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Introducing Ministry of Ideas
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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Maggie Freeman
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Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
An Introduction
Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault
September 21, 2018
An Introduction to NYIH Studios
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Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
Canadian Studies
September 28, 2023
Gifts from Amin
Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada
Shezan Muhammedi
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Ari Barbalat
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In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to "Ugandan citizens." Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans …
Political Science
September 28, 2023
Monitors and Meddlers
How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather
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Lamis Abdelaaty
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Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even legal-they all have enormous potential …
Asian Review of Books
September 28, 2023
Sovereigns of the Sea
Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire
Seema Alavi
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Nicholas Gordon
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It’s one of the strange artifacts of history that Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, was once controlled by the Sultanate of Oman. In 1832, then Sultan Sayyid Saïd bin …
Academic Life
September 28, 2023
Becoming the Writer You Already Are
A Conversation with Michelle R. Boyd
Michelle R. Boyd
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Christina Gessler
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Procrastination. Writer’s block. Feeling stuck. Are you struggling with the blank page? Today’s guest shares her methods that help writers move past these blocks by turning inward to discover their …
Almost Good Catholics
September 28, 2023
Hammertime and Hanukkah (with Matthew and Leeanne Thomas)
The Books of the Maccabees
Matthew Thomas and Leeanne Thomas
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Krzysztof Odyniec
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Between 167 and 160 BC, Judas Maccabeus and his brothers led a revolt against the Greek tyrant who desecrated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Miraculously victorious, the Jews rededicated the …
Science, Technology, and Society
September 28, 2023
Your Face Belongs to Us
A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
Kashmir Hill
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Jake Chanenson
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify …
Indian Religions
September 28, 2023
Local Selfhood, Global Turns
Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century
Sumit Chakrabarti
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Raj Balkaran
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Sumit Chakrabarti's book Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as …
African American Studies
September 28, 2023
Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America
Revolution, Race and Popular Performance
Peter Reed
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Katrina Anderson
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American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Cambridge UP, 2022), Peter P. Reed …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
September 28, 2023
Blood and Dirt
Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand
Jared Davidson
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Ed Amon
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Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy …
European Politics
September 28, 2023
Warmonger
Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars
Alex J. Bellamy
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Tim Jones
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"War was always central to Putin's project," writes Alex J. Bellamy in Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars (Agenda, 2023). Not just the second Chechen war that made him but the …
CEU Press Podcast Series
September 28, 2023
Perpetrators of Organized Violence
Series Spotlight
Waitman Wade Beorn, Weronika Grzebalska, and Iva Vukušić
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Episode 4 of the CEU Press Podcast Series introduces one of the Press’s new series, entitled Perpetrators of Organized Violence: Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe. The series editors, Waitman Wade …
Korean Studies
September 27, 2023
Celluloid Democracy
Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea
Hieyoon Kim
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Anthony Kao
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Before South Korea became the democracy and media powerhouse that it is today, it underwent several decades of authoritarian rule during the Cold War from the late 1940s to late …
History of Science
September 27, 2023
Pseudoscience
A Very Short Introduction
Michael D. Gordin
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on …
Middle Eastern Studies
September 27, 2023
Placing Islam
Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
Timur Warner Hammond
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Reuben Silverman
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For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center …
Children's Literature
September 27, 2023
Song After Song
The Musical Life of Julie Andrews
Julie Hedlund
Hosted by
Mel Rosenberg
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Julie Hedlund is back as our guest on New Books Network to talk about her brand new picture book, Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Andrews published on …
African American Studies
September 27, 2023
An Abolitionist Abroad
Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe
Sirpa Salenius
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Katrina Anderson
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Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across …
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