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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 …

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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 …
Literature January 25, 2022

The Singing Forest

Judith McCormack

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Two children stumble upon a mass grave in the forest outside of Minsk in Belarus where the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, buried tens of thousands of innocent victims of torture …
Middle Eastern Studies January 25, 2022

Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder

Jason Pack

Hosted by James M. Dorsey
Libya stands out as an example of a complex, internecine Middle Eastern and North African conflict in which regional and global powers as well as jihadists exploit tribal and sectarian …
Psychoanalysis January 25, 2022

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

Father Desire, Father Wounds

Susan E. Schwartz

Hosted by Christopher Russell
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds (Routledge, 2020) investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches …
Finance January 25, 2022

The Revolution That Wasn't

GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

Spencer Jakab

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio/Penguin, 2022), WSJ columnist Spencer Jakab weaves together personal narratives, the key market institutions, and social media to tell the fascinating …
Children's Literature January 25, 2022

The Family (and Frog! ) Haggadah

Karen Rostoger-Gruber

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
I talked with Karen Rostoger-Gruber and her sidekick, Maria (Karen is a ventriloquist) on her career and writing process and celebrated her Passover hagaddah (prayer book) with an amphibian twist: The …
Film January 25, 2022

The First True Hitchcock

The Making of a Filmmaker

Henry K. Miller

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
This untold origin story of the filmmaker explores its transatlantic history. Alfred Hitchcock called The Lodger "the first true Hitchcock movie," one that anticipated all the others. And yet, the …
General History January 25, 2022

Blood and Iron

The Rise and Fall of the German Empire

Katja Hoyer

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast January 25, 2022

Practice Item no. 1

Matthew O'Connell

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Take a trip to the Great Feast in this first in a series of posts on the practising life. Non-Buddhism meets post-traditional slants on practice, whilst tackling complexity, doubt, and …
East Asian Studies January 24, 2022

Queer Taiwanese Literature

A Reader

Howard Chiang

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
As the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in Asia and host the first annual gay pride in the Sinophone Pacific, Taiwan is a historic center of lesbian, gay, bisexual …
Islamic Studies January 24, 2022

Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit

Bruce B. Lawrence

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In his new book cum manifesto, Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), legendary scholar of Islam Bruce Lawrence outlines his politico-conceptual manifesto for the study and place of Islam in the …
Buddhist Studies January 24, 2022

Buddhism in Five Minutes

Elizabeth J. Harris

Hosted by Olivia Porter
In Elizabeth J. Harris' Buddhism in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2021), academic specialists offer answers to 75 questions about Buddhism that people curious about Buddhism might ask. The questions cover …
Children's Literature January 24, 2022

Irving Berlin

The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing

Nancy Churnin

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Nancy Churnin about her book Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing (Creston Books, 2018).Irving Berlin came to the United States as a refugee from …
General History January 24, 2022

A Short History of War

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Throughout history, warfare has transformed social, political, cultural, and religious aspects of our lives. We tell tales of wars--past, present, and future--to create and reinforce a common purpose. In A …
Women's History January 21, 2022

Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought

Kristin Waters

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Kristin Waters' book Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought (U Mississippi Press, 2021) tells a crucial, almost-forgotten story of African Americans of early nineteenth-century America. In 1833 …
Nordic Asia Podcast January 21, 2022

China's Environmental Foreign Relations

Heidi Wang-Kaeding

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Environmental protection and climate actions has embedded in China’s foreign policy and the Chinese government has recently pledged to make the Belt and Road Initiative “open, green, and clean”. How …
Environmental Studies January 21, 2022

Climate Chaos

Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors

Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From …
Poetry January 21, 2022

The Sign of the Dragon

Mary Soon Lee

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
First place winner of the 2021 Elgin Award, The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee (Jaberwocky, 2020) is an epic fantasy about a young king who must defend …
Critical Theory January 21, 2022

Confidence Culture

Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill

Hosted by Louisa Hann
In Confidence Culture (Duke UP, 2022), Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather …