Hemispheres

August 05, 2025

Tuesday: 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Host / DJ: Elena Klaver

Please tune into Hemispheres for a program featuring Satish Kumar, an Indian British activist, author and speaker. He is the founder and director of the Center for Ecological Studies at Schumacher College and editor emeritus of Resurgence and Ecologist magazine. With a companion, EP Menon, he completed a peace walk of over 8,000 miles in June 1962 for two and a half years from New Deli to Moscow, Paris, London, and Washington DC the capitals of the nuclear armed countries at that time. This half also includes Tim and Kerry from Dharma's Garden in Boulder, where Satish will be part of a series of programs there September 16-20; for more information, please see www.wonderhaven.org for Dharma’s Garden events. 

The second half features Dr. Karim Mattar, who is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A descendant of survivors of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, he works at the intersection of Palestine studies, the humanities, and higher education. He is currently at work on two book projects, The Ethics of Affiliation: Palestine and the Future of Humanism, and Writing the Catastrophe: Trauma and Responsibility Across Generations  Karim received his doctorate in English at the University of Oxford in 2013, and writes and teaches more broadly on comparative Middle Eastern literatures and cultures, the history of the novel, media and technology, and critical theory. He has written or collaborated on a number of other books, and serves on the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, where he is chair of the Palestine Caucus. He recently returned from the delegation that the Boulder Nablus sister city project sent to Nablus in Occupied Palestine; for more information, please see www.bouldernablus.org.  

Special thanks to KGNU and Dharma’s Garden member Lorraine Fairmont for help in arranging the interview with Satish, which is airing a day before the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear weapon that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima.