Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan

The Utopias Podcast with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan

In the wake of an era where alarmism and crisis branding sells - whether in relation to climate change, new technologies, or polarization, we have a huge opportunity to embrace our capacity for innovation, empathy, and compassion towards one another. To get there it is high time to have creative, productive, and truly progressive conversations about our planetary future, and approach such from every discipline and perspective we can.

Hosted by UCLA professor and public intellectual Ramesh Srinivasan, the “Utopias” podcast presents a new narrative, a vision of life futures based on a set of conversations that celebrate the work and perspectives of “dreamers”, or those who represent and care deeply for the endless potential for human creativity, expression, and optimism. We share the stories of those who believe in the potential for our planet, and are doing the important work to try to empower our tomorrow in a way that we can all benefit from.

This podcast brings back the realms of the scientific, emotional, artistic, legal, poetic, musical, ecological, and spiritual into conversation with one another as together, we imagine and advocate for futures for our planet and species that lift us all up. Dr. Srinivasan’s guests shall run the gamut, bringing artists, journalists, politicians, scientists, environmentalists, monks and religious practitioners, and scholars together. Utopias shall inspire listeners to imagine new futures defined by compassion, an appreciation of diversity alongside unity, and the recognition that we live in an extraordinary time where we are all in ‘it’ together.

Produced by Tulin Chang Maltepe. Music by Albert Ortega

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Episoder(33)

8. Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna is a musician, activist, zine writer, and punk legend who pioneered the feminist punk movement "riot grrrl" in the '90s. She was the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill from t...

28 Mai 20241h 16min

7. Jacques Servin

Jacques Servin is a media artist and co-founder of the “Yes Men”, originally an activist duo that aims to expose wrong-doings of massive corporations through producing fake spectacles, disrupting even...

14 Mai 20241h 28min

6. Roshi Joan Halifax

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, social activist, and author. She is the Founder, Abbot and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This episode was recorded in July 2023. ...

30 Apr 20241h 19min

5. Jordan Uhl

Jordan Uhl is a progressive activist, political commentator, writer, podcaster, and host of "Deep Dive with Jordan Uhl" on The Young Turks. He also runs Substack "I Hate It Here and Never Want to Leav...

16 Apr 20241h 8min

4. Ana Kasparian

Ana Kasparian is the main host and producer of “The Young Turks,” the largest online news and politics show with over 6 billion views. As a commentator and journalist, Kasparian is best known for her ...

2 Apr 20241h 25min

3. Representative Ro Khanna

Representative Ro Khanna is a leading progressive voice in the House working to restore American manufacturing and technology leadership, improve the lives of working people, and advance U.S. leadersh...

19 Mar 202440min

2. Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang an American entrepreneur, lawyer, book author and philanthropist, as well as a former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and 2021 New York City mayoral candidate. He is the founder of ...

5 Mar 20241h 3min

1. Dr. Cornel West

Join Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan and Dr. Cornel West on the first episode of the Utopias Podcast. Dr. West teaches courses on the Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, classics, politic...

22 Feb 20241h 11min