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Why We Argue
The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Future of Truth project.
April 6, 2023
Seeing Truth in Physics
Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often seen…
March 23, 2023
Seeing Truth in the Climate Crisis
Feeling bad about the environment? You should. Artist Alexis Rockman talks about his art, the potential for real change, and his ongoing relationship …
March 9, 2023
Seeing Truth in the Lab
Max Liboiron founder of Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory talks about making better science and how they are…
February 23, 2023
Seeing Truth in Photographs
Artist Penelope Umbrico talks about her work, images as currency, and how technology and various platforms herd images. And is photography tyrannical?…
February 9, 2023
Seeing Truth in the Archives
Joel Sweimler, Exhibition Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History, talks about his career at the museum, working on Seeing Truth, and wha…
January 26, 2023
Seeing Truth in Museums
Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at t…
January 12, 2023
Seeing Truth in the Speculative
Historian and author Dexter Gabriel talks about his relationship to truth and memory in his fiction and non-fiction writing. Come for his thoughts on …
December 29, 2022
Seeing Truth in Picturing the Pandemic
Professor Sarah Willen talks about her part in creating the Pandemic Journaling Project and how that has morphed into a series of visual exhibitions …
December 15, 2022
Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
In this episode, scientists speak back to ideas about collection building, knowledge making, and the role of art and creativity in research. Bernard G…
December 1, 2022
Seeing Truth in Plant Humanities
Art historian Romita Ray has long puzzled power, visual culture, and how knowledge moves globally. Currently writing about tea, we talk with Ray about…
November 3, 2022
Seeing Truth in Collections, Memory and Death Studies
Jane Wildgoose claims she just expanded a beachcomber’s collection but in fact her Wildgoose Memorial Library is a subversive infiltration into the na…
October 20, 2022
Seeing Truth in Data
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun sees value in the truth, but worries what data we might be looking at to find it. Chun discusses her new book, Discriminating Dat…
June 1, 2021
Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West
Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers. …
May 24, 2021
Democratic Repair and Public Things with Bonnie Honig
Bonnie Honig the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media, and Political Science at Brown University. Bonnie works at the intersections …
May 18, 2021
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
Catriona McKinnon is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on climate ethics and environmental justice. Much…
May 4, 2021
Social Trust in a Free Society with Kevin Vallier
Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. His most recent book is titled Trust in a Pola…
April 13, 2021
Political Rhetoric and Demagoguery with Jennifer Mercieca
Jennifer Mercieca is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Demagogue for President: The…
April 6, 2021
Anger, Rage, and Forgiveness with Myisha Cherry
Myisha Cherry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. Myisha’s research focuses on the intersection of moral …
March 23, 2021
Conspiracy Theories and Democracy with Quassim Cassam
Quassim Cassam is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. You can follow him on Twitter at .@QCassam. Quassim’s resea…
March 16, 2021
Democracy and Truth with Sophia Rosenfeld
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Democracy and Truth: A Short Hist…