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Back to SearchWhy Did 48,000 UC Workers Go on Strike? A Conversation with Dr. Trevor Griffey
Episode 148
Why did thousands of workers at prestigious universities in the United States go on strike in 2022? How did we get to this historic moment, and is it…
3 years, 5 months ago
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
Episode 53
In April 2006, The Institute held a two day symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. In this session, Lewis …
3 years, 5 months ago
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 4--Careers Beyond the Academy
Episode 59
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (pr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 3--Deciding to Leave the Academy
Episode 58
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (pr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Episode 345
The marginalisation of Black voices from the academy is a problem in the Western world. But Black Studies, where it exists, is a powerful, boundary-p…
3 years, 6 months ago
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside of Academia: Part 2--A View from Inside
Episode 57
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (pr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Life After Grad School Both Inside and Outside Academia: Part 1--The Job Search and Job Market
Episode 56
Inspired by Bradley Sommer’s tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (pr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Daniel Barish, "Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861-1912" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 479
The late Qing was a time of great turmoil and upheaval but also a time of great possibility, as scholars, officials, the press, and revolutionaries a…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 266
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) can be read as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against an…
3 years, 6 months ago
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 185
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research proc…
3 years, 6 months ago