Radio Aula Mundi

In this clip, Shane Parish, a guitarist, composer, and educator,  discusses his favorite children's song and spontaneously arranges a  guitar version of it... Shane Parish devotes much of his time to  developing his singular and expressive voice on the guitar. He is a  self-taught musician who communicates through emotion, unexpected  melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuance...

Dr. Dorothy M. Peteet is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA/Goddard  Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University. She  directs the Paleoecology Division of the New Core Lab at Lamont Doherty  Earth Observatory of Columbia and in collaboration with GISS climate  modelers and LDEO geochemists is studying the Late Pleistocene and  Holocene archives...

DJ Schmolli is a musician from Eastern Austria. He has been in the DJ business for quite a few years years. His poignant shows have been appreciated worldwide. Here, he defines 'mashup', a style of electronic music which first appeared in the early 2000's. --- https://djschmolli.com/the-essential-dj-schmolli/ https://www.mashuptown.com/2006/12/dj_schmolli_has.html ---  At the moment, Radio Au...

In this clip, Roberto Díaz Abraham talks about three different ways of visiting the Underwater Museum in Cancún, Mexico. They  include snorkeling, sightseeing from a tour boat with a glass bottom,  and scuba diving. He also explains the effects of scuba diving and  tourism on the underwater ecosystem especially the coral reefs in the  Caribbean off the coast of Cancún . Roberto...

A chef in a former life, Jeff Miller now researches food and culture  issues as well as traditional food production and preservation methods. Miller,  coordinator of CSU’s Hospitality Management program, spent 20 years as a  professional chef before becoming an award-winning instructor. He  helped found the student-run Aspen Grille in the Lory Student Center on  campus, an...

Dr. Robyn McKenzie, a research fellow at the Centre for Digital  Humanities Research at The Australian National University in Canberra,  has worked closely with the Yolngu community of Yirrkala in North-East  Arnhem Land, and she reconnected them with a collection of 192 mounted  string figures made there in 1948 that is in the Australian Museum in  Sydney. String figures...

Yesenia Prieto is the third generation piñata maker and visionary  behind LA Piñata Design Studio. She began  piñata making in South Los  Angeles as a small time trade and quickly harnessed her artistic skill  and entrepreneurial spirit to manage larger than life installation  projects for companies and museums such as LACMA, Microsoft, Google, and  even celebrities s...

Greg Jacobs is an award-winning filmmaker, director, and one of the  co-founders of Siskel/Jacobs Productions, a Chicago-based documentary  production company that seeks to tell compelling stories with integrity,  complexity, emotion, and humor. His most recent documentary, 'The  Road Up', co-directed with Jon Siskel, follows four participants in  Cara, a Chicago job-train...

Poet and essayist KC Trommer is the author of the award-winning  poetry collection 'We Call Them Beautiful' (Diode Editions, 2019) and  the chapbook 'The Hasp Tongue' (dancing girl press, 2014). She is the  founder of the online audio project QUEENSBOUND. She is 2021 poet in  residence at Works on Water on Governors Island and was a 2021 Lower  Manhattan Cultural Council a...

Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, jazz pianist and composer Marta  Sánchez is actively working in the contemporary creative music scene in  New York City and around the globe. She has received many prestigious awards, and her albums have received critical accolades, including in the New York Times. Here,  she reads a Spanish translation of a poem written by Scott Fitzgerald  ab...

Phil Freeman is a journalist, author, digital marketer, and social  media professional. His most recent book, published in January 2022, is  'Ugly Beauty, Jazz In The 21st Century'. He is the co-creator of Burning Ambulance, a “media empire” that encompasses a website, a podcast, and a record label. In this clip, he reads the poem 'Weary Blues', by Langston Hughes, and compares it with a...

Angie Trudell Vasquez is the current Poet Laureate of the city of  Madison, Wisconsin (2020 - 2024). She is a poet, writer, performer, and  activist. Her most recent book, 'My People Redux' was released at Finishing Line Press in 2022. As a third and second generation Mexican American, she is still trying to understand her indigenous roots. In  this special clip taken from a longer...

Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić is the Head of Seismology and Mathematical  Geophysics of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian  National University in Canberra. He uses seismology and mathematical  geophysics as tools to understand the internal workings of our planet,  like an internal telescope which allows us to have a better idea of  Earth's structure and dy...

Carol Gokee is the co-director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. Leonard  Peltier is one of the most prominent and longest-serving political  prisoners in the United States and the world. As a Native American  activist and member of 'AIM' (American Indian Movement), he is serving a  life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents in the 1970's after  h...

Mark Vickery is a Chicago singer-songwriter whose characteristic  voice and unique style make him one of the most inventive musicians of  this day and age. His major musical project is entitled 'Cosmic Bull', a  name he thought just would sound cool. It involves work with a band and  solo performances. In this clip, Mark discusses what might be  future attractions that kee...

Pura Fé is a legendary and award-winning artist, musician,  singer-songwriter, performer, and cultural activist. As an indigenous  woman her roots go back to the Tuscarora nation of North Carolina and  the Taíno nation of Puerto Rico. She is the founder of the Native  vocal band Ulali and has performed with many musicians of international  renown, including Neil Young and...

Dr Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, writer,  and storyteller based in London. She’s a materials generalist, equally  fascinated by metals, plastics, ceramics, glasses and substances from  the natural world. Anna channels her passion for storytelling about  materials through writing, podcasting, presenting and training  scientists and engineers in th...

Annabelle is 'professeur des universités' at 'SciencesPo', and a  permanent associate at CEVIPOF. She is co-editor of the 'Critical Review  of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP)'; co-editor  of the 'Routledge Handbook on Ethics and Public Policy (2018)', and of  'Ideas that Matter: Justice, Democracy, Rights (OUP 2018)'. She has also edited 'New Frontiers in...

Lori Maguire is an American historian based in France. She is a  scholar on American studies and teaches both in Paris and in Reims. Most  of Lori's research is in the history of international relations,  notably with regard to World War II (British & American relations  with the Free French: diplomatic, military and economic) and the Cold  War. The latter includes a l...

Hadas Lahav is the co-founder of Sindyanna of Galilee, a fair-trade,  non-profit organization mostly producing high-quality olive oil. It is  led by Israeli Jewish and Arab women who seek change, together. The  company is located in the heart of the Galilee region, in the village of  Kfar Kana (Cana of Galilee), near Nazareth. Since 1996 has  Sindyanna developed initiative...

Robert Hicks is a Native American artist, musician, filmmaker and  audio engineer. He has won multiple awards for his films. He is a member  of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nixon Nevada, but his diverse  ethnic background also includes Cherokee, Yakama, and Shoshone. He  goes by the indigenous artist's name of Nokwsi. One of his artistic  creations, 'The Relocation of...

'Pesca Peru' is a Peruvian restaurant located in Easton,  Pennsylvania. It is run by a family of Peruvian immigrants who are proud  of serving authentic and delicious Peruvian cuisine. In this clip  Lupe Ramírez, the owner and chef, describes her favorite dish on the  menu, 'Lomo Saltado' (marinated strips of sirloin steak fried in soy  sauce, red onion and tomatoes with c...

Lynette Grey Bull is Northern Arapaho and Hunkpapa Lakota. In 2020,  she became the first Native person to run for Congress in the state of  Wyoming. Lynnette Grey Bull has been an active advocate for Indian  Country for over 10 years. Ms. Grey Bull is the founder and director of  Not Our Native Daughters, an organization that focuses on the work and  education of Human Tr...

Enrique Villasis is an award-winning poet and screenwriter from the  Philippines. He lives in Quezon City and currently writes television  shows for ABS-CBN. His first book of poems, Agua, was a finalist for  a National Book Awards. He is currently working on his second  collection of poems that are based on Vicente S. Manansala’s paintings. https://enriquevillasis.com/ https:/...

Singer/Songwriter Peter Joly's most recent album is entitled 'Easy Has Never Been The Way'. It aptly combines elements of Folk, Blues, and Americana.  'Easy Has Never Been The Way' demonstrates masterful songwriting. https://peterjoly.bandcamp.com/album/easy-has-never-been-the-way https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=241371797184626