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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. …
Middle Eastern Studies June 6, 2023

Bedouin Bureaucrats

Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire

Nora Barakat

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …
Psychology June 6, 2023

The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius

Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death

Brent Willock

Hosted by 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 …
Business, Management, and Marketing June 6, 2023

The Elements of Choice

Why the Way We Decide Matters

Eric J. Johnson

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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 …
Disability Studies June 6, 2023

The Disabled Child

Memoirs of a Normal Future

Amanda Apgar

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by MIT Press
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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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by 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

Hosted by Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
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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 …