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Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, workers--you choose the designation--about the politics of culture
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Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
55 min
Corinne Painter on Germany and the right, Michael Schumacher, the German revolution, women and socialism
You can read about her work here:
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/1031/dr-corinne-painter

Oct 14, 2024
Oct 14, 2024
1hr 5 min
Sean Andrews on cultural studies, political economy, subjectivity, education, racial struggles, and the law
You can read about Sean’s work here:
https://www.colum.edu/academics/faculty/detail/sean-andrews.html

Oct 7, 2024
Oct 7, 2024
1hr 21 min
Jessamyn Abel on post-War Japan and the US, democracy, fast trains, history, Japan’s international cultural relations, the Olympics, gender, and race
You can read about her work here:
https://sites.psu.edu/jessamynabel/
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/dream-super-express

Oct 4, 2024
Oct 4, 2024
1hr 50 min
Bill Grantham, David Rowe, and Richard Maxwell on Why Journalism?
You can read about their work here:
https://independent.academia.edu/BillGrantham
https://billgrantham.substack.com/
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ics/people/emeritus_professors/david_rowe
https://theconversation.com/profiles/david-rowe-16403
Richard Maxwell is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. His publications include The Spectacle of Democracy, Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture, Herbert Schiller, Global Hollywood (co-author), Greening the Media (with Toby Miller), The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media, Media and the Ecological Crisis (co-editor), How Green is Your Smartphone? (with Toby Miller), and the forthcoming Wiley Handbook on Digital Labor (co-editor with Jack Qiu and ShinJoung Yeo).

Oct 4, 2024
Oct 4, 2024
1hr 57 sec
Parissa Safai on the neoliberal academy and social justice, the International Sociology of Sport Association, kinesiology, rugby, health, gender, activism, and Canadian policy
You can read about her work and interests here:
https://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=124550

Sep 30, 2024
Sep 30, 2024
50 min
TL Taylor on fan communities, class, Disney, Twitch, e-sports, theme parks, games, gender
You can read about her work here:
https://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/tl-taylor/

Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
49 min
Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman, and Sylvio Waisbord on ‘Why Journalism?’
You can read about their work—and the question—here:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/n-fenton/
https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/freedman/
https://smpa.gwu.edu/silvio-waisbord
https://www.declassifieduk.org/
https://www.mediareform.org.uk/

Sep 26, 2024
Sep 26, 2024
50 min
Steve Jones on music, the new media, artificial intelligence, The Beatles, editing, and the professionalization of communication
You can read about his work here:
https://comm.uic.edu/profiles/steve-jones/

Sep 25, 2024
Sep 25, 2024
55 min
Geoffrey Lawrence on climate change, food, genetic engineering, corporate agriculture, environment, socialism, the media, sports, and human agency
You can read about his work here:
https://social-science.uq.edu.au/profile/42/geoffrey-lawrence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Lawrence_(sociologist)

Sep 25, 2024
Sep 25, 2024
1hr 5 min
Lynn Comella on sex work, sex toys, sex archives, Las Vegas, and pornography
You can read about her work here:
https://www.unlv.edu/people/lynn-comella
https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/collecting_strengths/sexual-entertainment-and-economies
