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East-West Psychology Podcast April 4, 2022

Introduction to the East-West Psychology Podcast

Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode you will meet your podcast hosts, Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay and learn a little about their journey to the East-West Psychology Department of CIIS. They will …

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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. …
Ministry of Ideas August 1, 2017

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
General History September 30, 2022

Armed Citizens

The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment

Noah Shusterman

Hosted by Michael Vann
Although much has changed in the United States since the eighteenth century, our framework for gun laws still largely relies on the Second Amendment and the patterns that emerged in …
Medieval History September 30, 2022

Royal Childhood and Child Kingship

Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262

Emily Joan Ward

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Royal Childhood and Child Kingship: Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) refines adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership. Dr. Emily Joan Ward exposes …
Islamic Studies September 30, 2022

Hidden Caliphate

Sufi Saints Beyond the Oxus and Indus

Waleed Ziad

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
Today, we speak with Waleed Ziad, about his book Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus, published in 2021 with Harvard University Press. Ziad is an assistant professor …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 30, 2022

Beyond Meat?

Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam

Helene Ramnæs, Marius Korsnes, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, and Arve Hansen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What explains the uneven meatification of diets in three of Asia’s core ‘emerging economies’? How and why is meat consumption changing today, and what role have American fast-food chains played …
Japanese Studies September 30, 2022

Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration

From War Brides to Issei

Johanna O. Zulueta

Hosted by Jingyi Li
The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different …
Writ Large September 30, 2022

On David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature"

A Discussion with Edward Hall

Edward Hall

Hosted by Zachary Davis
In 1739, Scottish philosopher David Hume set out to chart the nature and limits of human knowledge. He published his theories and findings in what would become one of philosophy’s …
On Religion September 30, 2022

On Religion and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in San Francisco

A Discussion with Lynne Gerber

Lynne Gerber

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Lynne Gerber (she/her/hers) is an independent scholar. She is the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual-Reorientation in Evangelical America (Chicago, 2011). She is currently working …
Early Modern History September 30, 2022

Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Maria Berbara

Hosted by Jana Byars
When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Representations of Tupinamba cannibals, Aztecs slicing human …
Canadian Studies September 30, 2022

The Canada-US Border: A History of a Fluid and Unstable Boundary

A Discussion with Benjamin Hoy

Benjamin Hoy

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Benjamin Hoy, author of A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands (Oxford UP, 2021). Hoy’s book is a history of …
Children's Literature September 30, 2022

Superpower?

The Wearable-Tech Revolution

Elaine Kachala

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Elaine Kachala is a strategic thinker and writer with over twenty-five years of healthcare experience with governments, agencies, and associations. She is also a children's book author. Her nonfiction book …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast September 30, 2022

Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy

A Discussion with Jin Y. Park

Jin Y. Park

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Welcome to the new season of the Imperfect Buddha Podcast. After a well-earned and challenging summer filled with drought, war, political strife and ridiculous heat, we’re back in the saddle …
Jewish Studies September 30, 2022

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society

Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825

Aviva Ben-Ur

Hosted by Drora Arussy
Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651-1825 (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020) explores the political and social history of the Jews of Suriname, a Dutch colony …
Catholic Studies September 30, 2022

The KGB and the Vatican

Secrets of the Mitrokhin Files

Sean Brennan

Hosted by Allison Isidore
One of the greatest ironies of the history of Soviet rule is that, for an officially atheistic state, those in the political police and in the Politburo devoted an enormous …
Chinese Studies September 30, 2022

Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting

Juliane Noth

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
Juliane Noth’s Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Paintings, coming very soon from the Harvard University Asia Center (2022), tracks a relatively short but transformative period in ink painting that coincides with …