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East-West Psychology Podcast April 4, 2022

Introduction to the East-West Psychology Podcast

Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode you will meet your podcast hosts, Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay and learn a little about their journey to the East-West Psychology Department of CIIS. They will …

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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 Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
East Asian Studies May 20, 2022

Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors

Andrew D. Morris

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories …
Buddhist Studies May 20, 2022

Renunciation and Longing

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

Annabella Pitkin

Hosted by Jue Liang
In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this elusive …
Children's Literature May 20, 2022

Alycat and the Cattywampus Wednesday

Alysson Foti Bourque

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Alysson Foti Bourque began her career as a teacher and subsequently an attorney. After practicing law for six years, she traded in writing trial briefs for writing children’s books. Her …
Environmental Studies May 20, 2022

Environmental Justice in Postwar America

A Documentary Reader

Christopher W. Wells

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developments came at the cost of a host of …
On Religion May 20, 2022

On Gyotaku

A Discussion with Dwight Hwang and Michael Vanhartingsveldt

Dwight Hwang and Michael Vanhartingsveldt

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dwight Hwang is a California-based Gyotaku artist. His notable artistic achievements include a 2018 solo showcase by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Japan Foundation, as well as …
Literary Studies May 20, 2022

How to Do Things with Dead People

History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

Alice Dailey

Hosted by John Yargo
Alice Dailey’s How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an exploration of Shakespeare’s chronicle plays through the …
Architecture May 20, 2022

Sixteenth Street NW

Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions

John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, DC, has been called the Avenue of the Presidents, Executive Avenue, and the Avenue of Churches. From the front door of the White House, this …
Scholarly Communication May 20, 2022

How Writing Works

A Field Guide to Effective Writing

Roslyn Petelin

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. We talk about her book How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing (Routledge …
Jewish Studies May 20, 2022

Three Philosophies of Life

Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

Peter Kreeft

Hosted by Phil Cohen
"I've been a philosopher for all my adult life and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs." This …
Eastern European Studies May 20, 2022

In the Labyrinth of the KGB

Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s

Olga Bertelsen

Hosted by Anna Bisikalo
Olga Bertelsen’s timely book, In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine’s Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s (Lexington Books, 2022), focuses on the generation of the sixties and seventies in Kharkiv, Soviet …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast May 20, 2022

Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha

A Conversation with Peter Salmon

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Today I talk with Peter Salmon, author of An Event, Perhaps; an intellectual biography of Jacques Derrida. Our conversation was rich: We tackle Derrida and Buddhism, Derrida and the culture …
High Theory May 20, 2022

Military Industrial Complex

A Discussion with Patrick Deer

Patrick Deer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks to Patrick Deer about the Military Industrial Complex, a term used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a 1961 speech to describe a permanent war economy, and …
Biography May 20, 2022

You'll Never Find Us

A Memoir

Jeanne Baker Guy

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 20, 2022

Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China

A Discussion with Suvi Rautio

Suvi Rautio

Hosted by Ari-Joonas Pitkänen
The People’s Republic of China has undergone tumultuous and varied sociocultural developments over the course of its history. In this episode, Dr. Suvi Rautio talks about some of the ways …
Japanese Studies May 20, 2022

Cultural Imprints

War and Memory in the Samurai Age

Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li's book Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (Cornell UP, 2022) draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by …
Media May 20, 2022

Race, Culture and Media

Anamik Saha

Hosted by Gummo Clare
In Race, Culture and Media (Sage, 2021), Anamik Saha provides an account of the role that media plays in both circulating and shaping ideas about race and racism in the …