Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Episode 126
The Western as a genre is alive and vibrant, argues University of Maine - Farmington professor of English literature Michael K. Johnson. In Speculati…
3 years, 2 months ago
How Attention Works: Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction
Episode 50
Stefan Van der Stigchel discusses how we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.
We are surrounded by a world rich with…
3 years, 2 months ago
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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago