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University Of The Air

Hosts Norman Gilliland and Emily Auerbach invite distinguished faculty guests from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss topics in music, art, writing, theater, science, education, and history. "University Of The Air" can be heard on Sundays at 4 p.m.

  • Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
    The groundbreaking Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (WRAP) yields new data on this devastating disease, its generational impact, and pathways to treatment.
    29 January 2025, 9:29 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Supreme Court Cases to Watch in 2025
    Social media, immigration, presidential immunity--all of them are likely to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming year. UW Emeritus Political Science Professor Howard Schweber sets up the cases and gives us a look inside the workings of the court.
    27 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Rewilding the Zoo
    Explore our complicated relationship with animals in the stories we tell and zoos we create.
    13 January 2025, 8:55 pm
  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    Gun Culture
    For every 100 Americans there are 120 firearms. What factors have led to America’s gun saturation? What’s the psychology of gun ownership? And why do some parts of the country […]
    7 January 2025, 8:18 pm
  • Gothic Novels
    Haunted houses, dungeons, and demonic villains: why did a craze for gothic novels begin in the late 18th century and persist until the present?
    3 January 2025, 6:00 am
  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    The Maestro Remembers: John DeMain–The Wisconsin Years
    In a previous interview produced by PBS Wisconsin, longtime Madison Symphony conductor John DeMain traced his musical development from his Ohio childhood to his experiences conducting George Gershwin’s Porgy and […]
    27 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • “Composering”
    Meet Bill Banfield, Black music activist and acclaimed composer of jazz, symphonies, operas, songs, and chamber works.
    20 December 2024, 6:00 am
  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    Sounds and Us from Moscow to Madison
    13 December 2024, 3:30 pm
  • 53 minutes 30 seconds
    A 17th Century Christmas
    Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Schutz, Heinrich Schmelzer, Johann Herman Schein…they’re not exactly household names today. But in the years before Johann Sebastian Bach, they composed music for the Christmas season—beautiful music that you may hear at Christmas time without knowing who wrote it.
    4 December 2024, 3:16 pm
  • Conversation Analysis
    A study of conversation takes us into the whole range of human interactions–criticizing, storytelling, apologizing, and joking, among many others that reveal the relationship between the participants in a conversation.
    27 November 2024, 8:48 pm
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