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Podcast: Berkeley Talks (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Scholars on using fantasy to reimagine Blackness
Pub date: 2022-07-29

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A panel of scholars discusses UC Berkeley professor Darieck Scott's new book Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics, which explores how fantasies of Black power and triumph in superhero comics and other genres create challenges to — and respite from — white supremacy and anti-Blackness.

Listen to the discussion and read a transcript on Berkeley News.

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Podcast: HistoryExtra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The BBC at 100: scandals break
Pub date: 2022-07-22

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In the penultimate episode of our series marking the centenary of the BBC, David Hendy looks back at some of the scandals surrounding the corporation across the past two decades – both new and historical – and what they tell us about its relationship with politics and the public.

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Podcast: Free Thinking (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Futurism
Pub date: 2022-07-22

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"The beauty of speed. Time and space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created the eternal, omnipresent speed." Part of the 1909 manifesto drawn up by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti that declared the aims of the groundbreaking Futurist branch of modernism. Their rejection of the past included embracing the march of machinery, the power of youth and of violence so how do we view this now? Matthew Sweet is joined by Steven Connor, Selena Daly, Rosalind McKever, and Nathan Waddell.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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Originally broadcast as part of the Modernism season on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and BBC Sounds. There is a collection on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07p3nxh

And across the Proms season, various interval features are focusing on cultural openings and events from 1922. You can find those available to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts.

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Podcast: High Theory (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Social Psychoanalysis
Pub date: 2022-07-22

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Ankhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping mechanisms and so on. The conversation focuses on her recent book on the subject, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, which studies community-based psychiatry and how it serves the working classes in three global cities.

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in English at Wadham College. Her most recent book is Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, published by Cambridge University Press in December 2021. Her second monograph, What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford, 2014) won the British Academy prize in English Literature in 2015. Mukherjee’s other publications include Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007) and the collections of essays she has edited, namely A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (with Laura Marcus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) and After Lacan (Cambridge UP, 2018). Mukherjee has published in competitive peer-reviewed journals, including PMLA, MLQ, Contemporary Literature, Parallax, and the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals. At present, Mukherjee has two books under contract. She is writing A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in the widely circulated VSI series (Oxford UP, 2023) and co-editing (with Ato Quayson) a collaborative volume titled Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2022).

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Podcast: Yale University Press Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Kimono Style
Pub date: 2022-07-18

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A conversation with Met curator Monika Bincsik about the kimono–its evolution from the Edo period to the 20th century and its relationship with Western fashion

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Podcast: Book Dreams (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 111 - “A Really Superb Novel and a Film That Should Probably Be Burned,” with Jack Zipes
Pub date: 2022-06-23

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Fairy tales. Why have they survived a thousand years of re-telling? How do they adapt to reflect changing times, places, and storytellers? And what is it about them that captivates us from early childhood and continues to intrigue us throughout our lives? In this episode of Book Dreams, Eve and Julie explore the magic of these familiar stories with scholar, author, and teacher Jack Zipes, one of the world’s leading authorities on fairy tales, folklore, and children’s literature. They talk about the lasting power of classics like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, and also about Jack’s new translation of The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest, by the Austro-Hungarian Jewish writer Felix Salten, which was the source material for the 1942 Disney film.

Jack explains that the novel is “a brilliant and profound story of how minority groups throughout the world have been brutally treated,” an “allegory about the weak and powerless” that is both “dystopic and sobering.” By contrast, “The stupidity of the movie is so outrageous that as I was doing research on this book, I literally almost threw up.” They talk, too, about how Jack’s experiences as an activist leader during the social upheavals of the 1960s lead him to a career in children’s literature: “I realized if there's going to be a movement that really digs in and has roots in the majority of people, we have to learn how to teach critically and develop methods in which children would be able to begin to think for themselves and continue to be curious, ask questions, and also take interest in groups in the United States with which they are not familiar.”

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. He has written, translated, and edited dozens of books, including The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Why Fairy Tales Stick, and Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales of North America and England. In addition to his scholarly work, Jack is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children's theaters in Europe and the United States. Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Brothers Grimm Award, and the World Fantasy Convention Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2018, Jack founded the publishing house, Little Mole & Honey Bear, which republishes historical children’s books with timeless values in order to “preserve the things that make us human and stand up to forces that would tear our society apart.”

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Podcast: Afternoons
Episode: Feature interview: Pascal Cotte
Pub date: 2022-07-20

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For centuries, people have asked, who is Mona Lisa and why is she smiling in the famous painting by Leonardo DaVinci. French engineer Pascal Cotte helped answer so many questions when he was invited by the Louvre to photograph the Mona Lisa more than 15 years ago using a new technique he developed, a type of multispectral imaging. He continues to pour over the images and now he believes he has the answer to another question: where is that landscape is behind the Mona Lisa's shoulders.

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Podcast: Radio Free Humanity: The Marxist-Humanist Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia
Pub date: 2022-07-08

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Episode 72: Chomsky’s Linguistics & Politics—Interview with David Golumbia by MHI

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Podcast: The Political Theory Review (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 105: Terry Pinkard - Practice, Power, and Forms of Life
Pub date: 2022-07-13

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A conversation with Terry Pinkard about his recent book, "Practice, Power, and Forms of Life: Sartre's Appropriation of Hegel and Marx" (U of Chicago Press 2022).

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Podcast: Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: A Brief History of Weaponised Insects
Pub date: 2022-07-03

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If you’ve seen classic B Movies like 1954’s 'Them' or the criminally underappreciated classic, 'Starship Troopers', the words “Insect Warfare” probably conjure up some specific, likely silly imagery.

But insects have featured in human conflicts in very real and often terrifying ways since the beginning of the historical record and likely, long before it.

Jeffrey Lockwood is Professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities at the University of Wyoming and the author of 'Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War'.

He joins Jonathan to discuss,

Catherine McGuinness, Zoologist and Educational Assistant at the National Museum of Ireland & Dr. Lara Dungan also joined Jonathan for Newsround.

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