Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCaroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 261
W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purposes, it might be worth remembering what he meant. …
2 years, 7 months ago
Elisabet Kennedy, "Embracing Culturally Responsive Practice in School Libraries" (ALA Editions, 2023)
Episode 23
School librarians have always connected learners’ life experiences, cultures, and communities to materials, projects, and processes. As schools look …
2 years, 7 months ago
Speak Freely: The Princeton Principles
Episode 88
Kicking off our new monthly series on freedom of speech, Keith Whittington and Donald Downs discuss the Princeton Principles for a Campus of Free Inq…
2 years, 7 months ago
Tamson Pietsch, "The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 236
A globe-trotting and scandal-ridden story of American empire and higher education, The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of K…
2 years, 7 months ago
David Alan Richards, "I Give These Books: The History of the Yale University Library, 1656-2016" (Oak Knoll, 2022)
Episode 22
The disparate stories of the libraries of the fledgling colleges in the colonies of the Eastern Seaboard, beginning more than one hundred fifty years…
2 years, 7 months ago
Exploring the Emotional Arc of Turning a Dissertation into a Book
Episode 189
Imposter syndrome. Intellectual fatigue. Feeling like you have nothing interesting to say. Not liking your topic or your research anymore. Wondering …
2 years, 7 months ago
Ben Wildavsky, "The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 73
Young people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of essential…
2 years, 7 months ago
Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 420
Is art education worthwhile? In The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Henrik …
2 years, 7 months ago
Utsa Mukherjee, "Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 102
Children's leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured par…
2 years, 8 months ago
Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 419
Why study the arts in school? In Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (Routledge, 2023), Pat Thomson, Professor of Education at …
2 years, 8 months ago