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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 …
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 …
Latin American Studies July 1, 2022

Bedlam in the New World

A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

Christina Ramos

Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
In Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (UNC Press, 2022), Cristina Ramos tells us the story of Mexico city’s oldest public institution for …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast July 1, 2022

The Secret Body

How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live

Daniel M. Davis

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your …
Islamic Studies July 1, 2022

The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War

Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards

Annie Tracy Samuel

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Cambridge UP, 2021) represents a fascinating and carefully documented intellectual history of how Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps …
German Studies July 1, 2022

The Hygienic Apparatus

Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder

Paul Dobryden

Hosted by Paul Lerner
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder (Northwestern UP, 2022) traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany’s Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth …
Art July 1, 2022

The ABC of the Projectariat

Living and Working in a Precarious Art World

Kuba Szreder

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Labour has taken an about-turn. From Adam Smith’s proposal for specialisation which saw the factory line reorganised so that each worker needed to understand only a small aspect of the …
Philosophy July 1, 2022

On Believing

Being Right in a World of Possibilities

David Hunter

Hosted by Robert Talisse
According to many standard philosophical accounts, beliefs are a kind of stance one takes toward a proposition. To believe that Nashville is in Tennessee is to adopt a certain attitude …
Popular Culture July 1, 2022

Curious about George

Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism

Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In 1940, Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey built two bikes, packed what they could, and fled wartime Paris. Among the possessions they escaped with was a manuscript that would …
On Religion July 1, 2022

On Black Religion and Racial Identity

A Discussion with Judith Weisenfeld

Judith Weisenfeld

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Judith Weisenfeld teaches in the Department of Religion at Princeton University where she is the Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion and Associated Faculty in the …
Anthropology July 1, 2022

War Virtually

The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future

Roberto J. González

Hosted by Jolon Timms
A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare—and why we must resist. War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize …
Women's History July 1, 2022

Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era

Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era (Southern Illinois UP, 2021), editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of contributors in the fields of …
High Theory July 1, 2022

Trace

A Discussion with Farah Bakaari

Farah Bakaari

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Farah Bakaari talks about Trace, a core concept in deconstruction, that denotes an absent presence, a mark of something that is no longer there. She talks about how in her …
Geography July 1, 2022

Black to Nature

Pastoral Return and African American Culture

Stefanie K. Dunning

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2021), author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 1, 2022

The Struggle for Hong Kong

A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why should we view the anti-China protests that began in Hong Kong in 2019 through a comparative lens? How do earlier episodes in Hong Kong’s history help us make sense …
Eastern European Studies July 1, 2022

I Am Jugoslovenka!

Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism

Jasmina Tumbas

Hosted by Iva Glisic
With I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester UP, 2022), Jasmina Tumbas examines forms of feminist political and artistic engagement in Yugoslavia and its successor nations …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists July 1, 2022

From Biological Bench Science to Teaching at Grinnell College

A Chat with Charvann Bailey

Charvann Bailey

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I chatted with Charvann Bailey, assistant professor of biology at Grinnell College. We discussed her route to a Ph.D. in biology, the struggles of post-docing and bench science, and her …