A Correction Podcast

We speak with Ahilan Kadirgamar about microfinance. Ahilan Kadirgamar is a member of the Collective for Economic Democratisation. He is also Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).

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We speak with Joseph J. Gonzalez about life and capitalism in post-Castro Cuba. Joseph J. Gonzalez is Associate Professor, Global Studies at Appalachian State University. He is a historian of the Cuban-U.S. relationship, publishing in both English and in Spanish, in the United States and Cuba, where he is affiliated with the Institute for Cuban History. He is finishing a book on the Cuba's relationship with the United States, titled Facing the Sun: Cuba's Challenge to America's Empire, 1868-1959.

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We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East Critique, Arab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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We speak with Maggie Jackson about technology. Maggie Jackson is the author of “Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention” and a contributor to the anthology “Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robots.”

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We talk with Dorit Geva about the far-right in France. Dorit Geva is a political sociologist and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University, where she is overseeing CEU’s new BA programs in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been studying the populist radical-right in Europe. She has also written on the gender politics of military service, including her book, Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States (2013).

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We speak with Nana Osei-Opare about some of the books he teaches. “Assigned Reading” is a new segment on the podcast. Once a month we will interview scholars and teachers about books they use in the classroom. Nana Osei-Opare is an Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. The books we discuss include:

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law (Penguin Classics, 2009),  by Ruth First

 I Write What I Like , by Steve Biko

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Holt, 2005),  by Caroline Elkins.

A Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution (International Publishers, 1969), by Kwame Nkrumah.

Kwame Nkrumah

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We speak with Thomas J. Froehlich about Fake News. Thomas J. Froehlich, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, School of Information, Kent State University (27 years). His teaching areas included:  information science, information ethics, information architecture, knowledge management, network and software resources, online searching, computer programming and user interface design. He was the chief architect and former Director of the Master of Science Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State University (2001-2011), recently transformed into Master’s degrees in Knowledge Management, User Experience Design and Health Informatics.  Dr. Froehlich is currently working on a book titled 10 Lessons for the Age of Disinformation.  

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We speak with Coco Rhum and Hebh Jamal about the effort to integrate the NYC school system. These are two of the most inspiring activists I’ve ever spoken to and I am excited to share these interviews!

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We speak with Greer Valley about why decolonization needs to be more than a metaphor. Greer Valley is a South African visual artist. You can find her work here.

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We speak with Michael W. Klein about the legacy of Paul Volcker and the importance of an independent Federal Reserve. Michael W. Klein is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He served as the chief economist in the Office of International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury from 2010-2011. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the founder, research director, and co-executive editor of EconoFact, a website that provides economic analysis on timely policy issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, New York, San Francisco and Dallas. His research and teaching focus on international macroeconomics.

President Barack Obama meets with Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chair Paul Volcker in the Oval Office January 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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