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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. …
Academic Life June 8, 2023

Academic Ghosting

A Discussion with Alicia Andrzejewski

Alicia Andrzejewski

Hosted by Christina Gessler
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Have you ever been ghosted in academia? The mentor who no longer replies when you reach out, the collaborators who mysteriously stopped collaborating with you, the search committee that said …
General History June 8, 2023

Command

The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine

Lawrence Freedman

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

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 …
MIT Press Podcast June 8, 2023

Updating to Remain the Same

Habitual New Media

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Hosted by MIT Press
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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

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 …
Business, Management, and Marketing June 7, 2023

Sit Write Share

Practical Writing Strategies to Transform Your Experience Into Content that Matters

Kathryn Britton

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
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Do you keep promising yourself to write but never quite get around to it? Do you delete almost as many words as you write? Do you write things that never …
Disability Studies June 7, 2023

Activist Affordances

How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

Arseli Dokumaci

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard
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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

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
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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

Hosted by 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 …