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March 14, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #3
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 13, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Panel #2
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
March 12, 2026
Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1
This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-lo…
February 15, 2026
“Living in South Africa’s Interregnum”
In today’s episode from the Vault, we revisit Nadine Gordimer’s James Lecture on the political landscape of South Africa, presented at the New York In…
January 15, 2026
A "New American Music Series" Gallatin Lecture, April 15, 1982
In today’s episode from the Vault, we revisit a 1982 lecture by the composer Lukas Foss, a leader of the American musical avant garde of the 1960s and…
December 10, 2025
Jeremy Bernstein on Oppenheimer, the Atomic Bomb, and the Nuclear Arms Race
In this episode from the Institute’s vault, we revisit an October 2007 presentation by theoretical physicist and Institute Fellow Jeremy Bernstein on …
November 24, 2024
51 Ozoz Sokoh on Movement and Storytelling
In this episode, Gastronomica’s Irina D. Mihalache talks with Ozoz Sokoh, creator of Kitchen Butterfly and author of the forthcoming book, C…
September 7, 2024
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic …
June 30, 2024
50 A Celebrated Condiment and a Forgotten Past
In this episode, Gastronomica’s Dan Bender talks with anthropologist Alyssa Paredes about the role that stories of celebration can play in rememb…
June 23, 2024
49 How American Food Writing Changed After 2020
What do the stories we tell about food reveal about the moment in which they are written? Gastronomica’s Melissa Fuster is joined by literary schola…
June 9, 2024
48 What to Read Now
In this episode, Gastronomica’s Jaclyn Rohel talks with Dr. Anne E. McBride and Dr. Tara Scully about how climate change is impacting restaurants,…
May 12, 2024
47 Negotiating Dietary Change in a Time of Planetary Eating
This episode offers listeners a peek into Gastronomica’s next issue. “Coproducing ‘Planetary’ Eating Futures from Dakar: Dietary Diffusionism and th…
May 5, 2024
46 Kangaroo, Cattle, and the Historical Legacies of Modern Food Systems
In this episode, Gastronomica’s Bob Valgenti talks with Evelyn Lambeth about the rise of beef consumption and the historical legacies that continue …
April 7, 2024
45 The Meanings of Meat
This week’s episode looks at lab-grown meat, climate change, and the possible futures of edibility. In conversation with Gastronomica’s Bob Valgenti…
March 31, 2024
44 Masculinity and the Making of “Assamese” Pithasn
In this episode, Gastronomica’s James Farrer talks with sociologist Pooja Kalita about gender and the labor of food provisioning in Assam, India. Taki…
March 24, 2024
43 What Food Studies Needs Now
Where is Food Studies today, and where might it be tomorrow? Join Alyshia Gálvez in conversation with Jessica Carbone, Irina Mihalache, Krishne…
February 25, 2024
41 The Meanings of Sweetness in Japan
What is “sweetness,” and how does its meaning change in communities over time? In this episode, Eric C. Rath and Takeshi Watanabe introduce some …
February 18, 2024
40 Tracing Food Memory through Migration and Displacement
What does food sustain? Elora Halim Chowdhury joins Gastronomica’s Signe Rousseau to discuss her new article on family, class, and culture in Sout…
November 26, 2023
39 Sean Wyer on Rome’s Historic Jewish Quarter
In this episode, Gastronomica’s Krishnendu Ray talks with Sean Wyer about the 21st century transformation of Rome’s Jewish Quarter. Drawing on his lat…
November 19, 2023
38 Lauren Crossland-Marr on Emerging Food Technologies and Science Communication
In this episode, cultural anthropologist Lauren Crossland-Marr returns to the Gastronomica podcast to discuss her new project on gene-edited foods and…