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Civil Discourse

Website: https://drexel.edu/the-civil-discourse
Next Airing: Fri, Mar 29th, 2024 at 10:37 PM on UEN-TV

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The Civil Discourse is an interview series featuring high-profile and renowned guests in conversation across difference. Building on the legacy of over 15 years of The Drexel InterView, this reimagined series explores controversial topics in the spirit of civil discourse, respectable intellectual debate, and greater cultural understanding. Join high-profile and renowned guests in discussion with Host Paula Marantz Cohen to explore a spectrum of opinion and experience.

Episodes:

  • Iain McGilchrist

    Iain McGilchrist is an eminent psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and literary scholar. He is the author of the compendium The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World and the groundbreaking work The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, McGilchrist joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen to uncover the neuropsychological differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain and how they translate to social changes in human civilization. This discussion also examines disorders of the brain, including schizophrenia.

    Next Airing: Fri, Mar 29th, 2024 at 10:37 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 11/6/2023 to 11/5/2026
  • Mark Roosevelt and J. Walter Sterling

    Next Airing: Fri, Apr 5th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 11/13/2023 to 11/12/2026
  • Michael J. Sandel

    Michael J. Sandel is considered one of the most important philosophers of modern times. Carrying the Socratic torch, the Harvard University professor espouses the virtues of public philosophy and humility in both the personal and political realms. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Sandel and Host Paula Marantz Cohen explore these; the dignity of work; the deepening divide between winners and losers; changing attitudes of success; and his book, "The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?".

    Next Airing: Fri, Apr 12th, 2024 at 11:00 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:41
    Usage rights: 12/30/2021 to 12/29/2024
  • When Great Artists Behave Badly (Part 1)

    "When Great Artists Behave Badly" is an in-depth, two-part panel discussion featuring Tony Award-winning dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, author and art critic Aruna D'Souza, author and philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes, and Barnes Foundation Renoir scholar Martha Lucy in conversation with Host Paula Marantz Cohen. For Part 1, this discussion highlights examples of controversial artists and explores how the art world and society can separate the art from the artist in cases of toxic, immoral personal behavior.

    Next Airing: Fri, Apr 19th, 2024 at 10:51 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:42
    Usage rights: 1/6/2022 to 1/5/2025
  • When Great Artists Behave Badly (Part 2)

    "When Great Artists Behave Badly" is an in-depth, two-part panel discussion featuring Tony Award-winning dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, author and art critic Aruna D'Souza, author and philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes, and Barnes Foundation Renoir scholar Martha Lucy in conversation with Host Paula Marantz Cohen. For Part 2, this discussion delves into the role contextualization plays in how art critics, audiences, and institutions can determine the cultural value and legacy (or dismissal) of both the art and the artist.

    Next Airing: Fri, Apr 26th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:39
    Usage rights: 1/13/2022 to 1/12/2025
  • Kmele Foster

    Kmele Foster is a political commentator and cultural critic, who has received attention for his unorthodox views and Libertarian values. He is a media pundit, podcaster of The Fifth Column, and a controversial voice on topics including the two-party political system, racial identity, critical race theory law, and the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Foster and Host Paula Marantz Cohen analyze these pressing concerns and the role of civil discourse in advancing policy for social change.

    Next Airing: Fri, May 3rd, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:44
    Usage rights: 1/20/2022 to 1/19/2025
  • Police Commissioners Roundtable Discussion (Part 1)

    Police Commissioners Danielle Outlaw and Charles H. Ramsey bring combined expertise from a total of five metropolitan police districts across the United States: Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; Oakland, CA; Chicago, IL; and Washington, D.C. In this episode of The Civil Discourse-the first in a two-part roundtable discussion-Outlaw and Ramsey join Host Paula Marantz Cohen to recount their path to law enforcement leadership and what both have learned about police culture across the country. This installment of the commissioners discussion also delves into concerns surrounding recruitment practices and the call to defund or abolish the police.

    Next Airing: Fri, May 10th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 1/27/2022 to 1/26/2025
  • Police Commissioners Roundtable Discussion (Part 2)

    Police Commissioners Danielle Outlaw and Charles H. Ramsey bring combined expertise from a total of five metropolitan police districts across the United States: Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; Oakland, CA; Chicago, IL; and Washington, D.C. In this episode of The Civil Discourse-the second in a two-part roundtable discussion-Outlaw and Ramsey join Host Paula Marantz Cohen to dissect controversial topics including community policing, union relationships, and the call to defund or abolish the police.

    Next Airing: Fri, May 17th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:44
    Usage rights: 2/3/2022 to 2/2/2025
  • Loretta J. Ross

    Loretta J. Ross is a public intellectual, writer, activist, and Smith College professor. She has devoted her life to the fight for feminism and human equality. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Ross explains her work to "call in the call-out culture" by listening across difference to achieve civil discourse and a more effective cultural understanding.

    Next Airing: Fri, May 24th, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:55
    Usage rights: 2/10/2022 to 2/9/2025
  • Reginald Dwayne Betts

    Reginald Dwayne Betts is a memoirist, poet, Yale-educated public defense attorney, and MacArthur "Genius" award recipient. He also was incarcerated as a youth and spent years working to become the writer and advocate he is today. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Betts shares some of his experiences from prison, his path to becoming a public defender, and his lifelong affinity for literature.

    Next Airing: Fri, May 31st, 2024 at 10:30 PM on UEN-TV
    Length: 00:26:54
    Usage rights: 2/17/2022 to 2/16/2025
  • A Classroom Divided

    "A Classroom Divided" is an in-depth panel discussion led by Oyin Adedoyin (reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education) and featuring Kmele Foster (cultural critic and The Fifth Column podcast host); Valerie C. Johnson (DePaul University political science professor and DEI advocate); Amna Khalid (Carleton College history professor and Banished podcast host); and Kenneth P. Monteiro (San Francisco State University ethnic studies and psychology professor/administrator). This episode of The Civil Discourse explores the boundaries of academic freedom with special focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) trends in higher education.

    Length: 00:26:42
    Usage rights: 12/26/2022 to 12/25/2025
  • Anthony Kronman

    Anthony Kronman is a philosopher, scholar, Yale Law School professor and former dean, and author of numerous books including The Assault on American Excellence, After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy, and Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Kronman contemplates the tradition of excellence and aristocracy in cultural institutions; the social constraints of higher education trends; and the intersection of law and philosophy.

    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 1/9/2023 to 1/8/2026
  • Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

    Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg is a literary and biblical scholar, professor, and author of a series of Judaic texts, including The Hidden Order of Intimacy: Reflections on the Book of Leviticus, Moses: A Human Life, and the National Jewish Book Award-winning The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Zornberg joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen from Jerusalem, Israel to discuss her analysis of biblical themes and their relevance to modern times; the impact of women's perspectives on contemporary biblical interpretation; and her affinity for the life and literature of George Eliot.

    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 10/9/2023 to 10/8/2026
  • Dan Burt

    Dan Burt is a poet, memoirist, and former lawyer with a fascinating life story. As he recounts in Every Wrong Direction: An Emigre's Memoir, Burt left behind a rough-and-tumble Philadelphia upbringing where he worked in the family butcher shop, got into fights, struggled to stay in line at school, and witnessed his family's own involvement with the mafia. Years later, following a career in international corporate tax law, the writer has taken to life overseas, written a series of poetry collections, and found an appointment as Honorary Fellow with St. John's College at the University of Cambridge. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Burt joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen from Cambridge, England to reflect on these varied life experiences and the lessons they taught him along the way.

    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 10/16/2023 to 10/15/2026
  • Jay Winter

    Jay Winter is a leading expert on the topic of World War I, as demonstrated in his renowned PBS/BBC series The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. Over decades-long research, writing, and teaching on the topic at Yale University and beyond, Winter has contributed innumerable books, essays, and insight on wartime politics, culture, and atrocity. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, the eminent historian discusses the Great War, World War II, the Holocaust, the work of Paul Fussell and Primo Levy, and the language and cultural significance of war in modern society.

    Length: 00:26:45
    Usage rights: 12/12/2022 to 12/11/2025
  • Julia Twigg

    Julia Twigg is a prestigious writer and scholar in the field of age studies with a focus on cultural gerontology. She is the author of Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life and holds the title of Emeritus Professor of Social Policy and Sociology from the University of Kent in England. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Twigg joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen to reveal stunning research and trends at the intersection of fashion, aging, and gender.

    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 12/19/2022 to 12/18/2025
  • Steven Greenhouse

    Steven Greenhouse is a longtime labor and workplace reporter, having led the beat for decades at The New York Times. He eventually went on to author two leading books on the labor movement: The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker and Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Greenhouse joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen for a wide-ranging discussion on the field of journalism, the evolution of unions and the labor movement (particularly as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic), and controversial policies of Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 10/23/2023 to 10/22/2026
  • Thomas Chatterton Williams

    Thomas Chatterton Williams is a writer and public intellectual. His books, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race and Losing My Cool: Love, Literature and a Black Man's Escape From the Crowd, have stirred controversy over the concepts of race and ethnic identity. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, Williams explains his work to advance thoughtful discussion around important social themes, his experiences living as an American in France, and "A Letter on Social Justice and Open Debate" in Harper's Magazine that spurred a flurry of media attention.

    Length: 00:26:47
    Usage rights: 1/2/2023 to 1/1/2026
  • Tressie McMillan Cottom

    Tressie McMillan Cottom is a writer, researcher, and sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a public scholar and essayist, McMillan Cottom explores matters related to Black America, culture, politics, and economics for The New York Times and is the author of the books Thick: And Other Essays and Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. She is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award. In this episode of The Civil Discourse, McMillan Cottom joins Host Paula Marantz Cohen to address her challenges as a Black woman intellectual, how institutions of higher education are pivoting DEI initiatives, and how race and ethnicity present complex differences.

    Length: 00:26:46
    Usage rights: 10/30/2023 to 10/29/2026

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