Episodes

  • Tracy McMullen on Jazz and Justice

    Tracy McMullen on Jazz and Justice
    May 3 2023
    Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—to teach anti-racism and inclusivity. Tracy McMullen is associate professor of music at Bowdoin College, and ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (through 2023). Her 2019 book, "Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real," examines musical performance and its relationship to conceptions of the past, history, and identity. She is currently researching her second book, "Jazz Humanism: Responsibility and Blur in the New Human."
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    25 mins
  • PROMO: Tracy McMullen

    PROMO: Tracy McMullen
    May 3 2023
    Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—to teach anti-racism and inclusivity. Tracy
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    Less than 1 minute
  • PROMO: Zorina Khan

    PROMO: Zorina Khan
    Feb 14 2023
    Less than 1 minute
  • Zorina Khan on Another American Century

    Zorina Khan on Another American Century
    Dec 13 2022
    Professor Zorina Khan is trying to answer the question of how the US overtook England and France as an economic powerhouse in the nineteenth century. In this episode, she talks about the unique US attitude to creativity, ideas, and innovation that she believes underlies the country’s industrial successes. Professor Khan also shares anecdotes from her current research focusing on an often neglected and marginalized group of inventors: women. Zorina Khan is the William D. Shipman Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College. Her most recent book, Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy, was awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize by the Economic History Association, as was her 2005 book, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development.
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    27 mins
  • Birgit Tautz Ponders the Global Through the Local

    Birgit Tautz Ponders the Global Through the Local
    Nov 29 2022
    Professor Birgit Tautz is on a treasure hunt. She’s mining the local literary scene of Germany in the 1800s to tell a much larger story of global literature, then and now. In this episode, Professor Tautz talks about German literature, translation, and how she works within the field of digital humanities. Tautz is the George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin. Her most recent book, Translating the World: Toward a New History of German Literature around 1800 (PSU Press, 2018), is the winner of the 2019 SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Studies Book Award.
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    27 mins
  • PROMO: Birgit Tautz

    PROMO: Birgit Tautz
    Nov 29 2022
    Less than 1 minute
  • PROMO: Robert Morrison

    PROMO: Robert Morrison
    Nov 15 2022
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  • Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels

    Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels
    Nov 15 2022
    As a historian of science and scholar of Islam, Professor Robert Morrison wants to know how information spread around the Mediterranean in medieval times. In this conversation, we talk about horoscopes, medieval party tricks, and how Copernicus figured out that the planets circle the sun. Morrison is the George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin, and the author of several books, most recently Astronomy in al-Andalus: Joseph Ibn Naḥmias’ The Light of the World (University of California Press, 2016).
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    27 mins