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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
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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!
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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 …
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June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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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 …
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September 21, 2018
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Middle Eastern Studies
June 6, 2023
Bedouin Bureaucrats
Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire
Nora Barakat
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Vladislav Lilic
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In the late nineteenth century, Ottoman statesmen sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Nora …
Indian Ocean World
June 6, 2023
East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions
Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future
Rob Marchant
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Ahmed Almaazmi
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East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is an ambitious integration of ecological, archaeological, anthropological land use sciences, drawing on human geography, demography and economics …
Environmental Studies
June 6, 2023
Ice
From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Amy Brady
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Brian Hamilton
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Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off …
Islamic Studies
June 6, 2023
Nur Baba
A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul (Translated by Brett Wilson)
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
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SherAli Tareen
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This conversation is with Brett Wilson, who has composed the first English translation of the classic and controversial novel from late Ottoman Turkey Nur Baba--a classic of modern Turkish literature …
National Security
June 6, 2023
The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
Why Warning Was Not Enough
Erik J. Dahl
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Beth Windisch
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Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the …
Israel Studies
June 6, 2023
A Train to Palestine
The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943
Randy Grigsby
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Ari Barbalat
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In October 1938, eight-year-old Josef Rosenbaum, his mother, and his younger sister set out from Germany on a cruel odyssey, fleeing into eastern Europe along with thousands of other refugees …
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June 6, 2023
The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius
Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death
Brent Willock
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Karyne Messina
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Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius’ meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock’s scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an …
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June 6, 2023
The Elements of Choice
Why the Way We Decide Matters
Eric J. Johnson
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Gregory LaBlanc
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Every time we make a choice, our minds go through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is …
Madison's Notes
June 6, 2023
Feminism against Progress
A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington
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Annika Nordquist
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Is feminism compatible with progress? Reactionary feminist Mary Harrington thinks not. In this interview, she discusses the history of feminism, her own journey from proponent to radical opponent of progress …
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June 6, 2023
The Disabled Child
Memoirs of a Normal Future
Amanda Apgar
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Shu Wan
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When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives …
Poetry
June 6, 2023
Naming the Ghost
Emily Hockaday
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Megan Wildhood
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Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the …
MIT Press Podcast
June 6, 2023
How are Sports Teams Using Data Science?
Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Brian Macdonald, and Kirk Goldsberry
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In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale …
Literature
June 6, 2023
Dreaming in Spanish
An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta
Sara Alvarado
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G. P. Gottlieb
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In Dreaming in Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta (Little Creek Press, 2023), Sara Alvarado tells the story of growing up in Madison, studying Spanish, and escaping alcoholism, substance …
Performing Arts
June 5, 2023
Performing the Socialist State
Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture
Xiaomei Chen
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Andy Boyd
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Xiaomei Chen's book Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture (Columbia UP, 2023) looks at three "founding fathers" of Chinese spoken drama: Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian …
Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
June 5, 2023
Elephant Man
A Film by David Lynch
David Lynch
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George Orwell said, "By fifty, every man has the face he deserves." To what degree does David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) respond to the idea that our appearances define …
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