UC Santa Cruz (Video)

David Tal of Tel Aviv University and UC Santa Cruz history professor David Kenez discuss the origins of the relationship between the US and Israel. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13023]

Both Dickens’s Fagin and Shakespeare’s Shylock are portrayed as the stereotype grotesque and villainous Jew. Join Michael Shapiro from the University of Illinois to explore what these characters and their creators have in common. [Humanities] [Show ID: 12411]

Janet Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco dicusses the notion that Federal Reserve policy making has been affected by globalization as part of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [Business] [Show ID: 12071]

Dana Priest returns to UC Santa Cruz to receive the first annual Social Sciences Division "Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award" and deliver a lecture on the secret CIA-run prisons for terror suspects she exposed as the national security correspondent for the Washington Post. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11488]

This program evaluates the roles and themes of both government-inspired and populist antisemitism. Featuring Peter Kenez, Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, and historian and Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This program is presented as part of the Santa Cruz Jewish Studies Lectures. [Humanities] [Show ID: 9422]

Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno, leads a discussion on the nature of war throughout civilization and how it might enlighten us about the contemporary troubles in the Middle East. Presented as part of UC Santa Cruz's Jewish Studies Lectures. [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8856]

Nobel Laureate and Cambridge University Professor Amartya Sen discusses the link between global conflict and contrasts in civilizations in this lecture presented by UC Santa Cruz as part of the Global Policy and Social Justice Lecture Series. [Show ID: 6772]

In 1985 a group of eminent scientists came to UC Santa Cruz to discuss a vision that would become the Human Genome Project. Now, many of the same scientists have gathered again to celebrate the realization of their vision. Listen in to the panelists to hear more about what went in to decoding the human genome and what scientists hope it is going to tell us. [Show ID: 6546]

In 1985 a group of eminent scientists came to UC Santa Cruz to discuss a vision that would become the Human Genome Project. Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, shares the latest information on this project as well as his thoughts about the positive and negative ways in which this new technology might be used. [Show ID: 6545]

A heart-warming look at a Jewish elder's talent for keeping both her rebellious spirit and her joie de vivre intact. [Humanities] [Show ID: 5847]