大公会议，Aggiornamento 的含义 61:28《论教会在现代世界》牧职宪章：向现代人喊话的姿态 64:58世界教会纪元：信仰中心从欧洲向全球南方转移 70:40从利润偶像到造人僭越：灵肉合一、实在论，教会真正担心的是什么 78:20硅谷的宗教化叙事：奇点、意识上传与"降临派" 90:55接受有限性：通谕对超人类主义与后人类主义的批判 97:24Chris Olah 的回应：AI 是"生长"而非"工程造物" 104:40拒绝被动式人本主义：为何人无法被量化指标取代 112:23信仰真空与 AI 作为"现代性的代餐" 115:07四季豆没有存在主义危机：人为什么需要使命 00:00 (#t=00:00) Introduction: Why Pope Leo XIV's encyclical caught the tech world's attention 03:34 (#t=03:34) How believers see AI: Magisterium AI, Hallow, and the Wanyou Zhenyuan app 12:40 (#t=12:40) Catholic vs. Protestant: How the Bible was formed, and why interpretive authority is needed 24:13 (#t=24:13) Where the Church has no settled answer: theological speculation and the limits of AI 26:38 (#t=26:38) The pope, encyclicals, and the boundaries of papal infallibility 36:16 (#t=36:16) Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum (1891): a two-front critique of capitalism and Marxism 42:58 (#t=42:58) This world and the next: why Catholicism engages systematically with worldly welfare 49:39 (#t=49:39) The Second Vatican Council: what an ecumenical council is, and the meaning of aggiornamento 61:28 (#t=61:28) Gaudium et Spes: the Church's posture toward the modern world 64:58 (#t=64:58) The era of the world Church: the center of faith shifts from Europe to the Global South 70:40 (#t=70:40) From the idol of profit to the presumption of making man: body-soul unity, realism, and what the Church actually fears 78:20 (#t=78:20) Silicon Valley's religious narratives: the Singularity, mind uploading, and the "Adventists" 90:55 (#t=90:55) Accepting finitude: the encyclical's critique of transhumanism and posthumanism 97:24 (#t=97:24) Chris Olah's response: AI is grown, not engineered 104:40 Against passive humanism: why the human cannot be reduced to quantifiable metrics 112:23 The vacuum of faith and AI as a substitute for religion 115:07 A green bean has no existential crisis: why humans need a sense of mission 【我们是谁 The Who】 选修课 Universus 是一档分享和探讨泛文化话题的中文播客，脱胎于2013年创办的纽约文化沙龙。 我们力求引发对学科方法和视角的认知和思考，而不仅仅是知识的传递。我们在组织活动的过程中积累了一些经验和人脉，尝试打造成年人的博雅教育，并在播客中拓展这样的探索。我们希望审视和反抗无意识的价值规训与随波逐流。我们希望冷酷地剖析自己的偏见，热忱地拥抱多元视角。我们希望去工具化，真诚地感知、理解、创造自己的生活和复杂的世界。我们追随原初的好奇而非代餐式的猎奇。话题可以轻松，方法力求严肃。在《选修课》里，我们互相映照，唤醒失落的维度。 主播： 老赵：理论物理学博士，软件工程师，纽约文化沙龙组织者。 嘉宾： 黄潇潇：哥伦比亚大学东亚语言与文化硕士，美国天主教大学福传与文化硕士在读 选修课 Universus is a Chinese-language podcast created by the same people who founded the New York Chinese Cultural Salon (纽约文化沙龙）in 2013. The past decade of organizing events and talks put us in a position of creating a sort of liberal arts education experience for those who have left school. We strive to go beyond merely transmitting knowledge to reflecting on complex topics using cross-disciplinary perspectives. We strive to resist conformity, to dissect our own biases, and to embrace diverse schools of thought. Our goal is to help professionals resist becoming just a tool of production, and to understand the world around us in earnest. We let our genuine curiosity be our guide. With a light-hearted tone, we approach each topic seriously. We hope that “选修课 Universus” creates a space to explore lost dimensions. Hosted by: Lao Zhao: PhD in Theoretical Physics, software engineer, and organizer of the New York Cultural Salon. Guest: Xiaoxiao Huang: MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; MA candidate in Evangelization and Culture, The Catholic University of America 【买咖啡 Please Support Us】 如果喜欢这期节目并愿意想要给我们买杯咖啡： 打赏平台：www.patreon.com/universuspod 商务合作邮箱：universuspod@gmail.com If you like our show and want to support us, please consider the following: 打赏平台: www.patreon.com/universuspod Business Inquiries Email: universuspod@gmail.com

3. 

   1 Aug 2026

   027 Sameroom播客节：不想融入美国，所以留在纽约 Staying in New York Because We Don't Want to Americanize

   【聊了什么 The What】 这是一场纽约Same Room华语播客节线下录制的节目！ 这期节目，老纽约客美轮美换 (https://theamericanroulette.com/)主播Lokin、城市传说 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/69bd478503567230f76ecdf1)主播罗雨翔和纽约漫谈录 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E7%BA%BD%E7%BA%A6%E6%BC%AB%E8%B0%88%E5%BD%95/id1861297995)的欧阳斌，给新纽约客起朱楼宴宾客 (https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/podcast/61dd99a47b29652ff572257b)主播大卫翁和唠点纽约嗑 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%E5%94%A0%E7%82%B9%E6%89%AD%E8%85%B0%E5%97%91-loud-in-ny/id1894104346)主播杨蒙恩，，奉上含金量极高的纽约生存Tips：从如何通过Housing Connect网站抽取租金稳定的『福利房』，到美股AI热潮下的资产配置陷阱；从地铁逃票的法律风险，到应对种族歧视的真实报案经验，到华人社区的凝聚力差异，和长岛通勤的省钱小窍门。 This is a live recording from the Same Room Chinese-Language Podcast Festival in New York!In this episode, veteran New Yorkers Lokin, host of The American Roulette 美轮美换, Luo Yuxiang, host of Urban Myths 城市传说, and Ouyang Bin of Bin on the Bank 纽约漫谈录 offer newly minted New Yorkers David Weng, host of 起朱楼宴宾客, and Yang Meng'en, host of Loud in NY 唠点纽约嗑, a treasure trove of high-value New York survival tips: from winning rent-stabilized "affordable housing" through the Housing Connect lottery, to asset-allocation traps amid the US stock market's AI frenzy; from the legal risks of subway fare evasion, to real-life experience filing police reports over racial discrimination, to differences in cohesion across Chinese immigrant communities, and money-saving tricks for the Long Island commute. 【时间轴 The When】 03:42 (#t=03:42) - 第一代移民命题：100个咖啡计划与身份焦虑 06:40 (#t=06:40) - 纽约的好处：无论你是谁，总有群体能托住你 08:44 (#t=08:44) - 现实的骨感：美国梦滤镜下的OPT与H1B关卡 13:15 (#t=13:15) - 职场奇遇：从波士顿大巴面试到进入纽约市政府 22:20 (#t=22:20) - 文化输出：米兰达权利与美国价值观的全球影响 31:26 (#t=31:26) - 34街的变革：社区如何与政府合作保留公共空间 36:51 (#t=36:51) - 纽约的人才红利：为何在这里更容易认识有趣的人 43:48 (#t=43:48) - 法律视角下的租客权利保护与eviction流程 47:30 (#t=47:30) - AI泡沫讨论：盯紧OpenAI这个行业“脆弱点” 54:45 (#t=54:45) - 避雷分享：不要迷信社交媒体上的“黑白大厨”餐厅 72:08 (#t=72:08) - 结尾彩蛋：长岛火车的买票精算与1美元苏打水攻略 03:42 (#t=03:42) - The first-generation immigrant question: the "100 coffees" plan and identity anxiety 06:40 (#t=06:40) - What's great about New York: whoever you are, there's a community to catch you 08:44 (#t=08:44) - Harsh reality: the OPT and H1B gauntlet behind the American Dream filter 13:15 (#t=13:15) - Career adventures: from a Boston bus interview to landing a job in NYC government 22:20 (#t=22:20) - Cultural export: Miranda rights and the global influence of American values 31:26 (#t=31:26) - Change on 34th Street: how communities work with government to preserve public space 36:51 (#t=36:51) - New York's talent dividend: why it's easier to meet interesting people here 43:48 (#t=43:48) - Tenant rights and the eviction process, from a legal perspective 47:30 (#t=47:30) - The AI bubble debate: watch OpenAI, the industry's "weak point" 54:45 (#t=54:45) - What to avoid: don't fall for "Culinary Class Wars" restaurants hyped on social media 72:08 (#t=72:08) - Closing bonus: LIRR ticket-buying math and the $1 soda hack 【我们是谁 The Who】 选修课 Universus 是一档分享和探讨泛文化话题的中文播客，脱胎于2013年创办的纽约文化沙龙。 我们力求引发对学科方法和视角的认知和思考，而不仅仅是知识的传递。我们在组织活动的过程中积累了一些经验和人脉，尝试打造成年人的博雅教育，并在播客中拓展这样的探索。我们希望审视和反抗无意识的价值规训与随波逐流。我们希望冷酷地剖析自己的偏见，热忱地拥抱多元视角。我们希望去工具化，真诚地感知、理解、创造自己的生活和复杂的世界。我们追随原初的好奇而非代餐式的猎奇。话题可以轻松，方法力求严肃。在《选修课》里，我们互相映照，唤醒失落的维度。 选修课 Universus is a Chinese-language podcast created by the same people who founded the New York Chinese Cultural Salon (纽约文化沙龙）in 2013. The past decade of organizing events and talks put us in a position of creating a sort of liberal arts education experience for those who have left school. We strive to go beyond merely transmitting knowledge to reflecting on complex topics using cross-disciplinary perspectives. We strive to resist conformity, to dissect our own biases, and to embrace diverse schools of thought. Our goal is to help professionals resist becoming just a tool of production, and to understand the world around us in earnest. We let our genuine curiosity be our guide. With a light-hearted tone, we approach each topic seriously. We hope that “选修课 Universus” creates a space to explore lost dimensions. 【买咖啡 Please Support Us】 如果喜欢这期节目并愿意想要给我们买杯咖啡： 打赏平台：www.patreon.com/universuspod 商务合作邮箱：universuspod@gmail.com If you like our show and want to support us, please consider the following: 打赏平台: www.patreon.com/universuspod Business Inquiries Email: universuspod@gmail.com

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