Caffeinated and On a Train

Is time even real? Join us for a colourful discussion of clock-time, how artificial linear temporality and deadlines are, sleep cycles and zoom fatigue, Lily’s research on capitalism and industrial time, and an oddly large number of forest-related metaphors. Post your favourite academic articles about temporality on the social media platform of your choice!

Is academia bullshit? Ready your truth-claims and place an order at your local Burger King, because we’re about to find out! We talk about treating Enlightenment philosophers, the value of deconstructive language versus accessibility, and are joined by a very special guest. Recommended reading from this episode: -Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins -Epistemic Injustice by Miranda Fricker -I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin -Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill Listen to The Fire Next Time on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi43zpigptI Support Young Women in Academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

As German quarantine seems to be winding to a close (knock on wood), Lily and Lorraine reflect on their semester in lockdown, and what it’s taught them about work, education, and self-care. Listen to the episode from the beginning of quarantine: https://anchor.fm/coatpodcast/episodes/Episode-13-Caffeinated-and-in-Quarantine-edbu1g Episode where we made predictions about COVID: https://anchor.fm/coatpodcast/episodes/Episode-14-The-Caffeinated-Coronavirus-Manifesto-edur4s Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

Get yourself some para-academic activities! Lily and Lorraine talk about their academic-adjacent pursuits, developing resilience in the academic job market, how to build supportive connections in academia, and where to find inspiration outside of it. #WholesomeContent Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

In this episode, recorded on April 20, 2020, Lily and Lorraine talk about the quarantine as a cultural moment, their fears, and their hopes for the future. They talk about processing, priorities, and the changes they want to see in the post-COVID-19 world. Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

A month into the quarantine, Lily and Lorraine check in about how they’ve been experiencing it. They talk about how the quarantine hit them, discuss work, play, and wage labour, and tell you how they are taking care of themselves as people who love creating things - and derive self-worth from it. Mentioned in this podcast: https://www.endoftheworldshow.org/ Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

Dear academics: theorising social injustice isn’t the same as fighting it. Try to be more like Madita Oeming, or, failing that, at least Michel Foucault. In this episode, Lily and Lorraine talk about the intersection of academia and activism, they talk about their current papers (Q: what is the best academic essay that we could be comparing our essays to?), and mostly Lorraine talks about her porn class. Follow Madita Oeming on twitter: @msoeming PORN STUDIES DO NOT CREATE PROSPERITY: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEfbwNwWwAA3gly.jpg Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

Lily and Lorraine are back with hot takes on cannibalism in the media and the role of teaching in academia. Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain Read Lorraine's article in the Horror Scholar journal: https://drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1U7wFSA7q8cH1zC-Ri9LIAQHf0XGe9c94/view

Where have we been? In an unusually serious episode of Caffeinated on a Train, Lily and Lorraine dive into the failure of university settings to live up to their alleged intellectual ideals of gender equality and deal with sexual harassment. Do better, academia. Do better, FU. Support young women in academia: https://www.patreon.com/caffeinatedonatrain

Welcome to season three! Or semester three, at least. Lily is rocking the JFKI, and Lorraine is rocking back and forth in front of her thesis. Tune in to hear the best advice Lorraine ever got on academic writing, the story of our trip to the German History Museum, and teasers for episodes you can expect this semester. Mentioned this Episode Unfortunately now payment-locked article defending bad academic writing: https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191011-In-Praise-of-Bad-Academic-Writing FU Review Launch Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/563360644226969/ Circe author: Madeline Miller Buy us a coffee! ko-fi.com/coatpodcast

Lily and Lorraine fill you in on what they did over the semester break! Lily shares her tips for holding yourself together at conferences, and Lorraine gives you the ultimate and brutally honest review of the two summer schools she attended. Which one will win? Listen to find out! Please note that this episode contains some mature content, which Lorraine has courteously bleeped out with a censor sound effect.

Lily and Lorraine divulge our secret to academic success and how to overcome common pitfalls to getting started on projects, all while advertising their nonexistent Patreon account.

In a long-overdue and especially off-the-wall episode, Lily and Lorraine allegedly discuss the extracurricular activities associated with grad school, but mostly descend into madness while explicating the marketing strategy for their upcoming book "The Vorticists, Were They Gay?" Also featured: the results of Lily's modernism term paper, a shout-out to Karen Kelsey of The Professor is In, and stone-cold callouts about FU English classes. Leave a review with 5 stars and your guess of what we were talking about in the cut-out section two episodes ago, then share it on the social media platform of your choice. Links Mentioned: https://conferencealerts.com https://networks.h-net.org (Humanities conference alerts) http://www.progressiveconnexions.net (the conference network Lorraine works for) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo (Informer, the classic by Canadian rapper Snow)

Lorraine and Lily take a brief interlude in between classes to update you on how we are faring in our busyness and the outcome of Lorraine's modernism paper!

Lily and Lorraine reflect on how to deal with imposter syndrome and CV envy as well as how to engage in high-impact leisure time, with our usual Ezra-Wyndham claptrap sprinkled throughout.

Lorraine and Lily tackle an exceptionally busy semester at FU and talk about how to prevent burnout. They also chat about tragedies, kafkaesque Germany bureaucracy, and how to finish a 7500 word paper in 24 hours.

Lily and Lorraine debrief at the end of their first semester at FU Berlin. They talk favourite classes, workload, plans for the semester break, term papers, burnout, and why you should go to school in Germany. LINKS: Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coatpodcast/ Lorraine’s Transcreation Portfolio: https://lorrainerumson.wixsite.com/transcreation

Lily and Lorraine introduce themselves and their academic interests. Join us for intense debate around the merits of the European university system, regular doses of Ezra Pound memes, and other insights of the type you'd expect from graduate literature students.