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Canadian Studies September 26, 2022

Canadian History through the Eyes of the Canadian Canoe Museum

A Discussion with Jeremy Ward

Jeremy Ward

Hosted by Greg Marchildon
Greg Marchildon interviews Jeremy Ward, the curator of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough, Ontario, about the role of the canoe in the history of the portion of North America …

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Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work September 13, 2022

Rape by the Numbers

Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence

Ethan Czuy Levine

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Science plays a substantial, though under-acknowledged, role in shaping popular understandings of rape. Statistical figures like “1 in 4 women have experienced completed or attempted rape” are central for raising …
Darts & Letters September 5, 2022

Truck Nuts

The Political History of Trucks and Trucking

Matt Christman

Hosted by Gordon Katic
The pickup truck is the symbol of rural conservative masculinity. So, it often takes centre stage in the tired culture wars between reactionary neo-populists and liberal moralists. Like today, with …
Music August 30, 2022

Who by Fire

Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

Matti Friedman

Hosted by Bradley Morgan
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen—thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end—traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos …
Darts & Letters August 18, 2022

The Pavilion

When Canadians First Had to Confront the Country’s Genocidal Story

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out: The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tall …
Darts & Letters August 17, 2022

Canada’s Dumbest Public Intellectual

Darts and Letters’ Most Coveted Award

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Canada’s intellectual culture is now like a barren soil that struggles to give life to even the simplest flora. They’re just not that smart. We make too many right wing …
Animal Studies August 16, 2022

The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife

Failures of Principle and Policy

Max Foran

Hosted by Kyle Johannsen
Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of …
General History August 2, 2022

The King's Peace

Law and Order in the British Empire

Lisa Ford

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Dr. Lisa Ford, Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, is the author of prize-winning monographs and a luminary in the field of global legal history. Her new …
Darts & Letters August 2, 2022

Socialise the Series of Tubes

Toward a Democratic Internet

Ben Tarnoff

Hosted by Gordon Katic
Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does one company …
Native American Studies July 28, 2022

Seeing Red

Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

Michael John Witgen

Hosted by John Cable
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers …
Ukrainian Studies July 18, 2022

KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991

Sergei Zhuk

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Oriented for a general reading audience, Sergei Zhuk's book KGB Operations Against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine 1953-1991 (Routledge, 2022) gives a unique and rare perspective on the …
Native American Studies May 27, 2022

Brotherhood to Nationhood

George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement

Peter McFarlane with Doreen Manuel

Hosted by Zachary Smith
Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement (Between the Lines Books, 2020) details the life of George Manuel, a seminal figure in the emergence and development …
American West May 12, 2022

Beneath the Backbone of the World

Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877

Ryan Hall

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
No matter what people call them today the northwestern Great Plains have been and continue to be Blackfoot country, argues Colgate University assistant professor Ryan Hall in Beneath the Backbone of …
Psychology May 9, 2022

So-Called Normal

A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience

Mark Henick

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
When Mark Henick was a teenager in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was overwhelmed by depression and anxiety that led to a series of increasingly dangerous suicide attempts. One night …
Indian Religions May 5, 2022

South Asian Studies in Canada

Julie Vig and Andrea Pinkney

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Raj Balkaran speaks with Julie Vig (York University) and Andrea Pinkney (McGill University) about the Canadian South Asian Studies Association, a new development in association with the Canadian Federation for …
Islamic Studies April 29, 2022

Under Siege

Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation

Jasmin Zine

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
In her new book Under Siege: Islamophobia and the 9/11 Generation (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022) Jasmin Zine explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim youth as they navigate the landscape of …
General History April 21, 2022

Down the Warpath to the Cedars

Indians' First Battles in the Revolution

Mark R. Anderson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days’ fighting, the …
American West April 18, 2022

Born of Lakes and Plains

Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

Anne F. Hyde

Hosted by Andrew Graybill
Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities …
Literary Studies March 29, 2022

Literature in Motion

Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas

Ellen Jones

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas (Columbia University Press, 2022), Ellen C. Jones centers not just translation but multilingualism as both an artistic practice and scholarly lens through which to examine …
British Studies March 23, 2022

Between Empire and Republic

America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination

Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy

Hosted by Charles Prior
We don’t think of Canada as a republic. Even in its modern and vibrantly multi-cultural form, there is something monarchical about the place. The Queen appears on every coin, on …