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South Asian Studies
A Part Apart
The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar
Ashok Gopal
Hosted by
Rituparna Patgiri
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human. How and why did Ambedkar, who revered and cited the Gita till the 1930s, turn against Hinduism? What were his quarrels with Gandhi and Savarkar? Why did he come to see himself as Moses? How did the lessons …
MIT Press Podcast
X-Risk
How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
Thomas Moynihan
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MIT Press
Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate …
British Studies
Friends of Israel
The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity
Hilary Frances Aked
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
Is there such a thing as “the Israel lobby,” and how powerful is it really? Hilary Frances Aked's book Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity (Verso, 2023) provides a forensically researched …
Madison's Notes
Educating for Solitude
A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz
Hosted by
Annika Nordquist
What kind of person is our education system designed to create? Best-selling author and award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz discusses the failures of our higher education system, how it mis-conditions our …
Caribbean Studies
Channeling Knowledges
Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds
Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
Hosted by
Elena Igartuburu
Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well …
Higher Education
Unequal Choices
How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College
Yang Va Lor
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their socioeconomically advantaged peers with similar academic qualifications. A key reason for …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
Night Vision
Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods
Mariana Alessandri
Hosted by
Mark Klobas
Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look …
Children's Literature
Dream Big, Laugh Often
And More Great Advice from the Bible
Hanoch Piven and Shira Hecht-Koller
Hosted by
Mel Rosenberg
Hanoch Piven is an Israeli collage artist whose colorful and witty portraits have appeared over the last 30 years on both sides of the Atlantic: in most major American magazines …
Jewish Studies
The White Terror
Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921
Béla Bodó
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down, tortured, and murdered members of the Jewish community, as well as former supporters …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Get Your Startup Story Straight
The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
David Riemer
Hosted by
Gregory LaBlanc
Everyone loves a good story, but more than that, we as humans are programmed on a genetic level to share and learn all kinds of information through stories. When you …
Literature
Our Lying Kin
Claudia Hagadus Long
Hosted by
G. P. Gottlieb
The story of middle-aged sisters Zara and Lilly begins in Long’s fast-paced, first novel in this witty series, Nine Tenths of the Law, when Zara recognizes a family menorah in …
Scholarly Communication
What Is a Human?
Language, Mind, and Culture
James Paul Gee
Hosted by
Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of James Gee, Regents' Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. We talk about too much communication, about too …
International Horizons
Negotiating Decolonization
The Limits of a Fairy Tale
Valerie Rosoux
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International Horizons
In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) discusses the disagreements in the historiography of Belgium's human rights violations during …
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Critical Theory
Anarchism
A Very Short Introduction
Alex Prichard
Hosted by
Morteza Hajizadeh
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If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism? Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2022) provides a new point of departure for our understanding of anarchism. Prichard describes anarchism as a lived set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how anarchists …
MIT Press Podcast
Neighbor George
Victoria Nelson
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MIT Press
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Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her book Neighbor George. Do you know the language of the birds? Summer, 1979: A lonely …
Economic and Business History
International Business in Australia before World War One
Shaping a Multinational Economy
Simon Ville and David Merrett
Hosted by
Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
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This episode features Professor Simon Ville talking about his latest book with David Merrett International Business in Australia Before World War One: Shaping a Multinational Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). This …
Anthropology
Friendship
Michael Jackson
Hosted by
Latoya Johnson
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In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant …
Madison's Notes
Defining Man and Woman
A Conversation with Abigail Favale
Abigail Favale
Hosted by
Annika Nordquist
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Amidst fraught debates about what gender is, and how it fits into feminism, Annika sits down with Dr. Abigail Favale, an English professor specializing in gender studies and feminist literary …
Technology
The Equality Machine
Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Orly Lobel
Hosted by
Gregory LaBlanc
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The fear of algorithmic decision-making and surveillance capitalism dominate today's tech policy discussions. But instead of simply criticizing big data and automation, we can harness technology to correct discrimination, historical …
Political Science
The "Third" United Nations
How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think
Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss
Hosted by
Sally Sharif
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Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss' book The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the Third UN: the ecology of supportive …
South Asian Studies
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics
J. Daniel Elam
Hosted by
Gargi Binju
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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial …
Scholarly Communication
Efficient Academic Writing
A Discussion with Mushtaq Bilal
Mushtaq Bilal
Hosted by
Avi Staiman
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Mushtaq Bilal is an academic, content creator, thought leader, and public intellectual. Mushtaq discusses how he built an audience of more than 185,000 followers on Twitter and more than 30,00 …
Children's Literature
The Miracle Seed
Martin Lemelman
Hosted by
Mel Rosenberg
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In our animated discussion, Martin Lemelman and I discuss his latest graphic novel, The Miracle Seed (Eerdmans Young Readers, 2023), which was published only two months ago. It is the …
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Disability Studies
Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller
Hosted by
Shu Wan
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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps would-be parents make better family planning choices. Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice (Oxford UP, 2023) challenges that assessment by exploring how NIPT can actually constrain pregnant women's options. Prospective parents must balance a complicated array of factors, including …
Academic Life
My What If Year
A Discussion with Alisha Fernandez Miranda
Alisha Fernandez Miranda
Hosted by
Christina Gessler
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Did we miss a fork in the road somewhere? What if our lives are going just fine, but we still want to hunt for the pieces of ourselves we’ve dropped …
Indian Religions
Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue
Anantanand Rambachan
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
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Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent. Since the latter half of the twentieth century, with the increased possibilities for immigration, Hindus and Christians …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
Sparking Success
Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset
Adam Kingl
Hosted by
Dan Hill
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Today I talked to Adam Kingl about his new book Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset (Kogan Page, 2023). Most or, indeed, basically all of us start …
MIT Press Podcast
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski
The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
Dhanveer Singh Brar
Hosted by
MIT Press
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Joy White, author of Terraformed, speaks with Dhanveer Singh Brar about his forthcoming book Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of …
Madison's Notes
Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty
A Conversation with Margarita Mooney Clayton
Margarita Mooney Clayton
Hosted by
Annika Nordquist
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Is beauty objective, or merely a personal experience? Do we need beauty in our daily lives, or is it just icing on the cake? Is the sole purpose of art …
Sociology
The Delusions of Crowds
Why People Go Mad in Groups
William J. Bernstein
Hosted by
Gregory LaBlanc
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What do financial bubbles and religious millenarianism have in common? They both involve collective delusion. When Charles Mackey wrote a book on the Madness of Crowds in the 19th century …
Almost Good Catholics
You Set a Table Before Me
The Teenage Witch Who Became a Dominican Sister
Sr. Maria Catherine, OP
Hosted by
Krzysztof Odyniec
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Sr Maria Catherine was looking for Truth in the wrong places when she started practicing witchcraft as girl. But she found her way out of the darkness and into the …
Scholarly Communication
Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications
Nick Enfield
Hosted by
Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Nick Enfield, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney for Language Research and the Sydney Initiative for Truth. We talk about communication as you …
Novel Dialogue
They’re Not Metaphorical Demons
A Discussion with Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Hosted by
Chris Holmes
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Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and host Chris Holmes …
Science Fiction
The Archive Undying
Emma Mieko Candon
Hosted by
Brenda Noiseux
The Archive Undying (Tordotcom, 2023) is Emma Mieko Candon’s ambitious epic science fiction novel about intertwined human survivors following the violent fall of cities run by AI entities so massive, they …
Asian Review of Books
Black Girl from Pyongyang
In Search of My Identity
Monica Macias
Hosted by
Nicholas Gordon
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Monica Macias, the youngest daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s first president at just seven years old, lands in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1979. Her father had sent her to the country …
Recall This Book
Musical Collaboration
A Chat with Composer Francisco del Pino
Francisco del Pino
Hosted by
Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
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Francisco del Pino is a widely celebrated composer from Buenos Aires, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University. John fell in love with Francisco's music (during …
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Southeast Asian Studies
A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand
Patrick Jory
Hosted by
Nick Cheesman
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If you’ve visited Thailand even for a short time you’ve probably been given, or have come across, some basic instructions on dos and don’ts — where to put, or not to put, your hands and feet, what to wear or not to wear to a temple, why not to get angry in public, that sort of thing. Perhaps you’ve wondered about the pedagogies that give these social practices their durability …
Military History
I Saw Death Coming
A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Kidada E. Williams
Hosted by
AJ Woodhams
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The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked …
MIT Press Podcast
You Are Here
A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
Hosted by
MIT Press
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Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here. Our media environment is …
Biography
Money and Empire
Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System
Perry Mehrling
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
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Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' …
Madison's Notes
Mapping the American Right
A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Robert Doar
Robert Doar
Hosted by
Annika Nordquist
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Annika sits down with Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, one of Washington D.C.'s most prominent think-tanks, to discuss the state of the American Right: what are the …
Anthropology
¡Alerta!
Engineering on Shaky Ground
Elizabeth Reddy
Hosted by
Liliana Gil
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The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico …
Nordic Asia Podcast
Recentering Pacific Asia
Regional China and World Order
Brantly Womack
Hosted by
Julie Yu-Wen Chen
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The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. In this conversation, Julie …
Sociology
The Narrow Corridor
States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Hosted by
Gregory LaBlanc
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Does a strong state mean a weak market? This is a common misconception amongst economists. Many view the state as either taxing and regulating the market too much or too …
East-West Psychology Podcast
Contemplative Psychotherapy
Intersections of Science, Spirituality and Buddhism
Joseph Loizzo
Hosted by
Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
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In this episode we meet Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, who is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices …
High Theory
Jeans
High Theory "Sillies" Series
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Warning: this episode of High Theory is very silly. In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achieve the grandiose task …
Taiwan on Air
The Suspended Island
Taiwan and the Balance of the World
Stefano Pelaggi
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Taiwan on Air
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In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Stefano Pelaggi, Adjunct Professor at Sapienza University in Rome. The two discuss Dr Pelaggi’s most recent book, L’Isola Sospesa. Taiwan e …
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The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
The Future of Big Finance
A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan
Hosted by
Owen Bennett-Jones
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How common is financial malpractice in big, well known financial companies? Is it so common that it should really be seen as a business model more than an occasional aberration by rogue traders? These are questions posed by Ronen Palan and Anastasia Nesvetailova in their book Sabotage: The Business of Finance (PublicAffairs, 2020). Listen to Owen Bennett-Jones discuss the future of big finance with Anastasia Nesvetailova. Owen Bennett-Jones is a …
Disability Studies
Dyslexia
A History
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling
Hosted by
Shu Wan
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In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his …
African American Studies
Workers of All Colors Unite
Race and the Origins of American Socialism
Lorenzo Costaguta
Hosted by
Omari Averette-Phillips
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As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the …
Early Modern History
We, the King
Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World
Adrian Masters
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
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We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Adrian Masters challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and …
Intellectual History
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
Scott R. Stroud
Hosted by
Kalyani Kalyani
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Scott R. Stroud's The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a philosophical engagement with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s life and …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Both/And Thinking
Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis
Hosted by
Gregory LaBlanc
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In a world of either/or tradeoffs, it sometimes pays to explore the possibility of and/or. By changing our perspective and embracing paradox, we can see possibilities that were obscured by …
Psychoanalysis
The Queerness of Childhood
Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass
Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber
Hosted by
Tracy Morgan
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In this interview, Anna Fishzon, co editor with Emma Lieber on The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), discusses her thinking …
Middle Eastern Studies
Red Star over the Black Sea
Nazim Hikmet and His Generation
James H. Meyer
Hosted by
Reuben Silverman
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Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the …
MIT Press Podcast
Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration
A Discussion with Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Hosted by
MIT Press
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Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue …
Asian American Studies
The Allure of Empire
American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion
Chris Suh
Hosted by
Byung Ho Choi
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The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made …
Anthropology
Health in Ruins
The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero
Hosted by
María Camila Núñez Gómez
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In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and …
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Anthropology
The Politics of Survival
Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour
Hosted by
Reighan Gillam
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Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media renders them invisible or casts them as racialized and undeserving "welfare queens" who exploit social safety nets. Even when Black women voters are celebrated, the voices of the poorest too often go unheard. How do Afro-descendant women in former slave-holding societies survive amid multifaceted oppression? In …
African American Studies
Dark Agoras
Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place
J.T. Roane
Hosted by
Adam McNeil
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In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent …
Film
Abbas Kiarostami
Interviews
Monika Raesch
Hosted by
Kaveh Rafie
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The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim around the …
MIT Press Podcast
Art Auctions and Data Science
A Discussion with Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Dan Cameron, and Jason Bailey
Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Dan Cameron, and Jason Bailey
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MIT Press
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What does data science tell us about art auctions? This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review …
Science, Technology, and Society
The Smartness Mandate
Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
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Over the last half century, "smartness"—the drive for ubiquitous computing—has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the environment. Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart …
Architecture
The Story of Follies
Architectures of Eccentricity
Celia Fisher
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
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In The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity (Reaktion, 2023), Celia Fisher presents an amusing, informative guide to a fanciful and charming building, the folly. Are they frivolous or practical …
Jewish Studies
Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
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Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions …
Military History
Guibert's General Essay on Tactics
Jonathan Abel
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
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"'The God of War' is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet." So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert …
Scholarly Communication
Life at the London Review of Books
A Conversation with Anthony Wilks
Anthony Wilks
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
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Anthony Wilks discusses his career heading up audio-visual projects for the London Review of Books. He tells the story of his winding career, in addition to some great musings about the …
Critical Theory
Digital Futures for Learning
Speculative Methods and Pedagogies
Jen Ross
Hosted by
Dave O'Brien
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What is the future of education? In Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (Routledge, 2022), Jen Ross, a senior lecturer in digital education at the University of Edinburgh, analyses …
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Performing Arts
Performing the Socialist State
Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture
Xiaomei Chen
Hosted by
Andy Boyd
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Xiaomei Chen's book Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture (Columbia UP, 2023) looks at three "founding fathers" of Chinese spoken drama: Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian. Dr. Chen argues that these three theatre artists laid the groundwork for Mao-era Chinese drama during the earlier Republic period, and that there is more continuity between the two periods than has typically been supposed. She also argues that these …
Critical Theory
What's the Use of Philosophy?
Philip Kitcher
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. Kitcher's …
Historical Fiction
Killingly
Katharine Beutner
Hosted by
C. P. Lesley
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In 1897, a Mount Holyoke College junior named Bertha Mellish disappears from campus overnight, leaving no word for her family. It’s a time when female college students are still considered …
Biblical Studies
Jesus the Purifier
John's Gospel and the Fourth Quest for the Historical Jesus
Craig L. Blomberg
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Jackson Reinhardt
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The third quest for the historical Jesus has reached an impasse. But a fourth quest is underway--one that draws from a heretofore largely neglected source: John's Gospel. In Jesus the …
Shakespeare For All
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language
A Discussion with Michael Dobson
Michael Dobson
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Zachary Davis
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In Part 3, Professor Michael Dobson offers close-readings of some of the play’s most important speeches, including Brutus’s deliberation over Caesar’s assassination and the rival speeches given by Brutus and …
Iberian Studies
The Melancholy Void
Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora
Felipe Valencia
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Julia Gossard
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On today’s episode on New Books Network, we're joined by Dr. Felipe Valencia, Associate Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department at Utah State University to discuss …
MIT Press Podcast
Can Data Science Help Us Combat Disinformation?
Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Scott Tranter, and Hany Farid
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MIT Press
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In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss fake news, disinformation, and misinformation with Scott Tranter, CEO and founder of Optimus Analytics …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Ideaflow
The Only Business Metric That Matters
Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn
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Gregory LaBlanc
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When we think about the greatest innovators of our time (Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, Frank Lloyd Wright) we often hear about their work ethic. But one thing that all of …
Digital Humanities
Scholarly Podcasting
Why, What, How
Ian M. Cook
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Caleb Zakarin
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Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what, and how academics engage with this insurgent, curious craft …
Peoples & Things
The History of 19th Century Quarantine Politics
A Conversation with David S. Barnes
David S. Barnes
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Lee Vinsel
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David S. Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his book, Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed …
Buddhist Studies
Embodied and Trauma-Aware Pedagogy
A Discussion with Frances Garrett
Frances Garrett
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Pierce Salguero
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In this episode I sit down with Frances Garrett, a scholar of Tibetan culture, history, and language. We talk about Frances’s interests in embodiment and movement, and how her experiences …
Children's Literature
Dark Cloud
Anna Lazowski
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Mel Rosenberg
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This is my second interview with the wonderful children's author Anna Lazowski, this time celebrating the launch of her new picture book Dark Cloud, published last month by Kids Can …
Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
Elephant Man
A Film by David Lynch
David Lynch
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Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
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George Orwell said, "By fifty, every man has the face he deserves." To what degree does David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) respond to the idea that our appearances define …
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National Security
The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
Why Warning Was Not Enough
Erik J. Dahl
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Beth Windisch
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Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster. In The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough (Georgetown UP, 2023), Erik J. Dahl demonstrates that understanding how intelligence warnings work--and how they fail--shows why the years of predictions were not enough. In the first in-depth …
Psychology
The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius
Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death
Brent Willock
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Karyne Messina
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Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius’ meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock’s scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an …
Indian Ocean World
East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions
Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future
Rob Marchant
Hosted by
Ahmed Almaazmi
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East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is an ambitious integration of ecological, archaeological, anthropological land use sciences, drawing on human geography, demography and economics …
MIT Press Podcast
How are Sports Teams Using Data Science?
Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Brian Macdonald, and Kirk Goldsberry
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MIT Press
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In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale …
Environmental Studies
Ice
From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Amy Brady
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Brian Hamilton
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Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off …
Poetry
Naming the Ghost
Emily Hockaday
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Megan Wildhood
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Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the …
Disability Studies
The Disabled Child
Memoirs of a Normal Future
Amanda Apgar
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Shu Wan
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When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives …
Literature
Dreaming in Spanish
An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta
Sara Alvarado
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G. P. Gottlieb
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In Dreaming in Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta (Little Creek Press, 2023), Sara Alvarado tells the story of growing up in Madison, studying Spanish, and escaping alcoholism, substance …
Middle Eastern Studies
Bedouin Bureaucrats
Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire
Nora Barakat
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Vladislav Lilic
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In the late nineteenth century, Ottoman statesmen sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Nora …
Israel Studies
A Train to Palestine
The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943
Randy Grigsby
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Ari Barbalat
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In October 1938, eight-year-old Josef Rosenbaum, his mother, and his younger sister set out from Germany on a cruel odyssey, fleeing into eastern Europe along with thousands of other refugees …
Business, Management, and Marketing
The Elements of Choice
Why the Way We Decide Matters
Eric J. Johnson
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Gregory LaBlanc
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Every time we make a choice, our minds go through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is …
Islamic Studies
Nur Baba
A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul (Translated by Brett Wilson)
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
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SherAli Tareen
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This conversation is with Brett Wilson, who has composed the first English translation of the classic and controversial novel from late Ottoman Turkey Nur Baba--a classic of modern Turkish literature …
Madison's Notes
Feminism against Progress
A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington
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Annika Nordquist
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Is feminism compatible with progress? Reactionary feminist Mary Harrington thinks not. In this interview, she discusses the history of feminism, her own journey from proponent to radical opponent of progress …
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Music
The Future of Rock and Roll
97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence
Robin James
Hosted by
Bradley Morgan
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In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew increasingly homogeneous, WOXY gained international renown as one of Rolling Stone's "Last Great Independent Radio" stations. The station projected …
Education
Willful Defiance
The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Mark R. Warren
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Laura Kelly
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The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement …
World Affairs
Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints
How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
Tobias Ide
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Sidney Michelini
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Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been higher. At the same time …
Sports
Mallparks
Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption
Michael T. Friedman
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Emilio Weber
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In Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption (Cornell UP, 2023), Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within …
Disability Studies
Activist Affordances
How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
Arseli Dokumaci
Hosted by
Clayton Jarrard
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For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be …
MIT Press Podcast
Drone
Remote Control Warfare
Hugh Gusterson
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MIT Press
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Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing--and most secretive--fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Sit Write Share
Practical Writing Strategies to Transform Your Experience Into Content that Matters
Kathryn Britton
Hosted by
Elizabeth Cronin
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Do you keep promising yourself to write but never quite get around to it? Do you delete almost as many words as you write? Do you write things that never …
Chinese Studies
World History and National Identity in China
The Twentieth Century
Xin Fan
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Shu Wan
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Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Money and Love
An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions
Myra Strober and Abby Davisson
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Gregory LaBlanc
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Should we separate decisions related to love and money, approaching finance and career-related decisions solely in a rational way while relying more on our emotions in the personal domain? Perhaps …
Science
Not Just for the Boys
Why We Need More Women in Science
Athene Donald
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific workforce? Not Just …
Scholarly Communication
Reading, Writing, Research
A Discussion with Cybersecurity Scholar Mathias Payer
Mathias Payer
Hosted by
Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Mathias Payer, a security researcher and associate professor at the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Science, leading the HexHive group. We talk about research …
Nomads, Past and Present
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
An Discussion with Ben Hoffler
Ben Hoffler
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Maggie Freeman
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Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin Trail …