Podcasts about curators

In this episode of the Arts to Hearts Podcast, curator and art advisor Liza Zhurkovskaya sits down with Charuka to talk about building an art career, supporting artists in a fast-changing digital world, and the behind-the-scenes of curating for ATH Magazine Issue 6. From her early days discovering a passion for galleries after moving to Canada, to launching her own online gallery, Liza shares honest reflections on the joys and struggles of life in the art world — and offers thoughtful advice to emerging artists trying to carve out their own path.

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening!

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

Ready for another mixed bag of chaos? We effortlessly weave our way through subjects that have no relation to each other, but we still make it work, because we are the Curators of Chaos! Bit of a hint...feet feature, if you hadn't worked it out by the title!Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:32 Podcast Milestones and Upcoming Live Event02:06 Unexpected Phone Call03:46 Historical Anecdote: Wallace Simpson08:31 Lesbian Visibility Week15:22 Foot Fetish Discussion23:43 Psychology Behind Foot Fetishes24:59 Ancient Chinese Foot Binding27:15 Foot Fetish in Ancient Greece and Rome28:49 Tarantino's Foot Obsession29:23 World War II and Nurse Shoe Fetish29:49 Common Foot Fetishes and Their Appeal33:13 Traffic Warden Toy and Other Oddities35:47 Reviving Extinct Species: Dire Wolves and Mammoths45:54 Toegasms: Fact or Fiction?47:49 Conclusion and Farewell▶︎ Support us on Patreon for bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ThePaddedCellPodcast▶︎ www.thepaddedcellpodcast.co.uk▶︎ www.thepaddedcellpodcast.store Watch the podcast on YouTube:▶︎ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ThePaddedCellPodcastFollow The Padded Cell for more:▶︎ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551425184285▶︎ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thepaddedcell_podcast/?hl=en-gb▶︎ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thepaddedcellpodcastRecorded and Produced by Liverpool Podcast Studios▶︎ Web - http://www.liverpoolpodcaststudios.com▶︎ Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/liverpoolpodcaststudios▶︎ LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/company/liverpool-podcast-studios

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Dr. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Dr. Mazza's investigation informs her book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Redwood Press, 2024), and forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny? Our guest is: Dr. Roberta Mazza, who is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The House on Henry Street Archival Etiquette: What to know before you go Project Management for Researchers Where Research Begins The Museum of Failure Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biblical-studies

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Dr. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Dr. Mazza's investigation informs her book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Redwood Press, 2024), and forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny? Our guest is: Dr. Roberta Mazza, who is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The House on Henry Street Archival Etiquette: What to know before you go Project Management for Researchers Where Research Begins The Museum of Failure Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Dr. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Dr. Mazza's investigation informs her book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Redwood Press, 2024), and forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny? Our guest is: Dr. Roberta Mazza, who is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The House on Henry Street Archival Etiquette: What to know before you go Project Management for Researchers Where Research Begins The Museum of Failure Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Dr. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Dr. Mazza's investigation informs her book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Redwood Press, 2024), and forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny? Our guest is: Dr. Roberta Mazza, who is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The House on Henry Street Archival Etiquette: What to know before you go Project Management for Researchers Where Research Begins The Museum of Failure Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/archaeology

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Dr. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Dr. Mazza's investigation informs her book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Redwood Press, 2024), and forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny? Our guest is: Dr. Roberta Mazza, who is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The House on Henry Street Archival Etiquette: What to know before you go Project Management for Researchers Where Research Begins The Museum of Failure Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Dr. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Dr. Mazza's investigation informs her book, Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Redwood Press, 2024), and forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny? Our guest is: Dr. Roberta Mazza, who is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The House on Henry Street Archival Etiquette: What to know before you go Project Management for Researchers Where Research Begins The Museum of Failure Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can support the show by downloading and sharing episodes. Join us to learn from experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

SBS Urdu hosted a special SBS50/Eid show to mark both Eid and the 50th anniversary of SBS. Former and current producers of the Urdu program, from its beginning in the 1970s to the present, were invited to participate. - ایس بی ایس نے اپنے قیام کے پچاسویں سالگرہ کے ساتھ عید الفطر کے خصوصی شو میں اردو پروگرام کے سابقہ اور موجودہ پروڈیوسرز اورایگزیکیٹیوز کو مدعو تھے ۔سنئے اس شو کا پوڈ کاسٹ۔

University of Missouri officials have been planning a ribbon-cutting ceremony for 11:30 this morning for the $20-million three-story expansion of the MU Research Reactor (MURR), which is near Providence in Columbia. 939 the Eagle News covered the October 2023 groundbreaking ceremony, where then-Governor Mike Parson and others ground broke with a shovel in 90-degree plus heat. UM System President Dr. Mun Choi predicts the expansion will drive more research that will improve and save lives. President Choi has told 939 the Eagle that the expansion will increase radioisotope productions. MURR officials say 1.6-million patients benefit from the medical isotopes produced there every year. UM curator Michael Williams spoke at the 2023 groundbreaking ceremony, noting that MURR is the nation's only producer of four medical isotopes used in lifesaving treatments for liver, thyroid, pancreatic and prostate cancer. Former Congressman Blaine Luekemeyer, who is now a member of the UM Board of Curators, joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Missouri." We also discussed the situation wth MU Health Care and Anthem:

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is facing controversy after making changes to a traveling art exhibit. Hear what's changed and why critics are upset. Plus, a MacArthur Fellow on how to translate Homer for a modern audience.

This week we have...Our good friend Alysse Bryson is back with us this week. @alysseinthecity @thesobercuratorShe joined us on Episode 76, where we had an opportunity to get to know her and hear her story (Make sure to listen to that episode also!) That was almost 2 years ago, and we have all come a long way. Mike and I have become Sober Curators, Alysse has jumped into the podcast arena and I think we had some things to talk about. Alysse is a friend, a colleague and a big part of the sober community. Enjoy the episode.Visit The Sober Curatorwww.thesobercurator.comVisit usPodcast  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.sobernotmature.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Store  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.sobernotmatureshop.com

Hi friends, happy Wednesday! The other day I was invited to a bachelorette party. And it wasn't one of those simple, one day parties. NO. This was going to be an all-out, wild, expensive bachelorette weekend in… the city of Las Vegas. And I knew exactly what was going to happen. The shots. Thunder from Down Under. $300 dinners. No sleep. And I'm like… why is everyone obsessed with going to this random, expensive city in the middle of the desert?  Don't get me wrong… I love Vegas. But it's kind of surprising that it's still around. I mean, if you think about it, Vegas has almost been canceled over and over and over again.  I mean there was the mob, the recession, covid, inflation… but Vegas *always* seems to find a way to survive. And I had to get to the bottom of why. So join me on this journey as we discuss The Dark History of… Las Vegas.   I appreciate you for coming by, and tune in next week for more Dark History. I sometimes talk about my Good Reads in the show. So here's the link if you want to check it out. IDK. lol: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/139701263-bailey FOLLOW ME AROUND Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/3e3jL9v Instagram: http://bit.ly/2nbO4PR Facebook: http://bit.ly/2mdZtK6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2yT4BLV Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2mVpXnY Youtube: http://bit.ly/1HGw3Og Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3cC0V9d Discord: https://discord.gg/BaileySarian* RECOMMEND A STORY HERE: cases4bailey@gmail.com Business Related Emails: bailey@underscoretalent.com Business Related Mail: Bailey Sarian 4400 W. Riverside Dr., Ste 110-300 Burbank, CA 91505  ________ Credits: This podcast is Executive Produced by: Bailey Sarian & Kevin Grosch and Joey Scavuzzo from Made In Network Head Writer: Allyson Philobos Writer: Katie Burris Additional Writing: Emma Lehman and Jessica Charles Research provided by: Coleen Smith and Alexander Elmore Special thank you to our Historical Consultant: Larry Gragg, Curators' Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of History and author of Bugsy's Shadow: Moe Sedway, “Bugsy” Siegel, and the Birth of Organized Crime in Las Vegas  Director: Brian Jaggers Additional Editing: Julien Perez and Maria Norris Post Supervisor: Kelly Hardin  Production Management: Ross Woodruff Hair: Angel Gonzalez Makeup: Roni Herrera ________ Style that makes you feel as good as you look—get started today at https://www.stitchfix.com/darkhistory. Visit https://www.audible.com/darkhistory or text DARKHISTORY to 500-500. New users can try Audible premium plus for free for 30 days. Head to https://www.factormeals.com/darkhistory50 to get 50% off.

Gabby Reece sits down with Elijah Allen-Blitz to dive into the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and technology's role in our lives. They discuss the rise of AI assistants, tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, and the surprising ways AI is already integrated into our daily routines—from customer service to medical diagnoses and even booking flights. CHAPTERS 00:00 Reconnecting and Relationship Insights 04:16 The Body and Spirit Connection 08:19 Technology as a Tool 11:53 AI in Healthcare 20:17 DeepSeek and AI Innovations 29:56 The Power of AI in Storytelling 32:03 Resilience and Technology: A Balancing Act 34:00 AI as a Tool for Exploration 37:10 The Future of AI and Human Connection 39:50 Ethics and Responsibility in AI Development 42:57 Addressing Societal Issues with AI 46:02 The Role of Curators in an AI-Driven World 48:51 The Intersection of Love and Technology 51:00 Navigating Innovation and Fear 54:00 Practical Applications of AI in Daily Life KEYWORDS relationships, technology, AI, healthcare, personal growth, spirituality, dating, self-improvement, innovation, consciousness, AI, storytelling, resilience, technology, human connection, ethics, societal issues, innovation, love, practical applications Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Librettist, essayist, translator, and author of ten poetry collections, Scott Cairns is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Missouri. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.-bio via Paraclete Press This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Emily McElwreath—art advisor, independent curator, educator, and host of The Art Career Podcast. With nearly two decades of experience, Emily has worked with some of the most influential figures in the art world, from Andy Warhol to Alice Neel. She shares how artists can reclaim their power, normalize ambition, and take control of their careers. We also explore what collectors are looking for today, how to navigate the art market, and the evolving role of art advisors. Emily offers practical networking strategies for artists and industry leaders, insights on working with high-profile guests, and details on her recent Art21 collaboration. Plus, she introduces her must-have resource for emerging artists, Navigating the Art World: A Practical Guide for Artists. Whether you're an artist looking to elevate your career or a collector seeking guidance, this episode is filled with expert insights and actionable strategies to help you thrive.   Key Takeaways:   Artists must reclaim their power—they are at the center of the art ecosystem. Ambition is not a dirty word—owning your career is essential for success. Networking isn't about chasing opportunities—it's about building authentic relationships. Art collectors should buy what they love but also stay informed about the market. The art world is unregulated, making it crucial to work with trusted advisors. Artists should not rely solely on galleries—direct sales and relationships matter. Emily's free artist guide, Navigating the Art World, is a must-have resource for emerging artists.   Sound Bites:

Welcome to Superhumanize. Today, we're diving deep with one of the world's leading minds in cognitive and evolutionary psychology—Professor David C. Geary. A Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri, David has reshaped our understanding of how evolution molds everything from mathematical cognition to the nuanced differences between male and female brains. He's the author of groundbreaking works like Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences and The Origin of Mind, challenging us to reconsider what we really know about intelligence and behavior.Imagine if the way you think, learn, and even interact was written into your very biology—what does that mean for our future, for education, and for the way we see each other? Today, we unpack those provocative questions and more. Get ready for an enlightening conversation that's sure to stretch your mind and spark new insights into the power and potential of human evolution.Episode highlights:01:15 Meet Professor David C. Geary02:06 Evolutionary Origins of Cognitive Abilities03:14 Social Competition and Cooperation11:50 Gender Dynamics and Evolution22:23 Modern Challenges and Technological Evolution34:21 Educational Systems and Gender Differences39:13 Health Outcomes and Evolutionary Vulnerabilities47:09 Future Research and Closing ThoughtsResources mentioned:Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex DifferencesThe Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General IntelligenceChildren's Mathematical DevelopmentMale Female, The Evolution of Sex DifferencesDavid C. Geary on ResearchGateP.S. If you enjoy this episode and feel it helps to elevate your life, please give us a rating or review. And if you feel others may benefit from this podcast as well, spread the word, share and help grow our tribe of Superhumans. When we help heal One, we help heal All. Much gratitude and love.Yours,Ariane

In this episode Helene talks to Bianca Jones - Award Winning Mental Health & Anti-Racism Training Provider, MHFA England Associate and Founder & Managing Director of EDP Training, Paul Brand- Facilitator and Management Consultant, Director at Risk Solutions and IAF England and Wales board member and Cat Duncan-Rees-  Facilitator and founder of Curators of Change and also an IAF England and Wales board member.  She starts by asking Bianca to talk a bit about the work she does and what led her to develop EDP and the Race Ahead training She asks Cat and Paul about what led the IAF England and Wales Leadership Team to ask Bianca to deliver this training course online in October and about their key takeaways. Cat and Paul talk about the RA4F special thread at the IAF England and Wales conference Facilitate 2025 this year and where the idea came from?   Bianca shares some examples of specific impact or changes she's seen in a facilitator's approach after attending Race Ahead Bianca gives some more details her session at the conference and the training course she is offering the day before. All the guests then talk about why a focus around racial equality at the conference is important and why active race awareness matters in facilitation and what anti-racism might look like for facilitators. The guests also talk about their hopes for longer term initiatives in teh facilitation communicty around anti-racism. To book onto the RA4F course on 24th April 2025:  To book onto the Facilitate 2025 conference   To contact Bianca - bianca@edptraining.co.uk To contact Cat - cat@curatorsofchange.com To contact Paul - paul.brand@risksol.co.uk To contact Helee: Helene@jewellfacilitation.com    To contact the conference team: conference@iaf-englandwales.org        

There's little debate that AI will change the world. What we're not so sure about is if AI's expected disruptions to how we work will be outweighed by the benefits of accessing a super-intelligence.David Boyle thinks of LLMs as an electric bicycle for the mind, one that enables us to go farther than we ever imagined with much less effort. His opinion comes from being one of the first market researchers to experiment with LLMs and subsequently turn his learnings into the PROMPT series of books to help marketers, startups, researchers, musicians, and other creatives benefit from the emerging technology. He's an audience research expert who has informed global strategies for many of the world's biggest brands.In this episode we explore why David Boyle believes that AI can make strategy & research work faster, cheaper, AND better. Listen on Spotify | Listen on AppleThe conversation explains why any product manager, researcher, strategist, or creative should leverage AI. The greatest advantages are speed and quantity because GenAI overcomes research's most time-intensive tasks: codifying and thematic analysis of large data sets.David admits that one of the biggest challenges is that AI are often confidently wrong and that experts must verify the results.This episode raises important questions:* If AI will make all tasks faster, what changes should we expect to our way of working? Consider how the internet is homogenizing the way we live globally.* If a human expert must verify results, how can we trust the results of AI tasks as soon as the velocity scales past the number of humans in-the-loop?* If executives are excited by AI reducing the cost of research, what will stop them from preferring synthetic or non-human verified data once the cost nears zero?Recommended articlesThe Future of Design: How AI Is Shifting Designers from Makers to Curators by Andy Budd“AI is transforming design, shifting designers from hands-on creators to curators focused on strategy” is the most common prediction about where design is headed. The author believes the design roles will evolve to where and how they can best deliver value and it will likely be in enhancing the quality of work delivered by AI. As optimistic as it sounds —hey everyone wants to be more strategic, yay!— the truth is that in this future scenario, the concept of being a design completely changes with most being dedicated to managing AI tasks and the best assigned to bespoke design tasks that must be perfect. The End of Programming as We Know It by Tim O'reillyMakes a case that each fear cycle about software developers getting replaced actually led to an evolution of the craft. He admits that “Eventually much of what programmers do today may be as obsolete” but that it will be more akin to how the old skill of debugging was replaced with roles tackling more complex tasks. As knowledge workers we have to be concerned because our work can't be quantified and automated in the same way as the production-line model of development.AI agents will replace SaaS software by Ayan MajumdarIn this analysis of the CEO of Microsoft's statements that "AI agents will replace all software" he breaks down common SaaS use cases and whether AI can replace those use cases. He concludes that “The shift towards intelligent agents signifies a move away from manual software interactions towards more intuitive, AI-driven processes.” Overall this is further evidence AI agents could replace the SaaS layer which often only existed to give custom lenses to your own data.AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library by Emanuel MaibergThe enshitifaction of knowledge is now hitting libraries. Libraries, once keepers and curators of the world's most important knowledge now can't guarantee the accuracy, provenance, and value of many works being submitted. “My library, like most, does not have the resources to be checking Hoopla on a weekly basis to weed out what we wouldn't want there.”What being replaced by AI in 2025 looks likeWhere does knowledge work go from here?Here's an example of the disruptions possible today where OpenAI's new Deep Research was used in combination with Gamma to do big consultancy-level research into a market and publish a stunning report. All in 2 minutes.Agencies & consultants: Any business that doesn't learn to adopt AI to augment and automate workflows will be at risk of losing niche projects to competitors who are optimized for price, speed, and/or scale. Legacy and large orgs tend to be overloading team members so much to remain profitable that they will be slow to adapt to challengers who will turn AI into a major advantage in a price-sensitive market.Researchers & designers: Orgs are hungry to cut costs and will jump at the opportunity to automate rote tasks. Worse yet the entire value of design and research is becoming so commodified that at least one of your leaders will have the misguided belief that everything you do can be automated. Find a culture that values you and become an expert in leveraging the tools to augment your imagination, planning, iteration, and delivery.Analysts & marketers: AI is giving you an ever-expanding superpower to access more data and analyze it more effectively. Your value only goes up if you challenge your own assumptions of what is possible. Being flexible with the tools, platforms, and methods you use will only lead to better outcomes. Unlike other knowledge workers you're experts in how to deploy copilots and agents effectively because you know how to structure data and requests.Recap from Autonomous AI SummitThis week thousands of industry leaders and strategies attended the Board of Innovation's online summit. Content was largely focused on shifting perspectives about the technology, the future, and use cases.Day 1 recap by Chisoko Luala SimbuleDay 2 recap by Chisoko Luala SimbuleThanks for reading Design of AI: Strategies & insights for product teams! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit designofai.substack.com

In Part 3 of our Digital Curators Series, host Peter Bauman (Editor-in-Chief at Le Random) interviews Tate Modern's Val Ravaglia, a display specialist and the curator of Electric Dreams, Tate's major historical digital art exhibition which runs until June 1, 2025. Ravaglia is Curator, Displays & International Art at Tate Modern. Her curatorial work has focused on display for over twelve years. In addition to curating Le Random's exhibition of the year, Electric Dreams, Ravaglia assisted on Tate's complete collection rehang in 2016. The conversation covers the complexities of digital art display from a major museum perspective. Links: Chapters

Curators and scholars Antawan I. Byrd and Matthew S. Witkovsky discuss the new exhibition and book Project a Black Planet

In this episode, Kim Conaty, Anne Rose Kitagawa, and Rory Padeken talk to the host Magdalena Moskalewicz about everyday challenges of curatorial work inside collecting institutions such as university museums, art museums, and large, encyclopedic institutions. The curators share their own career paths and address the profession's current aspirations and needs. The Museum Worker is a subseries of CAA Conversations about pathways to careers in museums, featuring candid conversations with professionals in the field. Museum workers share how they got where they are today, what they do, and the role of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion in day-to-day work as well as hopes for the future of the field. Anne Rose Kitagawa is Chief Curator of Collections & Asian Art and Director of Academic Programs at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon. Kim Conaty is the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Rory Padeken is the Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, at Denver Art Museum, Colorado. Magdalena Moskalewicz is a member of the CAA Museum Committee.

Fluent Fiction - French: Heartfelt Courage: Émilie's Parisian Journey Through Art Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/fr/episode/2024-12-29-08-38-20-fr Story Transcript:Fr: L'air vif de l'hiver soufflait doucement à travers Paris, apportant une fraîcheur piquante à l'atmosphère festive.En: The brisk winter air gently blew across Paris, bringing a sharp freshness to the festive atmosphere.Fr: Au cœur de la ville des lumières se tenait le Louvre, majestueux et imposant.En: In the heart of the City of Lights stood the Louvre, majestic and imposing.Fr: Les couloirs étaient animés par le murmure des visiteurs, tous impatients de découvrir les merveilles cachées derrière chaque porte.En: The corridors were filled with the murmurs of visitors, all eager to discover the wonders hidden behind every door.Fr: Émilie, nouvelle au poste de conservatrice, ressentait un mélange d'excitation et d'inquiétude.En: Émilie, new to the position of curator, felt a mix of excitement and anxiety.Fr: Sa passion pour l'art et son admiration pour Claude Monet l'avaient menée ici.En: Her passion for art and her admiration for Claude Monet had led her here.Fr: Elle avait travaillé avec ferveur sur une exposition spéciale pour la Saint-Sylvestre en honneur de ce maître de l'impressionnisme.En: She had worked fervently on a special exhibition for New Year's Eve in honor of this master of Impressionism.Fr: Pourtant, caché sous son enthousiasme se trouvait un secret lourd : une maladie cardiaque récemment diagnostiquée.En: Yet, hidden beneath her enthusiasm, there was a heavy secret: a recently diagnosed heart condition.Fr: Sa décision de ne rien dire à Lucas, son superviseur sévère mais juste, et à Claire, sa meilleure amie, la pesait.En: Her decision to say nothing to Lucas, her stern but fair supervisor, and Claire, her best friend, weighed on her.Fr: Dans les salles du musée, les œuvres de Monet brillaient sous les lumières tamisées.En: In the museum halls, Monet's works gleamed under the dimmed lights.Fr: Les Nymphéas semblaient presque réels dans l'éclat doré.En: The Water Lilies seemed almost real in the golden glow.Fr: Émilie passa une main tremblante sur son cœur, se remémorant les recommandations du médecin.En: Émilie passed a trembling hand over her heart, recalling the doctor's recommendations.Fr: Se reposer ?En: Rest?Fr: Impossible avec tant à faire.En: Impossible with so much to do.Fr: Claire remarqua quelque chose d'étrange.En: Claire noticed something strange.Fr: "Tu sembles fatiguée, Émilie," dit-elle, préoccupée.En: "You seem tired, Émilie," she said, concerned.Fr: Émilie esquiva la question avec un sourire forcé.En: Émilie dodged the question with a forced smile.Fr: "Juste la tension du grand jour."En: "Just the tension of the big day."Fr: Claire n'était pas convaincue.En: Claire was not convinced.Fr: À l'approche du jour de l'exposition, la pression augmenta.En: As the day of the exhibition approached, the pressure mounted.Fr: Lucas, insoucieux de l'état de santé d'Émilie, exigeait la perfection.En: Lucas, unaware of Émilie's health condition, demanded perfection.Fr: Son ton, bienveillant mais ferme, poussa Émilie à se surpasser.En: His tone, kind yet firm, pushed Émilie to outdo herself.Fr: Enfin arriva le dernier jour de décembre.En: Finally, the last day of December arrived.Fr: La nuit était tombée, et le Louvre scintillait comme un joyau.En: Night had fallen, and the Louvre glittered like a jewel.Fr: Cependant, en plein milieu des préparatifs finaux, Émilie sentit une douleur aiguë dans sa poitrine.En: However, right in the middle of the final preparations, Émilie felt a sharp pain in her chest.Fr: Le monde tourna autour d'elle, flou et incertain.En: The world spun around her, blurry and uncertain.Fr: Dans un moment de panique et de réalisme, elle s'effondra doucement près d'un banc.En: In a moment of panic and realism, she slowly collapsed near a bench.Fr: Claire, toujours attentive, se précipita à son secours.En: Claire, ever attentive, rushed to her aid.Fr: Lucas, alerté, rejoignit rapidement les deux femmes.En: Lucas, alerted, quickly joined the two women.Fr: Il était temps pour Émilie de briser le silence.En: It was time for Émilie to break the silence.Fr: "J'ai besoin d'aide...En: "I need help...Fr: J'ai une maladie cardiaque," avoua-t-elle, ses yeux brillants de larmes.En: I have a heart condition," she confessed, her eyes shining with tears.Fr: Le silence de Lucas ne dura qu'un instant.En: Lucas' silence lasted only a moment.Fr: Puis, avec une compréhension nouvelle, il prit la main d'Émilie et promit : "Nous sommes là pour toi.En: Then, with newfound understanding, he took Émilie's hand and promised, "We are here for you.Fr: Allons terminer cette exposition ensemble."En: Let's finish this exhibition together."Fr: Grâce au soutien de Claire et Lucas, l'exposition de Monet fut un succès éclatant.En: With the support of Claire and Lucas, the Monet exhibition was a resounding success.Fr: Les visiteurs affluaient, émerveillés par la beauté intemporelle des peintures.En: Visitors flocked, amazed by the timeless beauty of the paintings.Fr: Émilie regarda autour d'elle, respirant profondément.En: Émilie looked around, breathing deeply.Fr: Elle avait appris que la vulnérabilité n'était pas une faiblesse mais une porte vers des liens plus forts.En: She had learned that vulnerability was not a weakness but a gateway to stronger bonds.Fr: Main dans la main avec ses amis, elle se tenait prête à affronter une nouvelle année, les feux d'artifice illuminant la nuit froide au-dessus de Paris.En: Hand in hand with her friends, she stood ready to face a new year, the fireworks illuminating the cold night above Paris. Vocabulary Words:the brisk winter air: l'air vif de l'hivermajestic: majestueuximposing: imposantthe murmurs: le murmureeager: impatientsthe wonders: les merveillesthe curator: la conservatricethe excitement: l'excitationthe anxiety: l'inquiétudeadmiration: l'admirationfervently: avec ferveura special exhibition: une exposition spécialeNew Year's Eve: la Saint-Sylvestrea heavy secret: un secret lourda heart condition: une maladie cardiaquestern: sévèrethe trembling hand: la main tremblantethe doctor's recommendations: les recommandations du médecinaware: insoucieuxthe pressure: la pressiona sharp pain: une douleur aiguëthe moment of panic: le moment de paniqueunderstanding: la compréhensiontimeless beauty: la beauté intemporellethe vulnerability: la vulnérabilitéa weakness: une faiblessethe gateway: une portestronger bonds: des liens plus fortsthe fireworks: les feux d'artificeto collapse: s'effondrer

A multi-week holiday visit to the archives to enjoy our fascinating two part conversation with Jon Sundvold from a few years back. A KC high school and Mizzou legend who went on to a lengthy NBA career and has been a standout broadcaster ever since. Time for Part II this week. Happy Holidays!!!

IT'S FINALLY HERE! It's a Spittle Day miracle! Join us as we discuss the biggest Gravity Falls fandom event in years, THE BOOK OF BILL, with series creator Alex Hirsch, aptly-named Hana Hyperfixates, and the always loathsome Bill Cipher himself. This episode clocks in at FIVE HOURS long, so grab a slice of milk and settle in for a long winter's podcast!Please check out Hana's channel if you have not: https://www.youtube.com/@hanahyperfixatesas well as Hana's Gravity Falls goodie bags supporting Gaza relief: https://mysterytwinbags.bigcartel.com/Support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/MysteryShackJoin our Discord Community: https://discord.gg/ZTRu7qyZcRFollow Alex: twitter.com/_AlexHirschDo NOT follow Bill CIpherWatch "How NOT To Draw Grunkle Stan": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_4l_FFasQCheck out Sam aka RadicalBears' Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadicalBearsCartoonsArt of Hana and Alex in thumbnail by http://stephreynaart.tumblr.com/Artist Master Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CNJc-28NQ9s_BkBrEtjuVeBv4pNJqsHk_zBcpWG_XRI/edit?usp=drivesdkRectangles Master Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JhWYoycmQrL3k31kKBqkl2Z0Km3155mauNP8-XpKofA/edit?tab=t.0Check out Saskia's kandi bracelets (Gravity Falls themed ones coming soon! commissions open!) https://www.depop.com/kandibysaskia/Check out Ella's Phantom of the Paradise anniversary zine: https://potpzine.carrd.co/Hear Ella's guest spot on the Not One Right Way podcast: https://notonerightwaypod.alitu.com/episode/8118a0a2-fdcc-4bda-8e9a-f81c824adf56 Hear Charley's recent guest spot on Escape From Vault Disney: https://escapefromvaultdisney.libsyn.com/wandavision-s1e6-all-new-halloween-spooktacularFollow the podcast In Each Retelling to hear Charley and Ella in two upcoming Hanukkah episodes: https://ineachretelling.buzzsprout.com/Check out Keyan Carlile's Cipher Hunt documentary, featuring the Curators: https://youtu.be/FjF7HpQQvRc?si=dMxo8pZIN9xlUtLgThank you to https://www.youtube.com/@STRANGEONS for voicing The AxolotlAnd huge thanks to Dalton Broback for editing part of the Hall of Conspiracies segment for us:https://bsky.app/profile/daltonbroback.bsky.socialDownload our soundtrack: https://ellacesari.bandcamp.com/Check out our merch store: https://crowdmade.com/collections/mysteryshacklookbackIntro theme song instrumental by http://twitter.com/PryinBrian"Hall of Conspiracies" theme by https://simandthedimbulbv2-0.tumblr.com/post/664143564235800576/back-when-i-was-working-on-guide-to-neilAlex Hirsch as Grunkle Stan in Hall of Conspiracies introFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mysteryshackpodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mysteryshacklookback/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mysteryshackpod.bsky.socialhttps://pipedreampodcasts.com/mystery-shack-lookbackEmail us at mysteryshacklookback@gmail.com

A multi-week holiday visit to the archives to enjoy our fascinating two part conversation with Jon Sundvold from a few years back. A KC high school and Mizzou legend who went on to a lengthy NBA career and has been a standout broadcaster ever since. Part I right here, and Part II next week. Enjoy!

The rejection of Dome was a bigger than just her. Selena Zito's great thanksgiving meal. The kind of mentality we need to head up the FBI. The next FBI pick could have Jesse doing backflips. Wake Island. Cheeseburgers don't need bacon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I speak with the curators of the 28 immersive documentary projects being featured at the 18th edition of IDFA DocLab including Caspar Sonnen, Nina van Doren, and Toby Coffey. The theme of this year's program is "This is Not a Simulation," and there were many immersive projects that featured AI this year. We talked about each of the experiences in this year's program, except for the three projects I've previously covered at Venice Immersive 2024 (All I Know About Teacher Li, Fragile Home, & Impulse: Play with Reality) . We also briefly discussed the IDFA campaign around being complicit and challenging neutrality. For more information on each of the pieces in this year's program,, then be sure to check out the time stamps below to hear what the curators have to say. 12:15You Can Sing Me on My Way 15:01AI & ME 17:59About a Hero 22:54Oryza: Healing Ground 26:26Future Botanica 27:42Ancestors 31:00Drift 32:58Burn from Absence 36:13Sincerely, Victor Pike 37:22Limbophobia 40:20Ancestral Secret VR 41:04Drinking Brecht: an Automated Laboratory Performance 45:21Dollhouse for Queer Imaginaries 46:36The Liminal 49:38Me, A Depiction 53:55Walking Alone, Text You When I'm Home 00:00Rapture II – Portal 57:12ROAMance 60:02Speechless Witness of a Wandering Tree 61:52Thanks for Being Here 66:41Entropic Fields of Displacement 70:08Google Volume 2 71:46Sena, and Their Garden 73:20Töngö Sondi 75:33Bad Trip This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

In this conversation, Peter Bauman (Editor-in-Chief at Le Random) interviews Regina Harsanyi and Jon Ippolito, two digital curators and experts in digital art's preservation. Harsanyi is the Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of the Moving Image and an independent advisor on preventive conservation for variable media arts. Ippolito is a new media artist, writer and former curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He is also a professor of new media at the University of Maine, where he founded the Graduate Digital Curation Program. The conversation covers the complexities of digital art preservation, especially concerning blockchain and AI-based works. Links: https://transfergallery.com/data-trust/ https://dweb.grayarea.org https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu Chapters [00:00:04] Introduction to Digital Preservation [00:01:50] The Financial Reality of Digital Preservation [00:05:25] Industry-wide Challenges in Preservation [00:10:52] Variable Media: Why Preservation Matters [00:14:22] Legacy, Ethics, and Artistic Intent in Preservation [00:27:12] The Role of Museums and Institutional Standards [00:38:30] Blockchain Robustness as Storage Mechanism [00:43:15] Copyright Challenges in Blockchain-based Art [00:54:30] Strategies for Digital Preservation [01:04:02] Digital Conservation's Component Parts [01:13:40] Educational Resources for Collectors and Artists

Scott Cairns is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri. A librettist, essayist, translator, and author of a dozen poetry collections, he has long been a distinguished voice in American religious poetry and an influence on many of the poets we have featured on this podcast. We're talking today about his latest collection, Correspondence …

Join Audio Staffer Abigail Koenig as she dives into the world of student band and DJ bookers, uncovering the behind-the-scenes efforts that bring music to life at co-ops. Reporting. This episode was hosted and edited by Abigail Koenig. Photo Cover is by Ricardo Lopez.

In this conversation, Peter Bauman (Editor-in-Chief at Le Random) interviews Douglas Dodds, a longtime Senior Digital Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and a pivotal figure in the preservation of digital art. The discussion covers the challenges of collecting digital art, including sourcing, preserving and showcasing these works in a museum context. Dodds shares insights into the process of acquiring digital art, from identifying valuable pieces to navigating relationships with artists and galleries. He also reflects on the unique historical significance of the V&A's collection, which spans early computer-generated works to contemporary digital media, emphasizing the importance of context in building a cohesive and enduring collection. The interview delves into the role of donations, the complex value of digital art beyond financial metrics, and the delicate relationship between institutions and new digital mediums like NFTs. We get a museum perspective on the concerns of our community.

I interviewed All I Know About Teacher Li director Zhuzmo at Venice Immersive 2024. Due to the sensitivities of the topic of Chinese censorship, then the director Zhuzmo has requested that he remain anonymous. I did an interview face to face with them in Venice, got a transcript, and then fed the text back into a text-to-speech AI at Eleven Labs in order to mask his voice. See more context in the rough transcript below. All I Know About Teacher Li also happened to top the unofficial Venice Immersive 2024 Survey results that I did in collaboration with XR Must for both the Top 5 as well as for the Audience Favorites. I found last year's survey results to be really useful in organizing the order of discussing pieces in our critic's roundtable, but also helping to understand the audience's reaction to the selection. Last year there were 50 respondents, and this year there were 82 respondents who on average saw 21.9 experiences each. Here's a list of the Most Seen experiences from Venice Immersive 2024, which is sort of a proxy for popularity and buzz, but also throughput. The next result is the audience favorites (no limit), which is calculated by how many people listed it as a favorite relative to how many saw it. This tends to have the most robust overview of the entire selection, and is also an interesting calibration process to see what you personally liked vs what might have been favored by the zeitgeist.  Finally the top 5 ranking usually is a proxy for seeing which projects might have been in the running for a jury prize, but there was a lot more variance this year, which was reflected in the range of projects that people were predicting to be a prize winner. The top prize from the jury was awarded to Ito Meikyu, which was ranked 10th by the audience. The second place from the jury went to Oto's Planet, which was ranked 5th. And then the third place from the jury went to Impulse: Playing with Reality, which was ranked 2nd. I find it increasingly difficult to predict what will resonate with the jury as even the audience favorites can vary widely from my own personal favorites. Again what resonates with you may not resonate with others, and there are so many other qualities and nuances of each project that can't be reduced down to numbers. Nonetheless, I found last year's survey results to be quite an interesting cross section and sometimes confirms an intuition and many other times can be surprising. Either way, it's additional data to help make sense of the selection and the industry. Here's my top 10 that I published after finishing watching all of the pieces on Wednesday, August 28th. I about watched 1/3 of the pieces ahead of the festival, 1/3 on the press preview, and the remaining 1/3 on the press & industry day and the first day bookings are available. Also, the essence of each project can't be reduced down to numbers, which is a big motivation that I have to record over 30 hours of coverage for Venice Immersive 2024 over the course of 5 days in order to unpack more of the design process, experiential design tradeoffs, and some of my own embodied experiences and impressions. #1416: Preview of Venice Immersive 2024 Innovations in Immersive Storytelling & Art Installations with Curators #1417: Kicking Off Venice Immersive Converge with Translating "Riven" Classic Point-and-Click Adventure to Open World VR Puzzler #1418: Award-Winning Animators Experiment with Sandbox Social VR "Garden Alchemy" Research Project #1419: Creating a Four-Sided Pepper's Ghost Pyramid Illusion with "Telos I" Dance Piece #1420: Experimental Documentary "Mammary Mountain" Captures Oral Histories of Breast Cancer Journeys #1421: Interactive Mixed Reality Doc on ADHD "Impulse: Playing With Reality" Takes Home Immersive Achievement Prize at Venice Immersive 2024 #1422: A Simple Silence Wraps Up Craig Quintero's Trilogy Exploring Spatial Transformations & Immersive Encounters

The 8th edition of the Venice Immersive 2024 will be kicking off on August 28th, which will be featuring over 28 hours of immersive storytelling and immersive art content across over 70 different projects. This year there area a lot more immersive installations representing over a third out of the total number of on-site projects (18 out of the 52). There's eight mixed reality projects, a couple of projects featuring haptics, and one that prominently featuring AI character interactions. There are also 20 VRChat worlds in the Worlds Gallery along with 3 VRChat worlds in competition with 1 project that's using Resonite social VR platform. I had a chance to catch up with the co-curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac again this year to get a sneak peak of the 26 projects in competition as well as 9 of the projects within the Best of Selection (note we talk about 10 Best of experiences, but it was announced just this morning that the Apple Vision Pro experience Adventure was pulled from the festival after attendees who had it booked received a message from Vivaticket saying, "we regret to inform you that the immersive experience Adventure for which you made a reservation has been cancelled" ). We also talk about how there's going to be a private think tank on September 1st looking at LBE distribution challenges and opportunities. Be sure to check out their previous report titled "Think Tank: Immediate Options to Address the Pressing Needs of Immersive Distribution." 17 out of the 20 VRChat worlds in the Worlds Gallery are already currently publicly available, and the three that are not are Concrete: Pale Sands, SNR Labs Test Facility, and Sanctum (though this one will be available after the festival run). Each of these are featuring some volumetric and holographic shaders that VJs are using in the VRChat clubbing scene, which I covered extensively in my previous three episodes, particularly in #1415 talking with two VRChat VJs and a DJ about the evolution of volumetric effects in music shows. But also check out #1413 where I talk with the SNR Labs team and in #1414 about how dancer SoftlySteph used the holographic shader tech that's demonstrated in the SNR Labs Test Facility experience. Below is a cheat sheet of the Venice Immersive 2024 experiences ordered by length. Note that the Free UR Head is actually closer to 55 minutes, and that Adventure is no longer in the Best of Selection. Also included is a copy of the map for where the experiences are located with some quality of life improvements that I made so that the text is all horizontal and a bit easier to read. I also have a version of the Venice Immersive experience map with the length of the experience embedded to make it easier for when you may be in standby mode. Here are links to the Best of Experiences that are publicly available: Museum Alive Immersive With David Attenborough [Apple Vision Pro], Nightmara: Episode 3, The 7th Guest VR, Riven, Astra, 40 Dias Sem O Sol (40 Days Without The Sun), & What If…? - An Immersive Story [Apple Vision Pro]. And here's the links to the VRChat worlds that are featured in the Venice Immersive Worlds Gallery. 17 of the 20 are currently publicly available. Sanctum should be available once the festival starts, and there aren't currently plans or availability dates for replayable versions of Concrete: Pale Sands or SNR Labs: Test Facility as of the publication of this episode. The official Venice Immersive Hub in VRChat will be launching on August 28th with in-world portals to each of these worlds. 1 MormoVerse˸ Under the pillow 2.1 Finishing Touch - Art Studio ＆ Gallery 2.2 VRC Museum 2.3 Phatta 3 Liminal Dreams˸ The Poolrooms 4 Endless Residents Super Ultra Deluxe Edition 5 Magnetize 6.1 Magic AI-Art˸ Dimensions 6.2 Exoplanet Journey 7 SUKU 8.1 Chromatic Frequency 8.2 Sanctum 8.3 Overview Effect Experience 9.1 Smew Brushǃ 9.2 ․⁄ complication 9.

In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world to William Blake's ballads and writings by Charles Darwin. This approach to the idea of deep time and the history of its formation engages with contemporary debates over the concept of an “Anthropocene” and the more general problem of sequencing and understanding the Earth's time.  The book's main contribution is to show that the idea of deep time is not exclusively a scientific and geologic concept. In order to be properly understood and responsibly used, this idea needs to be approached as “a field of imagination,” which has been shaped by the entangled histories of exploration, colonialism, natural sciences, archeology, and literary forms. Deep Time is both a surprising exploration of the forms that “the fantasy of a legible earth history” took between the eighteen and the nineteenth centuries and an invitation to reflect on how these forms might have left their marks on our current attempts at framing the depth and strangeness of the Earth's time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world to William Blake's ballads and writings by Charles Darwin. This approach to the idea of deep time and the history of its formation engages with contemporary debates over the concept of an “Anthropocene” and the more general problem of sequencing and understanding the Earth's time.  The book's main contribution is to show that the idea of deep time is not exclusively a scientific and geologic concept. In order to be properly understood and responsibly used, this idea needs to be approached as “a field of imagination,” which has been shaped by the entangled histories of exploration, colonialism, natural sciences, archeology, and literary forms. Deep Time is both a surprising exploration of the forms that “the fantasy of a legible earth history” took between the eighteen and the nineteenth centuries and an invitation to reflect on how these forms might have left their marks on our current attempts at framing the depth and strangeness of the Earth's time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators' Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “counter-history” of deep time. This counter-history acknowledges and investigates the literary and imaginary origins of the idea of deep time, from eighteen-century narratives of voyages around the world to William Blake's ballads and writings by Charles Darwin. This approach to the idea of deep time and the history of its formation engages with contemporary debates over the concept of an “Anthropocene” and the more general problem of sequencing and understanding the Earth's time.  The book's main contribution is to show that the idea of deep time is not exclusively a scientific and geologic concept. In order to be properly understood and responsibly used, this idea needs to be approached as “a field of imagination,” which has been shaped by the entangled histories of exploration, colonialism, natural sciences, archeology, and literary forms. Deep Time is both a surprising exploration of the forms that “the fantasy of a legible earth history” took between the eighteen and the nineteenth centuries and an invitation to reflect on how these forms might have left their marks on our current attempts at framing the depth and strangeness of the Earth's time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Diversifying your traffic sources, building your email list, and the tools to help you build your audience with Andrew Wilder and Colin Devroe ----- Welcome to episode 473 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Andrew Wilder and Colin Devroe from NerdPress.  Future-Proofing Your Content with Andrew Wilder and Colin Devroe We were so thrilled to have Bjork sit down with Andrew Wilder and Colin Devroe for this episode! Andrew is the CEO of NerdPress and one of our Food Blogger Pro experts, so you may have seen him around the forum breaking down all things WordPress for our members! Colin Devroe is also on the NerdPress team—he's a Senior Product Manager currently working on SaveThis and Hubbub, NerdPress's very own social sharing plugin (previously Grow Social Pro and Social Pug before that). This episode has been an affirmation for us all that to keep your content flourishing, you'll want to dig deep to build a community and form lasting relationships with your readers. We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we did! In this episode, you'll learn about: Diversifying Your Traffic Sources: The landscape of social media is constantly evolving — while giants like Meta (Facebook, Instagram) hold significant power, it's crucial to look beyond them. You'll learn about the rise of the "fediverse," an open-source network allowing users to move between social platforms and take their content and followers with them, as well as the importance of diversifying your traffic sources and exploring emerging platforms to future-proof your content strategy. Build Lasting Connections with Your Audience: Growing a loyal email list is critical to building strong reader relationships. This episode emphasizes the importance of consistent communication and providing valuable content to your subscribers. The power of community is much stronger than you think and can help you and your content remain stable in the long run! Maximize Traffic and Community Through Strategic Tools: You'll hear about how various tools like Hubbub (their very own social sharing plugin), SaveThis (a tool within Hubbub Pro), and Flipboard can help you grow your audience — and your email list — while still providing value to your readers! Resources: NerdPress Hubbub Pro Hubbub Lite (free to use) SaveThis by Hubbub Flipboard Recap of Fediverse Webinar for Creators and Curators by Flipboard 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly Nathan Barry's Newsletter Join the Food Blogger Pro Podcast Facebook Group ----- This episode is sponsored by Yoast and Clariti. Learn more about our sponsors at foodbloggerpro.com/sponsors. Interested in working with us too? Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities and how to get started here. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for interviews, be sure to email them to podcast@foodbloggerpro.com. Learn more about joining the Food Blogger Pro community at foodbloggerpro.com/membership

In this episode of Deeper Roots with Blain's Farm & Fleet, Trevor travels to Milwaukee to visit with 3rd generation owner of Wisonsin's oldest frozen custard stand, Willy from Gille's!

In this new five-part series, Historic Royal Palaces Curator Charles Farris leads us into the stormy world of the Wars of the Roses.   We aim to reveal how and why such a turbulent period of conflict occurred in the 15th century, and ultimately how it ushered in a new dynasty with the Tudors.  Charles will be joined by expert historians and Curators from Historic Royal Palaces, to help unpack what has made the Wars of the Roses so legendary.   Join us next Thursday, for the first episode on the context behind the Wars of the Roses.