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NBN Episodes hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu:

High Theory December 2, 2022

Civil Disobedience

A Discussion with Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Eraldo Souza dos Santos

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefinition to describe activism present …
High Theory November 22, 2022

Probability

A Discussion with Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins

Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Justin Joque talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Probability. This conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in …
High Theory November 15, 2022

Melancholy

A Discussion with Laura Stokes

Laura Stokes

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Laura Stokes talks about melancholy. One of the four humors in ancient humoral medicine, melancholy, or black bile, is a fluid substance and spiritual …
High Theory November 11, 2022

100th Episode: Public Humanities

Saronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik Bosu talks about humanities work engaging diverse communities and publics, misconceptions about what the ‘public’ in public humanities might mean as well as the recent attention paid to it …
High Theory October 31, 2022

Red Cat

A Conversation with Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Leigh Claire La Berge talks about red cats: communist cats, revolutionary tigers, radical felines of all stripes. The red cat is a provocation, and …
High Theory October 28, 2022

Halloween Special: Alice Walker’s Cat

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik tells Kim about Alice Walker’s book Anything We Love Can Be Saved, where she talks about her many cats over the years, and how they represented her connection with …
High Theory October 27, 2022

Halloween Special: Jacques Derrida’s Cat

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks with Kim about Jacques Derrida’s cat. Derrida writes about his cat, who makes him rather anxious, in “The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)” trans. David …
High Theory October 26, 2022

Halloween Special: Schrödinger’s Cat Redux

A Discussion with Gina Dominick

Gina Dominick

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Gina Dominick about Ursula Le Guin’s short story “Schrödinger’s Cat” and the philosophical stakes of Schrödinger’s thought experiment. Le Guin’s story was published in her collection, The …
High Theory October 25, 2022

Halloween Special: Schrödinger’s Cat

A Discussion with George Gibson

George Gibson

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with George Gibson about Schrödinger’s cat. This cat is a thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger, and taken up in correspondence with Albert Einstein, in the 1930s. Schrödinger’s …
High Theory October 24, 2022

Halloween Special: Michel de Montaigne’s Cat

A Discussion with John Guilliory

John Guilliory

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In part one of our Halloween Special on Cats, Kim talks with John Guilliory about Montaigne’s essay “An Apology for Raymond Sebond.” Montaigne asks us: “When I play with my …
High Theory October 12, 2022

On Not Knowing

How to Love and Other Essays

Emily Ogden

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode of High Theory is an edited recording of a book launch event with Emily Ogden for her new book On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays …
High Theory October 4, 2022

Standpoint Theory

A Discussion with Soham Sen

Soham Sen

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses. He begins from its origins in the civil rights …
High Theory October 4, 2022

Standpoint Theory

A Discussion with Soham Sen

Soham Sen

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses. He begins from its origins in the civil rights …
High Theory September 27, 2022

Digital Lethargy

A Discussion with Tung-Hui Hu and Júlia Irion

Tung-Hui Hu and Júlia Irion

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Tung-Hui Hu talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Digital Lethargy, as part of our High Theory in STEM series. As a modern ailment, digital …
High Theory September 21, 2022

Echo

A Discussion with Amit Pinchevski

Amit Pinchevski

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Amit Pinchevski tells us about echoes. An echo is a sonic reflection of an emission bouncing back to its origin, which if delayed long …
High Theory September 13, 2022

Finding Your Purpose

A Discussion of Justice-Oriented Scholarship in an Unjust World

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This episode is the edited version of a live event held on June 17 2022 to celebrate the launch of Finding Your Purpose: a Higher Calling Workbook for Justice-Oriented Scholars …
High Theory September 6, 2022

Neoliberalism

A Conversation with Troy Vettese

Troy Vettese

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren’t actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public …
High Theory August 30, 2022

Property Technology

A Discussion with Erin McElroy and Nathan Kim

Erin McElroy and Nathan Kim

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Erin McElroy talks with Nathan Kim about Property Technology. This is the first episode in the High Theory in STEM series, that tackles topics …
High Theory August 23, 2022

Reality TV

A Discussion with Olivia Stowell

Olivia Stowell

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Olivia Stowell speaks with Saronik about Reality TV. In the episode she talks about the genesis of the genre in Candid Camera, An American …
High Theory August 16, 2022

Normalization

A Discussion with Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay

Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert tell us about normalization in international relations. Their research applies Foucault’s social theories of the normal and abnormal to …
High Theory August 9, 2022

Environmental Catastrophe

A Conversation with John Yargo

John Yargo

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode John Yargo speaks with Kim about Environmental Catastrophe. In the episode John quotes Hannah Arendt and N.K. Jemisin, discusses a Shakespeare play and a 17th century Peruvian …
High Theory August 1, 2022

Birthdays

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
We return after our four-month relaunch with an episode on Birthdays, variously interpreted. The reason? It’s the second birthday of High Theory Podcast! (And it’s also the shared birthday of …
High Theory July 26, 2022

Presentism

A Conversation with Anna Kornbluh

Anna Kornbluh

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Anna Kornbluh talks about presentism, the anachronistic historical practice of studying the past with contemporary frames of understanding. While some orthodoxies might consider it to be tantamount to historical heresy …
High Theory July 25, 2022

University Press

A Discussion with Rebecca Colesworthy

Rebecca Colesworthy

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Rebecca Colesworthy talks about the university press and how its workings should be demystified, what authors should keep in mind when they pitch their books, and what university presses do …