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On Teaching Religion on YouTube
Episode 82
Andrew M. Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion at Boston University and founder of the educational YouTube channel, Religion for …
3 years, 11 months ago
Mental Health in Academia 6: Mental, Physical, and Social Determinants of Wellbeing
Episode 171
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All …
3 years, 11 months ago
Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)
Episode 39
AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public …
3 years, 11 months ago
A Conversation with Mark Nordenberg: Chancellor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh (Part 1)
Episode 46
Mark Nordenberg is part of a vanishing breed within higher education – a leader who has spent almost his entire career at a single university. In the…
4 years ago
William F. Eadie, "When Communication Became a Discipline" (Lexington, 2021)
Episode 164
When Communication Became a Discipline (Lexington, 2021) argues that speech and journalism professors embraced the concept of communication between 1…
4 years ago
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 17
Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stig…
4 years ago
Anthony Cerulli, "The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 185
In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic colle…
4 years ago
On Religious Literacy in American Education
Season 1 Episode 73
Benjamin P. Marcus is the religious literacy specialist with the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute, where he examines the intersectio…
4 years ago
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
Episode 10
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tre…
4 years ago
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 101
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, …
4 years ago