Unscripted with Alan Flurry Alan Flurry

As disruptive and divisive as artificial intelligence can seem, is AI also a force that can push people closer together in status and value? An Unscripted interview with AI influencer and transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins who creates experiences that spark dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Dinkins holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art at Stony Brook University and visited the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art as a visiting artist and lecturer.

The author of twenty-one volumes, including the bestselling “Essential Rumi” (1995) and “Rumi: The Big Red Book” (2010), which collects 34 years of his work on Rumi’s ghazals and rubai, Coleman Barks has spent the past sixty years exploring the possibilities of American ecstatic poetry through his translations of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.

University of Georgia professor emeritus of English, Barks was inducted into the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2009. An exhibition, Praying Aloud in Public: The Papers of Coleman Barks, opened in the Rotunda Gallery of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries in 2019.

Unscripted interview with Yale University professor of art history Tim Barringer on the subject of Victorian-era art critic John Ruskin and his writing, including on the Political Economy of Art."He saw the connection between the way we organize our society and the inherent unfairness of it, and the kind of art that gets produced."Instrumental in providing the liberating spark to re-evaluate the question, what is wealth? Tim Barringer explains why we need Ruskin now.

Interview with Billy R. Hammond, a professor in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of psychology behavioral and brains sciences program and co-author of a fascinating new research study that describes how lifestyle choices can help protect us from degenerative diseases later in life, as we age. The study detailed several degenerative conditions, from autoimmune diseases to dementia that, even controlling for lifespan differences, women experience at much higher rates than men.

Interview with UGA marine sciences professor Patricia Yager, who served as co-chief scientist and lead P.I. on the project Artemis on the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The research team's 65-day expedition to the Amundsen Sea Polynya in western Antarctica was designed to better understand the impact of melting glaciers and ice shelves on the coastal ocean's biological productivity.

Unscripted interview with Thomas Wartenberg, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, author of “Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children's Literature” and “A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries: Finding Wisdom in Children's Literature.”Along with maintaining a popular website for teaching children philosophy, Wartenberg teaches an innovative course in which his students teach philosophy to elementary school children.