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Book Chat: "A Taiwanese Eco-Literature Reader" with Ian Rowen 24:50

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In this episode, our host, Ti-han, invited one of her co-editors, Dr Ian Rowen, to talk about their forthcoming book publication, A Taiwanese Eco-literature Reader, soon to be published by Columbia University Press. This anthology brings together translations of nine compelling stories from Taiwan, examining Taiwan’s most vibrant literary genre and…

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Super 100th Spectacular! 2:01:06

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University of Minnesota Press, est. 1925, turns 100 this year. Yes, we are twice as old as Saturday Night Live. And just as old as The New Yorker and The Great Gatsby. The Press has had only five directors in its history, and many current staff have been on for more than a few decades. How about another serendipitous milestone: this podcast, est. 2…

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Was Michigan basketball robbed by NCAA committee? And how far can Wolverines go? 48:07

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What a weekend for the Wolverines! After stumbling to the finish line in the regular season, Dusty May's Michigan squad recaptured its magic in Indianapolis and rode it all the way to a Big Ten tournament title. But was it worth it for the Wolverines? Tony and Andrew open the show by talking about how the Wolverines got back on track and the eventf…

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1869, Ep. 161 with Rachel Midura, author of Postal Intelligence 25:46

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Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Postal Intelligence here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779930/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=1Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Postal Intelligence:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779923/postal-intelligence/#bookTabs=1In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE he…

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Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024) 49:26

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China’s breathtaking economic development has been driven by bureaucrats. Even as the country transitioned away from socialist planning toward a market economy, the economic bureaucracy retained a striking degree of influence and control over crafting and implementing policy. Yet bureaucrats are often dismissed as faceless and inconsequential, thei…

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Can Michigan recapture magic before tournament time? Plus, what to make of Tre Holloman's push 44:50

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After a mostly awesome season, Michigan basketball appears to be limping into one-and-done time. The Wolverines lost their last three games of the regular season to Illinois, Maryland and Michigan State, where the story became a push from Tre Holloman in the final seconds. It's certainly not how the Wolverines wanted the season to end, but the grea…

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1869, Ep. 160 with Mark Cruse, author of The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France 28:57

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Learn more about The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779350/the-mongol-archive-in-late-medieval-france/#bookTabs=1Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/DpQJjWenDkr-igT1sysHk231FD4?utm_source=copy_urlMark Cruse is Associate Professor of French at Arizona…

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Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025) 1:17:09

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Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves, and prisons have become staples of memorial museums, exhibited to the public as material testimony…

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Playhouses and the architecture of childhood. 1:11:06

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Between the 1850s and 1930s, before playhouses for children reached the mainstream, they were often fully functional cottages designed by well-known architects for British royalty, American industrialists, and Hollywood stars. Recognizing the playhouse in this era as a stage for the purposeful performance of upper-class identity, Abigail A. Van Sly…

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Michigan basketball's Big Ten title hopes all come down to this week 41:43

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Plain and simple, Michigan basketball is not playing its best with just two games left in the season. The Wolverines have flashed some of the highest highs in college basketball this season, but even as Dusty May's squad has still found ways to win, it hasn't always been pretty. That finally caught up to the Wolverines on Sunday, who were run out o…

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1869, Ep. 159 with Nitzan Lebovic, author of Homo Temporalis 31:09

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Learn more about Homo Temporalis (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%) here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779565/homo-temporalis/#bookTabs=1Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/_Mgs3D1W3XxriagGe4E6Sy-7nEg?utm_source=copy_urlNitzan Lebovic is Professor of History and Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh Uni…

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1869, Ep. 158 w/ Rachel Chin & Samuel Huneke, editors of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe 31:12

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Download and read the FREE open access ebook edition of Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe here:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779206/reimagining-citizenship-in-postwar-europe/#bookTabs=1Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Reimagining Citizenship in Postwar Europe:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779190/reim…

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Michigan and Michigan State set for epic battle: Here’s what you need to know 41:43

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What is this the 2010s? It sure feels like it in the college basketball world, when the Big Ten title often ran through whoever came out on top between the Spartans and Wolverines. More and more, that’s looking like it’ll be the case this year as the Wolverines and Spartans sit in first and second place in the conference respectively. To start the …

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“I want to be a living work of art”: On the Marchesa Luisa Casati 49:03

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“If the public can predict you, it starts to like you. But the Marchesa didn’t want to be liked.” For the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati astounded Europe. Artists such as Man Ray painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers such as Ezra Pound and Jack Kerouac praised her strange beauty. An Italian woman …

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Is Michigan basketball the Big Ten favorite after beating Purdue? 43:18

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After Michigan basketball came out on top in an epic game against Purdue on Tuesday to take the lead in the Big Ten, Tony and Andrew are joined by Free Press sports columnist Shawn Windsor, who was at the Purdue game, to discuss how the Wolverines pulled out the crazy win. The guys talk about what makes this Michigan team unique and how they keep c…

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Sunila S. Kale and Christian Lee Novetzke, "The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India" (Columbia UP, 2025) 54:58

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In Indian languages from Sanskrit to Marathi, yoga has an enormous range of meanings, though most often it refers to philosophy or methods to control the mind and body. The Yoga of Power: Political Thought and Practice in India (Columbia UP, 2025) argues for a wider understanding, demonstrating that yoga has long expressed political thought and pra…

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Seungsook Moon, "Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:09:33

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Dr. Seungsook Moon’s Civic Activism in South Korea: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism was published by Columbia University Press in July 2024. She provides in-depth qualitative studies of three different types of organizations to show how civic organizations that emerged from the democratization movement with a conscious emphasis on s…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 8 — Benjamin Coates & Kazushi Minami discuss People's Diplomacy 52:39

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Welcome to the eighth episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Wake Forest University professor Benjamin Coates (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Osaka University professor Kazushi Minami about …

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It’s a microbe’s world. We just live in it. 52:47

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Microbes: We can’t see them, but we have no choice but to live with them. Microbes have significant, enduring impacts on human health and remind us to resist the abstraction of crucial forces in our everyday lives. Welcome to a multidisciplinary conversation about microbes, featuring Amber Benezra (Gut Anthro), Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (Microbial Resol…

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The Visual History of Panafricanism 37:40

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Curators and scholars Antawan I. Byrd and Matthew S. Witkovsky discuss the new exhibition and book Project a Black PlanetYale University Press

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John Beilein, legendary Michigan basketball coach, on the MSU rivalry, Dusty May and how far Wolverines can go this year 30:02

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The Hail Yes crew was thrilled this week to welcome former Michigan basketball coach John Beilein to the show for the first time. Few, if any, can offer the level of insight on the Michigan basketball program that Beilein can, and coming off a clutch late win over Penn State, it was the perfect time to sit down with the former coach. Tony and John …

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Peter Hill, "River Profiles: The People Restoring Our Waterways" (Columbia UP, 2024) 34:12

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Peter Hill has been working as a resource manager with a specialty in stream restoration for over two decades, first for Washington DC and then as a consultant for Great Lakes Watershed Opportunities. Currently, he is Senior Policy Advisor for Green Infrastructure at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center in Milwaukee, WI. His many years of exp…

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1869, Ep. 157 with Felia Allum, author of Women of the Mafia 31:23

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Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Women of the Mafia:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/In the UK, use promo code CSANNOUNCE here:https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501774799/women-of-the-mafia/Transcript here: https://otter.ai/u/66ZHk_WmYWFLUANWFtixUAe64Sc?utm_source=copy_urlFelia Allum is Professor in…

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Dario Fazzi, "Smoke on the Water: Incineration at Sea and the Birth of a Transatlantic Environmental Movement" (Columbia UP, 2023) 50:17

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The U.S. government, military, and industry once saw ocean incineration as the safest and most efficient way to dispose of hazardous chemical waste. Beginning in the late 1960s, toxic chemicals such as PCBs and other harmful industrial byproducts were taken out to sea to be destroyed in specially designed ships equipped with high-temperature combus…

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Michigan basketball's path to upset vs. Purdue: 3 keys and a prediction 25:43

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After an up-and-down week, the Michigan basketball squad will hit the road for its biggest test of the season at Mackey Arena against Purdue on Friday. Both teams should be hungry and desperate for a win as they've both recently suffered frustrating losses and this game will have a big impact on the rest of the Big Ten regular season. Tony and Andr…

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Our shared needs connect us: Writers respond to the science of animal conservation. 44:16

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Humans are one species on a planet of millions of species. The literary collection Creature Needs is a project that grew out of a need to do something with grievous, anxious energy—an attempt to nourish the soul in a meaningful way, and an attempt to start somewhere specific in the face of big, earthly challenges and changes, to create a polyvocal …

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Pierre Sokolsky, "The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024) 54:01

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On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where a cosmology originating with Aristotle prevailed, …

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Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024) 40:54

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One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould (Columbia UP, 2024), they take up the tradition of Gould's acclaimed essays on natu…

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Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023) 59:05

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Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan (Columbia UP, 2023) explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and …

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3 reasons Michigan basketball has pulled off incredible turnaround 49:28

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Hail Yes is back! After a holiday break, Tony and Andrew are back on the mic to talk about Michigan basketball's red-hot start to the season. With Rainer lending a hand to help cover the Lions' playoff run, Andrew and Tony dive into what has made this Michigan basketball team special so far, starting with unicorn big man Danny Wolf. The 7-foot ball…

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Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024) 57:33

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Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance. Author Arthur Bradley considers the theatricality of power—its forms, dramas, and iconography—and examines sovereignty’s modes of appearance: thrones, …

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The partitioning of public education 1:09:41

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Public schools are one of the last remaining universal public goods in the United States—and are also some of our most unequal institutions. In Unsettling Choice, Ujju Aggarwal explores how the expansion of choice-based programs led to greater inequality and segregation in a gentrifying New York City neighborhood during the years following the Grea…

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1869, Ep. 156 with authors Paolo Heywood and Adam Reed 34:26

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Use promo code 09POD to save 30% on Burying Mussolini,https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778285/burying-mussolini/and Animal People:https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501779640/animal-people/Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/tc5iDpv5sFvw71D1UPyWU0F4ekw?utm_source=copy_urlPaolo Heywood and Adam Reed discuss the common theme…

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Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:16:06

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The Chosŏn dynasty of Korea enjoyed generally peaceful and stable relations with Ming China, a relationship that was carefully cultivated and achieved only through the strategic deployment of cultural practices, values, and narratives by Chosŏn political actors. Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming Chin…

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Todd McGowan, "Universality and Identity Politics" (Columbia UP, 2020) 1:05:25

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The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of domination or a way of speaking for others, and have come to favor a politics of particularism—ofte…

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Jessica Namakkal, "Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India" (Columbia UP, 2021) 1:24:12

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After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities remained in and around the former French territo…

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Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:56:31

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The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood. Reductively stereotyped in his time as a "woman's director"-a thinly veiled, disparaging code for "gay"-he brilliantly directed a wide range of iconic actors a…

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Nergis Ertürk, "Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:12:22

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Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union (Columbia UP, 2024) examines political relations and literary translations between Turkey and the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s through to the 1960s. By drawing on a wide range of texts – from erotic comedy, historical fiction and film, to socialist realist novels and th…

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Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024) 41:15

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Over 4.5 billion years, Earth's climate has transformed tremendously. Before our more temperate recent past, the planet swung from one extreme to another--from a greenhouse world of sweltering temperatures and high sea levels to a "snowball earth" in which glaciers reached the equator. During this history, we now know, living things and the climate…

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Unpacking Michigan football's insane stretch – from Bryce Underwood to OSU win. Plus, is U-M basketball a Final Four team? 57:01

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It's safe to say that it's been a busy few weeks for Michigan football, between landing No. 1 recruit Bryce Underwood, the shocking upset of Ohio State, national signing day, firing and hiring offensive coordinators, landing in the ReliaQuest Bowl in a matchup with Alabama and so much more. The Hail Yes crew goes right down the lists and recaps all…

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Authors in Conversation, Ep. 7 — Emily Conroy-Krutz & Tom Smith discuss Word across the Water 39:49

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Welcome to the seventh episode of Authors in Conversation, a podcast from the series editors of the United States in the World series from Cornell University Press. This episode features Michigan State University professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (co-editor of the United States in the World series) speaking with Selwyn College, University of Cambridge r…

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Science Fiction and the Alt-Right 52:43

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The first major neo-Nazi party in the US was led by a science fiction fan. So opens Jordan S. Carroll’s Speculative Whiteness, a book that traces ideas about white nationalism through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics, showing that debates about representation in science fiction films and literature a…

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Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024) 57:07

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New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove,…

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1869, Ep. 155 with Eliot Borenstein, author of Unstuck in Time 20:41

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Learn about Unstuck in Time here (and use promo code 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777899/unstuck-in-time/Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/xLkSlsXBJKcP_0l4RGqFztFfcpQ?utm_source=copy_url&tab=chat&view=transcriptIn this episode, we speak with Eliot Borenstein, author of the new book Unstuck in Time: On the Pos…

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Public policy and the room where it happens. 1:09:14

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Policy expert and climate scientist Anna Farro Henderson explores how science is done, discussed, legislated, and imagined in her new book, Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood. Grounded in her experience as an environmental policy advisor to Minnesota Senator Al Franken and Governor Mark Dayton, Henderson brin…

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Michigan vs. Ohio State game preview: Finding Wolverines' path to an upset in Columbus 52:22

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It’s ‘The Game’ week with Michigan scheduled to play rival Ohio State on Saturday in Columbus (noon, Fox) and Tony and Rainer break it all down with a game preview. The Wolverines have won three games in a row in the series and not only seemingly hold a clear psychological advantage, but know their path to victory after winning the battle on the gr…

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1869, Ep. 154 with Peter Ekman, author of Timing the Future Metropolis 32:21

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Learn about Timing the Future Metropolis here (and use 09POD to save 30%):https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778391/timing-the-future-metropolis/#bookTabs=1Transcript here:https://otter.ai/u/s2IqBx8SSmwfPTUZHjSWmc5eHBA?utm_source=copy_url&tab=chat&view=transcriptIn this episode, we speak with Peter Ekman, author of the new book Timing…

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Lauren D. Olsen, "Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities" (Columbia UP, 2024) 53:10

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Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathetic and more concerned with equity. In practice, however, these good intentions have not translated into critical consciousness. Humanities and social sciences education has often not only failed to de…

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Did Michigan football mislead or misidentify talent on disappointing 2024 team? 58:45

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With Michigan football's second bye week behind us, Tony and Rainer thought it'd be as good of a time as any to look back at some of the many inconsistencies between what Sherrone Moore and his staff indicated would happen and what the product ended up looking like. For example, all offseason the word coming out of the Wolverines' facility was this…

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The Story of Drawing 33:33

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Susan Owens on Her Alternative History of ArtYale University Press

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