NextGen Humanities
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Get the inside scoop on the latest and best that the humanities has to offer. Your host Zachary Mazur (PhD, Yale University) conducts interviews with early career scholars in history, literature, philosophy, politics, law, religion and art. We'll look at how their cutting edge work is informing the future of the humanities and how their work can be useful outside of academia.
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NextGen Humanities Episode 8 – Holly Guise
January 23, 2021 18:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBThis time around we’re talking about the history of segregation and discrimination against native people in Alaska. Our guest today is Holly Guise, Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Her work recovers the untold and unrecorded stories of what life was like for native Americans in Alaska around the period of the Second World War. She’s travelled all around that enormous state to understand this history from native people themselves, to allow them to tell their o...
NextGen Humanities Episode 7 – Wendell Adjetey & North American Black Liberation
December 13, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBWelcome back to the NextGen Humanities Podcast This time around we’re talking about the black liberation movements throughout the 20th century and beyond the borders of the United States. It’s a great pleasure to be able to introduce Wendell Adjetey (A-jay-tay), Assistant Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal. He completed his PhD at Yale University and then was a fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a lecturer in the Department o...
NextGen Humanities Episode 6 – Laura Davies: The Literature & Art of Dying Well
November 10, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBIn this episode we talk to Laura Davies (King's College – Cambridge) about how her work on 18th century British literature can inform the way we think about death in the present. Dr Davies teaches, researches and writes on British literature of the long eighteenth century, with a particular interest in life writing and the textual representation of experiences and ideas that resist language or narration, including sound, time, death, spiritual visions, and dreams. She’s also the co-found...
NextGen Humanities Episode 5 – Mandisa Haarhoff & Absenting Black People in South Africa
October 16, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBThis episode features Prof. Mandisa Haarhoff from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Her work focuses on modern literature in southern Africa, more specifically the farm novel or Plaasroman. The conversation extracts some of the most important elements of her work, such as how white writers managed to deny the existence of black people in southern Africa or assert their own nativeness on the continent, while treating actual natives as foreigners. She has numerous articles that c...
NextGen Humanities Episode 4 – Steffen Rimner & the Global Anti-Opium Movement
August 24, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode we sit down with Steffen Rimner, Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs at University College Dublin. He has taught at Utrecht University, Harvard University, and Columbia University, and held affiliations at Yale University, the University of Oxford, Waseda University, and the University of Tokyo (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia). Prof. Rimner's work covers a wide range of topics connected with China and Japan and their place in the world. We dis...
NextGen Humanities Episode 4 – Steffen Rimner & the Global Anti-Opium Movement
August 24, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode we sit down with Steffen Rimner, Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs at University College Dublin. He has taught at Utrecht University, Harvard University, and Columbia University, and held affiliations at Yale University, the University of Oxford, Waseda University, and the University of Tokyo (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia). Prof. Rimner's work covers a wide range of topics connected with China and Japan and their place in the world. We dis...
NextGen Humanities Episode 3 – Miranda Sachs & Childhood, Adulthood and Generations
August 09, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode we sit down with Miranda Sachs who has a PhD in history from Yale University and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Texas State University. Her academic work has thus far covered the history of childhood in modern France, but as our conversation shows, it has relevance well beyond that context. We talk about generational perspectives, the shifting definitions of childhood and adulthood over the past century. You can find her articles online or follow her on Twitter @mirand...
NextGen Humanities Episode 3 – Miranda Sachs
August 09, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode we sit down with Miranda Sachs who has a PhD in history from Yale University and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Texas State University. Her academic work has thus far covered the history of childhood in modern France, but as our conversation shows, it has relevance well beyond that context. We talk about generational perspectives, the shifting definitions of childhood and adulthood over the past century. You can find her articles online or follow her on Twitter @mirand...
NextGen Humanities Episode 3 – Miranda Sachs (History)
August 09, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode we sit down with Miranda Sachs who has a PhD in history from Yale University and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Texas State University. Her academic work has thus far covered the history of childhood in modern France, but as our conversation shows, it has relevance well beyond that context. We talk about generational perspectives, the shifting definitions of childhood and adulthood over the past century. You can find her articles online or follow her on Twitter @mirand...
NextGen Humanities Episode 2 – Jasna Žmak & Dramaturgy/Performance in Europe
July 26, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we are talking to Jasna Žmak (Department of Dramaturgy, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia). In addition to her academic work that spans across disciplines such as performance studies and gender studies, Žmak is also a creative artist, novelist, scriptwriter, screenwriter and dramaturg. We talk about what her work looks like these days, how she uses her training in the humanities to create art and what keeps her striving to achieve more. Below you'll find a s...
NextGen Humanities Episode 2 – Jasna Žmak (Drama/Literature)
July 26, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we are talking to Jasna Žmak (Department of Dramaturgy, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia). In addition to her academic work that spans across disciplines such as performance studies and gender studies, Žmak is also a creative artist, novelist, scriptwriter, screenwriter and dramaturg. We talk about what her work looks like these days, how she uses her training in the humanities to create art and what keeps her striving to achieve more. Below you'll find a s...
NextGen Humanities Episode 2 – Jasna Žmak
July 26, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week we are talking to Jasna Žmak (Department of Dramaturgy, Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia). In addition to her academic work that spans across disciplines such as performance studies and gender studies, Žmak is also a creative artist, novelist, scriptwriter, screenwriter and dramaturg. We talk about what her work looks like these days, how she uses her training in the humanities to create art and what keeps her striving to achieve more. Below you'll find a s...
NextGen Humanities Episode 1 - Bryan Kozik & the Reformations and the Meaning of Europe
July 06, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode we sit down with historian Bryan Kozik, PhD to talk about his work on Reformation era Central Europe and how he is shifting the conversation in his field. With a focus on bishops and changes happening at the local level, he gives us a better sense of this momentous epoch in world history. His fresh perspective shows how we can start to better understand the changing definitions of Europe and how religion should remain a key factor when assessing history. Bryan Kozik's readi...
NextGen Humanities Episode 1 - Bryan Kozik (History)
July 06, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode we sit down with historian Bryan Kozik, PhD to talk about his work on Reformation era Central Europe and how he is shifting the conversation in his field. With a focus on bishops and changes happening at the local level, he gives us a better sense of this momentous epoch in world history. His fresh perspective shows how we can start to better understand the changing definitions of Europe and how religion should remain a key factor when assessing history. Bryan Kozik's readi...
NextGen Humanities Episode 0 - Introduction
July 03, 2020 10:00 - 54 seconds - 656 KBWelcome! This episode is just chance to say hello. Check out my interviews in the other episodes. Thanks to Adam Pisarkiewicz for the music