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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 …
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. …
Science, Technology, and Society December 1, 2023

Transparency

The Material History of an Idea

Daniel Jütte

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political institutions, corporations, and the media …
Southeast Asian Studies December 1, 2023

Indigenizing the Cold War

The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand

Sinae Hyun

Hosted by Patrick Jory
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Historians have tended to view the Cold War as a global ideological confrontation between an expansionist communist Soviet Union and a capitalist United States which sought to contain communism. And …
Business, Management, and Marketing December 1, 2023

Diversity Dividend

The Transformational Power of Small Changes to De-bias Your Company, Attract Diverse Talent, Manage Everyone Better and Make More Money

Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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From entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and reap financial benefits. Every leader endeavors to …
Public Policy December 1, 2023

Practical Radicals

Seven Strategies to Change the World

Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
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In the tradition of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World (The …
Burned by Books December 1, 2023

Tomb Sweeping

Stories

Alexandra Chang

Hosted by Chris Holmes
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Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping (Ecco Press, 2023) probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses …
American Studies December 1, 2023

Hidden in Plain Sight

Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture

Rachel Stephens

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanisation that …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast December 1, 2023

How We Age

The Science of Longevity

Coleen T. Murphy

Hosted by Mark Klobas
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All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age: The Science of Longevity (Princeton UP, 2023), Coleen Murphy shows …
Media December 1, 2023

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

Jeff Jarvis

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority …
Military History December 1, 2023

The Book at War

Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

Andrew Pettegree

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Chairman Mao was a librarian. Stalin was a published poet. Evelyn Waugh served as a commando - before leaving to write Brideshead Revisited. Since the advent of modern warfare, books …
Nordic Asia Podcast December 1, 2023

Life after NIAS

A Conversation on the Closure of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
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In December 2023, more than five decades of institutionalized Nordic collaboration in the field of Asian studies will come to an end with the closure of NIAS, the Nordic Institute …
SSEAC Stories December 1, 2023

Anti-Microbial Resistance in Cambodia

SSEAC Cambodia Field School

Hosted by Natali Pearson
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In the last of our five special podcasts about from the recent SSEAC field schools to Southeast Asia, we will be hearing from students and staff from the field school …
Academic Life November 30, 2023

Education Behind the Wall

Why and How We Teach College in Prison

Mneesha Gellman

Hosted by Christina Gessler
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Why are college programs offered in some prisons? How are the students selected? Where do the professors come from? What are the logistics of preparing to teach, and to learn …
French Studies November 30, 2023

Creative Histories of Witchcraft

France, 1790–1940

Poppy Corbett, Anna Kisby Compton, and William G. Pooley

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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How can researchers study magic without destroying its mystery? Drawing on a collaborative project between the playwright Dr. Poppy Corbett, the poet Anna Kisby Compton, and the historian Dr. William …
World Affairs November 30, 2023

Reluctance in World Politics

Why States Fail to Act Decisively

Sandra Destradi

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Why do international actors, including powerful states, often fail to develop clear foreign policies and instead adopt indecisive, ‘muddling-through’ approaches? In Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act …
Indian Religions November 30, 2023

Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration

A Conversation with Asko Parpola

Asko Parpola

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
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Seasoned scholar Asko Parpola discusses his Indological career, from how it began in the 1960s to what he’s working on now. Key themes include his longstanding work on Sāmaveda Jaiminīya …
Psychology November 30, 2023

Honesty

The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue

Christian B. Miller

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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Honesty is an important virtue. Parents want to develop it in their children. Close relationships depend upon it. Employers value it in their employees. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have said very …