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The writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson has just come out with a new non-fiction book titled "Beyond the Body Farm". It's the fourth collaboration between them. Dr. Bass is the founder of the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology program. He tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd that in "Beyond the Body Farm" they detail several difficult and high profile cases investigated with modern forensic tools...
During the best of times, but especially in a time of war, the concept of peace can seem idealistic. But Dr. Peter Van Den Dungen feels very differently. Dr. Van Den Dungen is one of the world's leading authorities on the history of peace and nonviolence, and also on the Nobel Peace Prize. He founded and heads the International Network of Museums for Peace and teaches in the world's largest department of Peace Studies, at the University of Bradford in England. Van Den Dungen tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper peace can sometimes be a hard sell in a world that's seemingly fascinated with war...
Tomorrow, a public primary vote for the office of Knoxville City Mayor takes place. Knoxville voters will decide between Incumbent Mayor Bill Haslam and his challenger, Isa Infante. If either candidate receives more than 50% of the Primary Vote, there won't be a runoff and the election is over. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper was recently able to spend time with both candidates...
Dr. Bob Kronick is a member of the Educational Psychology and Counseling faculty at the University of Tennessee. He is an advocate for children at risk, is an expert on Full-Service Community Schools and has helped to institute several of these schools in East Tennessee since 1998. Kronick tells WUOT's Chrissy Keuper that full-service schools provide more than just an education...
The Medieval and Renaissance Semester at the University of Tennessee is underway. UT's Marco Institute has a number of public events planned for the next two months. Tonight, the Boston Camerata gives a free concert of Renaissance music at the Cox Auditorium. Marco Institute Director Dr. Robert Bast tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd the Medieval and Renaissance Semester is a university-wide effort to bring the history, music, art and literature of the time alive...
Knoxville author Terry Shaw's first novel comes out today. It's a murder mystery titled "The Way Life Should be". Shaw won an on-line first novel contest sponsored by Gather.com. The grand prize was a publishing contract. Shaw says he very nearly didn't enter his manuscript...
Author and Social Psychologist Jeff Hitchcock says he was born white. And never gave it much thought. Until he married an African-American woman and began to look seriously at his own cultural make-up. In 1995, Hitchcock and his wife co-founded New Jersey's Center for the Study of White American Culture. He's also the Center's Executive Director. Hitchcock says social scientists have long avoided the topic of "white culture". But tells WUOT's Greg Hill it's an important area of study...
The music of the Cumberland Mountains is the historical record of the people who call the hills and hollows their home. It's a testament to the joys and grief of being human, of struggle, of accomplishment, of belief in something higher. It's the coal mines and the farms and the towns, it's generation after generation of finger-picking mastery. The music of the Cumberland Mountains is the window to the soul of its people.
On this installment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell takes a look into that unique blend of hollow and history with musical historian and recordist Bobby Fulcher. For years, Bobby Fulcher has been recording and documenting the rich musical heritage of the Cumberland Mountains...