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101. Holiday Extravaganza (32:51)

Date:
2018-12-19
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James
Summary:
In Ep. 108, join the entire Through the Gates team has Dean Shanahan hosts our third annual holiday quiz show. Listen along and see if you can beat our high score!

102. Spring Break Review (24:43)

Date:
2016-03-13
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James
Summary:
Through the Gates is off for Spring Break this week, but join us on a look back through the first seven episodes. There's much more to come through the rest of this semester!

104. Free Speech after Insurrection with Tony Fargo and Steve Sanders (31:36)

Date:
2021-02-17
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James, Fargo, Tony, Sanders, Steve
Summary:
Deplatforming. Incitement. Section 230. Buzzwords are flying in the aftermath of the United States’ first transfer of power that was anything but peaceful. As online platforms grow and proliferate, How do we regulate social media while protecting the right to dissent? The Media School’s Tony Fargo and Maurer School of Law’s Steve Sanders join Dean Shanahan to talk about what makes speech free and what keeps it that way, while protecting the institutions that hold this country together.

105. Election 2020: Tracking Social Media with Harry Yan and Christopher Torres-Lugo (22:36)

Date:
2020-11-05
Main contributors:
Shanahan, James, Yan, Harry, Torres-Lugo, Christopher
Summary:
The 2020 election will likely be on our minds for some time. But how did we get here? Dean Shanahan speaks with Harry Yan and Christopher Torres-Lugo, two graduate students who are researching election interference. Yan and Lugo work at IU’s Observatory on Social Media, known familiarly as OSoMe, or “awesome.” The three discuss detecting bots, online election narratives, how the field is becoming more polarized— and what we might learn from it all.

106. Bonus Episode: Distinguished Alumnus Bob Shanks (30:29)

Date:
2020-10-27
Main contributors:
Shanks, Bob, Shanahan, James
Summary:
IU alumnus Bob Shanks made his name as a New York television producer, helping to launch shows like “Good Morning America” and “20/20.” He passed away this month, and in his honor we bring you a conversation from 2016, when Shanks returned to the Media School to accept a Distinguished Alumni Award. Host Jim Shanahan talked with Shanks about his path to New York from Lebanon, Indiana. We hear how he parlayed proximity into a seat at the table, moving from waiting on executives to calling the shots at some of New York’s most well-known shows. This is Part 1 of a 2-part series.

107. Bonus Episode: Distinguished Alumnus Bob Shanks - Part 2 (28:13)

Date:
2020-11-15
Main contributors:
Shanks, Bob, Shanahan, James
Summary:
IU alumnus Bob Shanks passed away last month, and in his honor we bring you Part 2 to a conversation from 2016, when Shanks returned to the Media School to accept a Distinguished Alumni Award. Host Jim Shanahan talked with Shanks about his triumphs and tragedies in the pressure-cooker comedy scene in New York, and what it was like to produce the classic prank show "Candid Camera." We also hear about the decision to pause entertainment during national emergencies like the Kennedy assassination, and when the show must go on. This is the second in a two-part series.

108. Singer, Peter, On Animal Rights (24:28)

Date:
2018-10-24
Main contributors:
Singer, Peter, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 101, Dean Shanahan and bioethicist/moral philosopher Peter Singer talk about animal rights, global poverty and the climate.

109. Media Portrayal of Muslims, the Political Climate & Student Activism (22:57)

Date:
2016-09-11
Main contributors:
Sinno, Abdulkader, Khabbaz, Dana, Cummings, Janae, Shanahan, James
Summary:
IU Media School dean Jim Shanahan interviews Prof. Abdulkader Sinno on topics ranging from the portrayal of Muslims in popular culture to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim citizens in the U.S. to comedians who help bridge the gap between negative perceptions and reality. In a later interview, Janae Cummings interviews IU senior Dana Khabbaz about student activism.

110. Smith, Linda and the Study of Learning in Human Children and Machines (37:32)

Date:
2017-01-24
Main contributors:
Smith, Linda, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Jim Shanahan speaks to Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of psychological and brain sciences in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Smith is leading "Learning: Brains, Machines, and Children," which is Indiana University's first Emerging Areas Research Initiative.

112. Strong, James, Talks Soul Music (24:09)

Date:
2018-09-19
Main contributors:
Strong, James, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 96, Dean Shanahan and IU Soul Revue Director James Strong talk about soul music, the Soul Revue and Strong's time in the industry, working with artists from New Edition to Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, to Stephanie Mills.

113. Talking Journalism, Politics, and Polls with Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan (33:33)

Date:
2017-12-13
Main contributors:
Sullivan, Margaret, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 74, Dean James Shanahan talks to Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington Post, about the relationship between the press and the American public. The conversation also touches on politics, the future of polling, and the possible impact of the "Weinstein effect."

115. Moscow-Based Journalist and Filmmaker, Elena Volochine (34:03)

Date:
2019-01-09
Main contributors:
Volochine, Elena, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Dean Shanahan sits down with journalist and documentarian Elena Volochine to discuss Russian politics, her experiences reporting in Moscow, and her film Oleg's Choice, which follows Russian fighters in Eastern Ukraine.

117. Wax, Amy (27:54)

Date:
2018-04-11
Main contributors:
Wax, Amy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 88, Dean James Shanahan interviews Amy Wax, who recently visited IU Bloomington as a guest of the Tocqueville Lecture Series.

118. Bernstein, Leonard at 100: The IU Jacobs School Connection (21:58)

Date:
2017-09-19
Main contributors:
Webb, Charles, Ponella, Philip, Bernstein, Leonard, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 61, we speak with IU Jacob School of Music Dean Emeritus Charles Webb and Philip Ponella, the Wennerstrom Philips Music Library Director and director of Music Information Technology Services, about the great composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. In 2009, the Bernstein family awarded the Jacobs School of Music with the contents of one of his composing studios. That studio is now on tour as part of the global celebration "Leonard Bernstein at 100."

119. Wexler, Nancy, Geneticist (43:33)

Date:
2016-08-07
Main contributors:
Wexler, Nancy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, we’ll hear from Nancy Wexler, a leading geneticist and neuropsychologist whose research led to the identification of the Huntington’s disease gene. Her research has also led to the discovery of the genes responsible for familial Alzheimer’s disease, kidney cancer, two types of neurofibromatosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dwarfism. In spring 2016, Wexler received the inaugural Hermann J. Muller Award, which is named for a renowned geneticist, a Nobel Laureate, a social activist and an esteemed IU Bloomington faculty member (1945-67). The Muller award and lecture series recognizes luminary international geneticists whose discoveries, like Muller’s, have or are making a significant impact on the field of genetics and society.

120. Williams, David C., and Samantha von Ende, IU Center for Constitutional Democracy (43:05)

Date:
2016-06-26
Main contributors:
Williams, David, von Ende, Samantha, Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week on Through the Gates, host Jim Shanahan is joined by David C. Williams, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy and the John S. Hastings Professor of Law in the Maurer School of Law. Williams has written widely on constitutional law and consults with constitutional reform movements around the world. Presently, he advises elements of the Burma democracy movement on the constitutional future of the country. In today's interview, he will share some of how that process works. Later in the episode, student Samantha von Ende will share some of her own work with the Center for Constitutional Democracy. As a Ph.D. student, von Ende has worked extensively on gender-related issues of democracy in the United States and around the world.

121. Wilson, T. Kelly, IU Center for Art and Design (31:55)

Date:
2016-07-31
Main contributors:
Wilson, T. Kelly, Shanahan, James, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
“I have yet to meet the person I can’t teach to draw,” T. Kelly Wilson tells Through the Gates host Jim Shanahan in this week’s episode. Wilson is an architect and director of the Indiana University Center for Art and Design in Columbus. Wilson talks about the importance of drawing on creativity and invention. “When you go to draw and you look to perceive … the world becomes suddenly very strange and complex,” he said, adding that common notions of what you’re seeing change and modify when translating them to pictures. This episode also introduces Janae Cummings, a new Through the Gates podcast host, who will also be featured in upcoming “Five Questions” segments featuring campus visitors and faculty, staff, students, friends and alums of IU.