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Topics and Guests for 2011
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Show Number**
Title of Segment
Guest/Host

2011-52 (12/25/11)

The World of Rap Music and Rappers

Guest: Boston Rapper, Acrobatik Program hosted by Rachel Rubin

2011-51 (12/18/11)

Massachusetts Politics and the Founding of UMass Boston

Guest: Robert Quinn, Former Attorney General. Program hosted by Steve Crosby

2011-50 (12/11/11)

Redistricting and Community Organizing

Guest: Maria Lazu, Project Director of Drawing Democracy. Program hosted by Paul Watanabe

2011-49 (12/4/11)

A discussion of the memoir "My Song"

Guest: Harry Belafonte. Program hosted by Barbara Lewis

2011-48 (11/27/11)

Municipal Health and Management

Guest: David Sparks, Executive Director of The Collins Center at UMass Boston. Program hosted by DeWayne Lehman

2011-47 (11/20/11)

Casinos and Judicial Hiring

Guest: Scott Harshbarger, former MA Attorney General and President of Citizens for a Stronger Massachusetts. Program hosted by Steve Crosby

2011-46 (11/13/11)

A discusson of the documentary "A Family Affair"

Guest: Independent Filmmaker and UMass Boston Adjunct Professor Chico Colvard. Program hosted by DeWayne Lehman

2011-45 (11/6/11)

The Palestinian Request for United Nations Recognition

Guest: Leila Farsakh, Associate Professor of Political Science at UMass Boston. Program hosted by Rachel Rubin

2011-44 (10/30/11)

A Vision of Education in Massachusetts

Guest: Paul Reville, MA Secretary of Education. Program hosted by Rachel Rubin

2011-43 (10/23/11)

The Impact of 911

Guest: Dr. Rajini Srikanth, UMass Boston Professor of English and Asian American Studies. Program hosted by Paul Watanabe

2011-42 (10/16/11)

A Philosophy of Higher Education

Guest: Robert Caret, President, University of Massachusetts. Program hosted by Rachel Rubin

2011-41 (10/9/11)

King Richard's Faire - The New England Renaissance Festival

Guest: Rush Pearson, Actor; Program hosted by Rachel Rubin

2011-40 (10/2/11)

From Anarchy to Terrorism

Prof. James Green, UMass Boston, Author: Death in the Haymarket

2011-39 (9/25/11)

The future of Life Sciences in Massachusetts

Susan Windham Bannister, President & CEO, Mass Life Sciences Center

2011-38 (9/18/11)

One Man's Journey To and Through Higher Education

Keith Motley, Chancellor, UMass Boston

2011-37 (9/11/11)

The Japanese Internment, an Oral History

Paul Watanabe, Director, Asian American Institute, UMass Boston

2011-36 (9/4/11)

Human Rights

UMass Boston Provost, Winston Langley

2011-35 (8/28/11)

Coastal Disaster Preparedness

Robbin Peach, Founding Director, Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security, UMass Boston

2011-34 (8/21/11)

50th Anniversary JFK Inaugural

Tom Putnam, Exec. Director, JFK Library

2011-33 (8/14/11)

The Art & Ethics of Mentoring

Prof. Jean Rhodes, Dir of the new Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring at UMass Boston

2011-32 (8/7/11)

The Dynamic of Iran

Dr. Fatemah Haghighatjoo, Grad College of Public Policy, UMass Boston

2011-31 (7/31/11)

The Road Ahead for the Boston NAACP

Michael Curry, President, Boston NAACP

2011-30 (7/24/11)

The Plight of the Black Women, Part One

Barbara Lewis, Dir. Trotter Institute UMB, Prof. Ester Shapiro, Psychology Dept. UMB

2011-29 (7/17/11)

Minority Hiring

Bob Turner, McCormack Institute UMass Boston

2011-28 (7/10/11)

The Power of Stories: Iraqi Veterans and Refugees

Prof. Rajini Srikanth, Professor UMass Boston and Widad al-Edani

2011-27 (7/3/2001)

The Reality of the Urban Indian

Prof. Cedric Woods, New England Native American Institute, UMass Boston

2011-26 (6/26/11)

One Man's Journey To and Through Higher Education

Keith Motley, Chancellor, UMass Boston

2011-25 (6/19/11)

The future of Life Sciences in Massachusetts

Susan Windham Bannister, President & CEO, Mass Life Sciences Center

2011-24 (6/12/11)

Human Rights

UMass Boston Provost, Winston Langley

2011-23 (6/5/11)

The Legacy of Jack Wilson as President of UMass and the future of the UMass system

Outgoing UMass President, Jack Wilson

2011-22 (5/29/11)

50th Anniversary JFK Inaugural

Tom Putnam, Exec. Director, JFK Library

2011-21 (5/22/11)

Bob Sheridan - The man and a Tribute to him

Bob Sheridan, CEO, SBLI and various tributes to him

2011-20 (5/15/11)

Emerging Leaders for the 21st Century

UMass Boston Professor, Sherry Penney

2011-19 (5/08/11)

Research: Women in Politics & Public Policy, UMA Boston

Carol Hardy-Fanta, Director, Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy, UMB

2011-18 (5/1/11)

Coastal Disaster Preparedness

Robbin Peach, Founding Director, Collaborative Institute for Oceans, Climate and Security, UMass Boston

2011-17 (4/24/11)

Former Ted Kennedy staffers talk about what is was like to work for the late Senator

Bob Bates, Peter Parham, Michael Frazier, Janis Pryor, Atif Harden

2011-16 (4/17/11)

Beating Computer Hackers

Bob Sarao, Information Security Officer, UMass Boston

2011-15 (4/10/11)

New Audiences for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Maureen Melton, Historian & Archivist, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

2011-14 (4/3/11)

The Art & Ethics of Mentoring

Prof. Jean Rhodes, Dir of the new Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring at UMass Boston

2011-13 (3/27/11)

Hispanic Writer's Week

Lucia Mayerson-David, UMass Boston, Director of Institute for Learning & Teaching

2011-12 (3/20/11)

The Plight of the Black Women, Part Two

Barbara Lewis, Dir. Trotter Institute UMass Boston, Prof. Ester Shapiro, Psychology Dept. UMass Boston

2011-11 (3/13/11)

The Dynamic of Iran

Dr. Fatemah Haghighatjoo, Grad College of Public Policy, UMass Boston

2011-10 (3/6/11)

The Plight of the Black Women, Part One

Barbara Lewis, Dir. Trotter Institute UMB, Prof. Ester Shapiro, Psychology Dept. UMB

2011-09 (2/27/11)

The Legacy of the Infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Susan M. Reverby, Ph.D, Author

2011-08 (2/20/11)

The Road Ahead for the Boston NAACP

Michael Curry, President, Boston NAACP

2011-07 (2/13/11)

Museum of Science: Race, Are We Really So Different?

Nina Nolan, Museum of Science and Peter Taylor, Professor, UMass Boston

2011-06 (2/6/11)

The State of Black Boston: K Through 12

Charleen Brantley, McCormack Institute, UMass Boston

2011-05 (1/30/11)

Minority Hiring

Bob Turner, McCormack Institute UMass Boston

2011-04 (1/23/11)

The Power of Stories: Iraqi Veterans and Refugees

Prof. Rajini Srikanth, Professor UMass Boston and Widad al-Edani

2011-03 (1/16/11)

The Reality of the Urban Indian

Prof. Cedric Woods, New England Native American Institute, UMass Boston

2011-02 (1/09/11)

The Japanese Internment, an Oral History

Paul Watanabe, Director, Asian American Institute, UMass Boston


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