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When not writing screenplays or working on films that will probably never see the light of day, Anders Holmes is trying his hand at podcasting. Check out his podcast, Holmes Movies, where he picks one film and discusses it with a guest. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Friends of the Force is a fan podcast dedicated to finding joy within the Star Wars fandom. Hosts Brad and Sarah invite listeners to their weekly in-depth discussions featuring film, television, publishing, interviews, and other niche topics that you can only find in a galaxy far, far away. We strike a balance between boundless enthusiasm and thoughtful exploration of the larger-than-life themes that bind us all together as friends of the Force.
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Pop culture and movie news from around the globe. No celebrity gossip here, just the most important film, comic, tv, streaming, video game and book news suited for any level of geek. Whether you’re a Star Wars fan, or just can’t get enough of Batman, we’re happy to help you...Let your Geek SideShow! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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David Turner has somehow made it to the age of 34 without ever watching a Star Wars film. He has decided that now is the time to embrace the fandom and watch all of them. James Farley is a massive Star Wars fan and although he’s excited at the thought of his mate watching some of his favourite films, he also has some reservations on how David will react to them. The Skype calls you’re about to hear are the conversations they have after each film.
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Join our hosts Mikel Howarth and Alex Stewart as they traverse the Star Wars galaxy aboard the Raven V, a heavily modified transport vessel, helmed by their repurposed battle droid, C-B7. Our fearless hosts will spend each episode focusing on a single topic within the Star Wars universe. Be it In-Universe (Lightsabers, Sith Lords, Psychometry, etc.) or Out (George Lucas, Dave Filoni's cowboy hat, ILM, The Hero's Journey, etc.), Alex and Mikel approach the topics with a positive, fun, and tho ...
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The Infamous Jackson Bros (Apple TV Version)

Creole Entertainment / On The Front Porch Productions

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The Infamous Jackson Bros, now in a higher quality AppleTV version, the first ever bi-weekly Fan Film Reviewer Podcast! (Mild Explict Language, but still 90% Work Safe). This Page Contains links to the show in Apple TV format, which provides a higher quality picture and better overall viewing experience. The trade-off is that the file sizes will be much larger than our “iPod” friendly vidcasts.
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Geek Garage Podcast

David & Lindsay Dassau

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Welcome to the internet’s most inclusive nerd culture podcast! Every week, hosts David and Lindsay push the boundaries of what’s considered geeky by covering a diverse array of topics. So if you’re a fan of comic books, technology, movies, video games, or cosplay (or all of the above!), whether you’re a nerdy novice or pro, you have come to the right podcast!
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This is the official podcast of Katee Sackhoff, celebrated for her iconic roles in Battlestar Galactica, Longmire, The Mandalorian, and many other beloved projects. Over her career, Katee has collaborated with a host of extraordinary individuals. Now, on her podcast, Katee invites these remarkable personalities for candid and authentic conversations. By creating an intimate and welcoming atmosphere, she seeks to dismantle the unreachable celebrity façade with in-depth questions, heartfelt ex ...
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Always two there are. A Master and an Apprentice. One to embody power, and one to crave it... The Master, Dan is an obsessive Star Wars fan who wants nothing more than to know everything he can about a galaxy far far away. His Apprentice Jake is also a Star Wars fan, though not as obsessive or familiar with the lore as Dan. Together these two will cover an immense amount of topics spanning through the galaxy, one episode at a time. This is Master and Apprentice.
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Making Me Watch Movies

Anthony, Jake, and Matt

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Jake is a lover of Asian cinema and movies that make you feel human. Matt is a fan movies about fucked up people and films that make you want to take a shower. Anthony likes "basic" movies...movies that make you feel like an American. Together they discuss one of the most eclectic library of films (which as of now has not repeated a director) and argue why the movie that they are making you watch was worth watching. If you're new to the podcast, pick an episode with a movie you've already se ...
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Fixate & Binge

Joe Curdy & Jared Clavin

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Joe and Jared go deep but have a lot of fun along the way. Using films and television shows as a springboard to discuss life’s most important topics, they analyze important themes, scenes, and ideas and suggest real-world applications. But it’s not all heavy, existential musings all the time! Join Joe and Jared as they discover their guests’ favorite films and discuss new finds and old favorites. Listen in to hear recommendations, reviews, and reminiscing about the art form that both inspire ...
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Nick & Jené

Nick and Jené

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Hey everyone! We have pivoted our channel and in our new series will be covering everything from Business to life to classic cars and old cinema, and back to business. No but really during our break we have been hard at work and we thought, people might want to see how we build a business, work together as a couple, growing professionally while making time for personal endeavors. Additionally people might want to have a go at it and we wanted to be a resource to help anyone and everyone on t ...
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Reel Takes

Reel Takes

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All the snark none of the snob! A podcast hosted by two industry outsiders discussing movies from a fan perspective! Hosted by Riley Grandson and Max Medlin Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reel-takes/support
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The Media Lunch Break is your best resource for geek news, reviews, comedy, and the Oxford comma! We'll argue the oldest of debates: DC vs Marvel, Mac vs PC, Michael Bay vs our collective childhoods. We're here to serve YOU! And ourselves. Mostly ourselves. But hopefully you like it too! So sit back, relax, and listen to two idiots riff on topics they know nothing about.
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The Canon

Earwolf & Amy Nicholson

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Film critics Devin Faraci (BIRTH. MOVIES. DEATH.) and Amy Nicholson (MTV News) have a weekly conversation about if a film is worthy to enter the Canon. They will put it up to fan vote at the end of the show, and the legacy of each movie will be officially decided forevermore. [This show is currently on hiatus]. Looking for the archives? All episodes older than 6 months can be found exclusively on Stitcher Premium, ad-free. Go to stitcher.com/premium and use promo code EARWOLF for 1 month fre ...
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Lords of the Sith Podcast

Lords of the Sith Podcast

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Lords of the Sith is an international Star Wars-centric podcast offering in-depth film analysis, as well as discussion of literature, psychology, and pop culture. Denise, Lee, and Mary focus mainly on the Sequel Trilogy, Kylo Ren and Reylo, but will be branching out into other favorites as well. Beware spoilers! Lords of the Sith is a daughter project of Star Wars Connection, representing diverse Reylo viewpoints spread across the galaxy. May the Force serve you well. ;)
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By listening to this podcast, you have your very own Employment Lawyer In Your Pocket #ELiYP We're aiming to help managers and business owners navigate the murky and often contentious world of employment law and keep you on the straight and narrow with your staff. *NEW Season 9* Season 9 is ELiYP goes to Hollywood, or the Law Behind the Movies. In this season, the team will be giving film reviews with a twist. Each week, we will pick a film. We will watch the film. We will then analyse the f ...
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Post-Civil War Texas, the Lone Star state. Buck Duane is a man who was almost born holding a gun in his hand. His father was an infamous outlaw and the young child grew up witnessing scenes of violence and betrayal. When he himself inadvertently kills a man, he is forced to go into hiding and must live with the very men he despises. However, the love of a beautiful young woman is his redemption. He joins the Texas Rangers and helps to rid the state of notorious criminals, hoping to exchange ...
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The Week in Geek Radio Show

The Week in Geek Radio Show

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The Week in Geek is a radio talk show broadcasting in the Metro New Orleans area from News Talk 99.5 WRNO FM on Sundays at 7pm CST. Thanks to the power of the internet our show has been heard around the world via the Spreaker radio app. We cover all topics related to geekdom such as comic books, video games, movies, books, conventions, cosplay, and many more! We have been fortunate enough to bring our listeners interviews from actors in film, TV, and voice overs also authors, comic book arti ...
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Just Trek Podcast

Justin "Justroc" Rimon

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Do you love adventure and the great outdoors? Then give this adventure podcast a listen and hear transformational conversations and stories from inspirational hikers, outdoor entrepreneurs, solo world travelers, environmentalists, writers, and creatives from the LA + SoCal community and beyond. Learns tips & tricks for exploring, life lessons from our guests, discover new places to explore, and how spending time in nature can improve your mental health. We aim to inspire, motivate, and eleva ...
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The Outlaw Nation Podcast Network is your go to source for shows that cover the world of entertainment including Film, TV, Video Game, Sports, Pro Wrestling, and social media content. Subscribe to The Outlaw Nation Podcast Network today and take all the great Outlaw Nation content with you wherever you go! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-outlaw-nation-network/support Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-outlaw-nation-podcast-network-by-john-roc ...
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Welcome to the 5th episode of our Trilogies series. We hope you enjoyed our last episode where we looked at Jack Ryan Trilogy both starring Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford as the titular character. On this episode, we look back at another espionage film franchise which is little bit of the opposite of the world seen in the Jack Ryan films. Something…
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Abisha Uhl is a musician and actress. We get to chat with her about both. Abisha is now residing in Memphis via Minneapolis. Focus is mainly on her music at this time and has plans to release new music. Linktree https://linktr.ee/filminminnesota www.filminminnesota.com Follow us on Instagram: @filminminnesota Get episodes early with Patreon www.pat…
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Star Wars author Tessa Gratton joins us to talk about their latest High Republic novel TEMPTATION OF THE FORCE! We discuss the inspiration behind the book's title, Avar and Elzar's tender relationship, ghosts from the past, and more. Book spoilers begin at 29:27! Note: this interview was previously recorded on 6/13/24. Website: http://www.friendsof…
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Collateral was made in 2004, ten years after Speed—and while both films have the same story of a good guy trying to stop a killer in real time, Collateral feels decades away from the innocence of Speed. Much of that has to do with the villain, who espouses a set of assumptions about the world that we se all around us on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Shark…
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Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). The conversation focuses on child and sign language brokering, the innovative methodology Dr. Napier employed in her study, and the impacts of researching sign language bro…
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Today I talked to Ewa Bacon about her book Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Buna-Monowitz (Purdue UP, 2017). In a 1941 Nazi roundup of educated Poles, Stefan Budziaszek--newly graduated from medical school in Krakow--was incarcerated in the Krakow Montelupich Prison and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Februar…
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In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. In Violence in Defeat: The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944–1945 (Cambridge UP, 2021), Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing…
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The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of substances such as marijuana and magic mushrooms offends core tenets of liberalism, from the right to self-rule to protection of privacy to freedom of religion. It contributes to mass incarceration and…
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After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engin…
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In the 1950s, a schoolteacher named Carleen Hutchins attempted a revolution in how concert violins are made. In this episode, Craig Eley of the Field Noise podcast tells us how this amateur outsider used 18th century science to disrupt the all-male guild tradition of violin luthiers. Would the myth of the never-equaled Stradivarius violin prove to …
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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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It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work (Princeton UP, 2021), “we tend to accept that when firms do well, the economy does well”, even when that's not true. The rising tide, in some cases, doe…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Making Me Watch Movies, the podcast where Anthony, Jake, and Matt tackle the good, the bad, and the "why did they make us watch this?" The Movie You're Making Me Watch Today is a 90's classic. That's right, we’re revisiting, Twister, with some short friendly chats af a new(not to be named) storm-chasing spectacle.…
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The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher Evagrius of Pontus. Among the writers of his age, Evagrius stands out for his short, perplexing, and absorbing aphorisms, which provide sharp insight into philosophy, Scripture, human nature, and the natural world. The first part of the trilogy, the…
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The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children from Protestant missionarie…
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Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet policy and methods of the 1960s and '70s, highlight the topicality of this groundbreaking study, which confirms the USSR's role in shaping Middle Eastern and global history. The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The USSR's Military Intervention in the Eg…
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In this episode of my podcast The Break I sit down for lunch and coffee in the center of Leicester as I review the classic Doctor Who episode "Planet of the Daleks", the anime series Demon Slayer and the future of the story of The Acolyte. I share my thoughts on the importance of rest even in times of high pressure. I talk about my experience playi…
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Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Dr. Kristie Patricia Flannery reveals that Spanish colonial officials and Catholic missionaries forged alliances with Indige…
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Listen to this interview of Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University, Canada. We talk about his coauthored paper "Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering – A Systematic Survey of Practices and Needs in Industry" (JSS 2023). Istvan David : "When I…
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How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged. Society has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultura…
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Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But, as Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's…
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Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search for social justice. Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation's third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of life--businesswomen, church leaders, laborers, and writers--who sought to grow their city in a radic…
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Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discriminate against women. In Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination (Brill/Nijhoff, 2016), 17 scholars approach women’s human rights globally, regionally and nationally, combining the pers…
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In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. In Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order (University of Illinois Press, 20…
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Did you know that the months between July and November spell out JASON? Congrats, you do now! And as if we really needed an excuse to talk about our favorite slasher, we're bringing you a brand new series about everyone's favorite mama's boy. In this inaugural episode, we dissect the original Friday the 13th (1980) and its sequel, Friday the 13th P…
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F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive history of the FTA, an antiwar variety show featuring Jane Fonda that played to tens of thousands of active-duty troops over nine months in 1971. From its conception, the civilian-led show was directed towards making visi…
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For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was a tool of acculturation. However, as scholar Miriam Eve Mora demonstrates, this performance is consistently challenged by American mainstream society that holds Jewish men outside of the American ideal of mascu…
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Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global Anglophone literature in global health humanities, shaping perceptions of health issues in the Global South and among minorities in the Global North. Using twelve novels, it explores the historical, p…
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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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During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of th…
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From the inception of cinema to today’s franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing film production. Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Franchises Shape Industry and Culture (U California Press, 2024) challenges the categorical dismissal in film criticism of remakes, sequels, and franchises by probing what these forma…
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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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1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic Books, 2024) explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive-compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of thirteen--just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club…
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Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought (Brandeis UP, 2022) proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of…
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Several trends justify why it is worth analysing the concept of citizenship in international law. On the one hand, human mobility enhanced in the last decades of the twentieth century contributed largely to the multiplication of multiple citizenship. The phenomenon of migration, often linked to crises, fosters statelessness and presents new challen…
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A. J. Rodriguez speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Papel Picado,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. A.J. talks about the process of writing and revising this story, which explores a fraught moment in the life of a Latino high schooler struggling under the pressures of family, friendship, and expectation in Albuq…
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Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women--whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of powe…
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many millennial Jewish stars have won stellar success while spotlighting (rather than muting) Jewish identity. In Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy (NY…
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Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city's modernisation. Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania's …
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Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology graduate student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning the end of lives from an academic pursuit into something deeply personal. She became fascinated by the concept of loss and grief, the multiple ways we experience it across cultures, history, and art. Happy Deat…
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Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global medi…
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