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Education June 15, 2021

Level Up Your Essays

How to Fix Your University Essays and Get Better Grades

Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth

Hosted by Bede Haines
I've had 18 years of formal education - why is writing so hard? Today's guests Dr Katherine Firth explains the disease's cure. The book Level Up Your Essays guides the reader through university essay writing, running through stages including …

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In Conversation: An OUP Podcast June 15, 2021

The Chiefs Now in This City

Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America

Colin Calloway

Hosted by Marshall Poe
During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business …
Literature June 15, 2021

What a Wonderful World this Could Be

Lee Zacharias

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Lee Zacharias about her new book What a Wonderful World this Could Be (Madville Publishing, 2021). Alex has always wanted a real family. Her father commits suicide, her …
Education June 15, 2021

Improve Every Lesson Plan with SEL

Jeffrey Benson

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
“Every bit of SEL”—or Social Emotional Learning, writes Jeffrey Benson—“you can integrate into your planning will not only begin to heal the wounds of passivity, racism, and inequity, but also …
Education June 15, 2021

Generous Thinking

A Radical Approach to Saving the University

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) charges the academy with thinking constructively rather …
Journalism June 15, 2021

Imagined Audiences

How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public

Jacob L. Nelson

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
Many believe the solution to ongoing crises in the news industry — including profound financial instability and public distrust — is for journalists to improve connections to their audiences. Conversations about the proper …
History June 15, 2021

An Infinite History

The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries

Emma Rothschild

Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
Emma Rothschild’s new book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021) (see the book’s accompanying website here: https://infinitehistory.org), is a …
Performing Arts June 15, 2021

2 Washington Square

Constance Congdon

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Constance Congdon's 2 Washington Square (Broadway Play Publishing, 2020) is a free-wheeling adaptation of Henry James' novel Washington Square set on the cusp of the 1960s as one era gives way to a startlingly …
Anthropology June 15, 2021

Island of Hope

Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean

Megan A. Carney

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast June 15, 2021

Taken for Granted

The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable

Eviatar Zerubavel

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Offering …
Medicine June 15, 2021

Challenging Choices

Canada's Population Control in the 1970s

Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux

Hosted by Claire Clark
Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse …
Scholarly Communication June 15, 2021

The Ethics of Persuasion

Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies

Brooke Rollins

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Brooke Rollins, Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University. We talk about lots of Greeks and about one Frenchman and (if you write) also about …
Southeast Asian Studies June 15, 2021

Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age

The Yellow Shirts in Thailand

Aim Sinpeng

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why did hundreds of thousands of Thai people rise up in opposition to elected governments in 2006, 2008 and 2013-14? What were the ideological underpinnings of the yellow shirt movement …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery June 15, 2021

Narcosubmarines

Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs

Javier Guerrero C.

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Javier Guerrero's "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020) is about the encounters of Colombian drug smugglers and the Colombian Navy, both in the …
Science June 14, 2021

Brainscapes

The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind …
Science June 14, 2021

Conversations About Neuroscience

Howard Burton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five Ideas Roadshow books that have been developed from filmed wide-ranging conversations with the following leading neuroscientists: Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University), Jennifer Groh (Duke …
American Studies June 14, 2021

The Trials of Thomas Morton

An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

Peter C. Mancall

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Every good story needs a villain, and some of the early chroniclers of the pilgrim and puritan settlements found all they needed for this type of character in Thomas Morton. Peter …
History June 14, 2021

Religion and the American Revolution

An Imperial History

Katherine Carté

Hosted by Lane Davis
For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex …
The Future of Higher Education June 14, 2021

An Interview with Gayle Riggs

Gayle Riggs

Hosted by David Finegold
This episode is a companion to the interview with David Galas on the founding of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, the newest of the Claremont Colleges. Gayle …
The Future of Higher Education June 14, 2021

An interview with David Galas

Founding Chief Academic Officer and Chancellor of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Science and Principal Scientist, Pacific Northwest Labs

Hosted by David Finegold
David Galas describes his unusual journey from Air Force brat to theoretical physicist to Systems Biologist in charge of the Human Genome Project for the U.S. Department of Energy. He …