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Gill Grose: A Volunteer Librarian Changing Lives in South Africa
Episode 34
Gill has been s a volunteer librarian at Claremont Primary School in Cape Town South Africa since 2010. Through her initiative she has been able to g…
4 years, 4 months ago
Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman, "Economy Studies: A Guide to Rethinking Economics Education" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
Episode 85
The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, …
4 years, 4 months ago
Wasif Rizvi: President of Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan
Episode 41
Wasif Rizvi is the founding president of Habib University, the first liberal arts institution in Pakistan. Planning for the University began in 2010,…
4 years, 4 months ago
Joanne W. Golann, "Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a "No-Excuses" Charter School" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 151
Ethnographer and sociologist Joanne Golann spent 18 months observing the day-to-day life of students and teachers in a “no-excuses” charter school. I…
4 years, 4 months ago
Homeschooling: A Guidebook of Practices, Claims, Issues, and Implications
Episode 57
Over the past few years and especially now— with COVID-19-related lockdowns necessitating that families stay at home—an increasing number of parents …
4 years, 4 months ago
George Drake: President Emeritus (1979-1991) of Grinnell College
Episode 2
Today I had the pleasure of talking to George Drake, historian, professor emeritus and president emeritus of Grinnell College. George has written a m…
4 years, 4 months ago
Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)
Episode 150
Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (Fordham UP, 2016) explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the…
4 years, 4 months ago
Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
Episode 268
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021) by Dr. Davarian Baldwin examines the political e…
4 years, 4 months ago
Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 132
In Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan (Columbia UP, 2021), Eric Hayot develops the concept of “humanist reason” to understand the nature…
4 years, 4 months ago
Mental Health in Academia 2: Hacks for Cultivating and Sustaining Wellbeing
Episode 146
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 …
4 years, 4 months ago