Podcasts by International Voices with Udo Fluck

December 2023: From Peru, to New York, to Missoula – The Journey of a Music and Dance Educator Creating Communities Along the Way from 2023-12-07T13:45:24

Join Udo and his guest, Christian Moya, a Peruvian music and culture educator for the last podcast of this year. Moya has lived for many years in New York City, surrounded by a large Latino popu...

November 2023: The Value of Language and Culture Training and the Benefit it Brings to U.S. Foreign Relations - Major General (ret.) Donald Loranger, United States Air Force from 2023-11-02T18:33:13

For the November podcast episode of International Voices, Udo is joined by Major General (ret.) Donald Loranger, who was appointed in 2012 to the National Security Education Board by President O...

October 2023: Bringing International Experience to the Missoula Symphony Orchestra&Chorale – Maestro Julia Tai from 2023-10-05T07:00

Udo talks to Julia Tai, the Music Director of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale. Maestro Tai is also the Music Director of Philharmonia...

September 2023: International Voices in Missoula from 2023-09-14T13:09:11

With the start of every fall, students are returning to the University of Montana, in Missoula. Among them are international students from around the world, either returning to campus, or as new...

August 2023: Remembering John Engen from 2023-08-04T16:05:26

In August 2022 beloved Missoula major John Engen passed away at the age of 57. This August episode is dedicated to Mayor Engen, who was known for his wit, his kindness, thoughtfulness and his vi...

July 2023: Delegation members from Missoula’s Sister City Palmerston North, New Zealand, talk about the many benefits twinned cities bring to their communities. from 2023-07-17T21:27:28

During their visit in June, Udo invited five members of the delegation from Missoula’s sister city Palmerston North (Palmy), New Zealand, to The Trail studio, to talk about how sister cities do ...

June 2023: Regents Professor Ragan (Ray) Callaway: Global Ecology: Interactions Between Exotic Invaders and Native Ecosystems. from 2023-06-12T11:23:54

Udo talks with Dr. Callaway, an internationally renowned plant and community ecologist, who was one of three Montanans on a prestigious short-list of “The World’s Most Influential Scient...

May 2023: Turning Tables and Switching Microphones (PART II) An Interview with Dr. Udo Fluck, the creator of the popular GROW K-12 Outreach Program from 2023-05-05T18:24

After exactly a year, Mike Smith and Udo Fluck are doing it again for the May podcast! Turning the Tables and Switching the Microphones. Mike is talking to Udo in this special episode, about the...

April 2023: Latisha Buck Elk Thunder and Dacia Griego, Co-Founders of Indigenous Made Missoula - Making Missoula a More Diverse Community from 2023-04-06T06:00

This is the third and final episode in a three-part series, on organizations, services and products that have aided Missoula in becoming a more diverse community. In this episode, Udo is joined ...

March 2023: Susan Hay Patrick, Chief Executive Officer of United Way of Missoula County - Making Missoula a More Diverse Community from 2023-03-02T09:22:58

This is the second episode in a three-part series, on organizations, services and products that have aided Missoula in becoming a more diverse community. Listen to Udo talking to several leaders...

February 2023: Eamon Fahey, Deputy Director of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) Missoula Branch - Making Missoula a More Diverse Community from 2023-02-13T11:25:17

This is the first episode in a three-part series, on organizations, services and products that have aided Missoula in becoming a more diverse community. Udo talks to several leaders in our commu...

December 20222: Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock – An Insightful Conversation with the Refugee Congress Delegate for Montana from 2022-12-12T10:21:20

This is the 3rd and final episode of a series focusing on “Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock”. In this last episode of 2022, Udo visits with Paul Mwingwa, a resettled refugee from the...

November 2022: Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock – A Local High School in Missoula for Students from Around the World from 2022-11-03T09:00

This is the 2nd part of a multi-part series, focusing on “Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock”. Last month Udo was fortunate to talk to Shiena Greata Medrano, a student at the University...

October 2022: Managing Cultural Adjustment and Culture Shock - From Manilla to Missoula from 2022-10-04T13:16:43

Udo is joined by Shiena Greata Medrano, an Accounting and Management Information System Major at the University of Montana, and, if that was not enough for a full-time student, she is also the Indi...

September 2022: Gabrielle Nguyen and Kate Harridge on the 40th Sister City Anniversary of Palmerston North, New Zealand and Missoula from 2022-09-18T12:25:37

Tune in this episode and learn more about the 40th anniversary of the sister city connection between Missoula and Palmerston North, New Zealand through Gabrielle Nguyen, the International Relations...

August 2022: Introducing the new Executive Director of Arts Missoula - Heather Adams from 2022-08-04T09:46:35

Join Udo, as he is visiting with Heather Adams, who founded and was Executive Director of the Downtown Dance Collective for 13 years, has danced, taught, directed, choreographed, organized, and pro...

June 2022: Music as Cultural Diplomacy – Spreading Important Messages from Missoula to Audiences in Europe Through Music as the Universal Language from 2022-06-06T18:02:01

Join Udo, as he is talking, to Dr. Coreen Duffy, Conductor of UM’s Chamber Chorale, Dr. James Randall, Director of UM’s School of Music, Chorale Member Saxon Holbrook, and UM Chorale Students: Mira...

May 2022: Turning the Tables and Switching the Microphones: An Interview with the Host of International Voices – Udo Fluck. PART 1 from 2022-05-12T09:35:27

Mike Smith is talking to Udo Fluck in this special episode, celebrating more than two years of International Voices podcasts. Enjoy their conversation about why and how Udo settled in Missoula, wha...

April 2022: Food as Cultural Diplomacy – Those who passionately train, guide, and inspire the next generation of culinary artists and those who study, experiment and create at the Big Sky Culinary Institute from 2022-04-12T17:13:01

Join Udo, as he is talking, for the first time, with six individuals in one episode. His guests are: Dr. Thomas Gallagher, Dean and Professor of the Missoula College, Katie Dalessio, Director of Fi...

March 2022: Food as Cultural Diplomacy – United We Eat in the Missoula Community from 2022-03-01T08:00

In part 2 of a 3 part series on Food As Cultural Diplomacy, Udo is joined by Beth Baker, program manager, and Rozan Shhib, kitchen assistant of Missoula’s Soft Landing United We Eat (UWE) Program. ...

February 2022: Food as Cultural Diplomacy – Two Local Chefs Share Their International Culinary Passion from 2022-02-03T13:32:13

Join Udo, as he is talking, for the first time with two guests in one episode, that is all about international cuisine. Meet Silvia Wirick and Wisam Raheem, two foreign-born chefs who are cooking u...

December 2021: Matan Zamir, Deputy Consul General of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco from 2021-12-02T20:12:50

Deputy Consul General Zamir talks about Israel’s leadership role in technology, innovation, and the arts, how they have impacted the country and how other countries in the region have benefitted fr...

November 2021: Tammy Sandhu, MBE, British Deputy Consul General of the British Consulate in San Francisco from 2021-11-08T13:36:07

Join Udo for his conversation with Ms. Sandhu, as she talks about the British Government’s mission in the US, the United Kingdom hosting the United Nations Climate Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, a...

October 2021: Dr. Volker Rachold, Head of the German Arctic Office, provides valuable insight into land-ocean interactions from 2021-10-07T10:44:59

Udo talks with geochemist Dr. Rachold, from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which serves as an information and cooperation platform between Germa...

September 2021: NPR Journalist Nathan Rott weighs in on the warming climate and the changing footprint of wildfire now and in the future. from 2021-09-07T12:06:02

This month's podcast with guest Nathan Rott, NPR journalist, focuses on international reporting on wildfires and how recent fires have burned areas flames aren't usually able to penetrate, like rai...

August 2021: Lake Missoula Tea Company creating global connections through tea from 2021-08-06T15:28:57

Jake Kreilick, from Lake Missoula Tea Company in Missoula, MT talks about his interactions with small tea producers in Indonesia and Kenya and how their artisan loose leaves have contributed to the...

July 2021: Larry Pirnie, Missoula artist, shares his artistic journey and why it is important to listen to “The Kid”. from 2021-07-01T12:19:14

Join Udo for his conversation with the artist, known for his highly colorful acrylic paintings of horses and cowboy figures in western landscapes, about how the "Red Rider" started his fascination ...

June 2021: Willow Kipp, Native American Artist with International Reach and Environmental Researcher from 2021-06-04T09:37:18

Udo is joined by Willow Kipp, who shares with him who inspired her as an artist and how her passion for Native American dance regalia design, beadwork, ledger art and her large-scale murals have be...

May 2021: "Creativity During COVID" with Dennis Kozeluh of Vienna, Austria (part 1 of a 3 part series) from 2021-05-06T13:26:40

Udo visits with Dennis Kozeluh, in Vienna, Austria, where he lives and has been active in the theater, music and musical theater world throughout central Europe since 1997, about his origins in Mis...

April 2021: Annita Lucchesi, founding Executive Director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute from 2021-04-01T13:38:11

April 2021: Annita Lucchesi, founding Executive Director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute, who started the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement. This dialogue is being presente...

March 2021: Melissa Kilby, Executive Director of Girl Up, a global leadership development initiative that advances girls’ skills, rights, and opportunities to be leaders. from 2021-03-04T09:46:39

Honoring Women's History Month, Udo is joined by Melissa Kilby, from Girl Up headquarters in Washington D.C., to discuss the global efforts in transforming a generation of girls to be a force for g...

February 2021: New Zealand Māori Chief Wiremu Te Awe Awe and his wife Trieste Te Awe Awe in an intercultural dialogue around democracy and freedom from 2021-02-03T10:44:01

In this first podcast of 2021, Udo virtually travels to Missoula’s sister city Palmerston North in New Zealand to have a conversation discussing the idea of democracy itself, what strengthens an...

December 2020: Ulrich Kamp, Professor of Earth and Environment and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Michigan in Dearborn from 2020-12-02T23:00:15

In this last episode of 2020, Udo talks with Ulrich Kamp, a glaciologist with an interest in environmental studies and climate change, who has researched and taught at the University of Montana and...

November 2020: Brigitta Miranda-Freer, Executive Director of the Montana World Trade Center, Missoula, MT from 2020-11-05T16:58:53

Udo Fluck visits with Brigitta Miranda-Freer, Executive Director of the Montana World Trade Center (MWTC) and Director of operations for the Montana Technology Enterprise Center (MonTec) and how th...

October 2020: Chris Hyslop, Executive Director of the Montana World Affairs Council from 2020-10-08T11:30:42

October 2020: Chris Hyslop, Executive Director of the Montana World Affairs Council

Udo Fluck visits with Chris Hyslop, Executive Director of the Montana World Affairs Cou...

Donna Anderson, Senior International Officer and Executive Director of the Global Engagement Office at the University of Montana. from 2020-09-09T17:11

September 2020: In this episode, Udo Fluck talks with Donna Anderson, Senior International Officer and Executive Director of the Global Engagement Office and Professor Alessia Carpoca about partici...

International Voices with Daniel Bognar from 2020-08-06T18:07:20

August 2020: Daniel Bognar, Head of the Division of Special Education in Germany’s Ministry of Education, Wiesbaden , Hesse, Germany. Host Udo Fluck virtually meets with Daniel Bognar, former teac...

Mrs. Toni Grace, International Relations Manager in Missoula’s Sister City Palmerston North, New Zealand from 2020-07-02T08:00

Global and Intercultural Teaching and Learning in Missoula's Middle&High Schools from 2020-06-07T08:00

This podcast is PART ll, of a two-part series. Udo visits with three middle school teachers and one world language high school teacher, on some of the global and intercultural teaching and learn...

Global and Intercultural Teaching and Learning in Missoula Elementary Schools from 2020-05-07T18:00

This podcast is PART I, of a two-part series. Udo visits with five elementary school teachers and one principal, on some of the global and intercultural teaching and learning efforts that are takin...

April 2020: Dr. Sarj Patel, about the importance of global communication and collaboration in the fight against COVID-19 from 2020-04-02T12:20

Udo visits with Dr. Sarjubhai (Sarj) Patel, neuroscience researcher, president and co-founder of FYR Diagnostics in Missoula, chatting about the importance of global communication and collaboration...

Missoula Mayor John Engen from 2020-03-05T00:00

Udo Fluck meets Missoula Mayor John Engen at City Hall to talk about cultural programs in Missoula and the importance of multicultural programming in the community.

Arts Missoula Executive Director Tom Bensen from 2020-02-06T00:00

Udo Fluck is the Director of Global and Cultural Affairs of Arts Missoula and host of International Voices.

The Structure of the Global and Cultural Affairs Office and its four service and...