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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. …
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 …
Science Fiction February 2, 2023

Where it Rains in Color

Denise Crittendon

Hosted by Rob Wolf and Brenda Noiseux
Denise Crittendon’s debut science fiction novel,Where it Rains in Color (Angry Robot, 2022), is set far in the future, long after the Earth has been destroyed, on the planet of …
Indian Religions February 2, 2023

Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance

Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism

Ute Hüsken

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In most mainstream traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, women have for centuries largely been excluded from positions of religious and ritual leadership. However, as this volume shows, in an increasing …
Academic Life February 2, 2023

The Grant Writing Guide

A Road Map for Scholars

Betty S. Lai

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Why is writing a grant proposal so stressful? Are you supposed to just know how to do it? This episode explores: How to align your values and interests with a …
Caribbean Studies February 2, 2023

Dougla in the Twenty-First Century

Adding to the Mix

Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titled Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to …
African American Studies February 2, 2023

Almost Dead

Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807

Michael Lawrence Dickinson

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807 (U Georgia …
Asian Review of Books February 2, 2023

Takeaway

Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter

Angela Hui

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Food journalist Angela Hui grew up in rural Wales, as daughter to the owners of the Lucky Star Chinese takeaway. Angela grew up behind the counter, helping take orders and …
Anthropology February 2, 2023

Computing Taste

Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

Nick Seaver

Hosted by Mathew Gagné
The people who make music recommender systems have lofty goals: they want to broaden listeners’ horizons and help obscure musicians find audiences, taking advantage of the enormous catalogs offered by …
East-West Psychology Podcast February 2, 2023

ID

Identity Dialogues with Debashish Banerji and Leslie Combs

Debashish Banerji and Leslie Combs

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Understanding theories and notions of identity, self-making, personhood, transpersonal relationality between self and other, self and cosmos, are questions of central importance to the East-West Psychology department. Throughout history, cultures …
Recall This Book February 2, 2023

Horton's Cosmic Zoom

A Discussion with Zachary Horton

Zachary Horton

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Today Recall this Book welcomes Zachary Horton, Associate Professor of Literature and director of the Vibrant Media Lab at University of Pittsburgh; game designer, filmmaker and camera designer. Out of …
Scholarly Communication February 2, 2023

Monumental Names

Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Monumental Names: Archival Aesthetics and the Conjuration of History in Moscow (Routledge, 2022) asks us to consider: what stands behind the propensity to remember victims of mass atrocities by their personal …
Peoples & Things February 2, 2023

Why It’s So Hard for Us to Subtract

A Discussion with Leidy Klotz

Leidy Klotz

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Leidy, professor of engineering at the University of Virginia, talks about his book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. As Klotz shows throughout …
Higher Education February 2, 2023

Truth, Fiction, and Student Loan Forgiveness

A Conversation with Beth Akers

Beth Akers

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
With the Biden Administration's student loan relief coming down the pike, Annika sits down with Dr. Beth Akers, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who specializes in higher …
The Vault February 2, 2023

Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979)

Richard Sennett and Michel Foucault

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
In 1979, sociologist and NYIH founder Richard Sennett, and philosopher Michel Foucault, discussed the connections between the history of sexuality and self consciousness. In this episode from the Vault, the …
Ministry of Ideas February 2, 2023

Border Lines

Refugees and the International Order

Deborah Anker, Celeste Cantor-Stephens, Chowra Makaremi and Adrian Rennix

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Climate change and war have flung millions of people on the move, who often seek safe harbor in the very countries responsible for their displacement. But despite the lofty ideals …