Latin America

Linda Hirsch on Cuba: Threads of Hope and Renewal
Linda Hirsch
February 11, 2010
00:34:34
Photographer Linda Hirsch speaks to arts curator Evan J. Garza about her experiences documenting communities of Cuban Jews, and discusses works on view in her current exhibition, "CUBA: Threads of Hope & Renewal", a 9-year survey of the artist's ongoing project.
David Grann: Lost City of Z
David Grann
June 6, 2009
01:15:26
New Yorker writer David Grann talks about his adventure into the hazardous Amazon jungle to retrace the footsteps of the great Colonel Percy Fawcett, who ventured there in 1925 in search of t
Achy Obejas: Ruins
Achy Obejas
April 30, 2009
01:11:28
Achy Obejas discusses her new book Ruins, which tells the story of Usnavy, a young man who eagerly signed on for all the promises when the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.
Corporate Control of Information
George Brenkert
February 9, 2009
01:21:02
Business Ethics Professor George G. Brenkert examines the problem of corporate control over information. He notes that during our period of rapid globalization, companies may deem the control of some information to be essential to their business practice.
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part II
Paul Farmer
January 27, 2009
00:51:40
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democr
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I
Paul Farmer
January 27, 2009
00:45:19
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democr
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Laura Claridge: Emily Post
Laura Claridge
November 5, 2008
01:13:49
Author Laura Claridge discusses Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners, the first authoritative biography of the woman who created a standard of behavior for America.
El Sistema: Venezuelan Music Education Miracle
Jose Antonio Abreu
November 7, 2007
01:27:32
News of the monumental success of El Sistema, Venezuela's 32-year-old program of social action through music, is rapidly spreading throughout the world.