The Baldy Center Podcast

Episode 19 Helen Drew and Marissa Egloff discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion in major sports leagues

Episode 19 features Helen Drew, Professor of Law, and Marissa Egloff, a third year JD candidate, in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Drew and Ms. Egloff discuss their research examining the number of women and minorities in executive or coaching positions in professional sports.  They are exploring why, even with proactive policies such as The Rooney Rule in the NFL, women and people of color find it difficult to obtain these “front office” positions.  They are also exploring how nondiverse work environments can become toxic.

Samantha Barbas discusses her new book The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade

Episode 18 features Samantha Barbas, Professor of Law and Director of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Barbas discusses her new book from University of Chicago Press (2021) The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst: Free Speech Renegade. In the 1930s and ’40s, Morris Ernst was one of America’s best-known liberal lawyers. The ACLU’s general counsel for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against artistic censorship. He successfully defended Ulysses against obscenity charges, litigated groundbreaking reproductive rights cases, and supported the widespread expansion of protections for sexual expression, union organizing, and public speech. Yet Ernst was also a man of stark contradictions, waging a personal battle against Communism, defending an autocrat, and aligning himself with J. Edgar Hoover’s inflammatory crusades.

Athena Mutua discusses the origins and goals of ClassCrits.

Episode 15 features Athena Mutua, Professor and Law and Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar in the University at Buffalo School of Law. Professor Mutua discusses the origins and goals of ClassCrits, which focuses on the heterodox, or political economy approach in law. She presents the new online journal, The Journal of Law and Political Economy and discusses ways in which ClassCrits engages with ongoing and on the ground activist work in significant social issues.

Keywords: ClassCrits; Gender, Law, and Society; Inequality; Law and Economics; Law and Society; Race, Law, and Policy

The Alison L. Des Forges memorial committee members discuss the history of the Alison Des Forges Memorial Committee, and its international symposia on human rights held at the University at Buffalo.

Episode 14 is about the work of the Alison L. Des Forges Memorial Committee, and its international symposia on human rights held at the University at Buffalo. Beginning in 2012, each symposium has been annually sponsored, in part, by The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy. This podcast features Roger Des Forges, the group's co-founder. He is joined in discussion the committee co-chairs, Ellen Dussourd and Shaun Irlam. Together, they offer insight on aspects of sustaining the annual Alison Des Forges International Symposia on Human Rights. The ninth annual event takes place April 30, 2021.

Keywords: Human Rights, Des Forges, Rwanda, Africa, genocide, regime change, Covid-19, China.​

 

Victoria-Idongesit Udondian discusses her sculptural work “The Republic of Unknown Territory” and immigration.

Episode 13 features Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, interdisciplinary artist and University at Buffalo Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art. Udondian discusses her new sculptural work “The Republic of Unknown Territory) in the UB Arts Collaboratory until March 27, 2021, focused on immigrants’ experiences in migrating and building society. She highlights her study of the politics of the post-colonial global market in second-hand clothing, and her use of second-hand clothing in her art.

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Art and Politics, Narrative Studies, Immigration Studies, Post-colonialism, Global Trade Systems

Marie Jauffret-Roustide discusses harm reduction as an effective response to the opioid overdose crisis.

Episode 12 features Marie Jauffret-Roustide, Senior Fellow in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and research fellow at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, France. Jauffret-Roustide discusses the effectiveness of drug policies that are embedded in human rights and harm reduction, and compares them to repressive drug policies that are ineffective in protecting vulnerable people and the communities in which they live.

Keywords: Health and Society, Drug Policy, Law and Society, Harm Reduction, Health and Social Policy

Erkin Özay discusses his new book, Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore.

Episode 11 features Erkin Özay, assistant professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning. Özay discusses his new book “Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore: Rethinking the 21^st Century Public School” (Routledge 2021), and his holistic approach to the relationships among urban development, urban design, and schools.

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Culture and Society, Education Policy, Urban Design, Urban Studies

Waverly Duck and Anne Rawls discuss their new book, Tacit Racism.

Episode 10 features Waverly Duck, a 20-21 UB Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar from the Department of Sociology at University of Pittsburgh and Anne Rawls, Professor of Sociology at Bentley University. They discuss their new book, Tacit Racism (University of Chicago Press) and their research focused on understanding how centuries of institutional racism have shaped interactions between white people and Black Americans into patterns of implicit bias and tacit racism.

Jessica Castner discusses “Nurse-Initiated Protocols in Emergency Departments.”

Episode 9 features Jessica Castner, a board-certified emergency nurse and emergency nurse scientist, and a 2013-2014 Baldy Center research grant recipient. She discusses her current research and recent publication on nurse-initiated protocols in emergency departments. Caster discusses policy and protocol impacts on pandemic emergency room care. 

Keywords: Health and Society, Health Policy, Regulation, Emergency Nursing, COVID-19, pandemic 

Baldy Center Podcast Season 2 Trailer

Welcome to season 2 of the podcast of The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, produced at the University at Buffalo.

In Spring 2021, we are back with new episodes about Nurse-Initiated Protocols in Emergency Departments, Tacit Racism, Urban Renewal and School Reform, Harm Reduction, Law, Class and Racial Capitalism on ClassCrits, and more. 

With me, Azalia Muchransyah, as your host and producer. Check out our old and new episodes at buffalo.edu/baldycenter and baldycenterpodcast.podbean.com.

And don't forget to follow our Twitter, @baldycenter.