Bedrosian Bookclub Podcast

by Sophocles, Paul Woodruff (Translator)

This month, Lisa is joined by Carla Della Gatta and Richard Green to discuss the timeless play by Sophocles: Antigone.

The play has clear connections to political struggles we face thousands of years later. The struggle between law and norm, the struggle to define what the state can control, and more. Listen as our three scholars discuss the necessity of reading Antigone today.

Read along for next month: Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes by Elizabeth Anne Moore.

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Using the case of Thames Town, an English-like village in Shanghai, The Real Fake looks at Chinese ideas of spacial construction and what authenticity means in (re)making spaces. In today's episode, host Lisa Schweitzer talks with the author of the new book The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space, Maria Francesca Piazzoni.

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Lisa on Twitter: @drschweitzer

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This month, Lisa is joined by Anthony Orlando, Jeff Jenkins, and Christian Grose to discuss Bob Woodward's latest reportage on the Presidency: Fear. How does this stack up to other Woodward titles and how does the principal-agent theory work it's way into conversation with these political junkies?

For links to some of the things we discus, check out the showpage: bedrosian.usc.edu/bookclub/fear

What we're reading:

Anthony : Heirs of the Founders by H.W. Brands Jeff : The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth Christian : The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White, , The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Read along for next month : Antigone by Sophocles, Paul Woodruff (Translator)

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One of the larger problems for government, is that taking risks is difficult. Risks are expensive, and can lead to a host of problems when those risks don't give desired results.

Here's where social innovation is taking a chance. In the UK you have pay for results programs, called pay for success here in the states. How do these programs work? Who takes on the economic risk? How do we measure success? Can pay for success and social impact bonds help solve some of the wicked problems?

Host Lisa Schweitzer talks with two of the co-authors of the new book Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds, Gary Painter and Christopher Fox.

Read along with us - next month, Antigone! Let us know what you think of the book & our podcasts on Facebook or Twitter.

Lisa on Twitter: @drschweitzer Gary on Twitter: @GaryDeanPainter Christopher (Policy Evaluation& Research Unit) : @MMUPolicyEval

This month, Lisa, Richard, and Aubrey discuss the new book of sonnets from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin. Hayes' sonnets are "acrid with tear gas, and they unravel with desire." For the poetry doubters everywhere.

Read along for next month : Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

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This podcast was produced by Aubrey Hicks and Jonathan Schwartz. Sound production by the Brothers Hedden.

This month, Aubrey, Ange-Marie, Jeff, and David discuss the new book from renowned literary critic Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth : Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump. Or, perhaps ... death by a thousand "realities."

Read along for next month : Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Find what we're reading and more on the showpage.

You can email us at [email protected].

This podcast was produced by Aubrey Hicks and Jonathan Schwartz. Sound production by the Brothers Hedden.

Follow us on Twitter. Please like the Bedrosian Bookclub on Facebook.

Our new tradition, on the Bedrosian Bookclub, is to read a witchy book for the month of October. This year ...

We're taking a look at the coming of age novel, Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. This is the story of Antonio Marez, a six year old boy caught between his Father's love of travel, his mother's desire he become a priest, the town (modernity), and the farmland of the llano (tradition). Then a magical elder, a curandera (a healer who uses herbs and magic) comes to live with the family. She mentors the young boy as he begins to seek a better sense of himself in the world.

Host Lisa Schweitzer, joined by Caroline Bhalla, Aubrey Hicks, and Stacy Patterson (EML '12) find many themes to discuss in this novel set at the end of World War II in a small New Mexican community.

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Lisa on Twitter: @drschweitzer Caroline on Twitter: @Coodence Aubrey on Twitter: @AubreyHi Stacy on Twitter @stacypatt614

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What is authenticity in a community? What is an authentic community? In a world which never stops changing, growing, evolving ... how can planners take up the challenge of authenticity? Host Lisa Schweitzer talks with editors Brettany Shannon and Laura Tate of the new book Planning for AuthentiCITIES about the challenge and how to move toward inclusive and democratic communities.

We're reading American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes for next month!

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Lisa on Twitter: @drschweitzer

Brettany on Twitter: @brettanyshannon

Using contemporary examples, Kate Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, explores the definitions of misogyny and its contrast with sexism. The book is a philosophical examination of misogyny as the policing of the patriarchal state, serving to punish women who might step out of the assigned giver role.

An important read, it is also not a book for the faint of heart, as David Sloane says this is a dispirited look into the state of misogyny in the US (and the author's native Australia).

Host Lisa Schweitzer, joined by Jennifer Bravo (MPP '06), Stacy Patterson (EML '12), and David Sloane to delve into conversation about the book and how we all play a part in the continuity of the patriarchy. How men and women, all of us, contribute to the policing of women in the form of misogyny.

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Lisa on Twitter: @drschweitzer Jennifer on Twitter @vitagraphia Stacy on Twitter @stacypatt614 David on Twitter @dcsloane53

In 2017 two lectures presented in the London Review of Books' Winter Lecture series were published together in Mary Beard's Women & Power. The first lecture put into context the idea and resonance of women's public voice, with the second lecture focusing on power.

Host Lisa Schweitzer, joined by Aubrey L. Hicks and Pamela Clouser McCann discuss these two lectures, their experiences as women in the academy, as well as the state of women in institutions of power today.