Podcasts about common reading

Frank Morano interviews Dr. Don Presnell, Director of the Common Reading Program and Senior Lecturer at Appalachian State University, and the  co-author of A Critical History of Television's The Twilight Zone, 1959-1964 about the enduring appeal of The Twilight Zone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rome conquered Greece, but Greece conquered Rome. It is easy to see it, when reading Plutarch. And it is not that difficult to read his Parallel Lives! To access transcripts for this and other episodes, visit https://store.lrcpodcast.ca Find out how to rapidly make progress in spoken Russian How to listen Give it a try with our free Sample transcripts Learn Russian Conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ7pE0ufROXRDlQSlVWiLqQ Ready to leave the classroom and try modern Russian? Learn Russian Conversation is the best place to practice your Russian! If you want to start speaking Russian fluently, you can do it here. Listen to Russian conversations regularly, improve your understanding of spoken Russian, and start speaking Russian today at our Russian Conversation Club.

Speaker: Joan Judge, Professor, Department of History, York University What can we learn from intellectual detritus? Focusing on cheap print, vernacular daily-use knowledge, and common readers in the Long Republic (1895-1955), this talk argues that the books an age discards as slipshod and unscientific, and the readers it disparages as superstitious and ignorant, comprise the broad epistemic terrain from which historical change is actualized. Premised on the notion that what we currently know about China's iconic 20th-century revolutions does not explain enough, it shifts our attention from innovation to ingenuity, from “knowledge what” to “knowledge how,” from the momentous to the mundane—without losing sight of the momentous. The talk first introduces a project on “China's Mundane Revolution” that is based on some 500, largely unstudied, daily-use texts, together with material gathered from the interstices of various archives. It then zeros in on one of the “how to” topics in the study: “how to treat a cholera infection.” Examining the ways individual common readers might have approached “the most spectacular ‘new' disease of the nineteenth century,” the example highlights the dynamic processes of scientizing vernacular and vernacularizing scientific forms of knowledge. It also raises questions about the ways these processes align—or misalign—with the various iterations of mass politics in this critical period. Joan Judge is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto, Canada.She is the author of Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015), The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press, 2008), Print and Politics: ‘Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press, 1996), and co-editor of Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Women and the Periodical Press in China's Global Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women's Biography in Chinese History (University of California Press, 2011). She is currently engaged in an SSHRC-funded project, China's Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge, and Common Reading in the Long Republic, 1894–1955. This presentation is part of the Modern China Lecture Series, hosted by Professor Arunabh Ghosh.

Erika Nielson, director of the Common Experience at Texas State University, joins the Big Ideas TXST podcast to discuss the 2021-2022 Common Experience theme of "Compassion." Texas State presents an academic theme each year, providing numerous opportunities for everyone — students, faculty, staff and community members — to share in a Common Experience. The Common Experience theme for the 2021-2022 academic year is Compassion. It's an academic and real-world look at the self. The university community will focus on topics such as mindfulness, support, relief and genuine human kindness — for oneself, for others, and for everything around us. This Common Experience theme focuses on compassion as a concept that unites in commitment to affect change for the better beginning with the self and expanding throughout the campus, community, country and world. With profound implications for personal wellbeing and growth, dynamic potential for application and collaboration across disciplines, and promise of deeper connection between students, faculty, staff and administration, moving toward compassion can empower our university and its members to shape lasting personal and collective change for the better on the Texas State campuses and beyond. In addition to heading up the Common Experience, Nielson is the Common Reading coordinator, new student convocation chair and is a senior lecturer in University College. She received a B.A. in anthropology from Texas A&M University, an M.A. in reading education from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and a Ph.D. in developmental education, literacy specialization from Texas State. Nielson is also a yoga student of 24 years and a yoga teacher of 20 years. Her research focus includes educators and students in pre-kindergarten through higher education engaging in mindfulness, self-compassion and yoga practices, and their understanding and observations of those practices, as well as the literacy practices of adult learners. Further reading: Common Experience https://www.txstate.edu/commonexperience/ce-theme.html

With so much societal pressure to have children reading at younger and younger ages, many parents face challenges with reading instruction. In this episode, we discuss our own experiences with reading challenges, research and findings on the average age of reading, and institutionalized education literacy expectations vs. developmentally age-appropriate reading instruction vs. natural literacy. We offer information to not only release you from the pressure of reading challenges but helpful ways to combat them. For more links and resources, visit our website: https://thecoophomeschool.com/episode17

Helena María Viramontes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell University, is the author of numerous short stories and two novels, Their Dogs Came with Them and Under the Feet of Jesus. She discusses her writing and Under the Feet of Jesus which is the University of Oregon's 2019-20 Common Reading selection. Viramontes also reads a passage from the book.

http://commonreading.uoregon.edu Julie Voelker-Morris joins the podcast today to discuss the Common Reading Program at the UO. Julie is the Director of the Common Reading Program within the Division of Undergraduate Education and Student Success, as well as the Career Services Director at the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management. Learn about the selection of the Common Reading, why it’s an important part of student transition, as well as events and programs for this year’s selection, Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes.

Angie Hambrick, PLU's Assistance Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, sits down with Diversity Center alumni Maurice Eckstein '11 and Nicole Jordan '15 to discuss this year's Common Reading book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Angie Hambrick, PLU's Assistance Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, sits down with Diversity Center alumni Maurice Eckstein '11 and Nicole Jordan '15 to discuss this year's Common Reading book, "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Tracy Kidder discusses his book Mountains Beyond Mountains, the common reading for the class of 2010.