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Mom Balance

Rebecca Green

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You found the Mom Balance Podcast. We're 3 real women trying to balance working full time, being moms to multiple little ones, and staying sexy as hell. Between the three of us we have multiple degrees in fitness, a wide expertise in supplements, thousands of hours in personal training, and countless hours teaching personal development. We are sharing our lives and ideas with you to normalize the overwhelming feeling that doing it all is impossible... and yet are still going to try! Each epi ...
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Global Governance Podcast

Global Governance Forum

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Welcome to the Global Governance Podcast with Augusto Lopez-Claros, where we explore the future of governance. Each episode will look at a different global issue and how governance plays a key role in its solution. From climate change to gender equality, from corruption to peace and security, we invite experts to explore a thought-provoking game of “what if?” and “why not?”, positing a world in much closer international cooperation. To learn more visit GlobalGovernanceForum.org.
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Minions & Misfits

Dillon, Sam, Rebecca, & Cam

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Minions & Misfits is an off-kilter, family-friendly, actual-play TTRPG podcast where, instead of playing as archetypal heroes, hosts Dillon, Sam, Rebecca, and Cam assume the roles of common grunts and monsters. This comedic podcast gives you a whimsical peek behind the curtain and into the lives and struggles of your fantasy and sci-fi mobs, underlings, and other characters who may generally go on unnoticed. And who knows? Maybe you’ll discover that there’s more to those nasty green goblins ...
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OnFARM Scottish farming podcast

Scene and Herd PR and Marketing

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Food, farming and rural life from Scotland and beyond. OnFARM showcases rural enterprise, and champion the producers, grafters, and innovators who put food on our tables and keep our countryside green and beautiful for all. OnFARM: Food, Agricultural and Rural Matters in Scotland. New episodes every Monday, presented by Anna Davies and Ross Montague.
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WAX CHATTY with D, MUCK & TATTY

Mac Brydon, William Tatlock Green, & Diánna Martin

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WELCOME, music lovers! WAX CHATTY brings together three dear friends who listen to an album - chew on it - then gather to have a lively discussion about it - while having a whole lotta fun in the process. Our tastes are varied and our music selections span a myriad of genres and decades. All of our selections can be found on Apple Music, Spotify, Discogs, YouTube, and most places you find your ear candy, as well as good old-fashioned brick-and-mortar music stores. Please rate us and hit "sub ...
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Design Atlas

Jens Bringsjord and Megan Luedke

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Welcome to Design Atlas, where we explore the world of design from a cultural and global perspective. Join designers Jens Bringsjord and Megan Luedke as we explore this unique creative world we live in. We're excited to bring you the knowledge of how to progress in the design field, whether you're just starting out or a seasoned designer. Learn more and stay connected with us at www.designatlaspod.com.
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Join Flower Friends Nicole and Sarah on their journey to growing beautiful blooms! Interviewing experts, discussing their own successes and failures, and revealing the mysteries behind incredible cut flowers
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The Making Conversation: Australian Composers Podcast is a series of interviews with Australian composers around the country and internationally. In the second half of 2016, a team of 10 emerging music journalists busily recorded and produced 30 episodes, for release weekly from Friday 21 April 2017. Listeners can expect to hear about: creative motivation, studying, working a portfolio career, juggling creativity with day jobs and parenting, technique, productivity, gender, growing up with m ...
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Another MOEment (Measures of Excellence) delivers inspirational honest talk to encourage and uplift you to live your life one MOEment at a time. You will laugh, reflect, and be inspired as we discuss how to turn pain into purpose.
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How can communicators change the climate conversation? After experiencing climate change firsthand when the 2019/2020 Australian bush fires ripped through our community, we're on a mission to find out why this issue is still so divisive, crippling action. We're asking leading thinkers, scientists, experts, activists and optimists how communicators can change the climate conversation and inspire much more action.
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Welcome to "Hacks and Hobbies - Passion to Profit Stories," a space where we delve deep into the captivating journeys of passionate creators transforming their beloved hobbies into lucrative ventures. Hosted by Junaid Ahmed, our conversations are more than surface-level; we unravel the intricate paths and strategies that have propelled our guests to success. Discover actionable insights, practical tips, and success roadmaps while gaining valuable wisdom from a diverse array of entrepreneurs, ...
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The GOTO podcast seeks out the brightest and boldest ideas from language creators and the world's leading experts in software development in the form of interviews and conference talks. Tune in to get the inspiration you need to bring in new technologies or gain extra evidence to support your software development plan.
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Bringing Education Home

Vibrant Family Education

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Bringing Education Home is hosted by Herb and Kristina, founders of Vibrant Family Education. Each week they interview experts who serve families and discuss topics that help families develop more fully into the family they want to become. For more information visit VibrantFamilyEducation.com or email VibrantFamilyEducation@gmail.com
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Reframeables

Rebecca & Natalie Davey

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Do you feel alone in your own head when it comes to navigating life’s big and small problems? Do you find self-care language a little too self-focused but know you still need to do the work? Join us on Reframeables and eavesdrop your way into some new perspectives — we promise you'll feel less alone as you listen. We are Nat and Bec, two very different sisters who come together each week to reframe some of life's big and small stuff. Nat's a PhD whose favourite phrase is “let’s reframe that! ...
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A weekly comics interview podcast hosted by David Harper of SKTCHD that gets the story behind the stories and creators we love, as well as the broader comic book industry. Website: SKTCHD.com Patreon: Patreon.com/OffPanel Twitter & Instagram: @slicedfriedgold/@SKTCHDcomic Email: david@sktchd.com
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Bees in a Pod

Leaders in Community and Community Tales

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Bees in a Pod cuts through the noise with honest conversations straight from East London’s Teviot Centre. Your Bee hosts, Mo & Mash, bring unfiltered discussions with strangers, activists, leaders and experts. Tune in every other week for a dose of real talk, sprinkled with humor and insights from the hive.
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These Fukken Feelings Podcast©

Micah Bravery & Producer Crystal Davis

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Are you tired of feeling like you're the only one struggling with your emotions? Do you want to hear from real people who are dealing with the same issues as you? Then tune in to These Fukken Feelings Podcast©! Hosted by a team of mental health advocates, These Fukken Feelings Podcast© is a weekly show that explores the ups and downs of life, from navigating relationships and dealing with anxiety to coping with loss and finding happiness. With honest and relatable conversations, you'll learn ...
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Welcome to Your Journey to Joy! - The Cheer UP! Podcast - Hosted by Kara R. Hunt. Co-hosted with Cheri Swalwell. If you’re looking for encouragement, hope, and inspiration, then you’ve come to the right place.
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Coffee with the Chicken Ladies covers all things pet chicken. Each episode includes a breed spotlight and relevant chicken keeping topics, as well as reviews of books and products, amazing recipes using home fresh eggs, interviews, and occasional chicken-themed celebrations. Please help us grow the podcast - subscribe, share, and leave reviews and ratings on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening!
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The Everlasting Podcast

Nico, confidant to successful CEOs and Founders striving to achieve Everlasting

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Welcome to The Everlasting Podcast the ultimate destination for business leaders and change-makers like YOU, who have a successful business and are working toward achieving Everlasting Fulfilment! I'm your host Nico Van de Venne, Confidant to Successful CEOs, Founders and Entrepreneurs who are taking the path to achieve everlasting fulfilment Society#everlasting #coaching #entrepreneurship #CEO #founder #purposedrivenbusiness Want to support us in a more personal manner? Buy us a coffee: htt ...
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DC TV Podcasts is a podcast network that features a collection of high-quality and popular podcasts that are devoted to DC Comics television series such as The CW’s Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, iZombie, Black Lightning, FOX’s Gotham, Syfy's Krypton, DC's Titans, DC Films in the DC Extended Universe and classic DC TV shows! Join the hosts of Quiver: The Green Arrow Podcast, The Flash Podcast, Supergirl Radio, Legends of Tomorrow Podcast, iZombie Radio, DC TV Classics ...
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Welcome to Dadville! Join musicians and sometimes-comedians Dave Barnes and Jon McLaughlin in the journey of life, love and the pursuit of dad-ding on the Dadville Podcast. Get your fill of dad jokes, laughs, and heartfelt conversations while these dads and their guests talk about the journey of life and fatherhood.
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If you've enjoyed watching the 1998 BBC television miniseries, you'd probably want to renew your acquaintance with William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847 novel, Vanity Fair. However, if you're unfamiliar with what has been dubbed one of the Best 100 Books in English Literature, you certainly have a treat ahead. Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Chiswick Mall in London is where young ladies with ambitions of making a good marriage are sent by their socially aspiring middleclass parents. Two young ladie ...
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Up Until Now is hosted by Kristen Hallinan, speaker and author of Legacy Changer: Heal The Hurt, Redeem Your Story, Create Hope for Your Family. Join us each week as Kristen interviews expert guests, focusing on topics that invite healing, help us understand healthy relationships, and equip us with the tools needed to build healthy families—all through the lens of the Bible.
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Vermont Made

The Vermont Arts Council

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Sharing the fruits of local talent from the Green Mountain State. In each episode of Vermont Made, one artist, craftsperson, designer, specialty food producer, or other Vermont creative shares the story behind one thing they've made. Produced by the Vermont Arts Council and hosted by Desmond Peeples.
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Find the Right Words

More Fuzzy Logic

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Find The Right Words is a poetry and rap night in Leicester which each month features two of the most exciting performers from around the UK. There are also 10 open mic spots to local acts and the challenge for an audience member to write and perform a poem based on suggestions from the audience. On this monthly podcast Jess Green introduces a selection of poems from the open mic spots and highlights from the headliners.
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Your alternative to talkback. Backchat is a weekly show of news, politics, interviews, discussion, satire, and feature reporting. Hosted by Holly Payne and Tanita Razaghi. Executive produced by Rebecca Cushway, with producers Libby Hopper and Nic Huntington. Got an idea for a story? Email us: backchat@fbiradio.com We're also on Twitter @BackchatFBi [405192]
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Welcome to "The Bookshelf Chronicles," the podcast that takes you on an exciting literary adventure through the world of books! Join us as we dive deep into the pages of captivating novels, explore thought-provoking non-fiction, and discover hidden gems from all genres. Each episode of "The Bookshelf Chronicles" is a delightful journey through the literary landscape, where our passionate hosts bring you engaging book reviews, author interviews, and insightful discussions. Whether you're a de ...
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Ky here and I want to take you on a journey through true crime relationship stories that explore doomed bonds. Every week, I publish crimes of passion from unsolved mysteries and cold cases to murderous couples, love triangles and true crime cases about criminals who murdered their loved ones; I tell you true crime documentaries that unravel the disturbing reasons that unhinged people to kill. Join me on Love and Murder: Heartbreak to Homicide with Ky for a new episode every Sunday. Listen t ...
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Let's explore the rarely discussed women who helped shape America and the world through science, education, writing, public service, and so much more. Join Elizabeth and Jessica as they shine a spotlight on those women often forgotten in history class.
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Welcome to UpCycle Canada, the ultimate podcast for eco-conscious individuals seeking sustainable alternatives to combat the ever-growing problem of waste. If you're passionate about finding inspiration to repurpose, reuse, and recycle discarded items, then this podcast is tailor-made for you! Join hosts Dave and Jennifer Campbell as they take you on an exciting journey into the creative world of UpCycling. Through thought-provoking discussions, interviews with experts, and real-life success ...
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In Record Cultures: The Transformation of the U.S. Recording Industry (University of Michigan Press, 2020), Kyle Barnett tells the story of the smaller U.S. record labels in the 1920s that created the genres later to be known as blues, country, and jazz. Barnett also engages the early recording industry as entertainment media, considering the ways …
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Weh Yeoh's Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence (Koan Press, 2023) presents a transformative approach to charitable work. Drawing on his extensive experience in the non-profit sector, Yeoh argues that the ultimate goal of a charity should be to render itself unnecessary. He critiques the traditional charity model, which often perpe…
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Ramón Espejo's book The Catalonian Journey of American Drama 1909-2000: From Jimmy Valentine to The Vagina Monologues (Legenda, 2024) delves into the fascinating journey of American drama in Catalonia, exploring how the theatrical output of a world superpower has impacted (and transformed) the stages of an allegedly minor actor in the cultural scen…
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J.…
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Aya Gruber, a professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, has written a history of how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault. In The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration (University of California Press, 2020), Professor Gruber conte…
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Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On Crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other’s military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territo…
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Eric Kandel was born in Vienna in 1929. In 1938 he and his family fled to Brooklyn, where he attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush. He studied history and literature at Harvard, and received an MD from NYU. He is a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University, and won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on memory. In addition to his sc…
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Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, it has been beset with poverty and crime after decades of decline, with few opportunities for its predominantly minority residents. Sixty Miles Upr…
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Many of us know that immigrants have been deported from the United States for well over a century, but has anyone ever asked how? In The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Princeton University Press, 2020), author Adam Goodman brings together new archival evidence to write an expansive history of deportation from t…
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Listen to this interview of Marcos Kalinowski, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We talk about his coauthored papers; When to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering (JSS 2020); Guidelines for the search strategy to update systematic literature review…
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The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. Sarah Nooter's How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality (Princeton UP, 2024) is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between …
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The title says it all. Thanks to Danny Green for joining the pod! You can get Inside The Green Room anywhere you get your podcasts (and the Audacy app). Danny's appearance is brought to you by Hyundai. The Rights To Ricky Sanchez is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook. Briggs Auction is the official auction of the Process at briggsauction.com/ricky…
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Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis (U Arkansas Press, 2024) is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933–2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as “the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain” and as Amer…
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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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It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amounts to more than there being an insufficient supply of adequate shelter. It rather is tied to a range of other forms of social and economic vulnerability – and many of these forms of vulnerability impe…
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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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Matthew Kadane, Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, talks about his just new book, The Enlightenment and Original Sin (University of Chicago Press, 2024). An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly d…
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"When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers of people paying tribute to the Spanish crown. This suggests an uncomplicated story of an easy imposition of Spanish sovereignty. But as Stephanie Mawson shows in her book, Incomplete Conquests: The …
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From a remote mountain village in the Caucasian mountains of Georgia came the most surprising discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls: a rare, beautiful, and valuable Hebrew Bible known as the Lailashi Codex. In ancient tradition, scribal art possesses supernatural powers. The provenance of this Codex is shrouded in mystery. Questions about the author…
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Robert Cochran’s Haunted Man's Report: Reading Charles Portis (U Arkansas Press, 2024) is a pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933–2020), best known for the novel True Grit and its film adaptations. Hailed by one critic as “the author of classics on the order of a twentieth-century Mark Twain” and as Amer…
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Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, 2020). Gretchen has written a Resident Linguist column at The Toast and Wired. She is also the co-creator of Lingthusiasm, a wildly popular podcast tha…
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Daniel Rachel's new book Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation (Akashic, 2024) presents the definitive history of 2 Tone Records. In 1979, 2 Tone Records exploded into the consciousness of music lovers in Britain, the US, and beyond, as albums by the Specials, the Selecter, Madness, the …
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This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology. Consisting of fourteen original essays by both distinguished and new voices, Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Depar…
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In this Florida Man Friday true crime documentary episode of Love and Murder: Heartbreak to Homicide, Ky unravels the bizarre and troubling case of a 78-year-old Florida man who brutally attacked his wife of 55 years over a trivial disagreement. Dive into the details of what led Walter Lee Davis to assault his wife, Annie Davis, because she refused…
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Episode 76-Craig Addy-Harmonizing Hearts: A Musical Journey to Nurturing Families Craig Addy Craig Addy is the musician who listens to the listener. His purpose as a creator and performer is to provide nurturing, healing, and beautiful musical experiences that make a better world for all—people and the planet. During his healing Under the Piano ses…
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More Jimmy Butler rumors and Paul George rumors have flooded our timelines, and we debate which option would be better for the Sixers. Then we rank which end of Sixers seasons made us most upset, almost hitting Daryl Morey with a bike, Brian Windhorst on LeBron, how Ben Simmons would have done defending Jalen Brunson, and which players from the 202…
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This interview was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen for GOTO Unscripted. http://gotopia.tech Read the full transcription of this interview here Liz Fong-Jones - Field CTO at Honeycomb.io Marit van Dijk - Developer Advocate at JetBrains & Open Source Contributor RESOURCES LIz https://twitter.com/lizthegrey https://linkedin.com/in/efong https://www.lizthe…
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Election campaigns are becoming ever more expensive, with many parties and candidates spending large sums of money on advertising, campaign materials, and staff. But how does money affect campaign environment and electoral outcomes? Does more money mean better chances of winning? And what role do large businesses play in this? Listen to William Hor…
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Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light (Allen & Unwin, 2023). Jessica has published in Meanjin and The Conversation, as well as other outlets. Her PhD focused on the ‘hearing line’: the invisible boundary between Deaf and h…
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Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. Moji adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geogra…
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Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope through narrative forms produced in contemporary France, a location which richly illustrates race in European spaces. Moji adopts a transdisciplinary lens that combines critical black and urban geogra…
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In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence…
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What is social mobility? In Social Mobility (Polity Press, 2023), Anthony Heath, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Yaojun Li, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, explore and explain this concept, setting out why the idea matters for both social scientists and the general reader. The book draws …
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In this episode, Jenna Tang shares with us her translation of Lin Yi-Han's Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel (HarperVia, 2024), one of the most iconic works of Taiwan's #MeToo movement. Thirteen-year-old Fang Si-Chi lives with her family in an upscale apartment complex in Taiwan, a tightknit community of strict yet doting parents and privi…
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The definitive illustrated book on "The Boss"-- Springsteen: Album by Album (Palazzo Editions, 2024) is now updated to celebrate Bruce Springsteen’s 75th birthday! Renowned for his passionate songwriting, galvanizing live shows, and political activism, Bruce Springsteen stands astride the rock 'n' roll stage like a colossus--and the iconic rocker s…
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Mayada Ibrahim speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her translation of “Symphony of the South,” a short story by Tahir Annour that appears in The Common’s most recent issue, in a portfolio of writing in Arabic from Chad, South Sudan, and Eritrea. Mayada talks about the process of translating this piece, including working with the author an…
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Unlock the secrets to a fulfilled life with the charismatic edutainer Rebecca Murray as we journey together through the unspoken symphony of nature and the nuanced dance of conversation. Discover how the art of self-entertainment can lead to profound satisfaction and why the simple act of walking barefoot could be your first step towards stress red…
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On May 29, South Africans voted in the seventh election since the end of political apartheid in the early 1990s. This is the first election in which the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is polling below 50 percent, which could force them into a coalition with one or more other parties to govern the country after the election. To l…
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This week, it's time for dinner at Ephraim's home. We gain some insight into his living situation, and Vlad causes some mischief. Niles and Ephraim have a confrontation. Also, enter Ratigan. New Episodes Released Every Other Monday! Podcast Website: https://minionsandmisfits.podbean.com/ If you must tell us how ardently you admire and love our show…
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Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs such as the earned income tax credit, Medicaid, and affordable housing vouchers and subsidies. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Iro…
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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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What makes Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) uniquely Latinx? And how can university leaders, staff, and faculty transform these institutions into spaces that promote racial equity, social justice, and collective liberation? Today’s book is: Transforming Hispanic-Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), by Dr. Gina A…
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In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, a…
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This fifth edition of Film, Form, and Culture (Routledge, 2024) offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores how films are constructed from part to whole: from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrat…
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On this week's episode, Modya and David switch lenses to the trait of Zerizut, or Diligence, and use that as a lens through which to explore parshat Bechukotai, the final Torah portion in the Book of Leviticus (26:3-27:24). In this portion, God delineates the good that will come of following divine laws and commandments -- and the ills that will be…
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Between 800 and 1700 CE, a plethora of Mahabharatas were created in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and several other regional South Asian languages. Sohini Pillai's Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative (Oxford UP, 2024) is a comprehensive study of premode…
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Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belonging, and empire-making in Sudan and the broader Sahel region. Elamin joins the Ufahamu Africa podcast for this episode focused on the conflict in Sudan. Books, Links and Articles “Recent protests in …
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Seeking a second term as US president in November, Donald Trump joins a roster of politicians whose declared aim is to use legal means to bend democracy to their will and in their interests. The system withstood his first term. In Venezuela, Ecuador, Turkey, and Hungary, the systems didn’t, and they are undergoing stress tests in Israel, Slovakia, …
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