Culture & Identity


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Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox
John Freeman
October 13, 2009
00:44:16
Two innovators talk about employing a variety of narrative strategies to tell a story. Tim Kring, developer and executive producer of the blockbuster NBC show Heroes, gives a visual presentation about his use of transmedia storytelling. Reif Larson, whose The Collected Works of T. S.
Running for Atlanta Mayor on Arts and Culture
Running for Atlanta Mayor on Arts and Culture
Lisa Borders
October 12, 2009
01:21:56
Atlanta mayoral candidates Lisa Borders, Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed, and Jesse Spikes outline their commitment to arts programs and how they would pay for them, if they win the November election.
Shen: The Spirit Force in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Shen: The Spirit Force in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Li Hua
October 11, 2009
01:16:20
Dr. Li Hua shares insight on traditional Chinese medicine and how it works with Shen's spiritual aspects, in order to bring about health and energy alignment within the mind, body, and spirit.
Exploring the Theatre of a Concert
Exploring the Theatre of a Concert
Ken Meltzer
October 11, 2009
01:03:19
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano, Staging Director James Alexander, and Atlanta Opera General Director Dennis Hanthorn join ASO Insider and Program Annotator Ken Meltzer to compare and contrast the elements of opera and the theatre of a concert.
Hired Guns? / For Sale: Motherhood
Michael Sandel
October 11, 2009
00:55:10
Lecture Nine: "Hired Guns?" During the Civil War, men were conscripted to fight in the war -- but draftees were allowed to pay hired substitutes to fight in their place. Professor Sandel asks students -- was this policy an example of free-market exchange?
Artists in Context: New Conversations, Ideas, and Projects II
Dava J. Newman
October 9, 2009
Carrie Lambert-Beatty moderates a discussion on the negotiation between "art of protest" and "art of policy" with several of the most experienced and compelling voices in the field of contemporary creative practices: Ann Hamilton, Dava Newman, Mel Chin, Barbara Schaffer Bacon, and Jeremy Liu.
Artists in Context: New Conversations, Ideas, and Projects I
Dava J. Newman
October 9, 2009
Carrie Lambert-Beatty moderates a discussion on the negotiation between "art of protest" and "art of policy" with several of the most experienced and compelling voices in the field of contemporary creative practices: Ann Hamilton, Dava Newman, Mel Chin, Barbara Schaffer Bacon, and Jeremy Liu.
Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati
Rabih Alameddine
October 7, 2009
00:54:55
Novelist Rabih Alameddine reads from The Hakawati, a framed narrative in the tradition of A Thousand and One Nights and The Canterbury Tales.