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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 …
High Theory
April 1, 2022
Welcome to High Theory!
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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 …
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June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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September 21, 2018
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June 8, 2023
Academic Ghosting
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Alicia Andrzejewski
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Christina Gessler
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General History
June 8, 2023
Command
The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
Lawrence Freedman
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Charles Coutinho
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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 …
Indian Religions
June 8, 2023
The Matter of Wonder
Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism
Loriliai Biernacki
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Raj Balkaran
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In the early 11th century, the Kashmiri philosopher Abhinavagupta proposed panentheism-seeing the divine as both immanent in the world and at the same time as transcendent--as a way to reclaim …
Anthropology
June 8, 2023
Well Connected
Everyday Water Practices in Cairo
Tessa Farmer
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Alize Arıcan
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Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water future. In …
Economic and Business History
June 8, 2023
Virtuous Bankers
A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
Anne L. Murphy
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Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
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The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders--and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, "a great engine of …
Israel Studies
June 8, 2023
This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light
Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience
Randy Grigsby
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Ari Barbalat
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Drawing on Henrietta Szold's letters and diary, extensive research, and historical sources of that time in Germany and Palestine, Randy Grigsby's book This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
June 8, 2023
Soviet Samizdat
Imagining a New Society
Ann Komaromi
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Iva Glisic
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Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society (Cornell UP, 2022) traces the emergence and development of samizdat, a significant and distinctive phenomenon of the late Soviet era that provided an uncensored …
Asian Review of Books
June 8, 2023
The Opium Business
A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China
Peter Thilly
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Nicholas Gordon
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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) …
Asian American Studies
June 8, 2023
Pedagogies of Woundedness
Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority
James Kyung-Jin Lee
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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 …
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June 8, 2023
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Habitual New Media
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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What it means when media moves from the new to the habitual--when our bodies become archives of supposedly obsolescent media, streaming, updating, sharing, saving. New media--we are told--exist at the …
Eastern European Studies
June 8, 2023
The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients
An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania
Marius Wamsiedel
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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 …
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June 7, 2023
Sit Write Share
Practical Writing Strategies to Transform Your Experience Into Content that Matters
Kathryn Britton
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Elizabeth Cronin
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Disability Studies
June 7, 2023
Activist Affordances
How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds
Arseli Dokumaci
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For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be …
Nomads, Past and Present
June 7, 2023
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
An Discussion with Ben Hoffler
Ben Hoffler
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Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin Trail …
Business, Management, and Marketing
June 7, 2023
Money and Love
An Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions
Myra Strober and Abby Davisson
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Gregory LaBlanc
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Should we separate decisions related to love and money, approaching finance and career-related decisions solely in a rational way while relying more on our emotions in the personal domain? Perhaps …
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