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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
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Intellectual History
June 3, 2023
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India
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Scott R. Stroud
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Kalyani Kalyani
Scott R. Stroud's The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a philosophical engagement with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s life and …
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June 3, 2023
Both/And Thinking
Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems
Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis
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Gregory LaBlanc
In a world of either/or tradeoffs, it sometimes pays to explore the possibility of and/or. By changing our perspective and embracing paradox, we can see possibilities that were obscured by …
Asian American Studies
June 3, 2023
The Allure of Empire
American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion
Chris Suh
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Byung Ho Choi
The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made …
African American Studies
June 3, 2023
Workers of All Colors Unite
Race and the Origins of American Socialism
Lorenzo Costaguta
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Omari Averette-Phillips
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the …
Early Modern History
June 3, 2023
We, the King
Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World
Adrian Masters
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Miranda Melcher
We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Adrian Masters challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and …
MIT Press Podcast
June 3, 2023
Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration
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Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton
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Psychoanalysis
June 3, 2023
The Queerness of Childhood
Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass
Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber
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In this interview, Anna Fishzon, co editor with Emma Lieber on The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), discusses her thinking …
Anthropology
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Health in Ruins
The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero
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María Camila Núñez Gómez
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The Future of Big Finance
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Middle Eastern Studies
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Red Star over the Black Sea
Nazim Hikmet and His Generation
James H. Meyer
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Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the …
Disability Studies
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Dyslexia
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Military History
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I Saw Death Coming
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Kidada E. Williams
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Taiwan on Air
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The Suspended Island
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Nordic Asia Podcast
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Recentering Pacific Asia
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Brantly Womack
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MIT Press Podcast
June 2, 2023
You Are Here
A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
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Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here. Our media environment is …
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