LENS.cast

Stories of environmental justice and imagination in California and beyond, from UCLA's Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies. LENS.cast tells stories about environmental art, activism, policy, and imagination, with a focus on questions of environmental and multispecies justice. How do built and natural environments embody histories of oppression and possibilities for change? How do different communities value and protect the nonhuman beings they live with? How do artists and activists push us to think differently about our more-than-human relations? How can communities ensure that marginalized people and places are at the center of plans for ecological futures? What should you think when you see a coyote? What does it think of you?

LENS.cast is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts LENS.cast, a society show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Arctic Representation: A Conversation with Nyla Innuksuk

  Mar 30, 202633 minS3

  <p>A conversation with filmmaker, producer, and writer Nyla Innuksuk. Learn more about her work here: https://imaginenative.org/artists/nyla-innuksuk/</p><p>Read “On-Screen Protocols + Pathways: A Media Production Guide to Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities, Cultures, Concepts and Stories” and related publications here: https://imaginenative.org/year-round/publications/</p><p>This is Episode 3 of the mini-series "Arctic Representation: Conversations with Inuit Artists," produced by Clara Wilch, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University and LENS scholar who earned a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. </p><p>Episode cover image: photograph by Clara Wilch...

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  Episode #3

  Arctic Representation: A Conversation with Joshua Qaumariaq

  Mar 30, 202630 minS3

  <p>A conversation with musician and artist Joshua Qaumariaq of The Trade Offs. Find and support their music here: https://tradeoffsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/let-go-give-in-fall-down-2</p><p>This is Episode 2 of the mini-series "Arctic Representation: Conversations with Inuit Artists," produced by Clara Wilch, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University and LENS scholar who earned a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. </p><p>Episode cover image: photograph by Clara Wilch. </p><p>Sound credits: wanderermalletloop.aif by plagasul -- https://freesound.org/s/253383/-- License: Attribution 4.0</p><p>BCO - tram ride on a sunny day - 2022-08-1...

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  Episode #2

  Arctic Representation: A Conversation with Peter Igupttaq Autut

  Mar 30, 202636 minS3

  <p>A conversation with comedian and writer Peter Igupttaq Autut. Read some of his writing for Up Here Magazine here: https://uphere.ca/articles/winter-chesterfield-inlet</p><p>This is Episode 1 of the mini-series "Arctic Representation: Conversations with Inuit Artists," produced by Clara Wilch, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University and LENS scholar who earned a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. </p><p>Episode cover image: photograph by Clara Wilch. </p><p>Sound credits: BCO - tram ride on a sunny day - 2022-08-12 by brylie -- https://freesound.org/s/646626/-- License: Attribution 4.0N</p><p>Br...

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  Episode #1

  White-Golden State: Extracting Futures in Lithium Valley

  Aug 9, 202338 minS3

  <p>California’s Imperial Valley is home to one of the world’s largest deposits of lithium—a mineral that may be crucial to engineering a low-carbon economy. Companies and governments interested in extracting Imperial’s lithium promise that the process will bring jobs and investment to the Valley, one of the most socially and economically marginalized places in the state. In this episode, we ask experts, activists, and community members whether lithium mining in Imperial could be part of what experts call a “just transition”: a shift to green energy that undoes the logic of exploitation that’s led us into climat...

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  Episode #6

  Also, Satan

  Mar 16, 202253 minS2

  <p>In this episode, Christopher Kelty explores the rather surprising background to the No Kill Movement in LA. (It's Satan.) <br/><br/>This is the sixth episode produced as part of our collaboration with the Labyrinth Project. </p>

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