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- Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:13:33Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:13:33Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascinating research on the history of mobility in Asia and how it...
- Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 00:44:22Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 00:44:22The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of substances such as marijuana and magic mushrooms offends core...
Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:10:33Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:10:33It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work (Princeton U...
Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:29:00Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:29:00In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. In Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–194...- Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:24:04Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 01:24:04Today I talked to Ewa Bacon about her book Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz (Purdue UP, 2017). In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek--newly graduated fro...
- Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 00:40:30Publication Date | Jul 29, 2024Duration | 00:40:30Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). The conversation focuses on chil...
- Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 01:10:48Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 01:10:48The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country...
Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 01:35:18Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 01:35:18The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age, Evagrius stands out for his short, perplexing, and absorbin...
Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 00:48:17Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 00:48:17Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discriminate against women. In Women’s Human Rights and the Eliminatio...- Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 01:19:05Publication Date | Jul 28, 2024Duration | 01:19:05Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms...