Best Arte Et Labore Podcasts (2024)

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Stick Together; The Dig; Classes of Mail; Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers 27:49

4h ago27:49

27:49

On this week’s show: The RMIT Strike: 1000 days without an agreement, Stick Together reports from Australia. Then, on The Dig, a discussion of international solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and Laleh Khalili. Next, some podcast solidarity, as the Classes of Mail podcast features a conversation with Fred Woodley from the Delivering Solidarity Podcast. …

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The Rovers Inc. Show - The Gregg Broughton Experience 45:34

2h ago45:34

45:34

The Rovers Inc. Show is back for its second episode with your host Paul Worthington who is joined by the panel of Simon Burns, Ian Herbert, Steven Lindsay & Michael Taylor. In this episode the panel tries to make sense of :- what might the owners' aspirations be for the club? what is realistic? what might a successful model look like? what could we…

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Labor Exchange; UFCW 3000 Podcast; UAW 1700 Podcast; BCTGM Voices Project 28:30

4d ago28:30

28:30

On this week’s show: labor policy analyst Sophie Mariam, on The rise of union curious: Support for unionization among America’s frontline workers, on the Labor Exchange; the UFCW 3000 podcast reports on Macy's unfair labor practice strikes; then, Is Stellantis planning to send jobs from Sterling Heights to a plant in Mexico? We find out, on the UAW…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Predictions Special 54:31

8d ago54:31

54:31

The new season is almost upon us & so it's *that* time of year where our pundit panel stick their heads above the parapet to share who they think will win the Championship, who else will be promoted, the relegation candidates, where our beloved Rovers will finish as well as a notable mad sh!t prediction for something that might happen this season..…

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Art and Labor; Say Watt; Union or Bust; The Alberta Worker Podcast; Tales from the Reuther Library 34:53

11d ago34:53

34:53

On this week’s show: the Art and Labor crew discuss Kamala Harris and Millenialism…From the Say Watt, podcast, the influence of technology on the electrical industry…Then, a couple of driver organizers from San Diego Drivers United talk with the Union or Bust podcast about their efforts to organize app-based drivers, including Uber and Lyft…Calgary…

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Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History 1:13:33

15d ago1:13:33

1:13:33

Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascinating research on the history of mobility in Asia and how it looks different when we approach it as a history of work and labor. The pair traverse McDonald’s career from her current project, The Ricks…

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Christina Yi et al., "Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire" (U Hawaii Press, 2023) 1:16:35

19d ago1:16:35

1:16:35

Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Hawaii Press, 2023) interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Japanese propagandists drew on a pan-Asian rhetoric that …

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Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023) 56:56

17d ago56:56

56:56

In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic energy—known as Reiki—to heal body, m…

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On the Line; Power at Work; Organizing for a Change Radio; AAUP Presents 28:06

20d ago28:06

28:06

On this week’s show: Project 2025 and the labor movement…The plan to destroy worker power…Universal basic income and the 4 day week…The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955-1965. This week’s featured shows are On the Line, Power at Work, The Organizing for a Change Radio Podcast, and AAUP Presents. Please help us build sonic solidarity by clic…

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Steven K. Bailey, "Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War" (Osprey, 2024) 1:18:05

21d ago1:18:05

1:18:05

In January 1945, the final year of the Pacific War, Japanese-held Hong Kong became the site of coordinated attacks by the U.S. Navy on Japanese warships and aircraft. Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War (Osprey, 2024) by Steven K. Bailey tells the story of what those air raids were like for the men who lived through them. Targ…

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Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran, "The Same Moon Shines on All: The Lives and Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran" (Columbia UP, 2024) 54:00

23d ago54:00

54:00

Yanagawa Seigan (1789–1858) and his wife Kōran (1804–79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They practiced the art of traditional Sinitic poetry—works written in literary Sinitic, or classical Chinese, a language of enduring importance far beyond China’s borders. Together, they led itinerant lives, traveling around Japan teach…

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Real News Network Podcast; The Labor And Energy Show; The Wealthy Ironworker; The Construction User 2.0 26:05

25d ago26:05

26:05

On this week’s show: IBT VP John Palmer discusses Sean O'Brien's RNC appearance; Discussion of solar power in America with Nick Iacovella; Do you ask questions?; Nicole Schwartz discusses labor challenges in the trades. This week’s featured shows are The Real News Network Podcast, The Labor And Energy Show; The Wealthy Ironworker; The Construction …

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Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko, "Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi" (Brill, 2024) 1:03:36

25d ago1:03:36

1:03:36

Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi (“grass books”). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024) is the first English-language publication of its k…

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The Round Table Show - Me & 3 Ferrets Man! 54:41

26d ago54:41

54:41

The Round Table Show is back & we have a fabulous chat with a US based fan Jared Plotts about his 20+year love affair with Rovers. How did it start? How does he manage to keep enthused "from a cornfield in Ohio" about the issues in our part of East Lancashire? We chat Ryan Nelson, Benni McCarthy, Tugay & er...Duncan McGuire in a wide-ranging conver…

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Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:00:51

26d ago1:00:51

1:00:51

Eliza Scidmore (1856-1928) was a journalist, a world traveler, a writer, an amateur photographer, the first female board member of the National Geographic Society — and the one responsible for the idea to plant Japanese cherry trees in Washington DC. Her fascinating life is expertly told by Diana Parsell in Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journali…

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Viren Murthy, "Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 1:28:22

1M ago1:28:22

1:28:22

Recent proposals to revive the ancient Silk Road for the contemporary era and ongoing Western interest in China’s growth and development have led to increased attention to the concept of pan-Asianism. Most of that discussion, however, lacks any historical grounding in the thought of influential twentieth-century pan-Asianists. In Pan-Asianism and t…

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Union or Bust; Heartland Labor Forum; On The Line: Stories of BC Workers 21:18

1M ago21:18

21:18

On this week’s show: Veteran stagehand Brandon Resenbeck talks about the Old Globe Theater, on the Union or Bust podcast. Historian James Benton on the politics of trade, on the Heartland Labor Forum, And, wildcat in BC; the day 400 women electrical walked off the job in British Columbia, Canada; that’s from On The Line: Stories of BC Workers. Plea…

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Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024) 39:44

1M ago39:44

39:44

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Columbia UP, 2024), Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major author…

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The 'What Now?' Show - Can't Fund, Won't Fund? 47:56

1M ago47:56

47:56

The 'What Now?' Show returns for season 24/25 with a summer review of activities so far...including :- Rovers Women's team - what's going on? Venky's - is it Can't Fund or Won't Fund? Shiny new kits The current squad strength The new Rovers Inc. show Roger Whiteside is your host as usual as Ian Herbert & Linz Lewis join to try to explain current ev…

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Wendy Matsumura, "Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire" (Duke UP, 2024) 59:25

1M ago59:25

59:25

In Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (Duke UP, 2024) Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of colonial violence at the heart of Japanese nation-state formation. She critiques Japan studies’ role in this effacement and contends that the field must engage with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity a…

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Organising for A Change; Workers Beat Extra; OEA Grow; Labor Heritage Power Hour 28:00

1M ago28:00

28:00

On this week’s show: A brand-new show from two veteran UK organizers; we’ve got a sneak preview of the “Organising for A Change” podcast. What happens when the FBI doesn’t pay one of it’s stooges? Workers Beat Extra host Gene Lantz tells the story. Erin Beard talks about Makerspaces on the OEA Grow podcast, from the Oregon Education Association. An…

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The Rovers Inc. Show 38:09

1M ago38:09

38:09

Episode 1: Welcome to Rovers Inc A new show looking behind the scenes at what is going on off the field at Ewood Park. Stepping away from the Saturday 3pm headlines, Rovers Inc will analyse the latest news when it comes to the club’s finances, how the club is run from a corporate governance perspective, and the role of senior leadership at the club…

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Reinventing Solidarity; Power at Work; Slacker Radio; Union Talk 24:37

2M ago24:37

24:37

On today’s show: celebrating Pride Month! Why are unions essential to LGBTQ liberation? Why is union organizing that advocates for all workers essential to uplifting queer workers? And why is queer advocacy so commonsense to many of today’s unionized workers? Political scientist Joanna Wuest explores these questions and more in a conversation with …

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Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023) 1:13:15

2M ago1:13:15

1:13:15

In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiates in Japan's expanding imperial territories. The fall of…

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Work Stoppage; State of Working America Podcast; Payday Report; We Rise Fighting; RadioLabour 29:24

2M ago29:24

29:24

On this week’s show: The Supreme Court's latest ruling on the National Labor Relations Act; EPI Chief Economist Josh Bivens discusses the economic performance of the Biden administration in a historical context; longtime organizer Chris Townsend on the organizing surge in Virginia; Madeline Gamsemer Topf, co-president of TAA Local 3220 in Wisconsin…

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Jorge Almazán et al., "Emergent Tokyo:: Designing the Spontaneous City" (Oro Editions, 2024) 36:14

2M ago36:14

36:14

If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But in Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Oro Editions, 2022), Professor Jorge Almazán of Keio University and his Studio Lab colleagues ask us to look again—at the shops, markets, restaurants …

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3rd & Fairfax; Roswell Hub; America’s Workforce Radio; Tribunus Plebis 25:01

2M ago25:01

25:01

On this week’s show: Hollywood Teamsters talk negotiations…WTF are "the METHODS"?...Tim Drea from the Illinois AFL-CIO, on recent legislative accomplishments…And the FTC bans non-competes. This week’s featured shows are 3rd & Fairfax; news and information about the Writers Guild of America West…Roswell Hub, A weekly podcast dedicated to Teamsters h…

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Sidney Xu Lu, "The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 1:17:26

2M ago1:17:26

1:17:26

Sidney Lu’s The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 (Cambridge 2019) places the concept of “Malthusian expansionism” at the center of Japanese settler colonialism around the Pacific. For Japan’s imperial apologists and the discursive architecture they disseminated, alleged overpopulation―or m…

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Building Bridges: A Labor Podcast; On the Line; Solidarity Works; Solidarity Breakfast; Red Dead Redemption 35:46

2M ago35:46

35:46

On this week’s show: Kitchen solidarity with Dontazz Williams, food service worker at UW; Naomi Harris, Waffle House worker and founding member of USSW, and Quichelle Liggins, 13-year Hyundai worker in Alabama; Restoring domestic shipbuilding; Les Leopold discusses his book Wall Street's War on Workers; Author/illustrator Nic Robertson discusses hi…

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Aaron Fischman, "A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back" (Sports Publishing, 2024) 1:06:32

2M ago1:06:32

1:06:32

Like many American boys, Tony Barnette yearned to one day make it to “The Show,” playing baseball professionally. The Arizona State pitcher was drafted in 2006 by the in-state Diamondbacks. Gradually ascending the minor-league ladder, it looked like this was the beginning of a blessed life, where he could play the game he loved on the grandest of s…

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Green and Red; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; A Third of Your Life; Labor Heritage Power Hour; Power Line Podcast 29:39

3M ago29:39

29:39

On this week's show we'll feature Green and Red, hosted by Bob Bozanko and Scott Parkin, a show that discusses radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. The SAG AFTRA podcast, the official podcast of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, hosted by …

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Thersa Matsuura, "The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth" (Adams Media, 2024) 30:36

3M ago30:36

30:36

Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The Book of Japanese Folklore: An Encyclopedia of the Spirits, Monsters, and Yokai of Japanese Myth (…

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Gary J. Bass, "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia" (Knopf, 2023) 49:21

3M ago49:21

49:21

In December 1948, a panel of 12 judges sentenced 23 Japanese officials for war crimes. Seven, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, were sentenced to death. The sentencing ended the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, an over-two-year-long trial over Imperial Japan’s atrocities in China and its decision to attack the U.S. But u…

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Peter Wetzler, "Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2020) 1:30:15

3M ago1:30:15

1:30:15

Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire (Bloomsbury, 2020)reveals, Western imagination is often reductive in its explanation of the Japanese Empire…

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Rebecca Copeland, "Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers" (Amsterdam UP, 2023) 44:39

3M ago44:39

44:39

The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (MHM Limited and Amsterdam University Press, 2022) offers a comprehensive overview of women writers in Japan, from the late 19th century to the early 21st. Featuring 24 newly written contributions from scholars in the field—representing expertise from North America, Europe, Japan, and A…

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Working People; LabourStart; Fed Up; School Me; Labor Exchange 30:00

3M ago30:00

30:00

South Baltimore is a sacrifice zone…Interview with Esther Lynch, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)…USPS Rural Carrier James Brennan…70 years of Brown vs. Board…Kjersten Forseth discusses accomplishments in Colorado's legislative session. This week’s featured shows are Working People, a podcast by, for, and about the…

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Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024) 36:39

3M ago36:39

36:39

In December 1937, Bernhard Sindberg arrives at a cement factory outside of Nanjing. He’s one of just two foreigners, and he gets there just weeks before the Japanese invade and commit the now infamous atrocities in the Chinese city. As the writer Peter Harmsen notes, Bernhard’s background isn’t particularly compelling: He’s bounced from job to job,…

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Robert Lyman, "A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma, and Britain: 1941–45" (Osprey, 2021) 1:40:00

3M ago1:40:00

1:40:00

In 1941 and 1942 the British and Indian Armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place, and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma, and Britain: 194…

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Martin Dusinberre, "Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 1:06:34

3M ago1:06:34

1:06:34

In Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories (Cambridge UP, 2023), Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of…

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Work Stoppage; SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Labor Radio on KBOO; My Labor Radio; Fly By Night FDX ALPA Podcast 26:25

3M ago26:25

26:25

Mercedes UAW election this week, on Work Stoppage; on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Tik-Tok star embraces the influencer agreement; from Labor Radio on KBOO, Vincent Blanco Jr discusses transitioning the Oregon political process to address the concerns of communities of color; Allie Malis from the APFA, on My Labor Radio, and, on the Fly By Night FDX ALPA…

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Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:08:02

3M ago1:08:02

1:08:02

During the Republican period (1912–1949) and after, many Chinese Buddhists sought inspiration from non-Chinese Buddhist traditions, showing a particular interest in esoteric teachings. What made these Buddhists dissatisfied with Chinese Buddhism, and what did they think other Buddhist traditions could offer? Which elements did they choose to follow…

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Labor Radio Podcast Daily Highlights 2:00

3M ago2:00

2:00

Who is Jon Melrod? College students mobilize; “We don't have time to wait”; No Fakes Today’s labor quote: Donna Reed Today’s labor history: 400 immigrant workers arrested @wpfwdc #1u #unions #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.By laborradiopodcastweekly

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AAUP Presents; Power at Work; PFFA Pod; Union or Bust 29:12

3M ago29:12

29:12

Political interference in higher ed, from the AAUP Presents podcast; on thePower at Work podcast, Stadium battles: how to beat a billionaire; we meet Fire fighter Audrey Tollefson on the Air Line Pilot Podcast, and on Union or Bust, Paul Diaz, the Portland iron worker from the Chasing the Hook podcast, another Network member. Plus: why the Weekly i…

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Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022) 44:37

3M ago44:37

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Rakugo is a live performance art that has penetrated the borders of Japan and continues to gain popularity overseas. The rakugo stage once dominated by Japanese raconteurs now features foreign storytellers, as well as Japanese performers, both amateur and professional, who endeavor to entertain us in English. The only requirements for rakugo storyt…

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Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 1:06:50

3M ago1:06:50

1:06:50

Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism (U Chicago Press, 2019), Richard M. Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhi…

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Art and Labor; The Valley Labor Report; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast, Air Line Pilot Podcast; SayWatt; Labor History in 2:00 30:13

4M ago30:13

30:13

On today’s show, the Art and Labor podcast discusses the demands of the campus protests, and potential strategies for coordination and escalation; The Valley Labor Report talks with Alabama auto workers Quichelle Liggins from Hyundai in Montgomery and Jacob Ryan from Mercedes in Vance about their campaigns after the huge win in Chattanooga; The SAG…

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Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein 1:02:18

3M ago1:02:18

1:02:18

Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Justin B. Stein, a specialist in modern Japanese religion and the preeminent historian of Reiki. We discuss Justin’s new book, Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific (U Hawaii Press, 2023), about the transnational origins of Reiki, and also get into his perspective as a both …

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The 'What Now?' Show - The Team Of Short Names 1:06:32

4M ago1:06:32

1:06:32

It's the end of the season ("as we know it...") as REM might have wished that they'd sung. It all still hangs in the balance and so the panel of Hollie Hawkesford, Ian Herbert, Ryan Hildred & Rich Sharpe - expertly prompted by host Roger Whiteside - consider :- 1. How are we all feeling ahead of the final match? What about all of the permutations, …

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Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023) 50:23

4M ago50:23

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A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy. Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits (Nightboat Books, 2023) adopts a non-linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can be read as a c…

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Work Stoppage; BCTGM Voices Project; America’s Workforce Radio; Solidarity Works; Resolved Labor Podcast 29:04

4M ago29:04

29:04

VW workers in Chattanooga win a historic union vote to join the UAW; Workers file for election in London, Kentucky; Roland "Rex" Rexha on the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident; Health and safety wins in Washington, and a profile of labor organizer and activist Jonathan Melrod. This week’s featured shows are Work Stoppage, the podcast that only talk…

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