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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. …
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 March 29, 2023

Cooperating with the Colossus

A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America

Rebecca Herman

Hosted by Rachel Newman
During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it …
World Affairs March 29, 2023

Critical Disaster Studies

Jacob A.C. Remes and Andy Horowitz

Hosted by Anna Levy
This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts …
Music March 29, 2023

I Don't Belong Anywhere

Gyorgy Ligeti At 100

Wolfgang Marx

Hosted by David Kunsman
Wolfgang Marx's I Don't Belong Anywhere: Gyorgy Ligeti At 100 (Brepols Publishers, 2022) commemorates the centenary of Gyorgy Ligeti's birth. The volume consists of twelve contributions that consists of new investigations of many …
Film March 29, 2023

The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson

American Apocrypha

Ethan Warren

Hosted by Daniel Moran
Paul Thomas Anderson’s evolution from a brash, self-anointed “Indiewood” auteur to one of his generation’s most distinctive voices has been one of the most remarkable career trajectories in recent …
South Asian Studies March 29, 2023

Nehru's India

A History in Seven Myths

Taylor C. Sherman

Hosted by Anubha Anushree
Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths (Princeton UP, 2022) brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive …
Irish Studies March 29, 2023

Dindshenchas Érenn

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
The purpose of the present volume, Dindshenchas Érenn (U College Cork, 2022), is to provide an accessible overview and entry into the complex literary creation known as Dindshenchas Érenn ‘History of …
Jewish Studies March 29, 2023

Memory Is Our Home

Loss and Remembering--Three Generations in Poland and Russia 1917-1960s

Suzanna Eibuszyc

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
A courageous young woman escaping Nazi Germany, with no choice other than to leave her family behind... Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc was born in Warsaw near the end of World War I …
Genocide Studies March 29, 2023

Perpetrators

Encountering Humanity's Dark Side

Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Alex Hinton

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Perpetrators of mass violence are commonly regarded as evil. Their violent nature is believed to make them commit heinous crimes as members of state agencies, insurgencies, terrorist organizations, or racist …
MIT Press Podcast March 29, 2023

Sybil Ludington, Material Culture, and American Mythmaking

A Discussion with Marla R. Miller and Paula D. Hunt

Marla R. Miller and Paula D. Hunt

Hosted by MIT Press
Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of a lovely feminine Paul Revere... Marla R. Miller and Paula D. Hunt discuss Sybil Ludington, material culture, and American mythmaking. Although there …
Public Policy March 29, 2023

The Poverty Paradox

Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity

Mark Robert Rank

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century--why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among …
Madison's Notes March 29, 2023

Humble Beginnings

A Conversation with Robert P. George

Robert P. George

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. In this inaugural episode of Madison's Notes …
Darts & Letters March 29, 2023

Life Extension Therapies

Do You Want to Live Forever? Could You Live Forever? Should You Live Forever?

Hosted by Jay Cockburn
The story of the Fountain of Youth is as old as history itself. Herodotus, the father of ancient Greek history, wrote of a mythical spring that extended the life of …
Anthropology March 28, 2023

The Avatar Faculty

Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games

Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
The Avatar Faculty: Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games (University of California Press, 2023) creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can …
Jewish Studies March 28, 2023

Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948-1994)

Roni Mikel-Arieli

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, Roni Mikel-Arieli's Remembering the …