The Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations recently presented an evening focused on Russia-China relations, and what the increasing ties between these two nations might mean for the United States. Our guest participated in that evening: Nina Rozhanovskaya has 7+ years of experience working on international academic projects and facilitating cooperation among Russian organizations and their overseas partners in a variety of areas. She is a coordinator and academic liaison for Kennan Institute in

Our guest is Robert Boyers, a professor of English at Skidmore College and the director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He joins us to talk about his new book, "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies." As was noted of this work by Kirkus: "A rousing call for speech on college campuses that is truly free, addressing uncomfortable issues while allowing room for dissent.... Coming from a clearly liberal point of view, Boyers nonetheless

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we welcome a new book reviewer to the program. Rebecca Howard is a regional manager for the Tulsa City-County Library system and has served as the county-wide literacy coordinator, and helped launch the library's reader's advisory service "Your Next Great Read." For the past year, Rebecca has written "Imprint", a monthly column in our e-newsletter, and today she offers her list of the best books of 2019 for the book lover on your holiday gift list. "Lager Queen of

At a time when America's foreign service professionals are front and center in the national debate, we hear the story of four exemplary ambassadors from the State Department's Near East bureau. Veteran foreign policy and national security journalist Paul Richter, formerly of the Los Angeles Times writes about six-time ambassador Ryan Crocker, five-time ambassador Anne Patterson, former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, and late ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens in his book "The

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we speak with two Tulsa art icons, painter P.S. "Pat" Gordon, and ceramic artist, curator, and arts advocate Steve Liggett. These two artists have been fixtures in the visual arts community for over forty years, and describe their shared history. The two are now collaborating on a project of ceramic objects featuring Gordon's trademark floral botanic designs on Liggett's pottery. "Botanica-Patrick (P.S.) Gordon and Steve Liggett, A Collaboration" is currently on

Our guest is the widely acclaimed writer and historian Stacy Schiff, who is the winner of the 2019 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. This award is given each year by the Tulsa Library Trust and Tulsa City-County Library. Schiff's bestselling nonfiction works include "The Witches: Salem, 1692," "Cleopatra: A Life," "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America," and "Saint-Exupéry: A Biography." You can meet Stacy Schiff at a free-to-the-public presentation on

On this edition on ST Medical Monday, we learn about Sick, a podcast from WFYI and Side Effects Public Media (with help from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PRX). This podcast, per its website, "is a new investigative [series concerning] what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. The first season explores the complications of fertility medicine, one Indiana doctor's abuse of power, and the generations of lives he affected." Our guests are the two reporters behind Sick,

(Note: This show first aired back in July.) Our guest is Carla Rachel Sameth, a writer who teaches at the LA Writing Project (at California State University Los Angeles) and at Southern New Hampshire University. She joins us to discuss her new book, "One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays." As Sue William Silverman, author of "The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew," has noted of Sameth's book: "Race, class, drugs, sexuality, otherness.... Twenty-first century American

On this edition of ST, we present another installment in our ongoing Museum Confidential podcast series, which is created twice a month by our own Scott Gregory and Philbrook Museum's Jeff Martin. This time out, MC offers an interesting look at a new exhibit on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond: "Edward Hopper and the American Hotel." This show includes about 60 of Hopper's hospitality-themed works -- including paintings, sketches, and early-career cover illustrations for

Our guest is the noted psychiatrist and historian Robert Jay Lifton; he's written more than twenty books, including the National Book Award-winning "Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima" as well as "The Nazi Doctors." He joins us to discuss his new book, which is just out. It is "Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry." As was noted of this work by the author and journalist James Carroll: "For decades, Robert Jay Lifton's work on the sources and