Best Darren Duke Podcasts (2024)

The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power and love. The Claims of Life: A Memoir (The MIT Press, 2023) traces the emergence of a young woman who set out believing she wasn’t particularly smart but went on to meet multiple tests of leadership in …

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4 19 24 Porter and Sylvia - The Photoshop Photo Bombs 4:46

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4 18 24 Dylan and Becca - Does a Lousy Car, Mean a Lousy Date? 4:39

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4 17 24 Duke and Katherine - The Case of the Stolen Plant 5:13

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#221 Excellent Advice for Living (and MBA Applications!) 28:38

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Inspired by Kevin Kelly's Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I Knew Earlier, Darren shares 10 bits of wisdom that could materially improve your chances of getting into business school and building a successful career. Topics Introduction (0:00) School Selection (3:00) Support Network (8:20) Positioning (10:30) Resumes (15:45) Essays (20:05)…

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4 16 24 Reece and Beth - The Storm Chaser 6:13

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4 15 24 Cameron and Heather - The Paint Date 6:15

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Darren Wershler et al,, "The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies" (U Minnesota Press, 2022) 48:41

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A hybrid lab functions in the space between institutions and infrastructure, creating new opportunities for understanding their interconnection. However, their legitimacy remains fuzzy without formal and methodological critique. The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies (U of Minnesota Press, 2021) proposes the "extended lab model" to descr…

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4 12 24 Adam and Marla - The Alpha Male has Arrived 6:01

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4 11 24 Cash and Violet - The Joke Ended Up Being on Him 6:28

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4 10 24 Ellen and Ted - I Gave You a Compliment, Now Do Me a Favor 5:06

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4 09 24 Andy and Erica - Too Much "Wine'ing" at the Little League Game 5:51

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Shardé M. Davis, "Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education" (UNC Press, 2024) 50:44

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When Sharde M. Davis turned to social media during the summer of racial reckoning in 2020, she meant only to share how racism against Black people affects her personally. But her hashtag, BlackintheIvory, went viral, fostering a flood of Black scholars sharing similar stories. Soon the posts were being quoted during summer institutes and workshops …

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James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024) 37:37

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Ingrid Piller speaks with James McElvenny about his new book A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II (Edinburgh UP, 2024). This book offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentr…

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Kelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak, "Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services" (ACRL, 2024) 1:05:24

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Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despite these hurdles, there are many others who have not been able to find a way. Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services (ACRL, 2024) by Kelsey Keyes a…

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4 08 24 Kylie and Antonio - The Drama of Going Dutch 4:55

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4 05 25 Wes and Monica - This Bounce House Date Backfired 5:48

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4 04 24 Jonathon and Alicia - This Zoom Date Featured a Full Moon 6:43

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4 03 24 Dennis and Brenda - It's a Party! (For Her Cheating Ex-BF) 6:17

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Margaret Price, "Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:09:02

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In Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024), Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual …

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4 02 24 Kim and Gerald - Their Reservations Caused the Problem 5:22

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4 01 24 Kat and Liam - Was How She Dressed Really a Problem? 4:48

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Cathryn M. Copper, "The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forward, and Creating Change" (ALA Editions, 2023) 42:01

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Using techniques garnered from startups and quickly evolving technology companies, in The Experimental Library: A Guide to Taking Risks, Failing Forward, and Creating Change (ALA Editions, 2023), Cathryn Copper explores how information professionals can use experimentation to make evidence-based decisions and advance innovative initiatives. The las…

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3 29 24 TJ and Hailey - Autocorrect Tried to Ruin the Date 4:55

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3 28 24 Coco and Wayne - Let's Get the Party Started!!! 5:35

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Today’s book is: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History (University of Illinois Press, 2024), which is an essay collection co-edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene. It explores why in the United States more than three-quarters of the people teaching in colleges and universities work as contingent faculty.…

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3 27 24 Caden and Fiona - Was It Really a Ted Talk? 6:36

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3 26 24 Morgan and Nikki - How Old was that Pizza? 6:00

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3 25 24 Paul and Wendy - The All-Day St Patricks Day Party Day 5:21

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John Warner on Teaching Writing in the Age of Generative AI 1:26:22

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Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with writer and editor John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for more than twenty years. Warner is the author of at least three - or four depending on whether you count a work of parody - books on writing and higher education, and today he is perhaps best known for his Substack, The Biblioracle …

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Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020) 56:56

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How can traditional academic scholarship be disrupted by activist academics? How can we make space for those who are underrepresented and historically oppressed to come to academia as their authentic selves? How can the platform of academia create space for change in the world? In The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and …

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Mary K. Bolin, "Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse: The Idea of a Library" (Chandos, 2022) 56:51

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Academic libraries are changing in the face of information technologies, economic pressures, and globally disruptive events such as the current pandemic. In Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse: The Idea of a Library (Chandos, 2023), Mary K. Bolin argues for a radical vision of library transformation, offering practical solu…

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3 22 24 Lucas and Roberta - The Terrible Dye Job Date 5:58

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3 21 24 Chuck and Virginia - This Date Goes to the Scary Side 6:20

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Is Grad School for Me?: Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students 50:12

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Today’s book is: Is Grad School for Me? Demystifying the Application Process for First-Gen BIPOC Students (U California Press, 2024), by Dr. Yvette Martínez-Vu and Dr. Miroslava Chávez-García. It is the first book to provide first-generation, low-income, and nontraditional students of color with insider knowledge on how to consider and navigate gra…

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Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024) 30:05

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In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America's largely forgotten posture panic--a decades-long episode …

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3 20 24 Francis and Liz - This Date was Nuthin' But Chicken-Fried 5:51

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Fran Martin, "Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West" (Duke UP, 2021) 1:31:57

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Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in the life aspirations of young, middle-class Chinese women. Based on extensive, long-term ethnographic research, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their ident…

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Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019) 59:00

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Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly authoritative and authoritarian, whereas Scandinavian parents tend to be more permissive. Why? Love, Money, and Parenting investigates how economic forces and gr…

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3 19 24 Harrison and Stella - The Picky Picnic Date 5:18

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3 18 24 Jesse and Kendra - He Brought the Party to the Birthday Party! 5:37

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3 15 24 Jordan and Bradley - What's in a Name? 5:22

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3 14 24 Gabe and Samantha - The Ken from Barbie Look 4:51

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3 13 24 Tracy and Bruce - Movietime is Sleepytime 5:39

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Gavin Butt, "No Machos Or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk" (Duke UP, 2022) 48:01

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How do art schools influence music? In No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk (Duke UP, 2022), Gavin Butt, a Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle, tells the story of art, music and higher education in Leeds in the mid-1970s. Using archives and interviews, as well as analysis of the music and art of the…

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