251. Discussing Race, Change, and Awkward Conversations with W. Kamau Bell (25:05)

Date:
2018-01-17
Main contributors:
Bell, W. Kamau, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
Through the Gates host Janae Cummings opens season 3 with W. Kamau Bell—sociopolitical comedian, podcaster, author, and Emmy Award-winning host of the CNN docu-series United Shades of America. Bell visited the Indiana University Bloomington campus to speak at the university's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Leadership Breakfast.

252. Conversation with Adrian Matejka (16:35)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Matejka, Adrian
Summary:
We asked five questions (and a little more) to Indiana University professor and poet-in-residence Adrian Matejka. The award-winning poet is author of The Devil’s Garden, Mixology, and The Big Smoke—a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His upcoming collection of poems, Map to the Stars, will be released in March 2017.

253. Indiana University Sleep Walk (05:08)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Docherty, Carrie, Lalevich, Steven, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
Hoosier Five host Janae Cummings talks about the Indiana University Sleep Walk and the Sleep Great IU! Challenge with Carrie Docherty from the IU School of Public Health and Steven Lalevich from Healthy IU.

255. Talking Journalism, Politics, and Polls with Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan (33:32)

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."

256. Indie Filmmaker and IU Alumna Eliza Hittman (19:16)

Date:
2017-12-06
Main contributors:
Hittman, Eliza, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
In episode 73, Janae Cummings speaks with Eliza Hittman, IU alumna and award-winning indie filmmaker. Hittman recently visited the IU Cinema as part of its Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker program. Her most recent feature BEACH RATS won the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award for U.S. Dramatic Feature.

257. IU Ballet & The Nutcracker: A Holiday Tradition (23:28)

Date:
2017-11-29
Main contributors:
Dalton, Georgia, Wroth, Sarah, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
In episode 72, Janae Cummings speaks to Sarah Wroth, associate chair of the ballet department at the Jacobs School of Music, and Georgia Dalton, graduating junior and the Sugar Plum Fairy in IU’s upcoming production of The Nutcracker. Tickets are still available for the performance, which runs from November 30 to December 3 at the Musical Arts Center on the IU Bloomington campus.

259. Felzenberg, Alvin, on the Life and Times of William F. Buckley Jr. (30:23)

Date:
2017-11-15
Main contributors:
Felzenberg, Alvin, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 70, James Shanahan speaks to Alvin Felzenberg, author of "A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr." The book examines how Buckley brought together anti-Communists, small-government advocates, free-market supporters, libertarians, and others to create a conservative movement. It also explores Buckley's relationship with US presidents, especially Ronald Reagan. Felzenberg recently visited the IU Bloomington campus as part of the Tocqueville Lecture Series.

260. Works and Impact of Polish Composer and Conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, The (28:44)

Date:
2017-11-08
Main contributors:
Goldberg, Halina, DiOrio, Dominick, Penderecki, Krzysztof , Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 69, we speak to Halina Goldberg, professor of musicology, and Dominick DiOrio, associate professor of choral conducting at the IU Jacobs School of Music about the works and career of multi-award winning Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki. The maestro will visit the IU Bloomington campus for Penderecki Conducts Penderecki: "ST. LUKE PASSION," which takes place Wednesday, November 15 at 8pm in the Musical Arts Center.