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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 …
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. …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery December 10, 2023

Agents of Chaos

Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

Sean Howe

Hosted by Emily Dufton
It wasn’t easy writing a biography the mysterious, shape-shifting Thomas King Forçade, but after nine years of research and extensive interviews, Sean Howe did it. His new book, Agents of …
Anthropology December 10, 2023

A Thousand Tiny Cuts

Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands

Sahana Ghosh

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands (U California Press, 2023) …
Library Science December 10, 2023

American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory

Matthew Dennis

Hosted by Hallel Yadin
The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness December 10, 2023

Your Heart Was Made for This

Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

Oren Jay Sofer

Hosted by Tricycle Magazine
What is the role of contemplative practice in times of crisis? And how can meditation actually support us in meeting the greatest challenges of our time? Oren Jay Sofer takes …
Science, Technology, and Society December 10, 2023

Forensic Colonialism

Genetics and the Capture of Indigenous Peoples

Mark Munsterhjelm

Hosted by Melek Firat Altay
Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologies, however, has been accomplished through the capture of various Indigenous …
Economics December 10, 2023

Invested

How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds

Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, James Taylor, and Helen Paul

Hosted by Nathan Moore
Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have guaranteed that …
Philosophy December 10, 2023

Why? The Purpose of the Universe

Philip Goff

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Does the universe have a purpose? If it does, how is this connected to the meaningfulness that we seek in our lives? In Why? The Purpose of the Universe (Oxford …
Ministry of Ideas December 10, 2023

A Medieval Anti-Racist

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6

Hosted by Zachary Davis
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of injustice gave rise both to an early form of anti-racism and to the racial hierarchies …
American West December 10, 2023

Urban Homelands

Writing the Native City from Oklahoma

Lindsey Claire Smith

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
What do Tulsa, Santa Fe, and New Orleans have in common? When viewed from the perspective of Indigenous arts and culture, the answer is quite a bit. In Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City …
South Asian Studies December 10, 2023

Round Table Conference Geographies

Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London

Stephen Legg

Hosted by Tusharika Deka
Stephen Legg's Round Table Conference Geographies: Constituting Colonial India in Interwar London (Cambridge UP, 2022) explores a major international conference in 1930s London which determined India's constitutional future in the British …
Jewish Studies December 9, 2023

101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel

Raquel Ukeles, Hezi Amiur, and Yoel Finkelman

Hosted by Matthew Miller
101 Treasures from the National Library of Israel (Scala Arts, 2022) provides a thematic journey through the rich and diverse collections of the National Library of Israel and the Jewish …
Indian Ocean World December 9, 2023

Another Look at Congolese History

Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives (1880-1899)

Xavier Luffin

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020), edited by Xavier Luffin, unlocks an unprecedented journey through the tapestry …
Think About It December 9, 2023

Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Threats to Democracy and H. L. Mencken’s "Notes on Democracy"

Book Talk 61

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Hosted by Uli Baer
A century ago, journalist H. L. Mencken provocatively stated in Notes On Democracy (new edition by Warbler Press, 2023) that anti-democratic behavior is not only not shocking but that we …
Library Science December 9, 2023

The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory

Practical Applications in Library Settings

Ann Medaille

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Demonstrating how learning theories are applicable to a variety of real-world contexts, The Librarian's Guide to Learning Theory: Practical Applications in Library Settings (ALA Editions, 2023) will help library workers …
Almost Good Catholics December 9, 2023

Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth

How the Flower World Bloomed into History in 1531

Joseph Gonzalez and Monique González

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
It turns out that our familiar narrative of the Virgin of Guadalupe, when Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 and left her image on his tilma, resembles an …
Ministry of Ideas December 9, 2023

Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico

Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But for this concept to gain power, its logic had to be spread – and made …