Doomed to Repeat
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsInterviews and discussions from Tropics of Meta and New Romantic Robot Productions.
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Episodes
Looking for Direction: Adia Reid on the Work of Care in Babysitting, Teaching and the Theater
November 13, 2023 00:23 - 1 hour - 39.9 MBPlaywright and director Adia Reid talks to us about her family's journey from Costa Rica and Jamaica to Atlanta and her varied experiences with care work in her community and developing career in the theater.
The Undefeated: Chris Springer on Ditch Digging, Nannying, Hairdressing, Art, Care & the Good Life
January 17, 2023 17:52 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBIn this episode we talk with LA artist Chris Springer about her journey from a traumatic family life to shutting down a dangerous childcare facility and running a hair salon, working in creative arts and design, rescuing children in need, advocating for tenants' rights, and also... vampires under the Staples Center. This conversation really contains multitudes.
"We Were Told Not to Say the Word 'Understaffed'": Monica Kick's Journey as a Healthcare Worker
December 22, 2022 08:16 - 50 minutes - 38.9 MBAs a CNA, billing specialist, and medication aide, Monica Kick saw the goods and evils of the healthcare system up close -- especially during the Pandemic. She also saw a high-flying CEO piloting seniors through the skies, outrageous and systemic wage theft, and stymied attempts at unionizing her underpaid coworkers. She tells her story here.
The Long Bike Ride Home: A Nurse on Surviving the Early Days of the Pandemic in NYC
November 14, 2022 02:29 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBWe talked with Tanya Martinez about her experience surviving Pandemic Year One in the depths of NYC's crisis back in December 2020.
The Story of the Beagle that Got Kicked Out of 5 States
May 12, 2022 19:58 - 32 minutes - 26.1 MBJeramie Rain Dreyfuss went from Charleston, WV to NYC to Hollywood and then to Sun Valley. Now she wants to go to Animal Heaven
Caregivers' Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Spoon Theory
October 18, 2021 18:01 - 51 minutes - 41.5 MBMaliha Ahmed was an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz, studying linguistics, when she began working as a caregiver. From the good moments to the bad, the experience of working with people in need in their homes taught her a lot about the complicated dynamics of care. In this installment of The Tactile World, we talk with Ahmed about how many spoons it takes to get a cell phone fixed.
“This is the first pandemic we’re gonna have to deal with; the next will be a psychological one”
October 02, 2021 22:28 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBWe talk with Scott Clark about life in the Navy, the Catholic Worker movement, and meeting COVID head-on in Iowa City.
Leaping Through Broken Windows: A Journey from the Priesthood to Medical Humanities
September 23, 2021 17:15 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBThomas Lawrence Long has had a fascinating journey from the priesthood to literary studies to the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut. Here we have an in-depth interview with the scholar and writer about queer history in America and his efforts to develop the field of medical humanities.
Adventures in Coordinating Clinical Research Studies with Krissy Janhke
June 27, 2021 22:54 - 27 minutes - 24 MBAlex talks with clinical research coordinator Krissy Jahnke about her life and work.
I'm Housin': Kristin Szylvian on the Lost History of Mutual Housing in America
September 29, 2019 16:58 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBIn this interview, Alex Sayf Cummings interviews the historian Kristin Szylvian of St. John's University about her groundbreaking book The Mutual Housing Experiment at the SACRPH conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
Trapped in the Ivory Tower: LaDale Winling on Universities And Urban Development
January 15, 2019 20:07 - 22 minutes - 21 MBHow have universities reshaped the environment of American cities? How have they wielded their power, influences, and resources to transform the built environment and local economies? In this conversation at the SACRPH conference, Alex Sayf Cummings talks to Professor LaDale Winling of Virginia Tech about his new book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century (Penn, 2017).
Anger, Fear, Hope, Power and the Joy of Resistance: An Oral History of the Women's March of 2017
August 23, 2018 03:12 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBAlex and Will talk to Morna Gerrard, the librarian for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University, and hear from the oral histories that have been documented about the historic Women's March of 2017, the biggest political mobilization in American history. You can find incredible resources collected and curated by Gerrard and others here: http://research.library.gsu.edu/atlantamarch
The SACRPH Series: Andrew Kahrl on the History of Beaches and Segregation
July 23, 2018 15:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBAlex talks to UVA historian Andrew Kahrl about his books The Land Was Ours and Free the Beaches, and the joys of laborious research in Hartford, Connecticut basements. Good news -- the audio quality is terrible!
The SACRPH Series: Janet Bednarek on the Invisible Politics of Airports
January 29, 2018 13:32 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBProfessor Janet Bednarek of the University of Dayton talks about her work on the history and politics of airport construction at the 2017 SACRPH (Society of American City and Regional Planning History) conference.
The SACRPH Series: Talking with Barbara Brown Wilson on Planning for Social Justice
January 17, 2018 04:54 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBAt the Society for American City and Regional Planning History conference in Cleveland, Alex Sayf Cummings talks with Barbara Brown Wilson, historian and planning practitioner at UVA, about the ways that disempowered communities can take control of planning decisions that affect their lives.
Episode 5: Sanctuary Cities
October 03, 2017 23:43 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBFor our last big episode of the season, Doomed to Repeat is touching on one of the most polarizing issues in American politics: immigration and so-called "sanctuary cities." In the age of the Dreamsicle President, matters of law and migration have taken a vastly greater political, economic, cultural, and emotional valence that at any time in recent memory. In dissing Trump, we do not mean to belittle the issue at all. People are afraid. One of our two co-hosts, in fact, has family who are ...
Juan Guzman interviews Gary Soto
August 24, 2017 17:32 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBIn this special mini-episode, contributor Juan Guzman interviews poet Gary Soto and talks about his museum.
Episode 4: Russia
August 04, 2017 18:34 - 1 hour - 38.6 MBFor some reason, people keep asking us to talk about Russia; not sure why, but it turns out that there has always been an interesting history there. We have two great interviews talking about the history of Russia and the end of the Cold War. Enjoy!
Episode 3: The Anti-Vaccination Movement
July 10, 2017 16:02 - 57 minutes - 34.8 MBIn this episode of Doomed to Repeat, we explore the history of the anti-vaccination movement from Victorian Britain to the modern day in America!
Mini Episode 2: Ben Parten and The Confessions of Nat Turner
June 28, 2017 18:44 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBIn this mini-episode Nic Hoffmann and Ben Parten sit down and talk about the Confessions of Nat Turner, how they were assembled, published and understood in their time.
Mini Episode 1: An Interview with William Rorabaugh
June 11, 2017 00:00 - 38 minutes - 24.7 MBIn this mini-episode for Doomed to Repeat, Alex interviews the father of American alcohol studies, William Rorabaugh about his work and the book that helped inspire this episode, The Alcoholic Republic.
Episode 1: You gotta keep 'em separated (Segregation)
June 08, 2017 20:18 - 40 minutes - 30.7 MBWelcome to the inaugural episode of the Tropics of Meta and Dudeletter Podcasting Series Doomed to Repeat! The history podcast interviews academics, artists and writers and contextualizes their insights with a broader look at history and historiography. In the first episode, we look at the segregation that never left.
Episode 2: IPA, YouPA (The Long History of Craft Beer)
June 01, 2017 00:00 - 48 minutes - 40.2 MBIn this episode, we discuss the revolutionizing of drinking habits and the beer industry in modern America. And finally, H. Robert Baker of our sister blog Tropics of Meta recently weighed in on the "end of craft beer." Some more beer history to wash down the podcast with! https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/the-end-of-craft-beer/