Episodes

Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Mia Mask on the cowboy and popular imagination, the Black Western, horses, landscape, slavery, reparations, Black modernity, Sidney Poitier, sports to Hollywood, Black women stars, and Black cinema
You can follow Mia’s work here:
https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/mimask
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-lFIZai8fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgBI-erfEV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXcwAYWJfc
https://vimeo.com/872715263/df18f62b92?share=copy

Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Morris Nguyen on sepsis, augmented intelligence, stigmas, language, OpenDx, Predicate, and life as a medical doctor
You can read about the work of Predicate here:
https://riot.org/startup-spotlight-predicate/

Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
Joel Westheimer on democracy, authoritarianism, inequality, educational standardization and testing, citizenship, the US, and Canada
You can read about Joel’s work here:

Monday May 06, 2024
Daya Thussu on international relations, China, and India
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
Daya Thussu on international relations, China, and India
You can read about Daya here:

Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
Lisa Funnell on not thinking, audio books, James Bond, Michelle Yeoh, Chinese warrior women, #MeToo, and feminism
You can read about Lisa’s work here:

Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
Graham Meikle on social media, deep fakes, the internet of things, and social movements
You can read about Graham's work here:
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/meikle-graham

Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
Richard Allen on Arabian Nights, Indian stories and films, Muslim influences, double identities, oral traditions, Alfred Hitchcock, psychoanalytic film theory, analytic philosophy, and ukiyo-e prints
You can read about Richard here:
https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/people/allen-richard-william

Thursday May 02, 2024
Thursday May 02, 2024
Daniel Fisher on indigenous Australians, the Northern Territory, fire, country music, radio, and media ethnography
You can read about his work here:

Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Heather Ashley Hayes on rhetoric, violence, the ‘war on terror,' cartography, Martin Luther King internationally, civil rights, and The Teach Out
You can read about her work here:

Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Stuart Cunningham on semi-enforced semi-retirement, the relevance of research, cultural criticism and policy, creative industries, Griffith University, the humanities, grad school, Sylvia Plath, Frederick Wiseman, Charles Chauvel, writing poetry, innovation, René Girard, and Joseph Schumpeter
You can read about Stuart’s work here:
https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/s.cunningham