Latest Universityofpennsylvania Podcast Episodes
Episode 7: From Basra to Brooklyn via Tunis
Middle East 2.0 - April 04, 2023 18:31 - 41 minutesFrom the marshes of southern Iraq, to a limestone quarry in Tunisia, to a small Sicilian village to Ditmars Park in Brooklyn and the building of the New York City Subway and the Statue of Liberty…. anthropologist Bridget Guarasci somehow connects it all.
Episode 6: The Politics of Middle Eastern Art
Middle East 2.0 - July 20, 2022 13:57 - 31 minutesSultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, founder of the renowned Barjeel Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates, takes us on a journey through the fascinating, high-voltage landscape of Middle Eastern art in a very special summer edition of Middle East 2.0. Al-Qassemi will discuss his beginnings in the worl...
Episode 5: Robots and Magic in the Medieval Middle East
Middle East 2.0 - April 21, 2022 19:28 - 31 minutesJoin us as Elly Truitt takes us into the weird and wonderful world of early Middle East tech -- from the world's first analog computer, to a mechanical wine servant, to a royal throne that could whiz up to the ceiling on command.
Understanding migration and art
Penn Today's Understand This... - March 31, 2022 18:34 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJoining for the conversation in this episode is Obed Arango, a lecturer of social work in the School of Social Policy and Practice and founder and executive director of the Centro De Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación (CCATE), as well as Shelley Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicography and ...
Episode 4: The Arab Poetic Tradition
Middle East 2.0 - February 15, 2022 19:11 - 33 minutesPenn's leading scholar of Arabic literature, Huda Fakhreddine, shares her thoughts on poetry, translation, orientalism, and the meaning of her father's poetic legacy.
Understanding Climate Stories
Penn Today's Understand This... - February 01, 2022 15:48 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode about climate stories and "climate grief," Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences and founding director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, explore ways in which t...
Episode 3: Meet Harun Küçük
Middle East 2.0 - October 28, 2021 13:24 - 34 minutesThe Middle East Center's new director, Harun Küçük, joins us for a very special edition of the podcast.
Understanding Civic Engagement
Penn Today's Understand This... - October 17, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of Penn Today’s “Understand This …” podcast series, Herman Beavers of the School of Arts & Sciences and Glenn Bryan of the Office of Government and Community Affairs discuss the Year of Civic Engagement, outreach to the West Philadelphia community, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” as t...
Episode 2: A Tale of Two Cities: Beirut-Dakar in the French Colonial Empire
Middle East 2.0 - September 16, 2021 20:39 - 46 minutesPenn Ph.D. candidate Dahlia El Zein explores the worlds of Senegalese soldiers and Syrian-Lebanese traders against the backdrop of French imperialism from 1920 to 1946.
Understanding the Pandemic Classroom
Penn Today's Understand This... - August 31, 2021 13:34 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCaroline Watts, a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of Education, and Philip Gressman, a professor of mathematics, join to talk about the fall 2021 return to the classroom. This episode is both a reflection on what students and educators have experienced in learning during the course of the...
Episode 1: Muslims, Motorcycles, and Manuscripts
Middle East 2.0 - July 28, 2021 17:23 - 35 minutesPenn’s own Professor Jamal Elias takes us on a wide-ranging journey through Islamic iconography, visual art, trucks and motorcycles — and how he discovered a lost manuscript in the mountains of Tibet.
Understanding Imperialism
Penn Today's Understand This... - April 14, 2021 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of Penn Today's 'Understand This ...' podcast series, Assistant Professor of Political Science Dorothy Kronick and Assistant Professor of History Alex Chase-Levinson discuss the past and present of imperialism. Together, they tease out ways to interpret imperialism today, t...
Understanding Cross-cultural Communication
Penn Today's Understand This... - January 26, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we explore the value of improving cross-cultural communication skills. Joining for the conversation is Mauro Guillén, professor of international management at the Wharton School and former director of the Lauder Institute, and Tomoko Takami, director of Penn’s Japanese Language ...
Understanding poverty and data
Penn Today's Understand This... - October 29, 2020 06:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRegina Smalls Baker, assistant professor of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, and Amy Castro Baker, assistant professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice and director of the new Center for Guaranteed Income Research, talk about the use of data to inform recent economic relief b...
Understanding...Death
Penn Today's Understand This... - September 18, 2020 16:53 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn light of the COVID-19 pandemic, death has never been more top-of-mind during our lifetimes than it is now. Here, experts from Psychology and Religious Studies join to talk about how to cope with the idea of death and how past civilizations and cultures have examined this in religion. tu2a4c...
Robert Inman of the Wharton School and John Landis of the Weitzman School discuss infrastructure of the future.
Penn Today's Understand This... - July 16, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRobert Inman of the Wharton School and John Landis of the Weitzman School discuss infrastructure of the future.
Sigal Ben-Porath and Sophia Rosenfeld discuss shared facts in the age of "fake news" and social media
Penn Today's Understand This... - March 06, 2020 18:49 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe inaugural episode of "Understand This ..." features Sigal Ben-Porath from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and Sophia Rosenfeld from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. Together, they discuss how a democratic society can agree on shared fact...
Office Hours Holiday Party
Penn Today's Understand This... - December 20, 2019 20:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the spirit of holiday office parties, for the latest episode in the "Office Hours" podcast series Penn Today engages in conversation with returning guests Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, of the Graduate School of Education; "Mr. Fish" of the Annenberg School for Communication; and Julia Ticona, also ...
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw talks ‘30 Americans’
Penn Today's Understand This... - November 19, 2019 21:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of Penn Today's “Office Hours” podcast series, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, professor of the history of art in the School of Arts and Sciences, explains the event that shaped her career, the behind-the-scenes process of curating the new “30 Americans” exhibit at the Barnes Founda...
Office Hours: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw talks ‘30 Americans’
Penn Today's Understand This... - November 19, 2019 21:07 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of Penn Today's “Office Hours” podcast series, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, professor of the history of art in the School of Arts and Sciences, explains the event that shaped her career, the behind-the-scenes process of curating the new “30 Americans” exhibit at the Barnes Founda...
Julia Ticona talks sociology and superpowers
Penn Today's Understand This... - October 16, 2019 14:41 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of 'Office Hours,' Assistant Professor of Communication Julia Ticona explains her research about the gig economy and chitchats about cooking, campus, and superpowers.
Office Hours: Julia Ticona talks sociology and superpowers
Penn Today's Understand This... - October 16, 2019 14:41 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of 'Office Hours,' Assistant Professor of Communication Julia Ticona explains her research about the gig economy and chitchats about cooking, campus, and superpowers.
The Programming Ethos: A Penn Today Special Presentation
Penn Today's Understand This... - September 19, 2019 15:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this Penn Today Special Presentation podcast, Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth, and Lisa Miracchi talk about fairness constraints put on algorithms, the perception of artificial intelligence as “value-neutral,” and the convergence of disciplines in trying to address outstanding questions about how ...
Office Hours: Doug Jerolmack explores 'science of scenery,' describes life as a twin
Penn Today's Understand This... - August 15, 2019 23:05 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of Penn Today’s “Office Hours” podcast Doug Jerolmack, professor of Earth and Environmental Science with a secondary appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, discusses the “science of scenery.” He talks rounded pebbles along riversides, studying sand ...
Ep. 006: Doug Jerolmack explores 'science of scenery,' describes life as a twin
Penn Today's Understand This... - August 15, 2019 23:05 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of Penn Today’s “Office Hours” podcast Doug Jerolmack, professor of Earth and Environmental Science with a secondary appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, discusses the “science of scenery.” He talks rounded pebbles along riversides, studying sand ...
Doug Jerolmack explores 'science of scenery,' describes life as a twin
Penn Today's Understand This... - August 15, 2019 23:05 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the latest episode of Penn Today’s “Office Hours” podcast Doug Jerolmack, professor of Earth and Environmental Science with a secondary appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, discusses the “science of scenery.” He talks rounded pebbles along riversides, studying sand ...
Michael Horowitz talks Iran, why leaders go to war, and comic book movies
Penn Today's Understand This... - July 15, 2019 16:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we knock on the door of Michael Horowitz, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of Perry World House. Horowitz studies international relations, military politics and technology. Here he explains the fallout at the Iranian shoot down of a U.S. drone near the Strait of Hormuz...
Office Hours: Michael Horowitz talks Iran, why leaders go to war, and comic book movies
Penn Today's Understand This... - July 15, 2019 16:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we knock on the door of Michael Horowitz, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of Perry World House. Horowitz studies international relations, military politics and technology. Here he explains the fallout at the Iranian shoot down of a U.S. drone near the Strait of Hormuz...
Ep. 005: Michael Horowitz talks Iran, why leaders go to war, and comic book movies
Penn Today's Understand This... - July 15, 2019 16:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday we knock on the door of Michael Horowitz, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of Perry World House. Horowitz studies international relations, military politics and technology. Here he explains the fallout at the Iranian shoot down of a U.S. drone near the Strait of Hormuz...
Ep. 004: Vijay Balasubramanian connects smells and memory, gushes over MacGyver
Penn Today's Understand This... - June 12, 2019 11:24 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to the “office hours” of Vijay Balasubramanian, professor of physics in the School of Arts and Sciences. Here, in the latest episode of the “Office Hours” podcast, which explores the minds of the University’s academic talents in a more unbuttoned and freewheeling setting outside of th...