Kay Dickinson on colonialism, socialism, the Arab world, secular cinema, labor, tax breaks, offshore filmmaking, and Abba You can read about Kay’s work here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/kaydickinson/
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 345
Ingrid Richardson on air-crash investigation, pets, gaming, phenomenology, ethnography, telephony, collaboration, and artificial intelligence You can read about Ingrid’s work here: https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/richardson-professor-ingrid
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 344
Fawzia Afzal-Khan on literary studies, activism, colonialism, Pakistan, women’s rights, Afghanistan, Palestine, Susan Sontag, raga, theater, TE Lawrence, and traveling feminism You can read about her work here: https://www.fawziaafzalkhan.com/
May 23, 2024•53 min•Ep. 342
Melani McAlister on her new book covering the Gaza-Israel-US conflict, evangelical nationalism, Ukraine, queerness, and Weber You can read about her work here: https://melanimcalister.com/ https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/melani-mcalister
May 23, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 341
Bev Best on student protest, teaching, critical theory, Marxism, value, fetish, social labor, money, and class struggle You can read about Beverley’s work here: https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/beverley-best.html?c=/artsci/cissc/phd-humanities/faculty-profiles https://explore.concordia.ca/beverley-best https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/authors/best-beverley...
May 22, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 340
Tema Milstein on migrating, sojourning, the ocean, environmental communication, ecocultural identity, public impact, and pedagogy You can read about Tema’s work here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/tema-milstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMfbs_cGr8 https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/engage-with-us/innovation-hub/massive-action-sydney/unconvention/daily-delight-disrupt https://www.instagram.com/daily_delight_disrupt/ https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/97813510688...
May 22, 2024•59 min•Ep. 339
Carlos del Valle sobre del contexto de la violencia global, el colonialismo, las cosmovisiones indígenas, la teoría critica, y Boric y el conflicto estado-Mapuche Se puede leer sobre la obra de Carlos aquí: https://scholar.google.cl/citations?user=iUgwiLQAAAAJ&hl=es https://converginghorizons.ufro.cl/
May 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 338
Richard Higgott on dislocated international politics, globalization, the Indo-Pacific/Asia-Pacific region, China and the US, liberalism, middle powers, and dependency theory You can read about Richard here: https://www.brussels-school.be/team/higgott-richard https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/publications/Research-Reports/The-Decline-and-Rise-of-Hegemonic-Narratives...
May 21, 2024•55 min•Ep. 337
Robert Vitalis on academic freedom at the University of Pennsylvania, Egypt, archives, du Bois, international relations, Saudi Arabia, and putative scarcity of natural resources You can read about Robert here: https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/robert-vitalis
May 21, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 336
Angela Prysthon and Shawn Shimpach on the end of the world, world cinema, political protest, language, and the Americas You can read about their work here: https://ufpe.academia.edu/AngelaPrysthon https://www.umass.edu/communication/about/directory/shawn-shimpach
May 17, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 335
Lúcia Nagib on de-centering humans, animal film, Brazilian culture, tropicália, world cinema, realism, representation, presentation, and artificial intelligence and research You can read about her work here: https://www.reading.ac.uk/film-theatre-television/staff/professor-lucia-nagib https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVAYRlcBNA https://research.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/...
May 17, 2024•50 min•Ep. 334
Larissa Buchholz on the commodification of art, growing up in East Germany, Christa Wolf, the sociology of art, and Pierre Bourdieu You can read about her work here: https://larissabuchholz.soc.northwestern.edu/ https://www.textezurkunst.de/de/articles/why-i-speak-global-art-field-and-not-global-art-world/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304422X17300657?casa_token=KF2IRFG7tAgAAAAA:E6__jvkhbFywJmXZPBneIl1ASZnE9BMSHv_UL_6QeeEYbGrpeLbFuOECuRNVyNWZVyOivfkx https://journals.sa...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 333
Todd McGowan on right-wing populism, capitalism’s death spiral, psychoanalysis, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and Marx You can read about Todd’s work here: https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U1zFKsBudd3BcgSAw https://soundcloud.com/whytheory...
May 15, 2024•58 min•Ep. 332
Ted Striphas on the success/decline of cultural studies, print culture, the book industry, and algorithms You can read about Ted’s work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/college-leadership/ted-striphas
May 15, 2024•58 min•Ep. 331
Anthony Nocella on dismantling visible and invisible barriers, education beyond the classroom, hip hop, lowriders, anarchism, activism, animal liberation, and consumption You can read about Anthony’s work and interests here: https://www.anthonynocella.org/ https://houstonfoodnotbombs.org/ https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/ https://animalliberationfrontline.com/ https://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/about/ https://savethekidsgroup.org/ https://transformativejusticejournal.org/ https://peacestudie...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 330
Andy Opel on a Tallahassee tornado, climate grifters, Appalachian oystermen, climate witnesses, unseen forces, environmental communication, children’s books, video virtuality, and micro radio You can read about Andy’s work and interests here: https://www.andyopel.net/ https://wordofsouthfestival.com/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p093wp6h/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303536/believing-is-seeing-by-errol-morris/ https://www.rutgerbregman.com/...
May 15, 2024•58 min•Ep. 329
Tony Kashani and Joe Cronin on the humanities, administrative-capitalist priorities, DuBois, Washington, activism, Tagore, Dewey, and critical thought You can read about them here: https://tonykashani.com/ https://www.antioch.edu/faculty/joseph-cronin/ https://www.joecroninart.com/about
May 14, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 328
Alicia Dara on women thriving professionally, patriarchal employment, speech skills for women executives, perimenopausal social issues, the right to choose, women’s power, music, Womancake magazine, intergenerational feminism, and golf weekends You can read about Alicia’s work and interests here: https://www.aliciadara.com/ https://www.womancake.com/about https://shoutyourabortion.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/women-sexism-work-huffington-kamala-harris.html https://abortionfun...
May 13, 2024•52 min•Ep. 327
Marwan Kraidy on swimming, the Arab world, Turkish and reality TV, the Arab Spring, Lebanon, and experience and heterodoxy impelling research You can read about Marwan’s work here: https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/marwan-kraidy.html
May 13, 2024•57 min•Ep. 326
Lisa Henderson on encampments, room to move, being a Dean during a pandemic, autocracy, queerness and class, pedagogy, ethnography, the avant garde, Canada, indigenous issues, and language politics You can read about Lisa’s work here: https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/lisa_henderson.html
May 10, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 325
Mary Beltrán on democracy, student protests, Orange is the New Black, Latin@ screen representation, Paul Rodríguez, Freddie Prinze Sr, and Tanya Saracho You can read about her work and interests here: https://moody.utexas.edu/faculty/mary-beltran https://untitledlatinxproject.com/ https://www.nalip.org/ https://remezcla.com/ https://latinheat.com/ https://blcklst.com/programs/2024-latine-list https://nyupress.org/9781479868650/latino-tv/ https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p076510...
May 08, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 324
Tom Streeter on authoritarian populism, the media, capitalist technological hype, regulation, Canadian trucker protests, Romanticism, and law and the iPhone You can read about Tom’s work here: https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/tom_streeter.html https://streeter.fims.uwo.ca/
May 08, 2024•56 min•Ep. 323
Sharon Strover on curtailing and surveilling campus protest and free speech, artificial intelligence, privacy, inequality, the rural, the Federal Communications Commission, net neutrality, and qualitative and quantitative approaches You can read about her work here: https://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/sharon-strover
May 08, 2024•53 min•Ep. 322
Tiffany Miller on reproductive justice and Maya culture and language You can read about Tiffany’s work here: http://tiffanycreeganmiller.weebly.com/ https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/tiffany-miller/
May 07, 2024•42 min•Ep. 321
George Marcus on critical cultural theory, multi-sited ethnography, and elites You can read about George’s work here: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/georgemarcus/
May 07, 2024•50 min•Ep. 320
Mia Mask on the cowboy and popular imagination, the Black Western, horses, landscape, slavery, reparations, Black modernity, Sidney Poitier, sports to Hollywood, Black women stars, and Black cinema You can follow Mia’s work here: https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/mimask https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-lFIZai8fQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBI-erfEV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXcwAYWJfc https://vimeo.com/872715263/df18f62b92?share=copy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DtVwwjEl4A https:...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 319
Morris Nguyen on sepsis, augmented intelligence, stigmas, language, OpenDx, Predicate, and life as a medical doctor You can read about the work of Predicate here: https://www.predicatehpg.com/ https://riot.org/startup-spotlight-predicate/
May 07, 2024•42 min•Ep. 318
Joel Westheimer on democracy, authoritarianism, inequality, educational standardization and testing, citizenship, the US, and Canada You can read about Joel’s work here: https://www.joelwestheimer.org/
May 06, 2024•49 min•Ep. 317
Daya Thussu on international relations, China, and India You can read about Daya here: https://jour.hkbu.edu.hk/faculty-member/daya-thussu/
May 06, 2024•56 min•Ep. 316
Lisa Funnell on not thinking, audio books, James Bond, Michelle Yeoh, Chinese warrior women, #MeToo, and feminism You can read about Lisa’s work here: https://lisafunnell.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-lisa-funnell-12965b17_worlddesignday-hamont-mohawkcollege-activity-7190710202717859841-WCzN/...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 315