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NextGen Humanities Episode 8 – Holly Guise

NextGen Humanities - January 23, 2021 18:00 - 46 minutes
This 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 nati...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 7 – Wendell Adjetey & North American Black Liberation

NextGen Humanities - December 13, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes
Welcome 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...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 6 – Laura Davies: The Literature & Art of Dying Well

NextGen Humanities - November 10, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes
In 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 in...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 5 – Mandisa Haarhoff & Absenting Black People in South Africa

NextGen Humanities - October 16, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes
This 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 w...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 4 – Steffen Rimner & the Global Anti-Opium Movement

NextGen Humanities - August 24, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes
In 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 ...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 4 – Steffen Rimner & the Global Anti-Opium Movement

NextGen Humanities - August 24, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes
In 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 ...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 3 – Miranda Sachs & Childhood, Adulthood and Generations

NextGen Humanities - August 09, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes
In 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 beyon...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 3 – Miranda Sachs

NextGen Humanities - August 09, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes
In 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 beyon...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 3 – Miranda Sachs (History)

NextGen Humanities - August 09, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes
In 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 beyon...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 2 – Jasna Žmak & Dramaturgy/Performance in Europe

NextGen Humanities - July 26, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes
This 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, screen...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 2 – Jasna Žmak (Drama/Literature)

NextGen Humanities - July 26, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes
This 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, screen...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 2 – Jasna Žmak

NextGen Humanities - July 26, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes
This 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, screen...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 1 - Bryan Kozik & the Reformations and the Meaning of Europe

NextGen Humanities - July 06, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes
In 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...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 1 - Bryan Kozik (History)

NextGen Humanities - July 06, 2020 12:00 - 35 minutes
In 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...

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NextGen Humanities Episode 0 - Introduction

NextGen Humanities - July 03, 2020 10:00 - 54 seconds
Welcome! This episode is just chance to say hello. Check out my interviews in the other episodes.  Thanks to Adam Pisarkiewicz for the music

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