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The Common Magazine
February 26, 2021
Weeds and Flowers
Bina Shah
Hosted by Emily Everett
Bina Shah speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “Weeds and Flowers,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Shah talks about …
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History
February 26, 2021
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Robert Darnton
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — …
National Security
February 26, 2021
Reset
Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society
Ronald J. Deibert
Hosted by John Sakellariadis
Ronald Deibert is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Director of The Citizen Lab, a public interest research organization that uncovers privacy and human …
Ethnographic Marginalia
February 26, 2021
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation
Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair
Deborah A. Thomas
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can ethnographers use multimedia presentations of their work to reach new audiences, build different relationships with their participants, and promote new practices of witnessing and representation? On today’s episode …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 25, 2021
Overground Railroad
The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Candacy Taylor about her book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Press, 2020) Taylor is an award-winning author …
Political Science
February 25, 2021
Madam President?
Gender and Politics on the Road to the White House
Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Lori Cox Han and Caroline Heldman, both scholars of gender and politics as well as scholars of the American Presidency, have assembled a wide array of essays[*] to revisit the …
SSEAC Stories
February 25, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between
A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Hosted by Natali Pearson
As a Thai-Australian woman artist, Phaptawan Suwannakudt has long battled prejudice and discrimination relating to her gender. This disappointment with society’s dictates features at the heart of Phaptawan’s artistic practice …
Academic Life
February 25, 2021
Exploring STEM, Insulin Research, and Why We Get Sick
A Discussion with Benjamin Bikman
Benjamin Bikman
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Asian Review of Books
February 25, 2021
Bombay Hustle
Making Movies in a Colonial City
Debashree Mukherjee
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1935, the writer Baburao Patel writes the following about Bombay’s film industry: “In India, with financing conditions still precarious, the professional film distributor thrives. . . . He comes …
Christian Studies
February 24, 2021
God's Cold Warrior
The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles
John D. Wilsey
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of …
Scholarly Communication
February 24, 2021
Writing in Disciplines
A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
Shyam Sharma
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. We talk about how mutually appreciative …
African American Studies
February 23, 2021
Women's War
Fighting and Surviving the Civil War
Stephanie Mccurry
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte
In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic …
Political Science
February 22, 2021
Separate But Faithful
The Christian Right's Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture
Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson
Hosted by Susan Liebell
How do we understand the nuances of efforts by Christian conservatives to affect American law – and evaluate their success? What lessons do they hold for other social movements? Dr …
History
February 19, 2021
The Way of Bach
Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano
Dan Moller
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
A tale of passion and obsession from a philosophy professor who learns to play Bach on the piano as an adult. Dan Moller grew up listening to heavy metal in the …
National Security
February 18, 2021
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
Hosted by John Sakellariadis
For years, cybersecurity experts have debated whether cyber-weapons represent a destabilizing new military technology or merely the newest tool in the spy’s arsenal. In This Is How They Tell Me …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
February 18, 2021
How God Becomes Real
Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
T. M. Luhrmann
Hosted by Jack Petranker
Tanya Luhrmann has spent much of her career as an anthropologist investigating the complex ways that people engage religion and the supernatural. In How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence …
Asian Review of Books
February 18, 2021
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism
The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
Dexter Roberts
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Around the Chinese New Year period, millions of Chinese migrant workers return home from jobs in China’s major cities to their rural villages to visit their families. China’s urban centers …
Academic Life
February 18, 2021
Faculty versus Administrative Positions
A Discussion with Karin Lewis
Karin Lewis
Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
SSEAC Stories
February 18, 2021
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research
Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
June Rubis
Hosted by Natali Pearson
Around the world, orangutans are widely recognised as an iconic species for environmental and wildlife conservation efforts. The rainforest in the Malaysian state of Sarawak is one of last remaining …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 18, 2021
Probable Impossibilities
Musings on Beginnings and Endings
Alan Lightman
Hosted by Dan Hill
Imagination with a Straight Jacket Alan Lightman is a writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and …
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