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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 …
African American Studies July 4, 2022

Ugly Freedoms

Elisabeth R. Anker

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
In Ugly Freedoms (Duke UP, 2022), Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been …
Jewish Studies July 4, 2022

Rav Kook

Mystic in a Time of Revolution

Yehudah Mirsky

Hosted by Matthew Miller
A powerfully original thinker, Rav Kook combined strict traditionalism and an embrace of modernity, Orthodoxy and tolerance, piety and audacity, scholasticism and ecstasy, and passionate nationalism with profound universalism. Though …
Literary Studies July 4, 2022

Hidden Hands

The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

Mary Wellesley

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded …
Anthropology July 4, 2022

Commodities of Care

The Business of HIV Testing in China

Elsa L. Fan

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities …
Southeast Asian Studies July 4, 2022

A Soldier King

Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X

Supalak Ganjanakhundee

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
What is the relationship between the military and the monarchy in Thailand? How has that relationship changed since King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) assumed the throne in 2016? Why have recent …
Jewish Studies July 4, 2022

Recording History

Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Christopher Silver

Hosted by Avery Weinman
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Stanford UP, 2022) offers a new history of twentieth-century North Africa, one that gives voice to the musicians who defined …
South Asian Studies July 4, 2022

Properties of Rent

Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi

Sushmita Pati

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and …
American West July 4, 2022

The Chinese Question

The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics

Mae Ngai

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Between 1848 and 1899, miners extracted more gold from the earth than in the previous 3,000 years of human history combined. Each gold rush in this period, from the Sierra …
East-West Psychology Podcast July 4, 2022

Ancestral Remembrance, Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Pedagogy

A Discussion with Kimmy Johnson

Kimmy Johnson

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode we meet long time East-West Psychology faculty member, Kimmy Johnson, who describes her transformative journey starting as a student of Consciousness Studies and Traditional Knowledge at CIIS …
On Religion July 4, 2022

On the Enchanted Politics of Marianne Williamson and Jonathan Cahn

A Discussion with Sam Kestenbaum

Sam Kestenbaum

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sam Kestenbaum is an independent religion journalist. He writes for The New York Times and is a contributing editor and former staff writer for The Forward. He spent several years …
Film July 4, 2022

The Earth Dies Streaming

Film Writing, 2002-2018

A. S. Hamrah

Hosted by Annie Berke
The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018 (N+1 Books, 2018) collects the best of A. S. Hamrah’s film writing for n+1, The Baffler, Bookforum, Harper’s, and other publications. Acerbic, insightful …
High Theory July 4, 2022

Biscuit Art

A Discussion with Ella Hawkins

Ella Hawkins

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ella Hawkins talks about the biscuits she makes, inspired by her research on Elizabethan dress, and on everything from William Morris wallpapers to TV shows like Outlander and Game of …
General History July 4, 2022

A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues

Peter Hughes

Hosted by Lia Paradis
The ongoing debate surrounding who gets to determine the subjects of public commemoration, particularly in the form of statues, has become more heated over the past few years. In his …
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 …
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 …