Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRebecca Ball, "A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
Episode 502
How do ordinary people write the stories of their lives? In A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), Rebecca Ball…
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Peter Singer, "Consider the Turkey" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 199
A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today’s specially bred, commerc…
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Larry S. Temkin, "Being Good in a World of Need" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 501
In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?
This is the urgent…
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Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 483
In How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists use beautiful writing to allow …
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Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
Episode 38
In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s media, fro…
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Jess A. Goldberg, "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 328
How can Black Atlantic literature challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship?
Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice (U Minn…
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Nick Couldry, "The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What If It Can't?" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 198
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Prof…
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Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 115
In Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica (Duke UP, 2024), Matthew Chin investigates queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation t…
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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, "The Unequal Effects of Globalization" (MIT, 2023)
Episode 165
The recent retreat from globalization has been triggered by a perception that increased competition from global trade is not fair and leads to increa…
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Ulises Ali Mejias and Nick Couldry, "Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 378
In the present day, Big Tech is extracting resources from us, transferring and centralizing resources from people to companies. These companies are g…
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