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Podcasts from The City University of New York

The Power of Audio Storytelling

June 10, 2013 | CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Lecture Series

As founder and executive producer of “Radio Diaries,” Joe Richman has urged people to record their own lives and histories since 1996, and along with the groundbreaking series, “Teenage Diaries,” has helped pioneer the genre of first-person narratives for National Public Radio. In a conversation at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Richman discusses the [...]

Dershowitz-Beinart Israeli Debate, Round 2

June 3, 2013 | CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY Lecture Series, Graduate Center

In a follow-up discussion to their appearance last fall, jurist Alan Dershowitz and journalist Peter Beinart continued the debate, “The Crisis of Zionism,” as part of the Perspectives: Conversations on Policy and Place series at the Graduate Center. Beinart insists that with power comes responsibility. “Because Israel has emerged as a successful country, with millions [...]

Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs

June 3, 2013 | Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings

Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, June 3, 2013.

Committee on Academic, Policy, Program, and Research

June 2, 2013 | Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings

Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Academic, Policy, Program, and Research, June 3, 2013.

Committee on Fiscal Affairs

June 2, 2013 | Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings

Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Fiscal Affairs, June 2, 2013.

Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration

June 2, 2013 | Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings, Facilities Planning, Construction and Management

Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration, June 3, 2013.

Committee on Facilities, Planning and Management

June 2, 2013 | Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings, Facilities Planning, Construction and Management

Standing committee meeting of the Board of Trustees, Committee on Facilities, Planning and Management, June 3, 2013.

Alice Kober and ‘The Riddle of the Labyrinth’

May 28, 2013 | Brooklyn College, CUNY Lecture Series

In her new book, “The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code,” Margalit Fox chronicles the pursuit to decipher Linear B — an unknown script dating to the Bronze Age — and how key research by a Brooklyn College classics professor, Alice Elizabeth Kober, helped to crack its code. But “because [...]

Executive Committee Meeting of the Board of Trustees

May 22, 2013 | Board of Trustees Meetings & Public Hearings

Executive Committee Meeting of the Board of Trustees, May 22, 2013.

Rethinking Kahn’s Architectural Vision

May 14, 2013 | City College, CUNY Lecture Series

In “Rethinking Kahn,” part of the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture spring lecture series, architectural historian William J.R. Curtis discusses the legacy of famed architect Louis Kahn, including his final project — Four Freedoms Park — a four-acre memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that was completed posthumously as “a powerful work of monumentality.” [...]