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Conversations with artists, writers, intellectuals, workers--you choose the designation--about the politics of culture
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Mar 8, 2024
Mar 8, 2024
55 min
Dave O’Brien on government secondment, culture, inequality, pathways to employment, heritage, education, solving problems, diversity, regions, and theater
You can read about Dave’s work here:
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/dave-obrien
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/projects/creative-majority
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/projects/creative-majority-education

Mar 8, 2024
Mar 8, 2024
56 min
Ali Smith on New York, punk, being a woman in a rock band, book publishing, sexism, photography, motherhood, portraiture, COVID-19, gun violence, and retouching imagery
You can read more about Ali here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6U9a5z7K71awJ598V2p_YA
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/05/ali-smiths-90s-new-york-punk-scene-in-pictures
https://www.villagevoice.com/a-female-rocker-talks-life-on-the-road-in-the-ballad-of-speedball-baby/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/opinion/parenting-anxiety-covid.html

Mar 8, 2024
Mar 8, 2024
47 min
Tammy Parlour on the Women’s Sport Trust, professional and everyday sports, leadership, facilities, gender, media coverage, martial arts, and why sports?
You can read more about Tammy’s work here:
https://www.womenssporttrust.com/
https://www.changshapkido.net/

Mar 6, 2024
Mar 6, 2024
49 min
Janelle Joseph on Caribbean cricket in Canada, decolonizing sports studies, shared Indigenous and Black issues, dance, and peace
You can read more about Janelle’s work here:
https://www.recreation-collective.com/

Mar 3, 2024
Mar 3, 2024
1hr 11 min
Ron Greene on first- and second-order conviction, argumentation, Chantal Mouffe, free speech, Thomas Malthus, the South, and artificial intelligence
You and read more about Ron’s work here:
https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/green179

Mar 3, 2024
Mar 3, 2024
53 min
Paolo Gerbaudo on algorithmic recommendations, closed digital communities, the market economy, China-US relations, lithium, party politics, social movements, and autonomism
You can read more about Paolo’s work here:
https://www.ucm.es/histegepo/paolo-gerbaudo-english

Mar 2, 2024
Mar 2, 2024
54 min
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor on divisive public discourse, the working class and supposed xenophobia, For the Love of Rutland, Daisy and Max, Muslim Cool, Redneck Muslim, co-creation of documentaries, listening, prison, working with TV, Sundance, the University of California, mixed Mexican heritage, and gender and film
You can find out more about Jennifer’s work here:
https://film.ucsc.edu/faculty/jennifer_taylor

Mar 1, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
1hr 4 min
David Craig on network television history, movies of the week, The Day After, Bob Iger, Ted Koppel, interviewing cultural producers, and creators of digital civil society
You can read more about David and this work here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-cmkVgdTYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RLVRfwhO8E

Mar 1, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
48 min
Julie Patarin-Jossec on sociological ethnography, the body, performance, sexual exploitation, affect, diving, flying, and The Thread of Water
You can see more of Julie’s work here:
https://juliepatarinjossec.com/
https://www.immaterialbooks.com/store/p/threadofwater
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvst20

Mar 1, 2024
Mar 1, 2024
52 min
Saskia Witteborn on immigration, refugees, Germany, Hong Kong, inequality, the media, gender, ethnography, and cockatoos
You can read more about Saskia's work here:
https://www.soc.cuhk.edu.hk/profile/saskia-witteborn/
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32713
