Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAJ Withers, "Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing" (Fernwood, 2021)
Episode 15
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several d…
3 years, 3 months ago
Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
Episode 198
Brian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
Episode 42
What exactly can artificial intelligence do? It’s an issue some of the professions are grappling with – on the face of it, law is an area that rests …
3 years, 3 months ago
Safe and Sound? On the Intersection of Child Protection and Child and Youth Residential Care in the Philippines
Episode 71
In the Philippines, unknown numbers of children are in institutional care. Commonly known as residential care or orphanages, these institutions have …
3 years, 3 months ago
Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)
Episode 31
In the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Co…
3 years, 3 months ago
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 184
It didn't always take thirty years to pay off the cost of a bachelor's degree.
In Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generatio…
3 years, 3 months ago
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 174
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create …
3 years, 3 months ago
Civil Disobedience
Episode 103
Eraldo Souza dos Santos talks about the invention of civil disobedience as a form of political action around the world, and the need for its redefini…
3 years, 3 months ago
Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
Episode 261
Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow …
3 years, 3 months ago
Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
Episode 46
How can billionaires justify the endless accumulation of wealth? Effective altruism. An almost religious philosophical belief. Sam Bankman-Fried, the…
3 years, 3 months ago