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Ministry of Ideas January 1, 2023

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …

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Nomads, Past and Present December 27, 2022

An Introduction to Digital Nomads

Maggie Freeman

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
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 …
High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

An Introduction

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
Politics & Polemics June 9, 2023

Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn

Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union

Doug Enaa Greene

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing socialism, Stalin being the primary pillar. His violent rule …
American West June 9, 2023

The Washington Apple

Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture

Amanda L. Van Lanen

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
In the nineteenth century, most American farms had a small orchard or at least a few fruit-bearing trees. People grew their own apple trees or purchased apples grown within a …
Burned by Books June 9, 2023

The Postcard

Translated by Tina Kover

Anne Berest

Hosted by Chris Holmes
January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On …
Medicine June 9, 2023

The Curious Human Knee

Han Yu

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as The Curious Human Knee (Columbia UP …
Celebration Studies June 9, 2023

Critical Brass

Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro

Andrew Snyder

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement …
MIT Press Podcast June 9, 2023

Turing’s Vision

The Birth of Computer Science

Chris Bernhardt

Hosted by MIT Press
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all …
Literature June 9, 2023

Sisu's Winter War

Liisa Kovala

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to Liisa Kovala about her new novel Sisu's Winter War (Latitude 46, 2022). Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother she would keep the family together, but she …
General History June 9, 2023

Orwell and Empire

Douglas Kerr

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Douglas Kerr's book Orwell and Empire (Oxford UP, 2022) is a study of …
Children's Literature June 9, 2023

When a Friend Needs a Friend

Anne Roos Kleiss

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
In our wonderful conversation, Anne Roos Kleiss, a Dutch author-illustrator based in Rotterdam, and I talk about her new book, When a Friend Needs a Friend (which just launched in …
Nordic Asia Podcast June 9, 2023

Creating Sustainable Value in Social Enterprises in Philippines

A Discussion with Assunta C. Cuyegkeng

Assunta C. Cuyegkeng

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Are there ways to tackle pressing social, environmental and economic problems at once? In this episode, Professor Assunta Cuyegkeng from Ateneo de Manilla University in Philippines joins Pilvi Posio to …
Disability Studies June 9, 2023

Cheap Talk

Disability and the Politics of Communication

Joshua St. Pierre

Hosted by Shu Wan
In Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication (U Michigan Press, 2022), Joshua St. Pierre flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the center of …
General History June 8, 2023

Command

The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

Lawrence Freedman

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Listen:
Command in war is about forging effective strategies and implementing them, making sure that orders are appropriate, well-communicated, and then obeyed. But it is also an intensely political process. This …
Asian American Studies June 8, 2023

Pedagogies of Woundedness

Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority

James Kyung-Jin Lee

Hosted by Shu Wan
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The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian …
Eastern European Studies June 8, 2023

The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients

An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania

Marius Wamsiedel

Hosted by Roland Clark
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Marius Wamsiedel's book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers ration …
Asian Review of Books June 8, 2023

The Opium Business

A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China

Peter Thilly

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Listen:
Opium is an awkward commodity. For the West, it’s a reminder of some of the shadier and best forgotten parts of its history. For China (and a few other countries) …