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Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, workers--you choose the designation--about the politics of culture
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May 23, 2024
May 23, 2024
1hr 5 min
Melani McAlister on her new book covering the Gaza-Israel-US conflict, evangelical nationalism, Ukraine, queerness, and Weber
You can read about her work here:

May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
1hr 13 min
Bev Best on student protest, teaching, critical theory, Marxism, value, fetish, social labor, money, and class struggle
You can read about Beverley’s work here:
https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/beverley-best.html?c=/artsci/cissc/phd-humanities/faculty-profiles
https://explore.concordia.ca/beverley-best
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/authors/best-beverley

May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
58 min
Tema Milstein on migrating, sojourning, the ocean, environmental communication, ecocultural identity, public impact, and pedagogy
You can read about Tema’s work here:
https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/tema-milstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCMfbs_cGr8

May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024
1hr 2 min
Carlos del Valle sobre del contexto de la violencia global, el colonialismo, las cosmovisiones indígenas, la teoría critica, y Boric y el conflicto estado-Mapuche
Se puede leer sobre la obra de Carlos aquí:
https://scholar.google.cl/citations?user=iUgwiLQAAAAJ&hl=es
https://converginghorizons.ufro.cl/

May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024
55 min
Richard Higgott on dislocated international politics, globalization, the Indo-Pacific/Asia-Pacific region, China and the US, liberalism, middle powers, and dependency theory
You can read about Richard here:
https://www.brussels-school.be/team/higgott-richard

May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024
1hr 9 min
Robert Vitalis on academic freedom at the University of Pennsylvania, Egypt, archives, du Bois, international relations, Saudi Arabia, and putative scarcity of natural resources
You can read about Robert here:
https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/robert-vitalis

May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024
1hr 5 min
Angela Prysthon and Shawn Shimpach on the end of the world, world cinema, political protest, language, and the Americas
You can read about their work here:
https://ufpe.academia.edu/AngelaPrysthon
https://www.umass.edu/communication/about/directory/shawn-shimpach

May 17, 2024
May 17, 2024
50 min
Lúcia Nagib on de-centering humans, animal film, Brazilian culture, tropicália, world cinema, realism, representation, presentation, and artificial intelligence and research
You can read about her work here:
https://www.reading.ac.uk/film-theatre-television/staff/professor-lucia-nagib
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVAYRlcBNA
https://research.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/

May 16, 2024
May 16, 2024
1hr 5 min
Larissa Buchholz on the commodification of art, growing up in East Germany, Christa Wolf, the sociology of art, and Pierre Bourdieu
You can read about her work here:
https://larissabuchholz.soc.northwestern.edu/
https://www.textezurkunst.de/de/articles/why-i-speak-global-art-field-and-not-global-art-world/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2059-7932.12001

May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
57 min
Todd McGowan on right-wing populism, capitalism’s death spiral, psychoanalysis, desire, Lacan, identification, identity, universality, and Hegel and Marx
You can read about Todd’s work here:
https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOMku8U1zFKsBudd3BcgSAw
https://soundcloud.com/whytheory
