Zócalo Public Square

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An innovative blend of ideas journalism and live events.

Episodios

  • What Happens When Women Rule the World?

    27/03/2012 Duración: 57min

    We are on the verge of becoming a society of breadwomen--where women out-earn men--which will change society on many levels. Journalist Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, explains why this is a good development for men and women alike.

  • Music, the Brain, and Learning Guitar at Age 40

    24/03/2012 Duración: 41min

    At an event co-presented by Kaiser Permanente, NYU psychologist Gary Marcus chronicled how he learned to play guitar as an adult after being inspired by the video game Guitar Hero. Marcus explained how adults can learn new skills, what music does to our brains and bodies, and what teaching methods work best for musicians of all ages and skill levels.

  • Does Foodie Culture Do Anyone Any Good?

    22/03/2012 Duración: 01h08min

    In a conversation ranging from the effects of global warming on wine production (the English countryside may be the new Champagne region) to the aged carrots served at Copenhagen's Noma restaurant,The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik and L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold discussed the pleasures and perils of foodies and food culture. Fine dining ultimately gives us pleasure, builds community, and can even make us healthier people.

  • Why Is Oil Wealth a Bad Thing?

    21/03/2012 Duración: 56min

    UCLA political scientist Michael Ross, author of The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, explains why oil wealth is bad for developing countries: because of the extraordinary power and kinds of revenue it generates for governments, and because of the industry's lack of transparency. It's not a coincidence that the world's most volatile countries are rich in oil, he argues.

  • Is L.A. Ready for the NFL?

    17/03/2012 Duración: 01h03min

    A panel moderated by KNBC's Conan Nolan featuring Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman, UCLA football coach Jim Mora, Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer, and UCLA sports economist Lee Ohanian agreed that professional football will return to Los Angeles. They debated which team will come, where will the stadium be located--and whether Angelenos will care--at an event co-presented by UCLA.

  • Is Internet Freedom At Risk?

    13/03/2012 Duración: 47min

    Former CNN Tokyo and Beijing bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, argues that governments and corporations around the globe are taking away our online freedoms--without the average citizen's knowledge. Her discussion moves from China to the Arab world to the battle over SOPA and PIPA in the U.S.

  • An Evening With Josefina Vázquez Mota (spanish)

    09/03/2012 Duración: 38min

    An Evening With Josefina Vázquez Mota (spanish)

  • An Evening With Josefina Vázquez Mota (english translated)

    09/03/2012 Duración: 40min

    An Evening With Josefina Vázquez Mota (english translated)

  • Gustav Klimt's Stolen Masterpiece

    06/03/2012 Duración: 46min

    Washington Post writer Anne-Marie O'Connor, author of The Lady in Gold, explores the artistic and cultural ferment of Vienna--driven in part by women and Jews--at the turn of the 20th century. This was the setting in which Gustav Klimt painted his famous portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer--a painting that was then stolen by the Nazis, renamed "The Lady in Gold," and displayed for decades in Austria's national Belvedere Museum. After years-long lawsuits, Bloch-Bauer's heir, Los Angeles dressmaker Maria Altmann, won the painting back.

  • Wait, Arizona Has a History?

    07/02/2012 Duración: 01h10min

    Wait, Arizona Has a History?

  • Is California’s Solar Gold Rush Destined to Fail?

    06/02/2012 Duración: 01h13min

    A panel moderated by KCRW's Warren Olney, featuring energy journalist Lisa Margonelli, UC Berkeley energy expert Daniel Kammen, SolarCity's Jim Cahill, and LADWP general manager Ron Nichols discusses the future of solar energy in California. They agreed that solar energy has the potential to change the way the state is fueled, but that the financial and political policies need to catch up to technological advancements

  • Can Childhood Trauma Make You Sick?

    01/02/2012 Duración: 54min

    A panel featuring KQET's Sarah Varney, the Bayview Child Health Center's Nadine Burke Harris, San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center director Katie Albright, and Robin Karr-Morse, author of Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, discussed what childhood trauma is, how it can be treated and prevented, and its effects on the health of adults. Children who experience chronic exposure to abuse, neglect, and violence are at greatly increased risk for illnesses ranging from heart disease and hepatitis to addictive behaviors like IV drug use.

  • Is Phoenix the Next L.A., God Forbid?

    01/02/2012 Duración: 58min

    Is Phoenix the Next L.A., God Forbid?

  • Is This the Golden Age of Television?

    24/01/2012 Duración: 55min

    KCRW's Kim Masters, Homeland and Cold Case writer and producer Meredith Stiehm, the Boston Globe's Joanna Weiss, ex-TV executive James Andrew Miller, and Occidental College historian Thaddeus Russell debate whether we're currently living in the golden age of television--or if more choice means more mediocrity. Their lively conversation encompassed the merits of Cupcake Wars and American Idol, the debt contemporary shows owe to Hill Street Blues, diversity onscreen, and what makes today's critically acclaimed shows great.

  • Why Museums Matter

    23/01/2012 Duración: 44min

    Getty Trust President and CEO James Cuno explains why museums matter today more than ever in a talk at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Cuno shares the museum's 18th-century Enlightenment origins and responds to critics who have called the encyclopedic museum elitist and imperialistic.

  • The History of American Philanthropy

    17/01/2012 Duración: 57min

    Historian Olivier Zunz, author of Philanthropy in America: A History, explains why philanthropy is such a powerful force in American politics, economics, and society by explaining the history of the institution.

  • Can Universities Save Cities?

    12/01/2012 Duración: 01h04min

    Leaders of four major research universities--USC President C.L. Max Nikias, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, ASU President Michael Crow, and Rice University President David Leebron--discuss the role of urban universities in their communities with the Chronicle of Higher Education's Jeffrey Selingo. They agreed that while universities alone cannot save dying cities, but they can contribute a great deal to the cultural, economic, and intellectual lives of their cities.

  • How Life Imitated Art

    19/12/2011 Duración: 01h01min

    How Life Imitated Art

  • How Los Angeles Created the Good Life

    18/12/2011 Duración: 01h19min

    At a panel as part of the Pacific Standard Time art initiative, New York University historian Thomas Crow, UCLA historian Eric Avila, Huntington Library curator Jennifer Watts, and Kirse Granat May, author of Golden State, Golden Youth, discussed the allure of Los Angeles imagery through the decades. In a conversation about Disneyland and dream houses, freeways and film, they moved from the 19th century through the postwar years.

  • Paul Starr on America's Healthcare War History

    08/12/2011 Duración: 01h07min

    Why is the U.S. the only western country that can't agree on healthcare? Sociologist Paul Starr, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Reform, explains our bitter war over healthcare through its history from the early 20th century--when the American Medical Association and other groups used xenophobia to defeat the first healthcare bills--up through President Obama's 2010 reforms.

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