Monthly Archives: February 2013

Archive, Cambridge Forum classics, Podcasts, Radio

Resilience: From PTSD to Hurricane Sandy

ResiliencePsychiatrists Steven Southwick of Yale and Dennis Charney of Mount Sinai tell the stories of POWs, 9/11 survivors, and ordinary people with debilitating diseases or grievous personal losses.

Weaving together the results of modern neurobiological research and the insights of two decades of clinical work with trauma survivors, Southwick and Charney identify ways to help individuals become more resilient.

How can resilience be taught?  How can their insights about individual mental health help us create resilient communities?

Recorded 2/27/2013.

Archive, Radio

Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

Shadow Lives
British journalist and playwright Victoria Brittain reveals the unseen side of the ‘9/11 wars’: their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Her newest book, Shadow Lives, shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the ‘War on Terror’. What is our unquenchable thirst for security doing to our tradition of human rights and civil liberty?

Recorded  April 17

Archive, Radio

The Banjo Project

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Television writer-producer Marc Fields and banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka explore America’s quintessential instrument, assisted by Darol Anger on fiddle.  Based on Field’s PBS documentary Give Me the Banjo, “The Banjo Project” illustrates the banjo’s history and performance styles from African roots to contemporary jazz with a lively narrative and masterful performances. its history and performance styles from African roots to contemporary jazz with a lively narrative and masterful performances.

Visit “The Banjo Project” website here.

Recorded February 11, 2013