Pete Hamill, the writer and veteran newspaperman who has edited both The Daily News and The New York Post, presents a talk on Lower Manhattan, a one time immigrant neighborhood, and the origins of New York. Hamill has written extensively on news, art, jazz, immigration and politics for numerous publications and authored 20 books. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 13702]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse. They discuss Roe v.Wade, the Guantanamo decisions, and her biography of Justice Harry Blackmun. Reflecting on her thirty year career covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times, she analyzes the internal dynamics of the Court and reflects on the Supreme Court's relations with other branches of government. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15394]

Widely published in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic magazines, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has been covering the brutal exploitation of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its natural resources for nearly a decade. He spoke at UC Santa Barbara to discuss the challenges of visual journalism. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14210]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes former New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse. They discuss Roe v.Wade, the Guantanamo decisions, and her biography of Justice Harry Blackmun. Reflecting on her thirty year career covering the Supreme Court for the New York Times, she analyzes the internal dynamics of the Court and reflects on the Supreme Court's relations with other branches of government. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15394]

Widely published in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic magazines, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has been covering the brutal exploitation of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its natural resources for nearly a decade. He spoke at UC Santa Barbara to discuss the challenges of visual journalism. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14210]

Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jailers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: "Revelle Forum" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]

Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson discusses his extraordinary images of life in occupied Iraq and of American troops in action. His new book explore his personal account of covering the conflict, from the exhilaration and terror of photographing war to the challenges of photojournalism in our age of embedded reporting. Series: "Humanitas" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 14183]

American icon Gay Talese, a former reporter for the New York Times, magazine columnist and best-selling author shares tips on his craft with journalist Dean Nelson of Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 13984]

The event brought together top researchers and leaders from the University of California state-wide system including leadership of UCTV, the national satellite channel of the UC system, as well as broadcast and digital media entrepreneurs, community media coordinators, new media researchers, and audience members to present their experiences, innovations and visions for the future of multi-media digital news and cultural networks. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 13187]

UC Santa Barbara plays host to this edition with segments featuring UCSB’s student newspaper “The Daily Nexus,” the “greening” of UC Davis and UC Berkeley, dog genetics from UC San Francisco and a new traffic safety program that allows cars and roads to communicate from UC’s Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways. Series: "State of Minds" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 13403]