Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Ukrainian-born Polish author, Żanna Słoniowska, author of The House with the Stained-Glass Window, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (MacLehose, 2017), is our guest on the latest episode of "Encounters with Polish Literature," as we pursue our series of special episodes on Polish-Ukrainian literary dialogue. Żanna Słoniowska is also our first living author to talk about her own work on the program.
Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political economy.
I am pleased to announce a new podcast series that interrogates images and objects. The first guest speaker is Dr. Paul Bevan, Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford. More speakers to come, every month.
In this season of the Queens Memory podcast, “Our Major Minor Voices,” we feature stories from our neighbors of Asian descent in Queens, New York. One in four residents of the borough identifies as Asian American. That’s more than 650,000 people with roots stretching back to Asia.
Podcasts of interest to Latin Americanists, to May 1, 2022
New Books Network
David Nemer—Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil
In this episode, Professor David Smith at the University of Glasgow discusses the minority aspect in the history and politics of the Baltic States. David suggests that the ‘commonality of fate’, rather than ethnic and demographic character, has made this region seem so culturally uniform in the popular imagination.
Overdue Conversations is a podcast about the ways archives inform our discussions around history, literature, and politics. From digital publishing to reparative justice, climate change to public health, this series of overdue conversations takes archival documents out of the stacks and into the public forum to consider how collecting practices, selective reading, and erasure of past knowledge informs and distorts contemporary debates.
New Books in Law (https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/law/) is currently seeking hosts interested in conducting interviews with authors of new books on law and related fields. Hosting the channel is a good way to bring the work of legal scholars and historians to the attention of large audiences. Interested parties should write Marshall Poe at marshallpoe@gmail.com.
In this podcast I talk with Martha S.
Education is among the largest public expenditures in the United States. How is school funding determined, and by whom?
