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The Making of "Ways of Hearing"
Episode 48
Bonus to the Ways of Hearing podcast and book
A behind-the-scenes conversation with the creators of Ways of Hearing, the podcast and book. Hosted by a…
3 years ago
Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 56
Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 (Brill, 2022) focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-st…
3 years ago
Tiger C. Roholt, "Distracted from Meaning: A Philosophy of Smartphones" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 312
Social scientists have long studied the ways in which smartphone use can distract us from the proper performance of means-ends tasks, such as driving…
3 years ago
Cinegogía: An Open Access Resource for Teaching and Studying Latin American Cinema
Episode 222
Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. Bridget Franco, an associate professor of Spanish at…
3 years ago
Natasha Rogoff, "Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 1304
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the f…
3 years ago
Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 145
How did the Serengeti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?
In Our Gigant…
3 years ago
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 111
"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees)…
3 years ago
Discussions on Open Access: Open Science Tools
Episode 44
Jess Polka, executive director of ASAPbio, and Sam Klein of the MIT Press/MIT Media Lab’s Knowledge Futures Group (KFG) and Harvard University’s Berk…
3 years ago
The Future of Dictatorship: A Discussion with Sergei Guriev
Episode 57
Most dictators no longer rule by fear but by spin instead. That’s the contention of Sergei Guriev who has co-authored (with Daniel Treisman) Spin Dic…
3 years, 1 month ago
Gwen Burnyeat, "The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy Amid Disinformation in Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 221
Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize.…
3 years, 1 month ago