Cui Bono Cast

Just in time for Valentine's, neuroscientist Dr. Mary Von Dem Bussche discusses the science of romance and decision making.

Cui Bono Cast: Where the Heart Ends and the Mind Begins What neuroscience has to say about love and romantic relationships and decision making. Our speaker, Dr. Mary von dem Bussche (Ph.D.), graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, and a minor in Spanish. She obta...

Karges, Armstrong and Mallinson chat about history and the movies. This is both stimulating and fun.

Cui Bono Cast: History and the Movies (History Suite) Three CUI historians discuss cinema and history, and share their least favorites, favorites and discuss documentaries. Joining regular host Caleb Karges (Military History) are CJ Armstrong (Classical History) and Jeff Mallinson (Intellectual and Religious History).

Dr. Santin explores and the wisdom such texts might provide for us these days and always. If you've not caught this fine prof. before (relatively new to CUI), this is a great introduction to this power hitter in the English department.

Cui Bono Cast: Pandemic Literature with Dr Bryan Santin A discussion of fiction and other writing about plagues, viruses, and diseases, and the ways we humans deal with them.  Dr. Santin is Assistant Professor of English at CUI. He teaches courses in American literature and world literature, American history and political theory, and composition and...

Joe Popp's last appearance for a while, as he's headed off to marine corp officer training. This show brings lessons from history to bear on issues raised by last week's capitol siege.

Cui Bono Cast: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories In the wake of last week’s siege of the US Capitol, we use history to make sense of conspiracy theories, conspiracies, and mob violence. In an unprecedentedly lonely time, the pressure release valves of societies seem to have led people to desire riotous group violence. In a sense, this is a bonus...