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CEU Press Podcast Series September 26, 2023

Open Access at CEU Press

The "Opening the Future" Initiative

Frances Pinter

Hosted by CEU Press

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In the second Meet the Press episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, CEU Press) sits down with host Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor, CEU Review of …

CEU Press Podcast Series September 25, 2023

Meet the Press

An Introduction to CEU Press and the Podcast

Frances Pinter and Emily Poznanski

Hosted by CEU Press

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Welcome to the first episode of the CEU Press podcast series! To start us off, Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, CEU Press) and Emily Poznanski (Director, CEU Press) sit down with …

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel September 23, 2023

The Engaged Scholar

Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

Andrew J. Hoffman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information …

Academic Life September 14, 2023

The Other Side of the Desk

A Discussion with "The Conversation" Editor Emily Costello

Emily Costello

Hosted by Christina Gessler

How can writing for the general public help scholars to democratize education? Today, The Conversation editor Emily Costello takes us behind the scenes of a “typical” day at her editor’s …

Library Science August 30, 2023

Ownership of Knowledge

Beyond Intellectual Property

Dagmar Schafer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

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Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and …

Scholarly Communication August 22, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and the Future of Academic Publishing

A Conversation with Avi Staiman

Avi Staiman

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

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Avi Staiman, CEO of Academic Language Experts discusses the how advancements in artificial intelligence are shaping academic publishing. Avi offers various solutions and remedies to concerns around misuse, in addition to …

Library Science August 20, 2023

Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries

Kalani Adolpho, Stephen G. Krueger, and Krista McCracken

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. Trans and Gender Diverse Voices …

Scholarly Communication August 19, 2023

Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI

A Conversation with Niko Pfund of Oxford University Press

Niko Pfund

Hosted by Avi Staiman

Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around tracking the quality and ownership of …

Burned by Books August 8, 2023

In Praise of Good Bookstores

Jeff Deutsch

Hosted by Chris Holmes

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Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton UP, 2022), Jeff Deutsch--the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores …

Scholarly Communication August 6, 2023

Thriving As a Graduate Writer

Principles, Strategies, and Practices for Effective Academic Writing

Rachael Cayley

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Rachael Cayley, Associate Professor in the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication at the University of Toronto, Canada. Rachael also blogs. Her Explorations of Style is …

Library Science August 5, 2023

Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research

A Reader

Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall's Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research (Bristol University Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking reader designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in …

Academic Life July 27, 2023

The Other Side of the Desk

A Discussion with Danielle D'Orlando, Princeton UP's Audio Books Editor

Danielle D'Orlando

Hosted by Christina Gessler

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Does listening to an audio book count as reading? Can audio books help democratize education? Will more academic presses be creating audio versions of their books? Princeton University Press audio …

Scholarly Communication July 26, 2023

The Science of Science

A Discussion with Aaron Clauset

Aaron Clauset

Hosted by Daniel Shea

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Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. Aaron is also External Faculty at …

Scholarly Communication July 23, 2023

The Role of Luck in Science

A Discussion with Nicolas Christin

Nicolas Christin

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Nicolas Christin, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and in the department of Engineering and Public Policy. We …

American Studies July 18, 2023

Popularizing the Past

Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America

Nick Witham

Hosted by James West

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In this lively and far-reaching text, Nick Witham (University College London) tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation’s history. For decades …

Scholarly Communication July 16, 2023

Writing about Data

A Discussion with Yuval Yarom

Yuval Yarom

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Yuval Yarom, Professor of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. We talk about how authors interpret the data and the facts, and we talk …

Scholarly Communication July 9, 2023

Asking the Right Questions

A Discussion with Daniel Gruss

Daniel Gruss

Hosted by Daniel Shea

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Listen to this interview of Daniel Gruss, Associate Professor in the Secure Systems group at Graz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications, Austria. We talk about …

Scholarly Communication July 7, 2023

Mentoring, Collaboration, Writing

A Discussion with Thorsten Holz

Thorsten Holz

Hosted by Daniel Shea

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Listen to this interview of Thorsten Holz, Professor for computer science and faculty at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We talk about mentoring, collaboration, writing …

Scholarly Communication July 4, 2023

How to Write as an Author and How to Write as a Reader

A Discussion with Peng Liu

Peng Liu

Hosted by Daniel Shea

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Listen to this interview of Peng Liu, Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, and also Director of the Cyber Security Lab. We talk …

Scholarly Communication June 23, 2023

Revision, Revision, Revision

A Discussion with Sascha Fahl of the Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Sascha Fahl

Hosted by Daniel Shea

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Listen to this interview of Sascha Fahl, Professor for Computer Science and Faculty for Usable Security and Privacy at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We …