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The American Age
By C. Travis WebbSociety & Culture
The American Age episodes
- 1619: Beyond The New York Times Project
091 – The hosts, along with new contributor Sarah Bond, discuss their impressions of the 1619 project. Does it go far enough in reckoning with our past?
35 min - Climate Change: What We've Learned
090 – The podcast welcomes a new contributor, Sarah Bond, PhD, and the hosts reflect on their climate change discussion.
34 min - Climate Change: Art as Social Practice
089 – Contemplating the consequences of climate change is not only the purview of scientists. Artists are also helping to imagine the contours of a warming planet, as well as re-imagine what possibilities might emerge from this global crisis.
27 min - Climate Change: Revisiting "An Inconvenient Truth"
088 – How well does "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) hold up after ten plus years of scientific research and political upheaval? The hosts engage not only with the film and its nominal protagonist, Al Gore, but the effectiveness of film as advocacy.
28 min - Climate Change: Material Memory
087 – Memory isn't something that lives only in our minds. Memory lives in objects--in museums, and scrap books, and archives. How can archives help us make sense of climate change? What do we choose to preserve and why?
37 min - Climate Change: Pop Culture Takes on the Planet
086 – The hosts explore what pop cultural references to climate change can and can't accomplish. Does pop culture improve our environmental awareness, or simply point back at itself recursively?
33 min - Climate Change: Who Will Suffer and Who Will Profit
085 – The effects of climate change will not be evenly distributed. Some landscapes, cultures, and peoples will suffer more than others. And some people will profit from that suffering. Who has a responsibility to deal with that suffering?
29 min - Toni Morrison: Her Life in Words
084 – The hosts take a break from their long form discussion about climate change to discuss Toni Morrison, who died on August 5th. “We die," Morrison said in her 1993 Nobel Prize acceptance. "That may be the meaning of life. But we do language," she added. "That may be the measure of our lives.”
35 min - Climate Change: Population Displacement and Poverty
083 – How can we think about climate change in new ways, so that we might better understand what's at stake? If we look at the history of demographic displacement then the future of climate change comes into stark relief. And that future is darker for some than for others.
22 min - Climate Change: It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel...
082 – The hosts discuss climate change. It’s in the news all the time, but how we talk about climate change is as important as identifying its parameters and potential consequences. How are we talking about our precarious place in the world?
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About The American Age
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What if your favorite college professors were willing to talk about everything from philosophy and politics to pop culture and love with the same kind of consideration and enthusiasm? Each week C.…
Travis Webb, Seph Rodney, and Steven Fullwood discuss life, culture, and art, and challenge their listeners to take fewer things for granted and all things more seriously.