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Back to SearchEric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
Episode 46
In this episode from the Vault, we hear from historian Eric Hobsbawm, a frequent visitor at the New York Institute for the Humanities. His talk, Lite…
3 years, 6 months ago
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 322
How does the state support writers? In State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020), Asha Rogers, Senior L…
3 years, 7 months ago
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 134
Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise (Routledge, 2022) examines the multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make …
3 years, 7 months ago
Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
Episode 90
Paul Roquet is an MIT associate professor in media studies and Japan studies; his earlier work includes Ambient Media. It was his recent mind-bending…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King, "Representing Religion in Film" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 216
Tenzan Eaghll and Rebekka King's Representing Religion in Film (Bloomsbury, 2021) is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between re…
3 years, 7 months ago
Elizabeth Ellcessor, "In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Mediate Crisis and Normalize Inequality" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 89
Dr. Elizabeth Ellcessor presents a much-needed look at the growth of emergency media and its impact on our lives in In Case of Emergency: How Technol…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Two Russias
Episode 22
In the late 1980s, Hollywood reflected the real world thaw in the Cold War by depicting the idea of two Russias: the cold bureaucratic state run by g…
3 years, 7 months ago
Standpoint Theory
Episode 98
Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses…
3 years, 7 months ago
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 189
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game design…
3 years, 7 months ago
NBN Classic: Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Episode 45
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
As you may know, university pr…
3 years, 7 months ago