In the fifth century B.C.E., the City of Athens was laid low with a terrible plague that killed many of the Ancient Greek city’s citizens. In 1998, researchers extracted dental pulp from bodies found in an ancient cemetery unearthed during excavations for the 2004 Olympics. The researchers were able to identify the disease that laid […]
Latin American History, Politics, and Culture Through Film
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UW–Milwaukee hosted its 42nd Annual Latin American Film Series earlier this week. For today’s show, Esty spends the hour talking with with professor Nancy Bird-Soto about the films and the range of important issues they raise about Latin American history, culture, and politics. Nancy Bird-Soto is […]
Hmong Culture and Language Access
Today on the show, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow is joined by Brenda Yang, a local educator and advocate for Asian American culture and language access in Madison. They talk about Brenda’s experience as a Hmong American, language access as a civil right, the recent surge in anti-Asian racism and violence, and why Asian Americans provide […]
Our Changing Relationship to Food During Covid
Curbside grocery pickup. Contactless pizza delivery. Comfort baking. As with so many other things, our relationship to food is changing during COVID. Today on the show, WORT assistant news director Jonah Chester has a wide-ranging discussion about these changes with Lucy Long, director of the Center for Food and Culture, who clarifies how food is […]
Serendib Kitchen: Sri Lankan American Cooking
With Thanksgiving on the horizon and feasting on our minds, today we spend the hour with professor and food blogger Mary Anne Mohanraj, who recently published A Feast of Serendib, one of the first Sri Lankan American cookbooks. Mary Anne Mohanraj is a clinical assistant professor of literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, […]
Resistance, Struggle, and Solidarity through Poetry with Martín Espad...
“As we live in times of hate, we need poems of love.” For today’s episode, Allen is joined in the studio by Matt Rothschild to enjoy a selection of poems performed live on-air by Martín Espada and discuss a wide range of topics like Puerto Rico, identity, mortality, memory, and the beauty of shared humanity. […]
