Podcast Episodes

Highlights - RALPH GIBSON - Photographer - Author of Self Exposure, The Somnambulist, Sacred Land: Israel before and after Time

Season 11

"I've never wanted to be invisible. I'm voyeuristic, but in a purely intellectual way. I would suspect the reason for functioning in a vertical format is because the horizontal rectangle is the propo…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

RALPH GIBSON - Photographer - Author of Self Exposure, The Somnambulist, Sacred Land: Israel before and after Time

Season 11

How does the mind influence the mind? The mind cannot function without memory. And memory is just the mind aware of itself. So how do images tell us how we see and who we are?

Ralph Gibson is one of t…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Highlights - IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works - Co-Director, Global Brain Health Institute

Season 11

“The book probes the science and neuroscience behind the idea that confidence can be learned, or whether it is something you inherit. Optimism, hope, and self-esteem are all concepts that are easily …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute

Season 11

How important is confidence? Psychologists say confidence is a series of mental, physical, and emotional habits that can be learned. What makes some people overconfident while others are realistic ab…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”

Season 11

"Be specific. Show, don't tell. And it comes back to the five senses. If it's something we can touch, taste, scent, see, hear, then we're going to engage more deeply in the dream. And if it's an abst…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”

Season 11

Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Speaking Out of Place: LIZA FEATHERSTONE on Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)

Season 11

In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu interviews Liza Featherstone about Build Public Renewables Act. It’s a huge victory for ecosocialists, and for everyb…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway

Season 11

"In terms of what I'm writing, I'm always trying to make myself a more interesting human being. And so that means I'm coming across these human dilemmas where I'm like what would it have been like to…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston

Season 11

How can literature help us extend our empathic imaginations? How can writing and reading expand our curiosity and compassion for people in situations distant from our own?

Jim Shepard is the author of…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Speaking Out of Place: SARA AHMED discusses The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

Season 11

In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu and Azeezah Kanji talk with Sara Ahmed about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. How and why is it that comp…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago