29 MAR 2017 · In this episode we speak with the president of UBC, Professor Santa Ono. And we head out on campus to meet some students and find out why they decided to study in the Faculty of Arts.

28 FEB 2017 · In this episode we visit the School of Library Archival and Information Studies — also known as the iSchool — to learn about the changing role of librarians, archivists and information scientists in the digital age.

17 FEB 2017 · For this episode we drop by the Speech in Context Lab to meet Professor Molly Babel and her team of linguistics students. They work to answer the question: how on earth do we understand each other when we all sound so different?

31 JAN 2017 · In this episode we speak with Dr. Margery Fee, Department of English professor and McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, about teaching Indigenous texts. We also drop by a UBC Opera rehearsal and meet the team behind the upcoming production of Eugene Onegin.

17 JAN 2017 · This episode features a conversation with political science professor and Acting Dean of Arts Kathryn Harrison about the politics of pipelines. The episode also drops into the Department of Theatre and Film to speak with MFA Theatre Directing Candidate Lauren Taylor about the department's latest production -- Love and Information.

29 NOV 2016 · This episode of Arts on Air features a conversation with Geography PhD candidate Craig A. Jones about his thesis and upcoming book, The War Lawyers, about the role that military lawyers play in the conduct and outcome of lethal targeting operations. The episode also talks to Department of Sociology professor Nathanael Lauster about his book, The Death and Life of the Single Family House.

15 NOV 2016 · In this episode we speak with Anthropology professor Charles Menzies about his new book People of the Saltwater, a historical ethnography of the Gitxaala people of British Columbia. We also meet some first year students at a term paper study session held by Totem Professor-in-Residence Michael Griffin.

1 NOV 2016 · The next episode of Arts on Air features a conversation with Taylor Owen, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Global Affairs. We speak with him about his upcoming workshop on Canadian Media Innovation and about the role of information in democratic societies. The episode also features Nettie Wild, a Faculty of Arts graduate in Theatre, Film and Creative Writing, as her documentary KONELINE:our land beautiful premieres to Vancouver audiences.

18 OCT 2016 · This episode features Professor Jessica Tracy, director of the Emotion and Self Lab in the Department of Psychology at UBC. She is the author of the new book Take Pride: Why the Deadliest Sin Holds the Secret to Human Success. We also head over to the School of Music in this episode and chat with staff, performers and students about their weekly Wednesday Noon Hour concerts.

4 OCT 2016 · The first episode of this season features journalist and UBC Creative Writing professor Deborah Campbell talking about her new book, “A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War”. Recently nominated for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Non-Fiction Award, this book deals with her search for her Iraqi fixer in Syria after the fall of Saddam Hussein.