The Scholars' Circle

The Scholars' Circle
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The Scholars' Circle

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  1. 3D AGO

    Scholars’ Circle – Title IX history and compliance struggle for women’s equality in higher education – March 9, 2025

    Title IX, the landmark legislation on women’s equality in higher education, was passed to equalize funding between men’s and women’s athletics. What has it achieved? Where does it fall short? When some schools failed to implement Title IX for athletics, activists sued. We look at the landmark cases and what they have achieved. [ dur: 58mins. ] Lisa S. Kaplowitz is Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Finance and Economics department at Rutgers Business School. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Women in Business. She is the author of the opinion article Title IX increased opportunities for women athletes, but there's still work to do and Thought Leadership: How men can advance gender equity at work. Bonnie J. Morris, Lecturer, Department of History at University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Feminist Revolution, the award winning Women's History for Beginners and What's the Score? 25 years of Teaching Women's Sports History. Nancy Hogshead-Makar is the CEO and Founder of Champion Women. She is the co-author of Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change, with Andrew Zimbalist, and author of Pregnant and Parenting Student-Athletes: Resources and Model Policies and won three Gold medals and one Silver medal at the 1984 Olympics. Link to report on Title IX compliance by Champion Women Advocacy:  https://titleixschools.com/ This interview was recorded March 2024. This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.

    58 min

  2. MAR 2

    Scholars’ Circle – Trump’s violations of US Constitution – March 2, 2025

    Is the US in a constitutional crisis? Is the constitution itself a crisis? What are the specific actions of the Trump Administration that has led to this? How will the courts respond? And what is the unitary executive theory and how has it undermined the checks and balances of the system? [ dur: 58mins. ] Heidi Kitrosser is William W. Gurley Professor of Law at Northwestern – Pritzker School of Law. She is the author of Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution, and the articles, The Shadow of Executive Privilege and Accountability in the Deep State. Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is the author of many publications including Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It) and Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance and, with Cynthia Levinson, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect Us Today. This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

    58 min

  3. FEB 24

    Scholars’ Circle – Book author interviews: The fight for Black literacy, women intellectuals of the civil rights movement – February 23, 2025

    We honor Black History Month. The South outlawed Black literacy all the way until the Civil War. What was this war on Black literacy and how did educators resist this law? [ dur: 32mins. ] Derek Black is Professor of Law in the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law. He is the author of Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy, Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline and his latest Dangerous Learning The South’s long war on Black Literacy. Then, Black women have long been at the forefront of black empowerment. What were their intellectual contributions during the civil rights era? we discuss the women intellectuals of the civil rights movement.[ dur: 26mins. ] This interview was recorded February 2023. Ashley Farmer is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies & History at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era and co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition. She is also the Co-Editor and Curator of the Black Power Series with Ibram X. Kendi. This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

    58 min

  4. FEB 17

    Scholars’ Circle – Trump’s war with the Deep State and the future of public service and democracy – February 16, 2025

    The Trump Administration is actively seeking to destroy the public service and the protections offered by government. What does this mean for the future of the democracy and for the future of the country? Who will will stand up for public services that we've long come to rely on for public safety, clean water, air, health and financial protections? What is the role of the courts in preventing Trump’s complete takeover of the government? Can the courts slow down the the destruction of the public service? [ dur: 58mins. ] Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He's the author of The Pasts and Futures of the Administrative State And Trust the science, do your research. Comment on the unfortunate revival of the progressive case for the administrative state. Stephen Skowronek is Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Policy State: An American Predicament and co-author of the book Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive. He is also author of the forthcoming book The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Constitutional Resilience, out in August 2025. John A. Dearborn is a Assistant Professor of Political Science and Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Dean's Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation and Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive (coauthored with Stephen Skowronek and Desmond King). This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

    58 min

  5. FEB 9

    Scholars’ Circle – Book author interview: Borders and Belonging; Trump’s immigration policies: Communities respond to ICE raids – February 9, 2025

    What exactly is the political, physical, and existential meanings of borders? Borders are human creations but often define state and national boundaries and even identities. They define belonging to a nation. And under this new administration, borders have become the most visible feature not just of policy but who belongs in the United States. Our first guest has written a new book on borders and their impact on our conversations on immigration, borders, and belonging. Hiroshi Motomura is the author of BORDERS AND BELONGING: TOWARDS A FAIR IMMIGRATION POLICY. [ dur: 27mins. ] Hiroshi Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States and his latest book Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy. Then, the Trump Administration's approach to immigration, the raids, mass deportations, concentration camps, and shipping people to Guantanamo Bay may all be illegal. What is the relationship between law and national values and identity, and what legal changes has President Trump proposed? How are communities responding to ICE? [ dur: 31mins. ] Victor Narro, Project Director for the UCLA Labor Center and Core Faculty for the UCLA Department of Labor Studies; He teaches immigration law and is author of The Activist Spirit – Toward a Radical Solidarity , No One Size Fits All: Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age and others. Hiroshi Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States and his latest book Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy. This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

    58 min

  6. FEB 3

    Scholars’ Circle – Reforming Federal Emergency Management Agency of USA territories – February 2, 2025

    Climate change is intensifying natural disasters such as hurricanes, storms, and wildfires and making them more frequent. Yet President Trump has proposed eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, that responds to disasters. Why was FEMA created and how effective has it been? [ dur:58mins. ] Timothy Kneeland, History, Politics, Law, Director, Center of Public History, Nazareth University. He's the author of Declaring Disaster, Buffalo's Blizzard of 77, and the creation of FEMA, and Playing politics with natural disaster, Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 elections and the origins of FEMA. Claire Rubin is an independent researcher. She is the co-editor of Emergency Management The American Experience and the U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st century from disaster to Catastrophe. Her blog is RecoveryDiva. Jack Rozdilsky is an Associate Professor in the Disaster and Emergency Management Program at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Trump's Plan to Eliminate FEMA is a Very Bad Idea that was published in The Conversation. Reference: Timeline of FEMA Disaster handling in the past ( co-authored by Claire Rubin ). This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.

    58 min
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