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Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 6, 2021

Men to Avoid in Art and Life

Nicole Tersigni

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Nicole Tersigni about her book Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020). Nicole Tersigni is a comedic writer experienced in improve comedy and women’s …

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Critical Theory May 6, 2021

Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries

Michael L. Siciliano

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Siciliano, an assistant professor of sociology at Queen's University …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 5, 2021

Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy

Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon

Clemena Antonova

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Often referred to as “the Russian Leonardo”, religious philosopher and Orthodox parish priest Pavel Florensky was a pivotal figure in the Russian religious renaissance at the turn of the 20th …
Critical Theory April 29, 2021

Working Aesthetics

Labour, Art and Capitalism

Danielle Child

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the …
Art April 27, 2021

Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Aldona Jonaitis

Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
Inseparable from its communities, Northwest Coast art functions aesthetically and performatively beyond the scope of non-Indigenous scholarship, from demonstrating kinship connections to manifesting spiritual power. Contributors to Unsettling Native Art Histories …
Art April 19, 2021

The Art of Experiment

Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design

Rachel Armstrong and Rolf Hughes

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2020) is a handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times. In search of new knowledge practices …
Christian Studies April 9, 2021

Glimpses of the New Creation

Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts

W. David O. Taylor and Jeremy Begbie

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Churches have long sought the arts as a vehicle to communicate divine transcendence and to form worshipers. In Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts (Eerdmans, 2019) …
Middle Eastern Studies April 7, 2021

Stories My Father Told Me

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib

Hosted by Valerie Saint-Rossy
Family stories are the texture of the human fabric. From every land, from every time, they bring the past to life for young ears. In the beginning of the twentieth …
Art April 6, 2021

The Making of the American Creative Class

New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism

Shannan Clark

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the United States …
Popular Culture April 2, 2021

Warhol's Mother's Pantry

Art, America, and the Mom in Pop

M. I. Devine

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Warhol's Mother's Pantry: Art America and the Mom in Pop (Mad Creek Press, 2020), M.I. Devine introduces readers to a collection of 21st-century multi-genre essays inspired by Andy Warhol's mother …
Art April 1, 2021

Visual Worlds

Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines

James Elkins and Erna Fiorentini

Hosted by Allison Leigh
In Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines (Oxford University Press, 2020), James Elkins and Erna Fiorentini provide a full introduction to the visual world across all the fields that theorize …
Medicine March 17, 2021

Humanist Reason

A History. An Argument. A Plan

Eric Hayot

Hosted by Claire Clark
Scientists have scientific reason and use the scientific method. Humanists have... Emotion? Close reading? Not so, argues Eric Hayot in Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan (Columbia UP …
History March 10, 2021

The Ghost of Galileo

In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War

J. L. Heilbron

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
John Heilbron, professor of history and vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, is one of our most distinguished - and prolific - historians of science. His latest book, The …
Philosophy March 10, 2021

Explaining Imagination

Peter Langland-Hassan

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
How do we think about situations and things do not exist but might, engage in pretense and fiction, and create new works of art? These are central cases in which …
Political Science March 4, 2021

A Democratic Enlightenment

The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics

Morton Schoolman

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Morton Schoolman, Professor in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, has published a new book that explores the idea …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel March 1, 2021

Heirlooms

Memory and Cherished Objects

J. Jay Garfinkel

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Everyone will lose someone they love at some point in their life; a spouse, a parent, or a child. Having to deal with the clothes or personal effects that remain …
History February 26, 2021

Ruling Culture

Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Fiona Greenland

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to talk about her new book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the …
Law February 25, 2021

Protecting Art in the Street

A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti

Enrico Bonadio

Hosted by Nick Pozek
There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists’ …
Performing Arts February 25, 2021

Maybe the People Would Be the Times

Luc Sante

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020) could be described as a memoir in essay form. Collecting pieces from the past two decades, this book covers Luc Sante's …
SSEAC Stories February 25, 2021

A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between

A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Hosted by Natali Pearson
As a Thai-Australian woman artist, Phaptawan Suwannakudt has long battled prejudice and discrimination relating to her gender. This disappointment with society’s dictates features at the heart of Phaptawan’s artistic practice …