Likbez

Likbez

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Likbez episodes

  • Likbez on Canadian Identity, Canadian Illusions and Justin Trudeau // Dr. Ian McKay

    Design and Video Production by creative agency extraordinaire: Thrillhouse Studios https://thrillhousestudios.com


    Ian McKay was appointed the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster on 1 January 2016. Two of his recent books, both co-authored with Jamie Swift, have focused on peace and war in twentieth-century Canada: Warrior Nation:  Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2012) and The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2016). 


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    37 min
  • Likbez on Data Surveillance, Facebook and Death of Privacy // Dr. Tony Porter

    Design and Video Production by creative agency extraordinaire: Thrillhouse Studios https://thrillhousestudios.com


    Dr. Tony Porter’s research explores how numbers increasingly are displacing or complementing words, as with numerical rankings and indices, risk models, algorithms associated with Big Data, numerical tracking technologies such as bar codes or Radio Frequency ID tags (RFID), and digitization more generally.


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    30 min
  • Likbez on Marxism, Stalin and Socialism in the Soviet Union // Dr. Tracy McDonald

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    Dr. McDonald is a specialist in Russian and Soviet History. Her areas of interest include social and cultural history, micro-history, film, agrarian studies, violence, and animal studies. Her articles on peasant rebellion and on banditry in Riazan have appeared in the Journal of Social History and Canadian-American Slavic Studies as well as the edited volume, Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s. She is the author of Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921-1930 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011). 


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    49 min
  • Likbez on Universal Basic Income, Income Inequality and Elon Musk // Wayne Lewchuk

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    Wayne Lewchuk is an expert on precarious employment. He's part of a panel evaluating Ontario's 3-year Basic Income Pilot, which includes Hamilton, Ontario. He is also a McMaster University professor and LIUNA Enrico Henry Mancinelli Professor in Global Labour Issue.


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    36 min
  • Likbez on Weed Legalization, LSD and God // Mat Savelli

    Here we ask smart people stupid questions.   

    Our first guest is Dr. Mat Savelli who is a medical historian and his research covers a wide variety of topics, including the history of psychiatry in Eastern Europe, the global advertising of psychiatric medications, and corporate strategies employed in cigarette packaging.   

    We discuss weed legalization, LSD, heroin and God. 

    42 min

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