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Darts & Letters February 1, 2023

Discordia Revisited

The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002

Hosted by Gordon Katic
20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to speak on campus. Windows were smashed, arrests were made …

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Interviews with scholars of Canada about their new books.

Geography January 25, 2023

Just One Rain Away

The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control

Stephanie C. Kane

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and …
Canadian Studies January 21, 2023

Lock, Stock, and Icebergs

A History of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty

Adam Lajeunesse

Hosted by Lavinia Stan
In April 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald Reagan a globe, pointed to the Arctic, and said "Ron that's …
Art January 14, 2023

Archaeology of Metaphor

The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch

Donna Stein

Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together ideas in art, science, ecology, and human consciousness. The artworks in multiple …
Medicine January 10, 2023

The First Resort

The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States

Matthew Smith

Hosted by Claire Clark
Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its proponents developed environmental explanations of mental health, arguing that …
Darts & Letters December 26, 2022

"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID)

A Discussion of the Ethics of Dying in Canada

Trudo Lemmens and Derryk Smith

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's choices on harm reduction grounds, even …
Language December 25, 2022

Take My Word for It

A Dictionary of English Idioms

Anatoly Liberman

Hosted by Daniel Moran
Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations. To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish …
American West December 22, 2022

Defending the Arctic Refuge

A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice

Finis Dunaway

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
In far northeastern Alaska lies one of the most remarkable, and contested, places in North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This coastal arctic region is a place of great natural …
American West December 21, 2022

The North American West in the Twenty-First Century

Brenden W. Rensink

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century …
History of Science December 12, 2022

Covid-19

A History

Jacalyn Duffin

Hosted by Corinne Doria
For two years the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world. The physician and medical historian Jacalyn Duffin presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. In Covid-19 …
Canadian Studies December 11, 2022

Fight to Win

Inside Poor People's Organizing

AJ Withers

Hosted by Phil Henderson
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several decades. In the brilliant Fight to Win …
Academic Life December 8, 2022

Misrepresentation on Campus

A Conversation with Michelle Cyca

Michelle Cyca

Hosted by Christina Gessler
When a professor is not who they say they are, what does it take to get them to resign? This episode explores: How an anonymous twitter account and a media …
American Studies November 22, 2022

Tree Thieves

Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

Lyndsie Bourgon

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022), Lyndsie …
General History November 21, 2022

Escaping Slavery

A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America

Antonio T. Bly

Hosted by Michael Vann
Antonio T. Bly had collected and edited hundreds of advertisements offering a reward for enslaved Native Americans who run away from their masters. Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native …
Catholic Studies November 17, 2022

Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds

Mary Dunn

Hosted by Brenna Moore
In our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always been seen in terms of …
African American Studies November 4, 2022

Flying Fish in the Great White North

The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians

Christopher Stuart Taylor

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced …
Canadian Studies October 19, 2022

North of America

Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution

Jeffers Lennox

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than …
Canadian Studies October 14, 2022

Not for King or Country

Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War

Tyler Wentzell

Hosted by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Over two decades before the hard lines of the Cold War were drawn in North America, and long before any accurate information about what was happening in the Soviet Union …
Canadian Studies October 13, 2022

Unmooring the Komagata Maru

Charting Colonial Trajectories

Rita Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani, and Satwinder Kaur Bains

Hosted by Phil Henderson
To the degree that Canadians remember the treatment passengers on the Komagata Maru received when they were barred entry to the port of Vancouver in 1914, it is typically remembered …
Environmental Studies October 13, 2022

Slow Disturbance

Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier

Rafico Ruiz

Hosted by Padmapriya Govindarajan
From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries …