Podcasts about continuities

Anticolonial movements of the 20th century generated audacious ideas of freedom. After decolonization, however, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those radical ideas.Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony is a new book by the scholar Sandipto Dasgupta which provides an innovative account of how India ultimately addressed this daunting challenge.It's a fresh, somewhat revisionist look at the making of the postcolonial constitutional order and tries to place the current crisis of liberal democracy in proper historical and conceptual context.Sandipto is an assistant professor of politics at the New School for Social Research, where he works on the history of modern political and social thought, especially the political theory of empire, decolonization, and postcolonial order.To talk more about his book, Sandipto joins Milan on the podcast this week. They discuss the two-way relationship between decolonization and constitution-making, the absence of representation unity between the Congress Party and the masses, and why India's leaders believed a planned economy would forestall a social revolution. Plus, the two discuss how the absence—rather than the excesses—of democracy have led to rising majoritarianism.Episode notes:1. “Republic Day Episode: Madhav Khosla on India's Founding Moment,” Grand Tamasha, January 28, 2020.2. Sandipto Dasgupta, “Gandhi's Failure: Anticolonial Movements,” Perspectives on Politics 15, no. 3 (2017).3. Sandipto Dasgupta, “‘A Language Which Is Foreign to Us': Continuities and Anxieties in the Making of the Indian Constitution,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 34, no. 2 (2014): 228–242.

Episode 137I spoke with Davidad Dalrymple about:* His perspectives on AI risk* ARIA (the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency) and its Safeguarded AI ProgrammeEnjoy—and let me know what you think!Davidad is a Programme Director at ARIA. He was most recently a Research Fellow in technical AI safety at Oxford. He co-invented the top-40 cryptocurrency Filecoin, led an international neuroscience collaboration, and was a senior software engineer at Twitter and multiple startups.Find me on Twitter for updates on new episodes, and reach me at editor@thegradient.pub for feedback, ideas, guest suggestions. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSSFollow The Gradient on TwitterOutline:* (00:00) Intro* (00:36) Calibration and optimism about breakthroughs* (03:35) Calibration and AGI timelines, effects of AGI on humanity* (07:10) Davidad's thoughts on the Orthogonality Thesis* (10:30) Understanding how our current direction relates to AGI and breakthroughs* (13:33) What Davidad thinks is needed for AGI* (17:00) Extracting knowledge* (19:01) Cyber-physical systems and modeling frameworks* (20:00) Continuities between Davidad's earlier work and ARIA* (22:56) Path dependence in technology, race dynamics* (26:40) More on Davidad's perspective on what might go wrong with AGI* (28:57) Vulnerable world, interconnectedness of computers and control* (34:52) Formal verification and world modeling, Open Agency Architecture* (35:25) The Semantic Sufficiency Hypothesis* (39:31) Challenges for modeling* (43:44) The Deontic Sufficiency Hypothesis and mathematical formalization* (49:25) Oversimplification and quantitative knowledge* (53:42) Collective deliberation in expressing values for AI* (55:56) ARIA's Safeguarded AI Programme* (59:40) Anthropic's ASL levels* (1:03:12) Guaranteed Safe AI — * (1:03:38) AI risk and (in)accurate world models* (1:09:59) Levels of safety specifications for world models and verifiers — steps to achieve high safety* (1:12:00) Davidad's portfolio research approach and funding at ARIA* (1:15:46) Earlier concerns about ARIA — Davidad's perspective* (1:19:26) Where to find more information on ARIA and the Safeguarded AI Programme* (1:20:44) OutroLinks:* Davidad's Twitter* ARIA homepage* Safeguarded AI Programme* Papers* Guaranteed Safe AI* Davidad's Open Agency Architecture for Safe Transformative AI* Dioptics: a Common Generalization of Open Games and Gradient-Based Learners (2019)* Asynchronous Logic Automata (2008) Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe

I recently discovered a notebook filled with poetry I wrote thirty (!) years ago, and in one fell swoop it reconfigured my understanding of myself as an artist. In this episode I contemplate the threads that define who we are as artists that weave their way through our lifelong body of work (creative or otherwise). And I read one of those thirty-year-old poems (eep)!Find out more about my Kishotenketsu workshop partner, Andy MortFind me on InstagramContact me 

Respected German anthropologists made a career from dividing people by race, a new branch of science that conveniently put Europeans at the top. While eugenics and scientific racism was widely practiced in Western nations in the early 1900s, the ideas developed by Eugen Fischer and others served as the intellectual bedrock for race-based crimes committed by Nazi Germany.

Paul Edgar, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin, a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a scholar of ancient Near Eastern warfare, joins the show to talk about war and peace in the old days—the very old days. ▪️ Times      •    02:58 Introduction      •    10:07 Olmsted     •    16:00 The Bronze Age     •   22:07 Verifying history     •    27:12 Idrimi     •    35:03 How did they fight?     •    39:46 Tactics of the time     •   42:34 Continuities in geopolitics Here is a link to the article discussed today Follow along  on Instagram Find a transcript of today's episode on our School of War Substack

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Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at the Harvard Divinity School led a online conversation with the 2022-23 Yang Visiting Scholars, Dr. Heather Mellquist Lehto, and Dr. Ashok Kumar Mocherla. This conversation showed us how perspectives on the global scene might confirm, yet also challenge, how we think about Christianity and the study of Christianity here in the United States. The Yang Visiting Scholars in World Christianity program brings distinguished senior and junior scholars of world Christianity to Harvard Divinity School each year, opening up fresh perspectives, particularly from the global south. This is our second year of having Yang Visiting Scholars at HDS, and the cohort for the third year in 2023-24 has been selected and those scholars will also be in attendance. This event took place April 18, 2023. A full transcript is forthcoming. Learn more: https://hds.harvard.edu/

This week on Sinica, Harvard's eminent sinologist William Kirby joins Kaiser to talk about his book Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China, and to share his views on the state of higher education in China and the U.S，03:12 – Wissenschaft and the German contribution to the creation of the modern research university06:30 – The decreasing number of Chinese students willing to study in the U.S. and the defunding of American public universities12:17 – What is the current state of higher education in China?18:19 – Continuities between the old imperial civil service examination system and the current higher education system in China23:08 – The state of Chinese universities before the Cultural Revolution29:23 – How China revived higher education on the model of American universities in the early years of Reform and Opening33:00 – Why does China maintain the gaokao examination despite its great unpopularity?41:38 – Differences between the two leading universities in China: Peking University and Tsinghua University44:00 – Institutional entrepreneurship at Tsinghua University50:01 – The origins of Nanjing University and how it evolved over the years57:21 – The importance of governance and management in the example of the University of Hong Kong1:05:23 – What is the future of the joint programs between American and Chinese universities? A complete transcript of this podcast is available at TheChinaProject.com.Recommendations:Bill:Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization by Peter E. HamiltonThe Dean of Shandong: The Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University by Daniel A. BellThe Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be by Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner9,000 Years of Wine: A World History by Rod PhillipsRed Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel by Qiu XiaolongKaiser: Adventures of Horatio Hornblower by Entertainment RadioMentioned: Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China by William C. KirbySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

John Hosler, Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace, joins the show to talk about the wars, and the peace, of medieval Jerusalem. ▪️ Times  • 01:26 Introduction  • 01:46 Why care about medieval military history? • 07:22 What is it about Jerusalem?  • 12:45 Continuities • 16:19 The Byzantines and the Jews • 23:54 The Arabs arrive  • 29:42 An “evidentiary problem” • 33:59 Three hundred years of peace • 36:29 Causes of the First Crusade • 40:36 The Crusaders • 42:32 Siege and conquest • 44:23 A Christian city • 47:31 The Crusader States  • 49:29 The Knights Templar

On this week's episode of Blackhawks Banter, Chicago Blackhawks writers Brooke LoFurno, Gail Kauchak, and Connor Smith talk about the losses continuing to pile up, takeaways from their win against the New York Rangers, Patrick Kane's future, and possible changes the Blackhawks could make to the lineup. Plus, find out Brooke, Gail, and Connor's take on the weird goal allowed by the Islanders during their matchup on Dec. 4. Subscribe to the Morning Skate Newsletter: https://morningskate.io/ THW Blackhawks Twitter: https://twitter.com/thwblackhawks Find All of Our Blackhawks' Articles: https://thehockeywriters.com/chicago-blackhawks/ Our Twitter Accounts: Brooke – Gail – Connor

Michael Mandelbaum, Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, on his latest book The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower - we discussed the Four Ages; continuities in US Foreign Policy as a global power; US entry into and exit from wars; possible future trajectories; and unique aspects of US support for Ukraine in the current war.  Michael Mandelbaum: The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy Michael Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth For episode updates follow on Twitter: @jessicagenauer   

"Henry VIII was marrying too many women, executing too many men, and persecuting everyone else..."

(English Episode) The colonial heritage is still present in German cityscapes, as decolonial and postcolonial city walking tours all over Germany illustrate. Annika talked to Jule, a member of the civil-society initiative “Decolonize Erfurt”. With Jule's insights and academic research, we will find replies to the questions: How on earth can a city tour be decolonial? How visible is colonialism in German streets? What does racism have to do with cultural memory? Why does “Decolonize Erfurt” want to rename a street and a pharmacy? Has Germany ever critically evaluated its colonial past? How can decolonial city tours be “glocal” – global and local at once? ___ Find the main sources mentioned in this episode: Decolonize Erfurt: https://decolonizeerfurt.wordpress.com Pamphlet about the Nettelbeckufer: https://decolonizeerfurt.wordpress.com/infobroschure-zum-nettelbeckufer/ A Decolonial Map of Germany: https://tearthisdown.com Western Colonialism: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Western-colonialism Cultural Memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrECyLpL_gY Britta Schilling (2015). German Postcolonialism in Four Dimensions: A Historical Perspective, Postcolonial Studies, 18:4, 427-439, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2015.1191988 Christoffer Kølvraa & Britta Timm Knudsen (2020). Decolonizing European Colonial Heritage in Urban Spaces – An Introduction to the Special Issue, Heritage & Society, 13:1-2, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2021.1888370 Grada Kilomba (2010). Plantation Memories. Episodes of Everyday Racism. Unrast. Viviann Moana Wilmot, Mirjam Elomda, Cécile Stehrenberger and Urs Lindner in a conversation with Naomie Gramlich and Jana Mangold (2020). Erfurt dekolonisieren. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, 12:22, 106-120, http://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13660 ___ The interview was recorded in January 2022 via Zoom. Music: Ali Daniel – A peine défigurée, Robert John – Surface, M33 Project – On va exister Instagram: @emkalumni Email: podcast[at]emk-alumni.eu Website: www.emk-alumni.eu Feedback for & questions about this episode: annika.e.wap[at]gmail[dot]com

This interview was done for the AIA California Housing Forum, of which I was the Chair of the Committee : Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter is an architect, educator, and design consultant specializing in the building envelope and the experimental architectural use of glass. She is Dean of the School of Architecture at Woodbury University and has taught at Yale, Cornell, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, and SCI-Arc. Ingalill also serves as Director of WUHO, the Woodbury University Hollywood gallery, a venue for exhibitions, installations, and public dialogue, and serves on the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Advisory Board.In partnership with Roland Wahlroos-Ritter, her architectural practice WROAD, navigates transdisciplinary territory in the diverse type and scale of projects. She has collaborated on multiple award-winning projects including as façade consultant on Bloom with DoSu Architects, the Portland Aerial Tramway with AGPS, the Centre Pompidou exhibition Continuities of the Incomplete with Morphosis, and as project architect for the Corning Museum of Glass with Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects.Link to Blog post: https://inmawomanarchitect.blogspot.com/2019/03/aia-california-housing-forum1-interview.html

Image: John Biggers, Band of Angels: Weaving the Seventh Word, 1992-93 According to the Dogon, “in the beginning before anything existed there was the Supreme Being, Amma. Amma existed in the form of an egg divided into four parts by four bones [the clavicles], which were joined together. Apart from the egg, nothing existed, for Amma rested on nothing. The four arts of the egg represented the four elements: water, air, fire, and Earth. So, the fundamental elements already existed in the egg in embryo form. In the egg Amma had designed the world before it was created” [51]. Ultimately, Amma created the world through the creation of the signs and likewise will destroy it through the destruction of the signs …” [53]. We share this creation story, in part, for a number of reasons, but primarily because it is aligned with the assertion in Chukwunyere Kamalu's, The Word at Face Value: An Abridged Account of Dogon cosmology, that “mainstream scholarship on the cosmological world of the Dogon of Mail in West Africa, has become a battleground over what an African people can and cannot know” [11]. Dr. Nubia Kia asserts that, “myths in Africa are similar to what Joseph Campbell calls “living myths.” He uses living myths to distinguish them from the connotative usage of myth meaning “a lie.” Living myths signifies the opposite of the connotative construct. J.J. Bacofen argues that the origins of history can only be revealed through myth since in myth “lies the beginning of all development.” Dr. Kia, quoting W.T. Stevenson, further explains the primacy of mythological discourse. According to Stevenson, “the essential character of our personal and social lives are shaped by myth, or it is by the power of particular myths which determine by way of determining our fundamental presuppositions, the way we shape our cultural, social, political, and economic lives. We do nothing of significance which is not informed by myth in a fundamental way, and the more significant our act, the more this is true. It is the symbols within the context of myth which give rise to all thought [Kia, A River of Prophecy: Constructing a Sacred History of African Americans].Mythic symbolism attempts to explain the spiritual nature of peoples and their inseparable connection to a universal order. Therefore, if someone wishes to pervert an idea, the most effective means is to reverse the sacred symbols or icons associated with the idea or ideas [Kia, A River of Prophecy: Constructing a Sacred History of African Americans]. Today, AWNP's Tasneem Siddiqui sits down with Dr. Nubia Kia, to explore the relationship between myth & its continuities in sacred + secret histories. Nubia Kai received a Ph.D. in African historical literature and film from Howard University, an MA degree in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin. Her work has been published in Black Scholar; Black World; Essence Magazine; Black American Literature Forum; Catalyst; Obsidian; Moving Out, Journal of Black Poetry; Left Curve; Journal of African Literature Association, Black Camera: International Film Journal; Journal of African American History, to name a few. Her book, Kuma Malinke Historiography: Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure, is an extensive study of the mythology, epics, poetry, and expository narratives of the Mali Empire. She has been an ardent researcher of comparative religion, anthropology, mythology, and Africana studies for over thirty years. Professor Kai is also a poet, novelist, and playwright who has received a number of awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, six DC Commission on the Arts Awards, and the Larry Neal Writers Competition. She has two collections of poetry, Peace of My Mind and Solos, a collection of fables, The Sweetest Berry on the Bush, and an historical novel, I Spread My Wings And I Fly.

Que les personnes qui ont vu l'adaptation cinéma de du roman des frères Strougatski : Il est difficile d'être un dieu, lèvent la main. Car si c'est le cas, il est impossible que vous n'ayez été marqué par l'expérience unique de ce film de trois heures qui nous largue dans la boue sans autre possibilité que d'être happé par les images, espérant certainement qu'un syndrome de Stockholm soit notre meilleure perspective. Cette adaptation, qui prit quarante-neuf ans à voir le jour, permet d'aborder de nombreuses questions sur les processus d'écriture d'un scénario soviétique, les questions de production et l'énergie que mit le cinéaste à réaliser ce qui fut l'œuvre d'une vie. Une étude qu'a mené Eugénie Zvonkine parue aux éditions L'Harmattan en 2019 : Il est difficile d'être un Dieu, d'Arkadi et Boris Strougatski et Alexeï Guerman : Le scénario interdit, avec qui nous nous ferons une joie déchanger sur le sujet. Une discussion en compagnie de Alexei, titulaire d'un master de science politique et journaliste ; Anne Canoville et Julien De La Jal, de l'équipe de programmation du festival. A propos d'Eugénie Zvonkine : Eugénie Zvonkine est enseignant-chercheur en Études cinématographiques à l'Université Paris 8. Elle est l'auteur de nombreux articles sur le cinéma soviétique et postsoviétique. Elle a par ailleurs dirigé l'ouvrage collectif Cinéma russe contemporain, (r)évolutions (Lille, Septentrion, 2017) et co-dirigé, avec Birgit Beumers, Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema, Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR (Londres, Routledge, 2018). Et le livre qui nous intéresse ici : Il est difficile d'être un Dieu, d'Arkadi et Boris Strougatski et Alexeï Guerman : Le scénario interdit.

The Irish republican movement in abeyance: Ideological and organization continuities of dissident republican women, 1986-2021.

The Fascial Net Plastination Project is breaking new ground in visualizing the reality of your fascial body. Join me and my good mates Gary and Rachelle as we share the triumphs and the challenges of this on-going project and tell a few stories that, even if you're familiar with the project, you've probably never heard before! Extensive show notes below Gary Carter Rachelle Clauson Bodyworlds The Plastinarium Fascia, Function, and Medical Applications: Chapter 3: The Fascial Net Plastination Project, by Rachelle Clauson Movement Integration: The Systemic Approach to Human Movement: Chapter 17: Variationa on Myofascial Slings and Continuities by Gary Carter Fascia Research Society - Plastination Project Massage & Bodywork Magazine Sept/Oct 2018: The Human Fascial Net Plastination Project Fascia In a NEW LIGHT: the Exhibition, 2018. Audio-visual guide on the Otocast App: Free Download search for “fascia” for free access to exhibit The Fascial Net Plastination Project on Facebook The Fascial Net Plastination Project on YouTube The Fascial Net Plastination Project is a collaboration of the Fascia Research Society, Somatics Academy, Gubener Plastinate, GmbH, and Body Worlds. The Fascial Net Plastination Project has been and continues to be supported by many dedicated individuals worldwide with particular contributions from the following: Directed by Dr. Robert Schleip, Prof. Carla Stecco, with assistance from John Sharkey MSc; in cooperation with Gubener Plastinate GmbH, Prof. Gunther von Hagens, Dr. Angelina Whalley, Rurik von Hagens, Dr. Vladimir Chereminskiy, Daniela Seifert, Tilo Heinrich, and Rico Nitsche; with the academic supervision of Romed Hoermann, Tuulia Luomala, Irina Mischewski, and Mika Pihlman. Special thanks go to the Scientific Advisory Board Dr. Ekkehard Geipel, Gil Hedley PhD, Prof. Werner Klingler, Dr. Hanno Steinke, and A/Prof. Ming Zhang; and the External Scientific Advisors Jaap van der Wal PhD, Prof. Rainer Breul, and Prof. Magdalena Mueller-Gerbl. The Fascial Net Plastination Project would not have been possible without the Remarkable Volunteer Team: Jihan Adem, Ali AlMarzouq, Einat Almog, Eryn K Apanovitch, Cíntia Báril, Gary Carter, Tjasa Cerovsek Landes, Anthony Chrisco, Rachelle L Clauson, Alison Coolican, Walter Dorigo, Libby Eason, Eric Franklin, Johannes Freiberg, Markus Friedlin, Andreas Haas, Beverly Johnson, May Kesler, Cosmina Krieger, Elizabeth Larkam, Tuulia Luomala, Tracey Mellor, Bernd Machel, Fauna Moore, Divo Mueller, Alexandra Müller, Sivan Navot, Lauri Nemetz, Jo Phee, Francesca Philip, Mika Pihlman, Bruce Schonfeld, Yap Poh Sim, Alison Slater, Gina Tacconi-Moore, Joel Talsma, Stefan Westerback, and Adrian Woolley; and the Exhibition Committee Gary Carter, Rachelle L. Clauson, Tjasa Cerovsek Landes, Lauri Nemetz, Stefan Westerback and Otocast. Thank you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david-lesondak/message

Somdeep Sen of Roskilde University talks about his latest book, Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. (Starts at 27:13). Lisel Hintz of Johns Hopkins University discusses her new article, "The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP," published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. (Starts at 0:54). Also, Michaelle Browers joins the podcast to discuss her article "Beginnings, Continuities and Revivals: An Inventory of the New Arab Left and an Ongoing Arab Left Tradition," published in Middle East Critique. (Starts at 14:50). Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook and Instagram page. You can listen to this week’s podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or SoundCloud

The notion, assumption, and/or idea that the various peoples who were enslaved during the periods and processes of the solidification of the racial global economy that claims our ancestors were deprived of culture, strips of all associations with historical and ancestral groundings is a product of centering European historicity as the dominant expression of social, historical, political and epistemic knowledge systems. This argument is rooted in the fact that one of the most vibrant places to find the most articulate expressions of African/a humanity is in the way we resist injustice—inequity—violence. The way we conceptualize and engage in struggle against systems of oppression, the foundation of which is an advanced understanding of the praxis of being human. See everything Sylvia Wynter. African/a struggles operate on multiple and simultaneous levels of human existence. It always was, always will be a struggle to realize a world beyond. The material and nonmaterial praxis to balance forces seen and unseen. The science of African/a fighting arts…a commitment, conscious or unconscious, to embody resistance. Of becoming rebel. Building on the work of Dr. Kamu Rashid, I assert that of becoming rebel can be understood in the Swahili tradition as, “Harakati za Waasi”, translated as “Movement of Rebels”. For Dr. Rashid, it represents the tradition of radical resistance that is embedded in the history of Capoeira and other African Diasporic combat arts. These arts were used in the people's resistance to state oppression throughout the Americas. Harakati za Waasi seeks to honor these traditions by seeking to engage in the rigorous study and practice of the theoretical and technical applications of African combat systems. Additionally, Dr. Rashid and the collective seek to broadly disseminate these arts within the African community for the sake facilitating cultural transformation. Today, embodied resistance: the science of African/a fighting arts with Kamau Rashid. Dr. Kamau Rashid is an Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Inquiry at National-Louis University in Chicago. Kamau earned his Phd and BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Arts degree from Northeastern Illinois University. Dr. Rashid work focuses on African American history and culture, particularly on the inter-generational dynamics of African/a social critique, which includes an exploration and theorizing of W.E.B. Du Bois as well as contemporary African-Centered scholars and critical race theorists. Undergirding this, he studies art (Hip Hop and comics) as a radical public pedagogy. He is co-developing an oral history and archival project focused on African American social movements in the Chicago area from the 1960s to1980s with Dr. Richard Benson of Spelman College. And is currently working on Finding our way through the desert: Jacob H. Carruthers and the restoration of an African worldview as well as The critical theory of W.E.B. Du Bois: The Struggle for Humanity. He has published a number peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and received various grant awards to support his work. Lastly, likely most importantly, Dr. Rashid is active in a number of community organizations in the Chicago-area including the Kemetic Institute of Chicago, a research and educational organization focused on mapping, exploring and applying the ancient and contemporary contributions of ancient Nile Valley civilizations. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program! Image: Statue of Zumbi

With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Buddhist communities around the country were able to revive their traditions in various ways since the 1980s.  In the post-Mao era, Buddhism in China has been able to become a more visible, social, and cultural phenomenon. The editors of Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (U Hawaii Press, 2020), Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté observes: "Numerous temples and monasteries have received official permission and even encouragement to rebuild and expand, and the party-state has directly engaged Buddhist groups in activities to promote social welfare, national unity, and the PRC's soft power." Despite Buddhism's current size and influence in the PRC, the editors argue, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Together with nine other scholars of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China, Buddhism After Mao attempts to fill this gap.  Ji, Fisher, and Laliberté point out that first of all, the rapid growth of Buddhism in the past few decades and its continued survival into the future has depended on the maintenance of a careful balance between varying interests and demands. This balance is achieved through negotiation, continuities, and reinventions, which also categorize the chapters of the book.  On the one hand, Buddhists have been negotiating with the post-Mao authoritarian and atheist state to maintain or expand legal spaces for Buddhist practices. On the other hand, Buddhists have been expected to rebuild or maintain continuities with the past to stay "legitimate" in both the state and society's eyes. However, through these processes of tension and negotiation, the contributors of the volume also observe innovations and inventions in Buddhist communities in contemporary China, which have emerged from both design and necessity on both discursive and practical levels.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Buddhist communities around the country were able to revive their traditions in various ways since the 1980s.  In the post-Mao era, Buddhism in China has been able to become a more visible, social, and cultural phenomenon. The editors of Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (U Hawaii Press, 2020), Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté observes: "Numerous temples and monasteries have received official permission and even encouragement to rebuild and expand, and the party-state has directly engaged Buddhist groups in activities to promote social welfare, national unity, and the PRC's soft power." Despite Buddhism's current size and influence in the PRC, the editors argue, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Together with nine other scholars of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China, Buddhism After Mao attempts to fill this gap.  Ji, Fisher, and Laliberté point out that first of all, the rapid growth of Buddhism in the past few decades and its continued survival into the future has depended on the maintenance of a careful balance between varying interests and demands. This balance is achieved through negotiation, continuities, and reinventions, which also categorize the chapters of the book.  On the one hand, Buddhists have been negotiating with the post-Mao authoritarian and atheist state to maintain or expand legal spaces for Buddhist practices. On the other hand, Buddhists have been expected to rebuild or maintain continuities with the past to stay "legitimate" in both the state and society's eyes. However, through these processes of tension and negotiation, the contributors of the volume also observe innovations and inventions in Buddhist communities in contemporary China, which have emerged from both design and necessity on both discursive and practical levels.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Buddhist communities around the country were able to revive their traditions in various ways since the 1980s.  In the post-Mao era, Buddhism in China has been able to become a more visible, social, and cultural phenomenon. The editors of Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (U Hawaii Press, 2020), Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté observes: "Numerous temples and monasteries have received official permission and even encouragement to rebuild and expand, and the party-state has directly engaged Buddhist groups in activities to promote social welfare, national unity, and the PRC's soft power." Despite Buddhism's current size and influence in the PRC, the editors argue, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Together with nine other scholars of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China, Buddhism After Mao attempts to fill this gap.  Ji, Fisher, and Laliberté point out that first of all, the rapid growth of Buddhism in the past few decades and its continued survival into the future has depended on the maintenance of a careful balance between varying interests and demands. This balance is achieved through negotiation, continuities, and reinventions, which also categorize the chapters of the book.  On the one hand, Buddhists have been negotiating with the post-Mao authoritarian and atheist state to maintain or expand legal spaces for Buddhist practices. On the other hand, Buddhists have been expected to rebuild or maintain continuities with the past to stay "legitimate" in both the state and society's eyes. However, through these processes of tension and negotiation, the contributors of the volume also observe innovations and inventions in Buddhist communities in contemporary China, which have emerged from both design and necessity on both discursive and practical levels.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Buddhist communities around the country were able to revive their traditions in various ways since the 1980s.  In the post-Mao era, Buddhism in China has been able to become a more visible, social, and cultural phenomenon. The editors of Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (U Hawaii Press, 2020), Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté observes: "Numerous temples and monasteries have received official permission and even encouragement to rebuild and expand, and the party-state has directly engaged Buddhist groups in activities to promote social welfare, national unity, and the PRC's soft power." Despite Buddhism's current size and influence in the PRC, the editors argue, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Together with nine other scholars of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China, Buddhism After Mao attempts to fill this gap.  Ji, Fisher, and Laliberté point out that first of all, the rapid growth of Buddhism in the past few decades and its continued survival into the future has depended on the maintenance of a careful balance between varying interests and demands. This balance is achieved through negotiation, continuities, and reinventions, which also categorize the chapters of the book.  On the one hand, Buddhists have been negotiating with the post-Mao authoritarian and atheist state to maintain or expand legal spaces for Buddhist practices. On the other hand, Buddhists have been expected to rebuild or maintain continuities with the past to stay "legitimate" in both the state and society's eyes. However, through these processes of tension and negotiation, the contributors of the volume also observe innovations and inventions in Buddhist communities in contemporary China, which have emerged from both design and necessity on both discursive and practical levels.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Buddhist communities around the country were able to revive their traditions in various ways since the 1980s.  In the post-Mao era, Buddhism in China has been able to become a more visible, social, and cultural phenomenon. The editors of Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (U Hawaii Press, 2020), Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté observes: "Numerous temples and monasteries have received official permission and even encouragement to rebuild and expand, and the party-state has directly engaged Buddhist groups in activities to promote social welfare, national unity, and the PRC's soft power." Despite Buddhism's current size and influence in the PRC, the editors argue, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Together with nine other scholars of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China, Buddhism After Mao attempts to fill this gap.  Ji, Fisher, and Laliberté point out that first of all, the rapid growth of Buddhism in the past few decades and its continued survival into the future has depended on the maintenance of a careful balance between varying interests and demands. This balance is achieved through negotiation, continuities, and reinventions, which also categorize the chapters of the book.  On the one hand, Buddhists have been negotiating with the post-Mao authoritarian and atheist state to maintain or expand legal spaces for Buddhist practices. On the other hand, Buddhists have been expected to rebuild or maintain continuities with the past to stay "legitimate" in both the state and society's eyes. However, through these processes of tension and negotiation, the contributors of the volume also observe innovations and inventions in Buddhist communities in contemporary China, which have emerged from both design and necessity on both discursive and practical levels.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Buddhist communities around the country were able to revive their traditions in various ways since the 1980s.  In the post-Mao era, Buddhism in China has been able to become a more visible, social, and cultural phenomenon. The editors of Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions (U Hawaii Press, 2020), Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, and André Laliberté observes: "Numerous temples and monasteries have received official permission and even encouragement to rebuild and expand, and the party-state has directly engaged Buddhist groups in activities to promote social welfare, national unity, and the PRC's soft power." Despite Buddhism's current size and influence in the PRC, the editors argue, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Together with nine other scholars of modern and contemporary Buddhism in China, Buddhism After Mao attempts to fill this gap.  Ji, Fisher, and Laliberté point out that first of all, the rapid growth of Buddhism in the past few decades and its continued survival into the future has depended on the maintenance of a careful balance between varying interests and demands. This balance is achieved through negotiation, continuities, and reinventions, which also categorize the chapters of the book.  On the one hand, Buddhists have been negotiating with the post-Mao authoritarian and atheist state to maintain or expand legal spaces for Buddhist practices. On the other hand, Buddhists have been expected to rebuild or maintain continuities with the past to stay "legitimate" in both the state and society's eyes. However, through these processes of tension and negotiation, the contributors of the volume also observe innovations and inventions in Buddhist communities in contemporary China, which have emerged from both design and necessity on both discursive and practical levels.  Daigengna Duoer is a Ph.D. student at the Religious Studies Department, University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Professor Sami Zemni (Ghent) gives a talk on the Tunisian Revolution on its 10 year anniversary. Part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Anthony's College). On the eve of its ten year anniversary, Sami Zemni reflects on the outcomes of the Tunisian Revolution. Touted as the only success story of the Arab Uprisings, Tunisia is facing a major economic crisis, social instability and political paralysis while nostalgia for authoritarian rule seems on the rise. Is there anything to celebrate? Sami Zemni is professor of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) where he heads the Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG). His research focuses on issues of political change in North Africa (Morocco and Tunisia), more specifically he currently focuses on processes of marginalization and uneven development leading to different forms of urban and rural resistance.

Professor Sami Zemni (Ghent) gives a talk on the Tunisian Revolution on its 10 year anniversary. Part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Anthony's College). On the eve of its ten year anniversary, Sami Zemni reflects on the outcomes of the Tunisian Revolution. Touted as the only success story of the Arab Uprisings, Tunisia is facing a major economic crisis, social instability and political paralysis while nostalgia for authoritarian rule seems on the rise. Is there anything to celebrate? Sami Zemni is professor of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University (Belgium) where he heads the Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG). His research focuses on issues of political change in North Africa (Morocco and Tunisia), more specifically he currently focuses on processes of marginalization and uneven development leading to different forms of urban and rural resistance.

Helmut Walser Smith is a historian of modern Germany, with particular interests in the history of nation-building and nationalism, religious history, and the history of anti-Semitism. He is the author of 'German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, 1870-1914' (Princeton, 1995), and a number of edited collections, including 'The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History' (Oxford, 2011), 'Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914' (Oxford, 2001), 'The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics' (Nashville, 2002), and, with Werner Bergmann and Christhard Hoffmann, Exclusionary Violence: Antisemitic Riots in Modern German History (Ann Arbor, 2002). His book, The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (New York, 2002), received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and was an L.A. Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year. It has also been translated into French, Dutch, Polish, and German, where it received an accolade as one of the three most innovative works of history published in 2002. Smith has also authored The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century(Cambridge University Press, 2008), and is presently working on a book on German conceptions of nation before, during, and after nationalism. His research has been funded by the NEH, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. At Vanderbilt, he has served as Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies. He teaches a wide variety of courses in European history and in historical methodology. In 1997, he received the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PARCMEDIAFollow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vince_EmanueleFollow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1713FranklinSt/Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parcmedia/?... #PARCMedia is a news and media project founded by two USMC veterans, Sergio Kochergin & Vince Emanuele. They give a working-class take on issues surrounding politics, ecology, community organizing, war, culture, and philosophy.

Batman #682 is a real Doozy! It gets away from us a bit, but never fear, we ALMOST effectively weave it all back together.You can send us an email with feedback, questions, audio recordings, or ANYTHING at: batmaninquarantine@gmailcomSPOILERS! Tread carefully dear listener, because we’re going to talk about what happened in these issues. So maybe pause this, read the issue first,, and come back. We’ll still be here!A Huge Thank you to Dan Panosian for the art in our Logo! Find more of his great work at: instagram.com/urbanbarbarianSubscribe to us on iTunes or wherever you like to get your podcasts, and look for new episodes every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday!

Today, Africa World Now Project collectives' Tasneem Siddiqui and Keisha-Khan Perry sit down with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and explore the contours, continuities, and evolutions in Africana radical sociopolitical thought. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Professor Taylor is author of, Haymarket Books 2016, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, where it examines the history and politics of Black America and the development of Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Professor Taylor's most recent book, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, also with Haymarket Books (2017) won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction. Dr. Taylor's research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor's current work: Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownersip (2019), explores U.S. federal government's promotion of single-family homeownership in Black communities after the urban rebellions of the 1960s. Taylor looks at how the federal government's turn to market-based solutions in its low-income housing programs in the 1970s impacted Black neighborhoods, Black women on welfare, and emergent discourses on an urban “underclass”. Professor Taylor is particularly interested in the role of private sector forces, typically hidden in the development and implementation of public policy, in the “urban crisis” of the 1970s. Professor Taylor's work has been supported, in part, by a multiyear Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship, the Ford Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. Our show was executive produced by Keisha-Khan Perry and Tasneem Siddiqui and as always in solidarity with the Native/Indigenous, African, and Afro Descendant communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all peoples! Enjoy the program! Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownersip available: https://www.amazon.com/Race-Profit-Industry-Undermined-Homeownership/dp/1469653664/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=keeanga-yamahtta+taylor&qid=1555627062&s=gateway&sr=8-3

After so many reboots, remakes, rehashes, retries and revamps, how can anyone make sense of superhero comic-book continuity, especially where alternate timelines are concerned. Aside from the parallel worlds and changes to history that become part of that particular “universe”, there are also the special issues that are not necessarily related to the main storyline (e.g. Marvel’s What If … and DC’s Elseworlds) - and then it all goes boom when they reset the universe … but is still somehow kind of canonical? Get ready for a new crazy wall of comic-book continuities!  Okay, now that the initial insanity is over it’s business as usual with what we’ve been reading, which this week include a whole mess of spider-folks fighting energy vampires in Spider-Geddon, a visit to Jeff Lemire’s stranded superhero team in two volumes of Black Hammer (The Event and Age of Doom), supernatural high-school hijinks in Evan Dorkin’s Blackwood, Havok wreaking … havoc in X-Men: Until Our Hearts Stop, and the rather delightful first volume of Kino’s Journey: The Beautiful World. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rating on your podcast app of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter @TGS_TheGeekShow, or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show (http://thegeekshow.co.uk) . If you want to show your support then head over to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thegeekshow) and give whatever you can, or you can head over to The Geek Shop (http://thegeekshow.co.uk/thegeekshop/) and partake in some of our lovely wares. Thanks, and until next time, don't read anything we wouldn't! #4Panel #TheGeekShow #News #Comics #Manga #Reviews #Podcasts #GraphicNovels #Superheroes #Supergirl #TheFlash #Arrow #GreenArrow #MCU #DCEU #AgeOfXMan #DaysOfFuturePast #AgeOfApocalypse #HouseOfM #WhatIf #Elseworlds, #Armageddon2001 #GothamByGaslight #Batman: #MasterOfTheFuture #TheBlueTheGreyAndTheBat #TheDoomThatCameToGotham #JudgementOnGotham #2000AD #JudgeDredd #1602 #CrisisOnInfiniteEarths #TheNew52 #HeroesReborn #Onslaught #Smallville #SpiderGeddon #BlackHammer #TheEvent #AgeOfDoom #Blackwood #XMen #UntilOurHeartsStop #KinosJourney #TheBeautifulWorld 

Strayer Chapter 12 Section 1

When studying European history it is easy to forget that the monarchs, nobles, religious leaders, and philosophers that bring about change are actually a very tiny fraction of the population. In this episode we look at how life was for the commoners of Europe in the time period between 1450 to 1648.

The Theme In 2019, Singapore will be marking the bicentennial of a significant turning point in its history – the arrival of the East India Company and the establishment of a British trading settlement on the island in 1819. Marking a bicentennial might suggest that 1819 was a point of origin, where it all began. But, did our history begin in 1819? What was Singapore before the Indiana landed on its shores, and how far back does our history go? The Bicentennial is perhaps an opportune occasion to think more deeply about our history and to reflect on whether that history has meaning for our present and future. In this lecture series, Professor Tan seeks to explain how Singapore has evolved over a period of 700 years. Throughout its long history, Singapore has taken many forms – trading port, colony, port city and city state – and its evolution was often influenced by external forces and factors. He will identify some of the underlying continuities to show that history is not merely a thing of the past; but by understanding how our island has been shaped by its history, we will have a better appreciation of our current and continued challenges as a city-state. Lecture I: "The Long and Short of Singapore History: Cycles, Pivots and Continuities" How should we view Singapore’s history? It has often been seen in three distinct phases: a post-1965 story of a state and nation in the making, a long colonial epoch that began with the East India Company’s arrival on these shores in 1819, and a pre-colonial past shrouded in myths and legends. Should we preoccupy ourselves with a national history starting from 1965, with everything else before it a long prelude to the arrival of the nation-state? Or, as the country prepares to mark a bicentennial, does it perpetuate the idea that our history began in 1819, when Singapore was set on the path to modernity and economic success as part of the British empire? More recently, there has also been talk of a 700-year history of Singapore. If we have been led to believe that our history started in 1819, how do we come to terms with this pre-history? This lecture will analyse the state of history in each of these phases, and will attempt to cast a longer and broader frame that reveals a connected history marked by cyclical changes, occasional ruptures, significant pivots and underlying continuities. It will show that Singapore has taken many forms, and highlight certain consistent dynamics that have shaped its evolution. 0:40 min Mr Janadas Devan, Director, Institute of Policy Studies 06:18 min Professor Tan Tai Yong, 6th SR Nathan Fellow 59:33 min Question-and-Answer Session moderated by Mr Yatiman bin Yusof, Member, Singapore Bicentennial Advisory Panel Date: 5 September 2018 Time: 06.30 pm - 08.00 pm Venue: Auditorium, Shaw Foundation Alumni House, The National University of Singapore, 11 Kent Ridge Drive Singapore 119244

In this episode, Dr. Mouse talks about the shakeup at DC Entertainment before diving into Batman #48 by Tom King & Mikel Janín. Comic book talk starts: 34:20. [Social Media]Twitter: http://twitter.com/weeklycomicshowInstagram: http://instagram.com/wednesdaycomicbookshowWebsite: http://wednesdaycomicbookshow.comEmail: wednesdaycomicbookshow@gmail.com

In this episode, Dr. Mouse talks about the shakeup at DC Entertainment before diving into Batman #48 by Tom King & Mikel Janín. Comic book talk starts: 34:20. [Social Media]Twitter: http://twitter.com/weeklycomicshowInstagram: http://instagram.com/wednesdaycomicbookshowWebsite: http://wednesdaycomicbookshow.comEmail: wednesdaycomicbookshow@gmail.com

For Enrique Dussel: “Modernity dawned in 1492 and with it the myth of a special kind of sacrificial violence which eventually eclipsed whatever was non-European.” For Walter Mignolo, 1492 is the moment at which “there is a bifurcation of history”. For Sylvia Wynter: “(T)he 1492 event would set in motion the bringing together of separated branches of our human species within the framework of a single history that we all now live, and while it led to incredible techno-scientific and other such dazzling achievements, as well as to the material well-being of one restricted portion of humanity, it also led to the systemic large-scale degradation and devalorization, even the extinction, of a large majority of the peoples of the earth.” Taking this idea further, Wynter argues that the struggle of our new millennium will be one between the ongoing imperative of securing the well-being of our present ethnoclass (i.e., Western bourgeois) conception of the human, Man, which overrepresents itself as if it were the human itself, and that of securing the well-being, and therefore the full cognitive and behavioral autonomy of the human species itself/ourselves. Because of this overrepresentation, which is defined in the first part of the title as the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom, any attempt to unsettle the coloniality of power will call for the unsettling of this overrepresentation as the second and now purely secular form of what Aníbal Quijano identifies as the “Racism/Ethnicism complex,” on whose basis the world of modernity was brought into existence from the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries onwards (Quijano 1999, 2000). And of what Walter Mignolo identifies as the foundational “colonial difference” on which the world of modernity was to institute itself, thus institutionalizing the the human vs. man dialectic. The historical legacy and violent structures that are a vestige of racial mixing (albeit out of clear survival and necessity from the perspective of the Portuguese settler colonialist) and a lack of explicit apartheid laws, have allowed Brazilian elites to advance the myth of Brazil's racial democracy. Conversely, these same elites lament that the affirmative action and anti-discrimination policies, despite being held up by the Brazilian Supreme Court, are US imports bent on inciting racial distrust and violence. Brazilian and US police have much in common. Both are waging an intensified militarized war on black, brown, and the poor that results in a reinscripton the power relations that are in a large part based on 14th century ideas of race; 18th-19th century colonialism/chattel slavery…but all are frankly rooted in the false notion of white supremacy. What we will hear next is Africa World Now Project's collective associate producer, Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry and myself in conversation with Dr. Christen Smith. Dr. Christen Smith is a Black feminist anthropologist, social justice advocate and Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin where work focuses on the gendered dimensions of anti-Black state violence and resistance in the Americas, particularly Brazil. Based on her long-term collaborations with black organizers in Brazil, Christen Smith's, Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil (University of Illinois Press, 2016). Today's program was executive produced by Keisha-Khan Perry. And as always in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program.

Marking 120 years since Beardsley’s death, The Eve of St Aubrey: Re†Collecting Beardsley (1872-1898) symposium brought together established and emerging scholars of the artist to examine his works, his public image, and his new – global – place in the art canon. The interdisciplinary symposium unlocked the geographical and chronological boundaries of the ‘Beardsley Period’ by reassessing the artist’s international reception and the impact of his aesthetics on modern movements in art, literature, ballet, cinema, and fashion.

Final panel from our Symposium on Continuities, Disruptions and Management in the Gig Economy. This panel focused on methodological issues in researching gig and sharing economy, and featured Gretta Corporaal (Oxford), Mareike Mohlmann (WBS) and Rebecca Prentice (Sussex). Please enjoy!

Please join us for the first panel of the TAOP Symposium on Continuities, Disruptions and Management in the Gig Economy, held at the University of Sussex on 15 December 2017. In this first panel, Arianna Tassinari from Warwick Business School (also Episode 18), Sarah O'Connor from Financial Times, and Natalia Levina from NYU (and part 1 of this Special) discuss the different ways how one can understand and define the gig economy.Please enjoy!

Jesus is the better mediator of a better covenant than Moses. I. Continuities. II. Discontinuities.

Closing Reflections: Alternatives and Continuities in the Portuguese Past, Brazilian Present, and African Future Robert Simon, Ken Williamson and Brandon Lundy

Visit http://www.JeremyReeves.com for more information. In episode #19 I'm going to show you exactly what mistakes to avoid that MOST people are making. These are strategy mistakes that can completely ruin your sales funnel if you're making them. Listen in and discover if you're making any of the 7 I discuss in the episode. Transcript: Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Sales Funnel Mastery podcast. This is your host, Jeremy Reeves and today is October 1st, we're getting into the last quarter of the year.   I'm actually starting to plan 2015. My goals for next year - I already have them set - is to double gross revenue and increase personal income by 50%, which I think is achievable because I'm going to start scaling my business a lot more and doing a couple things that I'm really excited about next year that I'm starting to implement now.   So I'm excited. I'm starting to plan October. I hope you are too. In fact, by the time this podcast comes out, it's probably going to be either Wednesday or Thursday, so the 1st or 2nd, so you should have your monthly plan in place.   Anyway, what we're going to talk about today is sales funnel mistakes. I talk to a lot of people, I've done sales funnels for people, and the reason that I'm doing this podcast today about sales funnel mistakes is that I'm about to do a critique of an entire sales funnel for a student and a client/student of mine. I really don't do critiques that much but he's a cool dude and he knows me in my other business, so I'm kind of doing it as a favor for him.   So that kind of got me thinking about all the mistakes that people make in their sales funnel. we're not going to get in too much of the specific copying mistakes or anything like that. But these are going to be just overall strategy mistakes that you're making in your sales funnel.   Maybe not you. Hopefully, you're not making these but you probably are. If you are, it should definitely help you. You can go back and look at your sales funnel. See what's off, see what's wrong, see what you have to fix, and what you have to change.   So let's get right into it.   Mistake no. 1 is making it too hard to buy which is funny because I can't tell you how many people over the years - let's just say the last five years or so - I've probably talked to a couple hundred people over the phone who wanted to hire as a Copywriter, a Sales Funnel Specialist, that kind of thing, probably at least 20% of the people have an objection at some point that related to them being aggressive about whatever that they're selling.   And that always strikes me as a little bit odd. Because here you are, you put your entire life into your business and then your afraid to tell people what you're selling - your product, your service, whatever it is? I just don't get that.   The problem is, if you have something that's valuable and you're helping the person, your customer, your shouldn't be afraid of selling your product or service because in the end, you're providing value (I apologize for the sounds going off), a service or a product for a specific price.   It's like if you go and buy a car. Some cars, you can buy for $15,000 and they're crappy, little cars. Other cars, you can buy for $200,000 and they provide a lot more value to that person. When you're getting up in that price range, it's more of a prestige kind of thing, but there's always a value versus money transfer kind of thing going on there.   You have to understand that whatever you're selling, you're giving value to people. You want to make sure that you're helping that person. If you're in business to help people, which entrepreneurs are, you want to really be putting everything you possibly can to make sure that that person is making the right decision to buy your product. If you're not doing that, you're doing a disservice to that person.   So make sure that throughout your sales funnel, you're not holding back. Make sure that you really are giving it your best effort and putting everything in place that needs to be in place to increase your sales. Because increasing your sales is going to provide the most value to people.   Mistake no. 2 is not making a balanced front end and back end. This is kind of funny because if you ask two people which is more important?   Getting more front leads or building out the back end of the business? One person's going to say the front end, one person's going to say the back end. The truth, though, is that both people are wrong because when it really comes down to it, you can't establish a proper back end without enough front end customers.   If you're getting one customer a day, there's no point in building out your back end because you're not going to have enough customers to really take advantage of your back end. It's not going to do that much because there's not enough volume in the front end. And on the other side, you can't generate enough front end customers without an established back end. So it's a little bit of a conundrum.   what you have to do is just spend your time equally between your front end and your back end. Come out with a front end product. What I typically do is, say you're starting a new business or a new division of your business or whatever the case may be, if you have a front end product - product A - start selling that and get it to the point where it's starting to ramp up using the smallest amount of money as possible.   So maybe you do joint ventures with people, maybe you get some affiliates to sell it, maybe you focus on some free traffic methods like SEO and doing whatever, any kind of free traffic. But I would really focus on doing ventures with people and kind of just figure out who your best audience is  and find other people who have that similar audience but aren't competitors and then get your product in front of those people.   And once you start building up and you're getting enough front end customers, then you start building out your back end, and then once you have a good, solid back end in place, then go back to your front end, put a little bit more attention to your front end to ramp that up.   Start going into paid traffic, start some Google campaigns, Facebook, retargeting, all that kind of stuff, and then once you do that, then go back to your back end and fill in that. Once you start getting more volume, you could increase your highest-priced product or service.   I was talking to someone the other day who's thinking about doing a funnel day and one of the things that he was saying is that they have $20,000 packages that they sell and they were getting 20% of the people, and that number might be wrong, it was a big percentage of people to actually take that package.   So I was like, "My God, if you're getting 20% of people to take that package, you need something that's double, triple, quadruple that." Basically, if you get 5% taking just say $100,000, it's 4x the price and you get one-fourth the amount of people, that doubles your back end sales. so it's so important to go up and up and up in the amount of value you can provide.   I essentially tell people, when they get to a point where nobody's buying your highest-priced product, then you're done. But someone will always buy but you're not going to be able to sell that many if you don't have enough volume on the front end. Hopefully, that makes sense.   The third mistake is incongruent products and services. When people are going through your funnel, you want to start them in something that's easy, something that's specific to their needs. When you're selling your back end, you want to really think about three key factors and it's easier, faster, and better.   Depending on what you're selling, you either want to get that person easier results, like a done-for-you, they get the same result, but it's easier for them. Faster results, they're getting the same results, but in a faster amount of time. Or better results, maybe it takes longer but they're getting results. So instead of losing 3 lbs. a week, they're losing 6 lbs. a week or whatever. And that could be similar to faster too, it kind of depends.   So an example of this is let's say that a weight loss company is selling an information product. Let's just say "How to get shredded in six weeks" so it's a weight loss course. An example of a congruent offer would be something like Personal Coaching. The coach should be their one-on-one mentor, gets them to their goals 2x faster, it's easier, that kind of thing.   It's really congruent. It gets faster, easier results and it fits perfectly into the reason you bought the original product, which in this case, wanting to get shredded.   Now, an example of an incongruent offer and going along the same example, would be selling a course on how to get jacked, and by the way, 'jacked' is gaining more muscle - that's kind of like the bodybuilder lingo. So they buy the first product which is losing weight and then the second product is how to get bigger. They're kind of different results for most people. It also depends on where your audience is.   But in kind of the general population, those are very different things because as you lose weight, you're going to get less muscle, usually. Unless you're just starting then you can do both at the same time but in most cases, you're going to lose a bit of muscle because your body starts to burn a little muscle when you're losing weight. It's really hard to both at the same time.   So it's just a little bit of an incongruency between what you're selling. What you would want to do is just make sure that throughout your entire funnel, you're taking them. Think of your lowest-priced product and that's the very starting point of where that person is in their journey to get to the end point. Think of where your client is starting and where they want to get to.   Your first lowest end product should be right at that beginning starting point and then the highest-priced product should be getting them the absolute best results possible and then just plug in products along the way that take them from point A to point B.   Mistake no. 4 is failing to sell high-end products or services. Every single person listening to this should have a very, very, very high-end product and a very high-end service. If you're currently selling products, say you're selling weight loss products, an information product or a software or whatever it is, whatever product that you're selling, you should have that.   and then you should also add high-end service which in most cases is coaching. That's just a really, really easy, basic. general one. Put some coaching in there somewhere.   I'm working with someone now and he sets up entities for people, so he starts corporations and stuff. So he has that side of the business, but his high-end product is setting up a Nevada Trust, I think it's called. It's a really, really expensive thing. It's roughly 10x the price of a normal service that he does and he gets a percentage of people that take him up on that.   If you're selling something 10x the price, all you need is 10% on people and you're going to double your sales. You can check if the Math was wrong. Anyway, you should have high-end products or high-end services. So if you're selling services, make sure that you have information products in and if you're selling  products. make sure that you have services to go along with that.   I could give you the Math on that but it's really hard to do a podcast so get in touch with me if you want to see a little Math on how that works and I can send you a calculator that you can do, to figure out what you would have to sell your product or service at and how many of them and that kind of thing. It's really cool, though. It's definitely something. That should be a starting point that everybody listening to this should start doing.   Mistake no. 5 is using online marketing only. This is another one that most people do. They don't do anything offline. Direct mail is really, really powerful. It takes the conversation from something very surface-level, to something a lot more intimate.   Doing offline marketing, there's all kind of ways of doing a hybrid marketing approach. Ontraport, the CRM that I use, you can schedule automated post cards - so that's a way. You can do direct mail letters, you can do handwritten thank you notes, that's a really good one to do.   I just sent my recent Funnel Day client a gift basket. It's not something that gets a new job immediately but it makes a good impression and guess what? When it comes time for referral, who's he going to think of? The guy that gave him a gift basket. The guy that showed him that he cared. You can do things like, this is one that I had a lot of people do, depending on the business, setting up a call center might be a really, really good thing for you to do.   So make sure that if people are coming in and say, you have a coaching service, anybody that buys your product, can get funneled into a conversation with a consultant - and really, if you're going to call him a consultant, they really should be a consultant, they shouldn't just be a salesman - but you can have somebody call them and make sure that that person is doing good with what they just bought and see if they'd be interested in your services and you're going to get a lot higher percentage of sales  and closing rate by doing that.   So make sure that you're going offline. There's a lot of ways to do it. There's all kinds of thing you can do. Using offline is actually good for a lead generation strategy. So you could try that. You could start offline and take them online to a video. Send them a post card revealing a free video or webinar or whatever the case may be. It's just something different. It stands out. It's going to make a big difference.   Mistake no. 6 is lack of segmentation. There's a lot times, there's a lot of different places that you can put segmentation into your business.  By segmenting your list, you are so much able to speak directly to that person and their desires, their fears, their frustrations, and all that kind of stuff while delivering offers that make sense to that specific person dealing with that specific problem.   There's a lot of different ways that you can segment your audience.   Number one is you can segment prospects based on specific interests. So let's say, in the gold niche, maybe somebody's interested in learning how to put whereas somebody's learning how to be a better driver, they want to drive the ball farther. You can segment prospects and buyers, which is I recommend that for every single person, you can segment based on those who show an active interest in your site.   For example, I'm starting to put together my sales funnel for Funnel Days which is my in-person consultation day because I'm putting a much bigger focus on that because for me, it attracts a much better buyer, it attracts a much better client. People who want to do Funnel Days rather than just "Get a quote" are just better entrepreneurs, they seem like. They're a lot more serious about moving forward, they're not going to take delays, they want to start the relationship the right way.   It's just something that I'm doing. It just makes for a much better relation and every single one that I've done, people were absolutely blown away and it's worth every penny times a hundred. So one of the things that I'm doing is people who go to my Funnel Day page that are already on my list, I'm going to segment them in a separate auto-responder campaign specifically trying to get them to go into the Funnel Day funnel that I have. It's basically called 'Behavioral Email Targeting'.   The fourth one is segmenting based on whether that person is a cold or warm lead. This is something that a lot of sales forces do. They talk to a person based on whether or not they're cold or warm. For example, somebody downloads a white paper. That's a cold lead. If someone gets in touch with you and fills out a form in your website for you to call them, that's a very warm lead because they're asking you to call them.   So you can segment based on that and you're going to write your auto-responders a lot differently based on whether they're a cold or a warm lead.   And another one is you can also segment based on demographics. If people are men, women, certain ages, from certain countries or regions, areas within a country, there's a million demographics. Based on your market place, the demographics that you're going to be focused on are going to be a lot different. But that's another way to segment  and you can do that right on your opt-in forms.   Let's just say that going back to the weight loss offer. I use the weight loss offers as examples really frequently because it's easier to understand and it's a lot easier to kind of say, "Okay. they're doing this so that I can do this." One way to do that is let's just say you have a free report, '7 Mistakes for losing weight', on the opt-in form, instead of asking for first name and email or just email, you can say, "Are you a male of a female?" and then just click a radio button and they go into a list based on that. That's another way to segment your list.   The 7th mistake is failure to introduce continuity offers. Continuities are really good for any business because it gives you a lot of security and freedom, knowing that you're going to have enough money in the bank at the beginning of every month to pay your rent, employees, all that kind of stuff. One of the things it does, you have to see in your business if this is the case, but a lot of the times, it adds profit to your business.   Let's just say you have a product for $97 but you want to turn it into a continuity product. You have to figure out, "Okay, what can I charge per month and how long do they have to stay to make up that $97?" So in that case, let's just that you were going to charge $27 a month or $25 to make it easy and the first product was $100. You would need them to stay on average for four months to break even with having just a normal one-time price.   If you do a test, and you find out that people are staying for five months, you just increased your overall profit by 12% because you went from $100, the one-time payment, to $125 over five months and then you have figure out, "Okay, is it worth it to get that money over a five-month period rather than just upfront. So that's just decisions you have to make.   But the other thing that it does is works wonders for your mental realm. It kind of just takes away that fear off the table because every entrepreneur goes through, you wake up, "Today's October 1st so it's okay. Am I going to be able to survive October?" And once you get past the certain point that fear kind of goes away.   But especially if you're just starting out or if you have a huge payroll or anything like that, it's really good because it kind of just frees your mind up and it lets you get more creative  and clear in your thinking because you don't have that constant worry about how much money is going to come in that month.   Let's just say your payroll is $20,000 a month, if you have a continuity program that brings in $20,000 a month, anything after that is profit and you can put your time and attention onto that and not worry if you're going to be able to make payroll this month.   So those are the top 7 sales funnel mistakes that I see in a lot of people that I work with. It's a lot of stuff that I go over my clients, make sure they're not doing it. I really it helped you.   If you want to check the new website, by the way, I just recently re-did JeremyReeves.com so go there and just check it out even if you're not interested in buying a product or signing up for a service or anything like that, go and check it out because it kind of shows you my current thinking on what a website should look like.   The way it's set up now is what I think is going to work best for my website, for my website. Yours might be different and it probably is because you're selling something different than I am. But you can go and reverse engineer a few things, and I can pretty much guarantee you'll come out away with a few things because I did some pretty cool stuff on the new design and layout and how I have things set up and all that.   So go check it out. If you're interested in services, again, one of the things that I'm focusing on the rest of this year, 2015 and until whenever is doing a lot more Funnel Days with people. They're really cool because we get to meet in person. If you live in a different country or we can't figure out traveling arrangements, because I do charge extra for traveling, obviously, we can do a Skype video or whatever.   But they're extremely beneficial because the blocks that we get past are incredible and it's awesome the funnels that we come up with? Let's just say they're funnels that nobody in your industry is going to have. You're absolutely going to have the best sales funnel in your industry. We do a lot of stuff that I don't even talk about in the podcast so it's a really cool thing.   If you're above roughly 500,000 or so in your business, I definitely recommend you check out Funnel Day. There's just a lead capture form so even if you just want to learn a little bit about it, just get in touch. Feel free to email me. If you to JeremyReeves.com to check out the new layout, just click 'Services' and then it'll give you two options.   One is either having me just do the funnel or the other one is starting with Funnel Day which I usually recommend for anybody about 500,000 or so. Anyway, I hope that helps. I hope it gave you a couple implementable strategies that you can start working on. Shoot me an email. Let me know if it helped you and make sure that you share this with your friends.   I'm actually doing a Funnel Day next Wednesday and it was a referral from a podcast listener so he listened to the podcast, read articles of mine and then he had a friend who he thought I could help and I'm happy to give you some kind of commission or whatever for doing that. So if you know anybody, that's very cool. I hope this helps you and I will talk to you soon.

The Nairobi Forum and the British Institute in Eastern Africa co-hosted the launch of a special Somalia edition of the Journal of Eastern African Studies on 19 April 2013. The meeting, entitled ‘Continuities and change: Social, political and economic dynamics in Somalia since 1991’, examined the strengths and weaknesses of hybrid political structures, the roles of local authorities, and the importance that Somalis in Kenya play in the reconstruction of Somalia. Journal authors present included Markus Hoehne (Max Planck Institute), Jutta Bakonyi (University of Durham) and Jason Mosley (University of Oxford). Other participants included Mohamed Abshir ‘Waldo’, Ibrahim Farah (University of Nairobi), Marleen Renders, author of Consider Somaliland: State-building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions, Fouzia Musse, Zamzam Abdi Billow (CARE) and Cedric Barnes (International Crisis Group). This is part 3 of 3 of the podcast.

The Nairobi Forum and the British Institute in Eastern Africa co-hosted the launch of a special Somalia edition of the Journal of Eastern African Studies on 19 April 2013. The meeting, entitled ‘Continuities and change: Social, political and economic dynamics in Somalia since 1991’, examined the strengths and weaknesses of hybrid political structures, the roles of local authorities, and the importance that Somalis in Kenya play in the reconstruction of Somalia. Journal authors present included Markus Hoehne (Max Planck Institute), Jutta Bakonyi (University of Durham) and Jason Mosley (University of Oxford). Other participants included Mohamed Abshir ‘Waldo’, Ibrahim Farah (University of Nairobi), Marleen Renders, author of Consider Somaliland: State-building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions, Fouzia Musse, Zamzam Abdi Billow (CARE) and Cedric Barnes (International Crisis Group). This is part 2 of 3 of the podcast.

The Nairobi Forum and the British Institute in Eastern Africa co-hosted the launch of a special Somalia edition of the Journal of Eastern African Studies on 19 April 2013. The meeting, entitled ‘Continuities and change: Social, political and economic dynamics in Somalia since 1991’, examined the strengths and weaknesses of hybrid political structures, the roles of local authorities, and the importance that Somalis in Kenya play in the reconstruction of Somalia. Journal authors present included Markus Hoehne (Max Planck Institute), Jutta Bakonyi (University of Durham) and Jason Mosley (University of Oxford). Other participants included Mohamed Abshir ‘Waldo’, Ibrahim Farah (University of Nairobi), Marleen Renders, author of Consider Somaliland: State-building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions, Fouzia Musse, Zamzam Abdi Billow (CARE) and Cedric Barnes (International Crisis Group). This is part 1 of 3 of the podcast.

From the session on "The Changing and Permanent War Parties," presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 23 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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