UC Santa Barbara (Audio)

Screenwriter Michael Miner sits down with UCSB Department of Film & Media Studies professor Joshua Moss to discuss Robocop’s B-Movie influences, the role of political humor in science fiction, and the economic model of Orion Pictures and other genre picture studios in the 1980s. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30631]

UCSB Script to Screen was invited to the 2016 Directors Guild Awards, Writers Guild Awards and the Oscar Wilde Awards to interview amazing talent including many Oscar nominees and winners, and as a special bonus, the cast and crew from Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30802]

The film Still Alice explores early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This panel at UCSB discusses the film and the troubling issues it explores. Donna Beal - Alzheimer’s Association, Patricia Cline Cohen - Department of History at UCSB, Kenneth Kosik - Neuroscience Research Institute at UCSB. Moderator - Laury Oaks - Feminist Studies at UCSB. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30803]

Don Hertzfeldt is a two time Oscar-nominated American independent filmmaker whose animated films include It's Such a Beautiful Day, The Meaning of Life, Billy's Balloon, and Rejected. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30805]

Philip Warburg explores a range of solar technologies. A seasoned environmental lawyer, Warburg makes a case for embracing this technology as he talks about what is happening around the country and what more could be done. Series: "Climate Change Playlist" [Science] [Show ID: 30827]

Islam is a great religious tradition, the second largest and fastest growing of the World’s Religions, embracing some 57 Muslim countries and is the second or third largest religion in Europe and America. Despite the global achievements of Islam as a faith and civilization, since the Iranian Revolution, Islam has been viewed through the lens violence and the actions of militant terrorists. John Esposito, Professor of Religion and International Affairs and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown, addresses the questions: Who are Muslims and what do they believe? What do Islam, Judaism and Christianity share in common? Why does it matter? Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30579]

As the Mideast chaos has focused elsewhere, the Israeli and Palestinian issue has been largely sidelined. Negotiated peace, the classic paradigm for the last few decades, has been put aside. What will take its place? What new paradigm can offer peace to both sides and put aside this tragic conflict? What can the US do? With David Makovsky and Ghaith Al-Omar both of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30679]

Todd A. Stone is an Currently Head of Marketing at BIOPAC Systems, Inc., Goleta-based international biotech manufacturing company, Stone has over 25 years of experience in marketing and communications, preceded by a career as an Army Airborne Ranger Infantry officer whose last assignment was as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy (West Point).

Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30701]

Powerful new “gene editing” techniques have put the prospect of genetically modified human beings on the foreseeable horizon. Should we use these tools to improve the human species? Are they needed to prevent the transmission of genetic diseases? Would manipulating the genes of future children and generations open the door to new kinds of discrimination, inequality, and eugenics? Marcy Darnovsky unpacks the controversies that have erupted in recent months about how we should — and should not — use gene editing tools, and explores the technical, social, and ethical stakes of these imminent decisions Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30703]

After nearly twenty years in senior leadership roles in communications at media giants Universal, Sony and Turner Broadcasting, Libby Gill is now CEO of executive coaching and consulting firm Libby Gill & Company, which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in 2015. Gill was also the PR/branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show.

Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30572]