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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 …
Fantasy May 26, 2022

The Beholden

Cassandra Rose Clarke

Hosted by Gabrielle Martin
Today I talked to Cassandra Rose Clarke about her book The Beholden (Erewhon Books, 2022). Two impoverished sisters, one with magical gifts and one with ladylike manners and pretty dresses, brave the …
Indian Religions May 26, 2022

Sabdanugamah

Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha

Peter Scharf

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Sabdanugamah (Sanskrit Library, 2021) is the first of two volumes of studies in honor of Professor George Cardona, the preeminent authority on Paninian grammar and the linguistic traditions of India as …
Asian Review of Books May 26, 2022

China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter

Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Europeans have been writing about China for centuries–ever since The Travels of Marco Polo described it as a faraway and mystical kingdom. European thinkers like Voltaire and Montesquieu used China …
Academic Life May 26, 2022

Feminism and Fierceness: A New Approach to Biblical Studies

A Discussion with Alice Connor

Alice Connor

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Alice Connor’s career as a feminist scholar and a college chaplain How women in the bible have been misunderstood …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

So They Remember

A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine

Maksim Goldenshteyn

Hosted by Amber Nickell
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious sites. In the …
Political Science May 26, 2022

Caricature and National Character

The United States at War

Christopher J. Gilbert

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Dr. Christopher Gilbert, Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, has a new book that examines the understanding of American national character and culture through the works of caricature and …
SSEAC Stories May 26, 2022

Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia

A Conversation with Tom Baudinette

Tom Baudinette

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers across East and Southeast Asia have found themselves turning to Thai soap operas known as “Boys Love series” as a source of …
Early Modern History May 26, 2022

The Dissolution of the Monasteries

A New History

James Clark

Hosted by Jonathan Megerian
In a mere four years, England’s monastic tradition—one of the richest in all of Europe—came to an end. The Dissolution of the Monasteries, as it’s come to be known, stands …
Literary Studies May 26, 2022

Song of Ourselves

Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy

Mark Edmundson

Hosted by Jon Najarian
Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don’t. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself. In Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and …
French Studies May 26, 2022

The Anthropological Turn

French Political Thought After 1968

Jacob Collins

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Jacob Collins's The Anthropological Turn: French Political Through After 1968 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) examines some of the most important currents in French intellectual life through the 1970s. In the …
High Theory May 26, 2022

Abolition

A Discussion with Sean Gordon

Sean Gordon

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Leading up to Mayday, the nationwide Day of Refusal, and Abolition May, Saronik talks with Sean Gordon about abolition as an historical movement to end the transatlantic slave trade and …
On Religion May 26, 2022

On Blogging Religion

A Discussion with Giulia Evolvi

Giulia Evolvi

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Giulia Evolvi is the author of Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe, out now from Routledge. Evolvi is a Research Associate at the Centrum …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 26, 2022

Music, Lyrics, and Life

A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter

Mike Errico

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Mike Errico about his new book Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter (Backbeat Books, 2022). Brain teasers invite you; brain embarrassers are …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

Unsettled Heritage

Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust

Yechiel Weizman

Hosted by Amber Nickell
In Unsettled Heritage: Living Next to Poland's Material Jewish Traces After the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2022), Yechiel Weizman explores what happened to the thousands of abandoned Jewish cemeteries and places …
European Politics May 26, 2022

European Disunion

Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency

Stefan Auer

Hosted by Tim Jones
"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14 …
African Studies May 26, 2022

'Dignity of Labour' for African Leaders

The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School

Shoko Yamada

Hosted by Elisa Prosperetti
The Prince of Wales College, Achimota School, opened in 1927 north of Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana). Achimota was to be a ‘model’ school—but a model of what, exactly …