Soji Kashiwagi
In this episode we connect with Soji Kashiwagi, Executive Director and playwright for the Grateful Crane Ensemble. We discuss his father, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, who was also a playwright and a poet, and who defied the Loyalty Questionnaire given to those...
John Mills
In this episode we connect with John Mills, CEO and co-founder of WatchDuty, a public safety information app that launched four years ago connecting fire alerts from first responders, to reporters in the area, to the app users, notifying the...
Chessie Thacher
In this episode we connect with Chessie Thacher, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California. We discuss the First Amendment and how it protects the action of protesting in the United States. We look at college campuses, specifically,...
Dr. Adwoa Opong and Dr. Justin de Leon
In this episode we connect with Dr. Adwoa Opong, Professor of History at Chapman University and Dr. Justin de Leon, Professor of Ethnic Studies at Chapman University and discuss their work and research on history and culture of Ghana and...
Takeo Rivera
In this episode we connect with Takeo Rivera, author of the book, Model Minority Masochism, Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity. We discuss his lived experiences inspiring this work, experiencing the realities and mythologies of the Model Minority...
Abdi Soltani
In this episode we connect with Abdi Soltani, Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California. We discuss the current administration’s volley of executive orders aimed at immigrants, as they attempt to justify the incarceration and deportation of immigrants without...

A program concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations carried out against communities or populations on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
Supported by the California State Library.

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University is committed to leading the conversation in our community on issues of humanity, unity and justice. As such, the college has undertaken, semester-long examinations of key societal issues.
These interdisciplinary conversations promote thoughtful dialogue; mindful reflection; social tolerance; awareness and respect; peace and kindness.

Documenting process and purpose, this interdisciplinary series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of visual, performing, and literary arts at the intersection of technology, science, history, and health.

Medium History explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation.
Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures.

An education program that considers unresolved symptoms of The Fire Problem.
This special podcast series will examine and explain underlying challenges and vulnerabilities with our climate, environment, politics, and vegetation.

Our Without… program provides an opportunity for community leaders to share stories about today, with context from our past, and learn moving forward.
Our first two series consider life without books and life without libraries. Each guest has three minutes to record their Microcast episode.
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