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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 …
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 …
Physics and Chemistry May 16, 2022

An Infinity of Worlds

Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

Will Kinney

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent …
General History May 16, 2022

High Minds

The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain

Simon Heffer

Hosted by Albert Zambone
Britain in the 1840s should have been, observes Simon Heffer, a time of great social improvement. Instead it was a country that was beset by poverty, unrest, assassination attempts on …
Science, Technology, and Society May 16, 2022

Four Shades of Gray

The Amazon Kindle Platform

Simon Peter Rowberry

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (MIT Press, 2022) is the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle explores the platform's technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing. Dr …
Art May 16, 2022

Actional Poetics-Ash She He

The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020

Sandra Johnston, Chérie Driver, and Paula Blair

Hosted by Brandon Sward
A retrospective monograph of Alistair MacLennan’s performance art practice, its influence on the Belfast art scene, and its relationships with wider art histories. Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations …
Asian American Studies May 16, 2022

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …
Geography May 16, 2022

Pipeline Populism

Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Kai Bosworth

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also …
High Theory May 16, 2022

Witnessing

A Discussion with Ulrich Baer

Ulrich Baer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ulrich Baer talks to Kim about the process and phenomenon of witnessing, which creates collective acknowledgement, understanding, and responsibility for trauma. Among other works, he talks about Shoshana Felman and …
Think About It May 16, 2022

Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"

Book Talk 52

Linda Patterson Miller

Hosted by Uli Baer
When first published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose relationships unravel …
Political Science May 16, 2022

When There Was No Aid

War and Peace in Somaliland

Sarah G. Phillips

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by …
Scholarly Communication May 16, 2022

Better Posters

Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster

Zen Faulkes

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Zen Faulkes, instructor at the School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University, Canada. We talk about his book Better Posters: Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster …
Economic and Business History May 16, 2022

A Brief History of Equality

Thomas Piketty

Hosted by Javier Mejia
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to …
East-West Psychology Podcast May 16, 2022

A Deep History of the California Institute of Integral Studies

A Discussion with Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
This installment of the EWP podcast will conclude our double episode feature on Haridas Chaudhuri and the roots of the California Institute of Integral Studies. This episode features a talk …
On Religion May 16, 2022

On Women of Color in American Islam

A Discussion with Sylvia Chan-Malik

Sylvia Chan-Malik

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sylvia Chan-Malik is Associate Professor in the Departments of American and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She talks, teaches, and writes about the intersections of race …
European Politics May 16, 2022

The Political Philosophy of the European City

From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?

Ferenc Hörcher

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
To many the city might seem simply a large urban area to live within, but it actually forms an important political concept and community that has been influential throughout European …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 13, 2022

Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991

Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it …
Ukrainian Studies May 13, 2022

The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide

The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s

Victoria A. Malko

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Victoria A. Malko's book The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s (Lexington Books, 2021) focuses on the first group targeted in …