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Education June 15, 2021

Level Up Your Essays

How to Fix Your University Essays and Get Better Grades

Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth

Hosted by Bede Haines
I've had 18 years of formal education - why is writing so hard? Today's guests Dr Katherine Firth explains the disease's cure. The book Level Up Your Essays guides the reader through university essay writing, running through stages including …

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Journalism June 15, 2021

Imagined Audiences

How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public

Jacob L. Nelson

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry — including profound financial instability and public distrust — is for journalists to improve connections to their audiences. Conversations about the proper …
Southeast Asian Studies June 15, 2021

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age

The Yellow Shirts in Thailand

Aim Sinpeng

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why did hundreds of thousands of Thai people rise up in opposition to elected governments in 2006, 2008 and 2013-14? What were the ideological underpinnings of the yellow shirt movement …
Scholarly Communication June 15, 2021

The Ethics of Persuasion

Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies

Brooke Rollins

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Brooke Rollins, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University. We talk about lots of Greeks and about one Frenchman and (if you write) also about …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel June 14, 2021

Dedicated

The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Pete Davis

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given movie—and losing so much time skimming reviews and considering trailers …
Political Science June 10, 2021

Against Demagogues

What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy

Robert C. Bartlett

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Theorist Robert Bartlett spoke with the New Books in Political Science podcast about two of his recent publications, which take on translating the work of two distinct classical thinkers …
Scholarly Communication June 8, 2021

Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing

Iain McGee

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Iain McGee (PhD, Cardiff University) a PhD student in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of Bristol (UK), and an EAP teacher …
History June 7, 2021

The Constitution of Knowledge

A Defense of Truth

Jonathan Rauch

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In recent years Americans have experienced a range of assaults upon the truth. In The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (Brookings Institution Press, 2021), Jonathan Rauch describes the …
Journalism June 4, 2021

Community-Centered Journalism

Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust

Andrea Wenzel

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
At a time when trust in the media is low and "news deserts" are increasing across the United States, engaged journalism offers a framework for connecting people, community organizations, and news …
Technology June 3, 2021

Parenting for a Digital Future

How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children's Lives

Sonia Livingstone and Alicia Blum-Ross

Hosted by Najarian Peters
In this interview, I talked with Professor Sonia Livingstone about her book Parenting for a Digital Future: How Hopes and Fears about Technology Shape Children’s Lives (Oxford UP, 2020). The …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work June 3, 2021

Porn Work

Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Heather Berg

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what …
Literary Studies June 2, 2021

When Novels Were Books

Jordan Alexander Stein

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
For most of the eighteenth century, the format, size, and price of the earliest novels meant that they would have been sold and bought alongside Protestant religious texts. In When Novels Were …
Communications June 2, 2021

Photographic Presidents

Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital

Cara A. Finnegan

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks. In this episode, Dr. Lee M. Pierce (they & she) interviews Dr. Cara A. Finnegan about Photographic Presidents: Making History …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast June 1, 2021

Newspaper Confessions

A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age

Julie Golia

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Julie Golia's new book Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford UP, 2021) chronicles the history of the newspaper advice column, a genre that has shaped …
Italian Studies May 31, 2021

Le norme traviate

Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana

Sergio Rigoletto

Hosted by Ellen Nerenberg
What does it mean to “upend a norm,” which is the translation of the title of Sergio Rigoletto’s recent study “Upended norms: essays on gender and sexuality in Italian cinema …
Education May 31, 2021

The Enthymeme

Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric

James Fredal

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
James Fredal is Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. The recipient of multiple awards for his work in rhetorical theory and history, Fredal is …
Mathematics May 31, 2021

Innumeracy in the Wild

Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers

Ellen Peters

Hosted by Cory Brunson
To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in our quantitative reasoning skills have received considerable …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 25, 2021

Cold War Correspondents

Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines

Dina Fainberg

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In an age of mutual acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly influenced the ways that policy makers, pundits …
Critical Theory May 21, 2021

The Digital Disconnect

The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities

Ellen Helsper

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What are digital inequalities? In The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities (Sage, 2021), Ellen Helsper, a Professor of Digital Inequalities in the Department of Media …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work May 19, 2021

Pain Generation

Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie

L. Ayu Saraswati

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian American …