University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)

On December 19, 1980, Shlomo Lewin, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, and his partner Frida Poeschke were shot dead in their house in Erlangen. Instead of pursuing the leads that led to the right-wing extremist group Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann, investigators concentrated on Lewin’s social environment for a long time. As part of UC San Diego's Holocaust Living History Workshop, German historian Uffa Jensen reconstructs the crime and its motivations, in the process unearthing a history of violence, trivialisation and repression that continues to this day. Jensen is a historian of modern history and serves as the deputy director at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in Berlin. Series: "Library Channel" [Humanities] [Show ID: 38976]

Lucas Hilderbrand of UC Irvine joins UC Santa Barbara moderator Graham Feyl to discuss the film Paris is Burning. They review the history of its exhibition and the film’s enduring legacy as a powerful portrait of queer life, resistance, beauty, and art. They also discuss the unique structure of the documentary, the cultural contexts of drag balls for trans communities of color, and Paris is Burning’s significance in the history of trans representation onscreen. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39635]

Medical advances have significantly improved the survival of preterm babies and term neonates with brain injuries due to environmental hypoxia or genetic causes. Anca Pasca, M.D., shares her work to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders associated with fetal and neonatal brain injury. Series: "Women in Science" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 39453]

Explore the University of California Health Milk Bank with Dr. Julia Cormano and Dr. Lisa Stellwagen. Discover the practicalities of donor milk processing and its significant impact on NICU infants' health and their families' lives. Series: "Motherhood Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39083]

When babies, especially those in the NICU, can't breastfeed directly from their mothers, breast milk remains essential for their nutrition and immune support. This is where milk banks step in. Discover the process by which milk banks collect, screen, process, and distribute human breast milk to babies in need, especially premature infants or those facing medical challenges. Series: "Motherhood Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39327]

As part of the La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2023 series enjoy Tchaikovsky: Sextet for Strings in D Minor, Opus 70, performed by Stefan Jackiw and Andrew Wan on violin, Jonathan Vinocour and Matthew Lipman on viola, Juie Alber and Sterling Elliott on cello.

For La Jolla Music Society at The Conrad

Todd R. Schultz, President & CEO

Leah Z. Rosenthal, Artistic Director

Inon Barnatan, SummerFest Music Director

Produced and directed by Tristan Cook

Festival Founding Sponsors

Brenda Baker and Steve Baum

Synergy Initiative Producers

Inon Barnatan | Clara Wu Tsai

Synergy Initiative Underwriter

Clara Wu Tsai

SummerFest Music Director Underwriters

Raffaella and John Belanich Series: "La Jolla Music Society: SummerFest" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 39711]

The 2023 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences, Professor Elliott Lieb presents snapshots of his seventy-year journey through the world of science, first as a would-be engineer, then as a physicist and later as a mathematician and a mathematical physicist. In many encounters with colleagues in different areas of research he learned that mathematics and a mathematical perspective can be pivotal in developing our thinking about physics. This fundamental connection between mathematics and physics was not always accepted at the beginning of my career, and it was even vigorously denied by some mathematicians and physicists. Lieb mentions some of his work to illustrate the value of mathematical physics for theoretical physics and to pure mathematics, the first being the Polaron bound found with K. Yamazaki in Kyoto in 1957. Another is the "ice problem", where he calculated the number of ways to color a chess board with only three colors so that neighboring squares never have the same color. Series: "Kyoto Prize Symposium" [Science] [Show ID: 39424]

Join Los Angeles Times environment reporter and author of the new book California Against the Sea Rosanna Xia and Scripps Institution of Oceanography coastal resilience specialist Laura Engeman for a discussion on communicating the science and impacts of sea-level rise and California’s changing relationship with the ocean. Engeman will also discuss how Scripps Oceanography is advancing science and technology to understand sea-level rise across California and beyond. Xia will also do a reading from the book and be on hand afterward to sign copies and meet audience members.   Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 39648]

As part of the 2024 Prostate Cancer Patient Conference, Dr. Julian Hong discusses radiation therapy as treatment for prostate cancer, including potential side effects, considerations in decision making, the radiation oncology care path.

Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 39759]

America’s contemporary democratic predicament is rooted in its historically incomplete democratization. Born in a pre-democratic era, the constitution’s balancing of majority rule and minority rights created still-unresolved dilemmas. Placing the U.S. in comparative perspective, Daniel Ziblatt, professor of government at Harvard University, discusses the relationship between U.S. political institutions and their political majorities.

Ziblatt is also director of the Transformations of Democracy group at Berlin’s WZB Social Science Center. He is the author of four books, including "How Democracies Die," co-authored with Steve Levitsky, a New York Times best-seller. His newest book co-authored with Steven Levitsky is entitled "Tyranny of the Minority." Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 39851]