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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. …
Disability Studies June 10, 2023

Tōjisha Manga

Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health

Yoshiko Okuyama

Hosted by Shu Wan
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Yoshiko Okuyama's book Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) defines tōjisha manga as Japan’s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of …
American Studies June 10, 2023

Vote Gun

How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States

Patrick J. Charles

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Today, gun control is one of the most polarizing topics in American politics. However, before the 1960s, positions on firearms rights did not necessarily map onto partisan affiliation. What explains …
American South June 10, 2023

Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Kathryn Olivarius

Hosted by Kendall Dinniene
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Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified the brutal inequities of slave-powered capitalism …
Military History June 10, 2023

Iron and Blood

A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500

Peter H. Wilson

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
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German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically …
Mobilities and Methods June 10, 2023

Dying Abroad

The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe

Osman Balkan

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
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On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries of settlement …
MIT Press Podcast June 10, 2023

Sharing the Work

What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through

Myra Strober

Hosted by MIT Press
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Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she …
Education June 10, 2023

The Autocratic Academy

Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
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Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule Within America's Universities (Duke UP …
Performing Arts June 10, 2023

Gold

Translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Rumi

Hosted by Andy Boyd
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In this conversation, we discuss Haleh Liza Gafori's masterful new translations of poetry by Rumi, the 13th-century Persian mystic and poet. Rumi's work is well-known in the West, but has …
Russian and Eurasian Studies June 10, 2023

New Histories of Violence in and around the Second World War

A Discussion with Max Bergholz and Nicole Eaton

Max Bergholz and Nicole Eaton

Hosted by Stephen Bittner
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Why does state-led and intercommunal violence occur? How do past episodes of mass violence reverberate in the present? How do victims and perpetrators make sense of each other in the …
Literature June 10, 2023

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature

Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary Collage

Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart

Hosted by Eric LeMay
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Today I interview Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart about their new collaboration, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature (Rose Metal Press, 2023). The book brings together 2 …
Archaeology June 10, 2023

Objects Untimely

Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology

Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
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Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore, who defend …
Burned by Books June 9, 2023

The Postcard

Translated by Tina Kover

Anne Berest

Hosted by Chris Holmes
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January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front, a photo of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. On …
Politics & Polemics June 9, 2023

Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn

Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union

Doug Enaa Greene

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
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As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing socialism, Stalin being the primary pillar. His violent rule …
General History June 9, 2023

Orwell and Empire

Douglas Kerr

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
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George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Douglas Kerr's book Orwell and Empire (Oxford UP, 2022) is a study of …
MIT Press Podcast June 9, 2023

Turing’s Vision

The Birth of Computer Science

Chris Bernhardt

Hosted by MIT Press
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In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all …