Heyman Center For The Humanities At Columbia University Podcasts podcast

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

By The Heyman Center for the Humanities. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio streamed directly from their servers.

Podcasts from Columbia University's The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, where we feature talks with professors about their recent work, publications, novels and more. Hear them read from their work, and also responses from other professors in their fields. Hosted by Anne Levitsky.

28 episodes available. A new episode about every 23 days averaging 41 mins duration .

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Alan Stewart's The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern23:31

2M ago23:31

23:31

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early ModernBy: Alan StewartThe Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that th ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People (full event audio)1:35:24

3M ago1:35:24

1:35:24

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. P ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Ana Paulina Lee's Mandarin Brazil; Race, Representation, and Memory28:36

3M ago28:36

28:36

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.Mandarin Brazil; Race, Representation, and MemoryBy: Ana Paulina LeeIn Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

A Conversation with Cory Doctorow (full event audio)1:05:54

3M ago1:05:54

1:05:54

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.A special edition of our series, hear the full event featuring Cory Doctorow from September 2018. Cory Doctorow and Dennis Tenen, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, have a conversatio ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Souleymane Bachir Diagne's Open to Reason35:38

3M ago35:38

35:38

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western TraditionBy: Souleymane Bachir DiagneWhat does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleym ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Joseph Howley's Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture32:04

3M ago32:04

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New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture: Text, Presence, and Imperial Knowledge in the Noctes AtticaeBy: Joseph HowleyLong a source for quotations, fragments, and factoids, the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gelliu ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Erik Gray's The Art of Love Poetry19:41

5M ago19:41

19:41

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.The Art of Love PoetryBy: Erik Gray-The first volume to offer an integral theory of love poetry that explores why poetry is consistently associated with romantic love-Offers close readings of numerous love p ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Caitlin Gillespie's Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain19:56

5M ago19:56

19:56

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman BritainBy: Caitlin GillespieIn AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved cat ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Mark Taylor's Last Works: Lessons in Leaving27:01

5M ago27:01

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New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.Living in the shadow of death may enhance the gift of life.In 2006, Taylor (Religion/Columbia Univ.; Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left, 2014, etc.) developed an infection after a b ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Jack Halberstam's Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability56:42

6M ago56:42

56:42

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variabilityby: Jack HalberstamIn the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. Ho ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Bernard Harcourt's The Counterrevolution38:57

6M ago38:57

38:57

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Ber ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Andreas Wimmer's Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart35:22

6M ago35:22

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New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apartby: Andreas WimmerWhy is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Jenny Davidson's Reading Jane Austen32:41

6M ago32:41

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New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Reading Jane Austenby Jenny DavidsonWhether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Dennis Tenen's Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation52:20

6M ago52:20

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New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Plain Text: The Poetics of Computationby Dennis TenenThis book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age. Computers—from e ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Bruce Robbins' The Beneficiary23:00

6M ago23:00

23:00

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.The Beneficiaryby Bruce RobbinsFrom iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Naor Ben-Yehoyada's The Mediterranean Incarnate30:54

7M ago30:54

30:54

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.The Mediterranean Incarnateby Naor Ben-Yehoyada In The Mediterranean Incarnate, anthropologist Naor Ben-Yehoyada takes us aboard the Naumachos for a thirty-seven-day v ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Irina Reyfman's How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks26:54

1y ago26:54

26:54

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranksby Irina Reyfman?In the eighteenth century, as modern forms of literature began to emerge in Rus ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Liza Knapp's Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plots24:44

1y ago24:44

24:44

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plotsby Liza KnappWith its complex structure, Anna Karenina places special demands on readers who must follow multiple ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller's The Seasons Alter27:59

1+ y ago27:59

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New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.The Seasons Alterby Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox KellerA landmark work of environmental philosophy that seeks to transform the debate about climate change.As the icec ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Turkuler Isiksel's Europe’s Functional Constitution: A Theory of Constitutionalism beyond the State28:47

2y ago28:47

28:47

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Europe’s Functional Constitution: A Theory of Constitutionalism beyond the State by Turkuler IsikselConstitutionalism has become a byword for legitimate government, bu ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Souleymane Bachir Diagne's The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa45:46

2y ago45:46

45:46

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africaby Souleymane Bachir DiagneDiscussant: Gary WilderWhat are the issues discussed today by African philosophe ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Josef Sorett's Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics27:50

2y ago27:50

27:50

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aestheticsby Josef SorettThis edition features Associate Professor of Religion and African-American Studies Josef Sor ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

The Unplugged Soul: "Keynote Conversation With Chris Lydon And Dave Winer"1:09:13

2y ago1:09:13

1:09:13

A series of unprecedented freedoms – on demand software, discrete audiences, portable devices, cheap production costs, the bypassing of broadcast infrastructure and with it content restrictions – liberates the podcast from mass media's customary limitations, and podcasters are now making the most of their new territory. This conference ranges w ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

The Unplugged Soul: A Conference on the Podcast: "In Microphones Begin Responsibilities"1:45:44

2y ago1:45:44

1:45:44

Hillary Frank (The Longest Shortest Time), “Podcasts Can Change the World (At Least a Little)”Devon Taylor (Millennial), “New Ears”Rachel Zucker (Commonplace), “Less and Less and Less Alone”A series of unprecedented freedoms – on demand software, discrete audiences, portable devices, cheap production costs, the bypassing of broadcast infrastruc ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

The Unplugged Soul: "Get Close. Now Get Closer... Creating Audio Movies For The Mind"36:11

2y ago36:11

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Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson (The Kitchen Sisters), “Get Close. Now Get Closer… Creating Audio Movies for the Mind"A series of unprecedented freedoms – on demand software, discrete audiences, portable devices, cheap production costs, the bypassing of broadcast infrastructure and with it content restrictions – liberates the podcast from mass med ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

The Unplugged Soul: A Conference on the Podcast: "Disrupting Story"1:19:52

2y ago1:19:52

1:19:52

Jeff Emtman (Here Be Monsters), “The Cult of the Story”Bethany Jo Denton (Here Be Monsters), “A Case for the Minimalist Narrator”Jonathan Hirsch (ARRVLS), “Storytelling vs Stenography: Truth and Narrative in the Age of Alternative Facts”A series of unprecedented freedoms – on demand software, discrete audiences, portable devices, cheap producti ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Recent Work by Elizabeth Povinelli and Lila Abu-Lughod34:27

2y ago34:27

34:27

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, 30th Anniversary Edition, with a New Afterword by Lila Abu-Lughod&Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism ...…

Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University Podcasts

Manan Ahmed's A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia29:12

2y ago29:12

29:12

New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asiaby Manan AhmedThe question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian ...…

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