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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 …
Literature April 2, 2023

Halfway from Home

Essays

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection of essays, Halfway from Home (Split Lip Press, 2022). These essays explore, in nuanced and beautiful prose, Montgomery’s journey to find …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery April 2, 2023

Psychonauts

Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay

Hosted by Claire Clark
Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs …
Genocide Studies April 2, 2023

Still Life with Bones

Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

Hosted by Kelly McFall
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forensic eye. She examines bones for marks …
MIT Press Podcast April 2, 2023

Network Neuroscience

A Discussion with Olaf Sporns

Olaf Sporns

Hosted by MIT Press
The intersection between cutting-edge neuroscience and the emerging field of network science has been growing tremendously over the past decade. Olaf Sporns, editor of Network Neuroscience, and Distinguished Professor, Provost …
Jewish Studies April 2, 2023

The Land Is Mine

Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance

Andrew D. Berns

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and Isaac Arama wrote biblical commentaries that stressed the significance of land. They interpreted Judaism …
Chinese Studies April 2, 2023

Seeking Western Men

Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise

Monica Liu

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries …
Critical Theory April 2, 2023

Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge

Reflections on Power and Possibility

Foluke Adebisi

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene
Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility (Bristol UP, 2023) details the ways in which the law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialized …
Medicine April 2, 2023

Aging in America

Deborah Carr

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Deborah Carr provides a lively, nuanced, and timely …
Eastern European Studies April 2, 2023

Rain of Ash

Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust

Ari Joskowicz

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Ari Joskowicz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2023). Jews and Roma …
Medieval History April 2, 2023

Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts

Elizabeth Marshall

Hosted by Latoya Johnson
Two perceptions about wolves are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the superstition that the wolf could steal a person's speech, and the perceived contiguous natures of wolves …
Irish Studies April 2, 2023

Democracy and Dissent in the Irish Free State

Opposition, Decolonization, and Majority Rights

Jason Knirck

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Jason Knirck is the chair of the History Department at Central Washington University. He is a modern Irish historian who also teaches British and western European history. His research concerns …
Christian Studies April 1, 2023

He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence

The Many Lives of Psalm 91

Philip Jenkins

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jews and Christians alike have made Psalm 91 one of the most commonly used and cited parts of the Bible. For over two thousand years, the psalm has played a …
American Studies April 1, 2023

The Racial Railroad

Julia H. Lee

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Despite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast April 1, 2023

Incognito

The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel

Dianne Harke

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
I grew up with Alexandra David-Neel’s books on my mum’s bookshelf. She was part of the myth making process that led to my own fascination with Tibet, as something real …