UC Santa Barbara (Audio)

Monte Wilson has a long successful career in senior roles at some of the top names in the software industry such as Adobe, Oracle and EMC. His focus has always been on how to develop strategies to disrupt the marketplace and set the standards versus meet them. Most recently, he led Adobe's Digital Media Operations for North and South America Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30926]

The UCSB Department of Music presents its third annual department showcase, Montage. The production highlights all areas of the Department of Music, with performances by students and faculty, and special appearances by Grammy Award-winning soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, Santa Barbara Dance Theater’s Christina Sanchez, and Jennifer Johnson, who performs as Second Oboe/English Horn with the Los Angeles Opera. Series: "Soundscape" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30963]

David Gerrold, influential contemporary sci-fi writer and creator of genre-defining works such as the enduringly popular Star Trek episode, The Trouble With Tribbles, discusses his career across many media platforms to provide unique and valuable insights into the evolution and changing nature of the genre. Gerrold is interviewed by Word Farm Director Joe Palladino. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30866]

Luciana Kaplan, director of the award-winning documentary La Revolución de los Alcatraces, talks about the genesis of her film and its subject, Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, who was elected mayor of her town but her victory was taken away because she was a woman. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31021]

Eva Kor was 10 when she and her family stepped off the train in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. Minutes later an SS officer took her and her twin sister, Miriam, away from their mother, father and two older sisters. The twins never saw the others again. Awaiting the girls was Josef Mengele, "the Angel of Death" who performed unspeakably sadistic experiments on roughly 1,500 sets of twins. When the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, Eva and Miriam were among the fewer than 200 survivors of Mengele's atrocities. Kor talks about her ordeal at the hands of Mengele and her decision to forgive. Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30962]

Thirty-two years after the release of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Force Awakens brings together the saga’s original characters with a new generation of heroes and villains. Oscar-nominated editor Maryann Brandon talks about working with J.J. Abrams and the making of the latest Star Wars film. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 31015]

Bringing his expertise, experience and wisdom longtime journalist Bill Moyers looks at the November election and asks if we are in for armageddon, apocalypse, or rapture? Moyers has received 37 Emmy Awards, nine Peabody Awards, the National Academy of Television's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the American Film Institute, among others. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30876]

Chang Yung-hsiang is the screenwriter of the classic film from the golden era of Taiwan cinema, Beautiful Duckling (1964). Michael Berr, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the East Asia Center at UCSB, talks with Chang Yung-hsiang who has contributed to some of the greatest classics of Chinese-language cinema. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 31016]

A panel of experts discusses the PBS NOVA program Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped? and the disease itself. Join Kenneth Kosik, MD (Co-Director Neuroscience Research Institute UC Santa Barbara), Sarah Holt (Producer and Director HHMI/Tangled Bank Studios), and Rhonda Spiegel (CEO, Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Chapter) and Francisco Lopera, MD (Professor of Behavioral Neurology, Chief of Neurosciences Program-University of Antioquia, Coordinator Group of Neurosciences of Antioquia). The discussion is moderated by Julia Cort, Deputy Executive Producer for NOVA. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 31017]

This panel of women with successful careers in media looks at some of today's leading women writers, directors, and producers. Panelists include: Starshine Roshell (moderator), Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time, Warehouse 13), and Anne Cofell Saunders (Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Chuck, The Small Ship, Revolution). Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31019]