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About John Weston
NBN Episodes hosted by John:
Religion
June 2, 2020
Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
Hosted by John Weston
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and …
Anthropology
February 4, 2020
Language Unlimited
The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
David Adger
Hosted by John Weston
David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. He has served as President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain since 2015, and has authored a …
Anthropology
August 14, 2018
The Creole Debate
John H. McWhorter
Hosted by John Weston
John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has written academic books on creole linguistics, including the book we’ll be talking about today …
European Studies
March 6, 2018
Singular and Plural
Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in Twenty-First Century Catalonia
Kathryn Woolard
Hosted by John Weston
Kathryn Woolard is Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She has authored seminal works on language ideology and the sociolinguistic situation in …
Literary Studies
September 26, 2017
The Anthropology of Intentions
Language in a World of Others
Alessandro Duranti
Hosted by John Weston
Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, where he served as Dean of Social Sciences from 2009-2016. In his book The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World …