Podcast Episodes

Can We Redefine Our Relationship with Nature? Scientists, Writers & Activists Share Solutions

Season 13 Episode 1071

What can we learn from whales, the ways they communicate, and how their life cycle affects whole ecosystems, absorbing carbon and helping cool the planet? How have we contributed to the ecological de…

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Palestinian Poetry Reveals the Truth Institutions Silence w/ HUDA FAKHREDDINE & ANTHONY ALESSANDRINI

Season 13 Episode 1107

In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Huda Fakhreddine and Anthony Alessandrini about the unique manners in which literature can disclose the human s…

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Voices for the Planet: Scientists, Activists, Farmers & Filmmakers Speak Out

Season 13 Episode 1069

 How can we learn to speak the language of the Earth and cultivate our intuitive intelligence?  What lessons can we learn from non-human animals about living in greater harmony with nature?  How have…

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Art, Creativity & Intuition - Filmmakers, Musicians & Artists discuss their Creative Process

Season 13

Where does our intuition come from? How are lifelong creative partnerships formed and what role do friendship and personal connection play? How do our personal lives influence the art we make?

Erland …

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Highlights - David Farrier - Author of “Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils”

Season 9

"Just thinking about how our actions play out over multiple generations who will have to live with the consequences of these decisions. I think we need to stretch our sense of time, and within that s…

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Sonnet L’Abbé - Award-winning Poet, Songwriter, Author of “Sonnet’s Shakespeare”

Season 9

Sonnet L'Abbé is a Canadian poet, songwriter, editor and professor. They are the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, and Sonnet's Shakespeare. Sonnet's Shakespeare was a Quill and Quire Book of th…

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Max Stossel - Award-winning Poet, Filmmaker, Creator of "Words That Move"

Season 10

Max Stossel is an Award-winning poet, filmmaker, and speaker, named by Forbes as one of the best storytellers of the year. His Stand-Up Poetry Special Words That Move takes the audience through a var…

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Highlights - MADELEINE WATTS - Author of The Inland Sea

Season 10

"So the book is divided. In the first section, summer, the equivalent of summer is Heat. And then there is Flood, which in Australia does tend to happen sort of towards the beginning of autumn, parti…

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Highlights - SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Season 11

"So this was the decision to write in the second person. A lot of people ask me: why? There are not many examples of this technique. The reason I opted for that is I was trying to figure out intervie…

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ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage

Season 11

Rob Verchick is one of the nation’s leading scholars in disaster and climate change law and a former EPA official in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair i…

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