The Scene
The Scene is an audio magazine covering an eclectic mix of politics, arts, culture, books and issues of the day. With host Chantal Thomas, the Scene broadcasts on WRFI Community Radio.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2023
Risa Lieberwitz on the University's Role in Supporting the Public Good
Risa Lieberwitz on the University's Role in Supporting the Public Good: On October 4th, 2023, a group of Cornell faculty condemned the current proposal for falling grievously short of Cornell's oblig…
Desiree LeClercq on the Battle for Workplace Democracy at Starbucks
In 2021 and 2022, workers at all three Starbucks locations in Ithaca, New York, had voted to unionize. By 2023, Starbucks had shut down every one of those locations. International labor law expert De…
Saida Hodzic on Critical Knowledges of Refuge
Saida Hodzic, a Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Cornell University, discusses her work the fields of asylum and refugee studies f…
Judge Patrick Robinson on Reparations for Chattel Slavery
Judge Patrick Robinson, of the International Court of Justice, discusses a powerful and comprehensive new report on the scale of compensation owed for transatlantic chattel slavery; the forms that re…
Prachi Patankar on Making Connections in Movement-Building
Activist and philanthropic grantmaker Prachi Patankar talks about her lifelong relationship to justice work – connecting the LGBTQ+ and women’s justice commitments and causes she supports, through he…
Dan Torop on the Science, Technology, and Art of Images
Photographer and art professor Dan Torop discusses his recent work in the exhibitions Falling Water and Three Rainbows, the science and technology that he has used in rendering images of the physical…
Elizabeth Anker on Paradox and the Claims of Theory
Literary and legal scholar Elizabeth Anker contends in her new book, On Paradox: The Claims of Theory, that faith in the logic of paradox has formed the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the …
Jill Lavetsky on Rendering Themes of Human Connection and Care in Her Art
Visual artist and educator Jill Lavetsky discusses her artwork reflecting on the subject of human connection through themes of motherhood, relationships, vulnerability, and tenderness, personified th…
Bob Hockett on the Need for Better Bank Deposit Protection
The Future of the Cayuga Nation, Part II
Michael Sliger, attorney for Sachem Sam George and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the context of the Halftown dispute over the leadership of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) Nation, a…
The Future of the Cayuga Nation, Part I
Sachem Sam George discusses the challenge that he and other Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga) Nation elders have mounted to the leadership of Clint Halftown, currently recognized by the the Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga)…
Judge Dennis Davis on the Prospects for South African Social Democracy
Judge Dennis Davis, legal scholar and jurist of the High Court of Cape Town, South Africa, discusses the reasons for the continuing and pervasive inequality and insecurity of today’s South Africa, al…
Luis Aguirre-Torres on the Urgency of Climate Justice
The former Director of Sustainability for the City of Ithaca, Luis Aguirre-Torres, discusses his work with the Green New Deal, the roadmap to achieving climate policy change that is equitable, and th…
Bob Hockett on the Economy Post-Midterm Elections
Financial and economic regulation expert Bob Hockett discusses how the November 2022 midterm elections might affect the Biden Administration’s ability to implement its economic policies; and how to i…
Al-An deSouza on Photography as Elegy
Artist and photography professor Al-An deSouza discusses their exhibition, Elegies of Futures Past, at Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art, and its meditations on family memory, colonial empir…
Nathaniel Hendrickson on Making Collaborative Art in the Anthropocene
Artist and curator Nathaniel Hendrickson, currently in residence at the Soil Factory, discusses how they are designing ways of making art that shift away from individualism, and that embrace collabor…
Loadbang on Making New Music
The members of New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang (Andy Kozar on trumpet(s), William Lang on trombone, Adrian Sandi on bass clarinet, and Tyler Bouque on baritone voice) speak about…
Tawab Danish on Exile from Afghanistan:
Human rights and constitutional law professor Tawab Danish speaks about life in his home country of Afghanistan following the seizure of power by the Taliban, and about the personal and communal uphe…
Leila Amineddoleh on the Restitution of Looted Art
Art and cultural heritage lawyer and professor Leila Amineddoleh speaks about the law and ethics of recovering looted art in situations ranging from British conquest to the Nazis.
The Scene broadcasts…
Pete Myers on the Fight for Decent Work
The vote to unionize three Starbucks locations in Ithaca was followed by an abrupt shutdown. Pete Myers of the Tompkins County Workers Center discusses the Starbucks workers movement and gives update…