The Scene

Chantal Thomas
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The Scene is an audio magazine covering an eclectic mix of politics, arts, culture, books and issues of the day. With host Chantal Thomas, the Scene broadcasts on WRFI Community Radio.

  1. 10/04/2023

    Risa Lieberwitz on the University's Role in Supporting the Public Good

    Risa Lieberwitz on the University's Role in Supporting the Public Good: On October 4th, 2023, a group of Cornell faculty condemned the current proposal for falling grievously short of Cornell's obligations to its constituencies and communities, and the broader public interest. Risa Lieberwitz, a professor at Cornell's Industrial and Labor Relations School, places the MakeCornellPay campaign in the broader context of her analysis of the role of higher education in a democratic society, and how it has been weakened by the privatization of the university. Professor Lieberwitz also discusses the role of academic freedom in permitting faculty and student organizing around issues like MakeCornellPay and her work with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in defending academic freedom.

    29 min

  2. 08/22/2023

    Desiree LeClercq on the Battle for Workplace Democracy at Starbucks

    In 2021 and 2022, workers at all three Starbucks locations in Ithaca, New York, had voted to unionize. By 2023, Starbucks had shut down every one of those locations. International labor law expert Desiree LeClercq breaks down the 2023 National Labor Relations Board proceeding that held the Ithaca store closures by Starbucks to be in violation of federal protections for organizing workers, and discusses the larger contexts in national and international worker rights.

    28 min

  3. 08/09/2023

    Saida Hodzic on Critical Knowledges of Refuge

    Saida Hodzic, a Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Cornell University, discusses her work the fields of asylum and refugee studies from studies of refugees to critical studies of refuge, and her spring 2023 symposium, Displaced, Detained, Undeterred: The Violence of Uncertain Refuge.

    28 min

  4. 07/12/2023

    Judge Patrick Robinson on Reparations for Chattel Slavery

    Judge Patrick Robinson, of the International Court of Justice, discusses a powerful and comprehensive new report on the scale of compensation owed for transatlantic chattel slavery; the forms that reparations should and should not take and how reparations might emerge in the wake of the demise of affirmative action as a deeper and more historically grounded justice movement; and how his experience growing up in Jamaica inspired his commitment to the cause.

    28 min

  5. 06/28/2023

    Prachi Patankar on Making Connections in Movement-Building

    Activist and philanthropic grantmaker Prachi Patankar talks about her lifelong relationship to justice work – connecting the LGBTQ+ and women’s justice commitments and causes she supports, through her international foundation work in South and Southeast Asia, with her upbringing in a family deeply involved in grassroots social change through anti-caste, feminist and peasant movements in rural India.

    28 min

  6. 05/19/2023

    Dan Torop on the Science, Technology, and Art of Images

    Photographer and art professor Dan Torop discusses his recent work in the exhibitions Falling Water and Three Rainbows, the science and technology that he has used in rendering images of the physical world, and the social and cultural histories that accompany and shape the tools of photography and other forms of visual rendering.

    29 min

  7. 05/05/2023

    Elizabeth Anker on Paradox and the Claims of Theory

    Literary and legal scholar Elizabeth Anker contends in her new book, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory, that faith in the logic of paradox has formed the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century — and that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problematic, undercutting the commitments to social justice that should guide theory in the humanities and law.

    29 min

  8. 04/21/2023

    Jill Lavetsky on Rendering Themes of Human Connection and Care in Her Art

    Visual artist and educator Jill Lavetsky discusses her artwork reflecting on the subject of human connection through themes of motherhood, relationships, vulnerability, and tenderness, personified through the “tangling of bodies and the interlacing of limbs” in her watercolors, paintings and collages.

    28 min
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The Scene is an audio magazine covering an eclectic mix of politics, arts, culture, books and issues of the day. With host Chantal Thomas, the Scene broadcasts on WRFI Community Radio.

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    Chantal Thomas
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