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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 …
Critical Theory May 25, 2022

British Black and Asian Shakespeareans, 1966-2018

Integrating Shakespeare

Jami Rogers

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the hidden history of performers of colour in in British theatre? In British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966–2018 (Arden Shakespeare, 2022), Jami Rogers, an honorary fellow at Department …
Indian Ocean World May 25, 2022

Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy

Juan-José Martín-González

Hosted by Gargi Binju
Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) studies Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-José …
Middle Eastern Studies May 25, 2022

Wahhabism and the World

Understanding Saudi Arabia's Global Influence on Islam

Peter Mandaville

Hosted by James M. Dorsey
Saudi global export of an ultra-conservative strand of Islam and its impact on Muslim countries and communities across the globe has been a hotly debate topic for more than two …
World Affairs May 25, 2022

Tomorrow's People

The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers

Paul Morland

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers …
General History May 25, 2022

States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance

Complexity Theory Applied to Un Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan

Adam Day

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed or fragile states. This worldview has dominated international …
Music May 25, 2022

Street Scriptures

Between God and Hip-Hop

Alejandro Nava

Hosted by Frances Sacks
Today I speak with Alejandro Nava about his new book, Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop (U Chicago Press, 2022). This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is …
Children's Literature May 25, 2022

An Early Morning Interview on the Tel Aviv Beach with Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Maira Kalman was born in Israel and moved to New York at the age of five where she fell in love with America (Coca Cola and the smells of street …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast May 25, 2022

Politicizing the COVID Pandemic

Pandemic Perspectives 12

Michael Berry

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies on American scapegoating, Chinese censorship and …
African American Studies May 25, 2022

Academic Apartheid

Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb

Sean J. Drake

Hosted by Mickell Carter
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced …
Jewish Studies May 25, 2022

When Rabbis Bless Congress

The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill

Howard Mortman

Hosted by Matthew Miller
Howard Mortman's book When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill (Cherry Orchard, 2020) is about the rabbis. It’s an unprecedented examination of 160 years …
High Theory May 25, 2022

Distant Reading

A Discussion with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Kim talks with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu about distant reading. Ama Bemma provides her Global Poetics Project as an awesome example of distant reading. She also references Franco …
Women's History May 25, 2022

The Queerness of Home

Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II

Stephen Vider

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Stephen Vider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States. From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics …
Japanese Studies May 25, 2022

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan

Susan Westhafer Furukawa

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Popular representations of the past are everywhere in Japan, from cell phone charms to manga, from television dramas to video games to young people dressed as their favorite historical figures …
Jewish Studies May 25, 2022

Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939-1959)

History and Memory of Deportation, Exile, and Survival

Katharina Friedla and Markus Nesselrodt

Hosted by Amber Nickell
The majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. Polish Jews in the Soviet …
Scholarly Communication May 25, 2022

The Association for Diplomatic Studies & Training

Scholarly Societies Series

Susan Rockwell Johnson and Margery B. Thompson

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
ADST has the world’s largest collection of U.S. diplomatic oral history. They have over 2,500 oral histories at ADST.org Susan Rockwell Johnson is the president of ADST since November 2016 …
On Religion May 25, 2022

On the Internment of Japanese Buddhists in World War Two

A Discussion with Duncan Ryūken Williams

Duncan Ryūken Williams

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Duncan Ryuken Williams was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father. After growing up in Japan and England until age 17, he moved to the U.S …