Unscripted with Alan Flurry

Alan Flurry
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Unscripted with Alan Flurry is a podcast series featuring interviews with University of Georgia faculty members as well as distinguished guests to the UGA campus. In partnership with WUGA-FM, Unscripted presents conversations with extraordinary members of the UGA community. In the course of the conversational back-and-forth, guests share their expertise and experience, as well as opinions on topics of interest in the world today.

  1. 03/21/2024

    AI: Threat, or opportunity?

    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.

    48 min

  2. 01/03/2023

    Conversation with Coleman Barks on the poetry of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

    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.

    33 min

  3. 11/14/2022

    Why we need Ruskin now

    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.

    28 min

  4. 07/18/2022

    Nutritional neuroscience: how a better diet can boost women's health

    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.

    35 min

  5. 06/17/2022

    Expedition to Antarctica

    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.

    28 min

  6. 02/26/2020

    Teaching Kids Philosophy

    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.

    37 min

  7. 02/26/2020

    Exploring the Georgia Bight on the RV Savannah

    On a weekend voyage 80 miles off the Georgia coast, oceanography professor Patricia Yager and UGA undergraduate and graduate students collected phytoplankton, water and CO2 samples along a vertical route in the ocean and shared details about the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on marine life in ocean and estuarine habitats.

    20 min

  8. 01/23/2020

    P-Values, Probabilities, and Uncertainty: Statistics professor Nicole Lazar

    Interview with UGA professor of statistics and Fellow of the American Statistical Association Nicole Lazar. One of three co-authors of an editorial published in a special issue of The American Statistician in March 2019 that addressed a compelling issue effecting research and clinical trial results across the sciences, Lazar speaks with Alan Flurry about the use of statistical significance in research findings. The entire issue, “Statistical Inference in the 21st century: A world beyond P,” contained 43 papers by statisticians around the world calling for an end to using this specific probability value.

    25 min
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Unscripted with Alan Flurry is a podcast series featuring interviews with University of Georgia faculty members as well as distinguished guests to the UGA campus. In partnership with WUGA-FM, Unscripted presents conversations with extraordinary members of the UGA community. In the course of the conversational back-and-forth, guests share their expertise and experience, as well as opinions on topics of interest in the world today.

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  • Creator
    Alan Flurry
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Univ of Georgia - Prod
  • Show Website
    Unscripted with Alan Flurry