Focus 580 Archives for month of November 2007
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Thursday November 01, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, And India’s Future
Martha C. Nussbaum, The Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, appointed in the Department of Philosophy, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, August 17, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: International Affairs • India
Thursday November 01, 2007, 11:06 AM
Early Red Flags of Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Early Identification to Early Intervention
Amy M. Wetherby, Professor of Communication Disorders at Florida State University
Guest Host: Les Schulte
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Categories: Autism • Education
Friday November 02, 2007, 10:06 AM
20th Century Psychology in America
David B. Baker, Director of the Archives of the History of American Psychology and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Akron
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, August 30, 2007, 10 am
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Categories: History • United States history • Psychology
Friday November 02, 2007, 11:06 AM
Hanni And Beth: Safe And Sound
Beth Finke, Author, Teacher and Journalist
Guest Host: Rita Schulte
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Categories: Literature
Monday November 05, 2007, 11:06 AM
Head Injuries
Stanley A. Herring, M.D., Medical Director of the Spine Center at University of Washington Medicine; Clinical Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine and Neurological Surgery; and a Team Physician for the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Mariners
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Monday November 05, 2007, 10:06 AM
An Interview with Roy Kesey
Roy Kesey, author of Nothing in the World: A Novella; and All Over: Stories
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Categories: Literature
Tuesday November 06, 2007, 10:06 AM
New Indians, Old Wars
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Writer, Poet, Professor Emerita of Native American Studies at Eastern Washington University, member of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
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Categories: History • United States history • Literature • Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans
Tuesday November 06, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Limits of Child Protection
Michael S. Wald, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford Law School (The Inaugural Brieland Visiting Scholar Lecture)
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Family
Wednesday November 07, 2007, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday November 07, 2007, 11:06 AM
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves
Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves and Professor Emeritus of Roehampton University, London
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Categories: History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity
Thursday November 08, 2007, 10:06 AM
African Popular Cinema, Pentecostalism, and the ‘Powers of Darkness’: Contested Discourses on ‘Tradition’ in Ghana
Birgit Meyer, Professor in the Research Centre Religion and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam (MillerComm lecturer)
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Literature • Media and journalism • Religion • Africa • Ghana
Thursday November 08, 2007, 11:06 AM
Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health And Survival In A Bacterial World
Jessica Snyder Sachs, Freelance Science Writer
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Friday November 09, 2007, 10:06 AM
Language and Hip-Hop Culture in a Globalizing World
Awad Ibrahim, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Ottawa
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Categories: Cultural Studies • International Affairs • Language and Linguistics
Friday November 09, 2007, 11:06 AM
Restoring Geography in America
Jerome Dobson, President of the American Geographical Society and Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas
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Categories: Geography
Monday November 12, 2007, 10:06 AM
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, And Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration And The Future Of Race In America
Gregory Rodriguez, Director of the California Fellows Program, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and Columnist for The Los Angeles Times
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Categories: Race/Ethnicity • Latino/Latina affairs
Monday November 12, 2007, 11:06 AM
Racial Bias in the Justice System
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday November 13, 2007, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension Champaign County
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture • How-to
Tuesday November 13, 2007, 11:06 AM
Latino Political Incorporation and an Emerging Democratic Majority?
Gary Segura, Associate Professor of American Politics at the University of Washington
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Categories: Politics • Race/Ethnicity • Latino/Latina affairs
Wednesday November 14, 2007, 10:06 AM
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became A Sickness
Christopher Lane, the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University
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Categories: Health • Psychology
Wednesday November 14, 2007, 11:06 AM
Interview
LeAnne Howe, Professor of American Indian Studies and English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Literature • Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans
Thursday November 15, 2007, 10:06 AM
Storm Preparedness
Ed Kieser, WILL Meteorologist
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Categories: Weather
Thursday November 15, 2007, 11:06 AM
Extraordinary Evil: A Short Walk To Genocide
Barbara Coloroso, Speaker and Writer
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Categories: Criminal Justice • War
Friday November 16, 2007, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois
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Categories: How-to • Personal Finance
Friday November 16, 2007, 11:06 AM
Playing With The Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal In Sports
Eileen McDonagh,, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University; and Laura Pappano, Award-Winning Journalist
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Categories: Gender issues • Sports
Monday November 19, 2007, 10:06 AM
Home Care and Maintenance
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection Service
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Categories: How-to
Monday November 19, 2007, 11:06 AM
Paying Farmers for Environmental Services: When, Where and Whether it Makes Sense
Gerald C. Nelson, Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Agriculture • Economics • Environment
Tuesday November 20, 2007, 10:06 AM
Privacy In Peril: How We Are Sacrificing A Fundamental Right In Exchange For Security And Convenience
James B. Rule, Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley
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Categories: Civil Rights • Law • National Security
Tuesday November 20, 2007, 11:06 AM
Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA
Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and a Reporter for The New York Times
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, July 27, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • International Affairs • Military
Wednesday November 21, 2007, 10:06 AM
Thirst: Fighting The Corporate Theft Of Our Water
Alan Snitow, Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist; and Deborah Kaufman, Film Producer, Director and Writer
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Categories: Economics • Environment
Wednesday November 21, 2007, 11:06 AM
Water Management and Drought Issues
Michael J. Hayes, Director of the National Drought Mitigation Center in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Peter Binney, Director of Aurora Water, Aurora, Colorado
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Categories: Environment • Water resources • Weather
Thursday November 22, 2007, 10:06 AM
“Intelligence Squared - Russia is Becoming Our Enemy Again”
From NPR and featuring journalist Claudia Rosett, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, and foreign policy expert J. Michael Waller; World Policy Institute Senior Fellow Nikita Khrushchev Nina Khrushcheva, Columbia University Political Science Professor Robert Legvold, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Vice President for Studies of Russia, China and Eurasia Mark Medish. The moderator is Economist Deputy Editor Edward Lucas.
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Thursday November 22, 2007, 11:06 AM
NPR Special: “Intelligence Squared - It's Time to End Affirmative Action”
From NPR and featuring New York Sun columnist John H. McWhorter, Center for Individual Rights President Terence J. Pell, and actor, social commentator and syndicated columnist Joseph C. Phillips; Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Attorney Khin Mai Aung, UCLA and Columbia Law School Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, and writer and educator Tim Wise. The moderator is Robert Siegel of NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Friday November 23, 2007, 10:06 AM
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson, Professor of History and Law at Pepperdine University and the 1998 Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in History
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, October 25, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: History • United States history • Politics
Friday November 23, 2007, 11:06 AM
Sputnik: The Shock Of The Century
Paul Dickson, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, October 19, 2007, 11 am
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Monday November 26, 2007, 10:06 AM
New Films in Theaters during the Holidays
David Desser, Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film
Monday November 26, 2007, 11:06 AM
Women’s Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Women’s Health Practice, Champaign
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Categories: Health
Tuesday November 27, 2007, 10:06 AM
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal, Award Winning Biographer
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, October 18, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Geography • History • Africa
Tuesday November 27, 2007, 11:06 AM
Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Study at Pennsylvania State University
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, January 17, 2005, 11 am
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History • Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans • Religion
Wednesday November 28, 2007, 10:06 AM
Governing Through Crime: How The War On Crime Transformed American Democracy And Created A Culture Of Fear
Jonathon Simon, Associate Dean, in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley
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Categories: Criminal Justice • History • United States history • Law
Wednesday November 28, 2007, 11:06 AM
How Rural Communities Respond to Environmental Change and Risks
Courtney Flint, Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Community • Environment • Climate Change
Thursday November 29, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Whale Warriors: The Battle At The Bottom Of The World To Save The Planet’s Largest Mammals
Peter Heller, Award-Winning Travel Adventure Writer and NPR Commentator
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Categories: Animals • Environment
Thursday November 29, 2007, 11:06 AM
Waterboarding: Torture Techniques, Information and the Geneva Convention
Malcolm W. Nance, , Director of the Special Readiness Services International, a Washington D.C. based anti-terrorism/counter-terrorism consultancy supporting the intelligence community
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Categories: Civil Rights • International Affairs • Law • Terrorism • War
Friday November 30, 2007, 10:06 AM
Deception: Pakistan, The United States, And The Secret Trade In Nuclear Weapons
Catherine Scott-Clark, Award-Winning Investigative Journalist, Senior Correspondent with the Guardian, and Book Co-Author
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Categories: International Affairs • Military • Pakistan
Friday November 30, 2007, 11:06 AM
Cyber Security for National Security
Scott Borg, Director and Chief Economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit and a Senior Research Fellow in International Security Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
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Categories: National Security • Technology • Internet
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