Podcasts about diacritics

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Hamsa Fae (she/they) to Spiral Deeper. Hamsa is a Vietnamese-French poet, performance artist, and model who is native to Los Angeles. She uses memory as medium for dreamscaping the tragedies and desires within the Asian American diaspora and trans ethereality. Her poetry book, Blood Frequency, was shortlisted by C&R Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network in 2022. She has (forthcoming) publications in diaCRITICS, Vănguard, new words {press}, Yale School of Environment, and Fruitslice. Her solo-exhibition, Trans Aphrodisia, was in February 2024 at The Brown Building.  In our conversation today, we talk about Reiki, traveling between realms of being, love letters, poetry, mystery, beauty, rotting, composting, self-expression and creativity, femininity, facilitating safe and inclusive spaces, the binary, language, trans myth, and at the end Hamsa graces us with a beautiful song.  I learned so much from Hamsa in our conversation today, full of poetry, giggles, learning, and mystery. I feel grateful for her teachings and her art.  Thank you Hamsa for your artistry, poetry, and sweet nectar of life!  *For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August*  Connect ~ With our guest Hamsa | Website and IG @hamsalefae  With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper Sign up for Gaby's newsletter Partners ~ Thank you to our partners!  Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY' Activist Manuka Honey - Code ‘GABY15' The Retreat Newspaper - Code ‘GABY100' for your first issue free Music by Gaby's incredible partner, Connor Hayes. Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand. If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email gabyazorsky@gmail.com for packages and information.  Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

Thank you for listening to The Cluster F Theory. If you don't already subscribe at Substact, please sign up on our page in order to receive an email when new episodes are released. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it or review it wherever you listen and share it with your friends. Thank you!Anna Kornbluh is a professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she founded InterCcECT, the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory. Her research and teaching interests center on the novel, film and cultural aesthetics in theoretical perspective, including formalist, Marxist and psychoanalytic approaches. She is the author of Immediacy or The Style of Too Late Capitalism; The Order of Forms, Realism, Formalism, and Social Space; Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club; and Realizing Capital, Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form. Her essays have appeared in various publication such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Diacritics, Public Books and Differences. Anna is also an active community organizer. She's a co-founder of Humanities Works, an initiative to debunk myths about the dire prospects of Humanities graduates, and is an active member of the UIC United Faculty bargaining team. Anna Kornbluh: http://www.annakornbluh.comAnna Kornblum's faculty page: https://engl.uic.edu/profiles/kornbluh-anna/InterCcECT: http://interccect.com/Humanities Works: http://humanitiesworks.org/UIC Faculty: https://uicunitedfaculty.org/---------The Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada.You can also subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com

If you like alliterations, you'll love today's crossword, as the grid is crawling with them. as well as some other fabulous answers. Who can resist the absolutely magnificent 104D, Singer Jon with the 1992 hit, "Just Another Day", SECADA (seriously, if you haven't heard this song, you need to drop everything you're doing right now and listen!). And let's not forget the completely uncontroversial 124A, Like tires, TREADED (

(S8, EP 10): For this week's episode, former guest Tony Ho Tran takes my place as a special guest host, and interviews Lan Samantha Chang, author of her latest novel, "The Family Chao". Bio: Lan Samantha Chang's new novel, The Family Chao, was published by W. W. Norton in February 2022. She is the author of two previous novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Her short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. Chang is the director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives with her husband and daughter in Iowa City, Iowa. Tony Ho Tran is the deputy editor of innovation and technology at The Daily Beast and freelance writer. His work has been seen in diaCRITICS, Futurism, Playboy, The Chicago Defender, Narratively, and wherever else fine writing is published. Though he lives on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, his heart and home are in the cornfields of Iowa. Sponsored by: VietFive Coffee: Start your day right with VietFive Coffee.  Freshly grown coffee harvested straight from Vietnam and roasted in Chicago, VietFive offers rich quality tasting Vietnamese coffee straight to your soul.  Visit VietFive Coffee in Chicago to grab a fresh cup and a Banh Mi to go along with it, or go to www.vietfive.com and use the code in all Caps: VMNCHIV5 to get 15% off your purchase. Circa-Pintig: The Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts - CIRCA Pintig is a 501c3 engaging communities through the power of the arts to challenge injustice and transcend social change. CIRCA Pintig produces timely works to provide education, activation, and advocacy. For information about upcoming events and to learn about how to get involved, visit www.circapintig.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/banhmichronicles/support

Nikita Parik holds a Master's in Linguistics, a three-year diploma in French, and another Master's in English. Diacritics of Desire (2019) is her debut book of poems, followed by Amour and Apocalypse (2020), a novel in translation. Published in India and overseas, she is the recipient of the Mukti Bose Memorial IPPL Young Poet Award 2022 and one of the Nissim Excellence in Writing Award 2020. Nikita currently edits the EKL Review. A winner of the Ekphrastic Challenge in 2021, her most recent book, My City is a Murder of Crows, was published in July. Order her new book here: https://www.amazon.sg/My-City-Murder-Crows-poems/dp/9391431429 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: In his long autobiographical poem, The Prelude, Wordsworth writes about what he called “spots of time,” small memorable events we experience that thereafter remain in our consciousness and “give profoundest knowledge,” helping us determine who and what we are and what we may become. Write a poem in which you focus on one of these “spots of time” in your own life and what it has subsequently meant to you. Next Week's Prompt: Andhadhi is a unique kind of Tamil poetry constructed such that the last or ending word of each stanza becomes the first word of the next stanza . In some instances, the last word of the series of stanza becomes the beginning of the very first stanza , thus making the poem a true garland of stanza. Andha(m) means "end" and Adhi means "beginning." The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. He is the editor-in-chief of diaCRITICS and lives in Washington, DC. His first novel is Things We Lost to the Water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rock Goddess June Millington, and her partner Ann Hackler from the Institute for Musical Arts on how they are creating a rock goddess pantheon. Mr. Universe will prepare us for phase one of the female mission to the moon with the launch of Artemis I. What do Bjork and Motorhead have in common? Diacritics. We'll hear all about from Emily Brewster, resident wordster, from Merriam-Webster. Resurrecting an extinct tiger, Jurassic Park style, and why it might not be such a scary idea. Delicious and cheap Portuguese wine and

My guest is Eric Nguyen, author of the novel, THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER.  With his debut novel, Nguyen tells the story of a Vietnamese immigrant family who struggle to adjust to their new lives after settling in New Orleans.  THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER Provides three points of view on their emotional journey: The mother, who still longs for the husband who chose to stay in Vietnam, the son who was five years old when they left and finds himself caught between the past and the present, and the youngest son who was born in a refugee camp after their escape, and is most at home in their adopted homeland.  Covering over 25 years of their lives all the way to Hurricane Katrina, THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER deftly portrays the challenges of a family staying emotionally tied as each member follows their own path  in search of a new identity.Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS.org. THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER is his first novel.DIVERSE VOICES BOOK REVIEWSocial media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

"Warning: read and keep," says the piece of paper inside Kinder Surprise Eggs, in 34 languages; yet most people do neither thing. But sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris did read and keep it, and study what the egg is trying to tell us: about Kinder Egg toy safety, yes, but also about multilingualism, about an object that says 'yes!' but the warning says 'no!', about the signs of human idiosyncracy that show themselves even in a mandatory corporate message. Find out more information about the topics in this episde at theallusionist.org/kinderegg, plus a transcript and the full dictionary entry for the randomly selected word. Sign up to be a patron at patreon.com/allusionist and not only are you supporting independent podcast, you get fortnightly patron-exclusive video livestreams and a Discord community full of language chat, craft pics and word game camaraderie! The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Stay in touch at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow and instagram.com/allusionistshow.  The music is by Martin Austwick, made with Kinder Eggs. Hear Martin's own songs via palebirdmusic.com. Our ad partner is Multitude. To sponsor an episode of the show this year, contact them at multitude.productions/ads. This episode is sponsored by: • Bombas, whose mission is to make the comfiest clothes ever. and match every item sold with an equal item donated. Go to bombas.com/allusionist to get 20% off your first purchase. • BetterHelp, online therapy with licensed professional counsellors. Allusionist listeners get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/allusionist. • Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running a sleek website. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free 2-week trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.  Support the show: http://patreon.com/allusionist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it's still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it's still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Um diese Frage zu klären schauen wir uns heute erst einmal die Folgen von 9/11 an. Was hat sich verändert in Folge des Anschlags? Dies alles betrachten wir aus der Sicht des Westens. NATO ruft zum ersten Mal den Bündnisfall aus. Bush erklärt den "war on terror". Es kann von einer sogenannten "Versicherheitlichung" gesprochen werden. Außerdem wird Guantanamo geöffnet und Folter wird praktiziert. Ob dies nun eine Zäsur ist, darüber reden wir in dieser Folge. Quellen: ARTE Doku: Slahi und seine Folterer: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/095726-000-A/slahi-und-seine-folterer/ Asad, Talal: The Formation of the Secular. 2003. Binet, Laurent: Die Eroberung. Rowohlt, 2020. Dietze, Carola: 9/11 Revisited. Apuz: 9/11, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2021, S. 1-13. Enders, Walter & Sandler, Todd: After 9/11. Is it all different now? Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 49, No. 2, April 2005, S. 259-277. Eco, Umberto: Der Name der Rose, 1980. Fukuyama, Francis: The End of History? The National Interest No. 16, Summer 1989, S. 3-18. Hegemann, Hendrik: Normalisierung des Ausnahmezustands? Freiheit und Sicherheit in liberalen Demokratien nach 9/11, Apuz: 9/11, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2021 S. 22-36. Hochuli, Alex et al.: The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Zero Books, 2021. Holloway, David: 9/11 and the War on Terror. Edinburgh University Press, 2008. Huntington, Samuel P.: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York, 1996. Goncalves, Diana: 9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity. Gil Capeloa, Isabel & Nesci, Catherine: Culture & Conflict. Vol. 9. Berlin/Boston, 2016. Hintergrund aktuell: 9/11 und die politischen Folgen, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2013.: https://www.bpb.de/politik/hintergrund-aktuell/168712/9-11-und-die-politischen-folgen-11-09-2013 Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg: 9/11 – Folgen der Terroranschläge für die USA und die Welt: https://www.lpb-bw.de/terrorusa Leach, Neil: 9/11. Diacritics, 2003, Vol. 33, No. 3/4, S. 75-92. Lebendiges Museum Online: Sicherheitsgesetze: https://www.hdg.de/lemo/kapitel/globalisierung/debatten-und-reformen/sicherheitsgesetze.html Longo, Matthew: The Politics of Borders: Sovereignity, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11. Cambridge, 2017. Manfred Berg, Der 11. September 2001 – eine historische Zäsur?, in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 8 (2011), H. 3: https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/3-2011/4411 RBB Doku: Deutschland 9/11: https://www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/deutschland-9-11/Y3JpZDovL3JiYi1vbmxpbmUuZGUvZGV1dHNjaGxhbmQtOS0xMQ/ SWR2 Forum: 20 Jahre nach 9/11 – Wie verändert der Terror die Welt?: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7h38f0qRYAbNz9IZANnuty?si=7fa0b4de321c4979&nd=1 Tagesspiegel: 20 Jahre nach „9/11“–Die Freiheitsrechte bleiben eingeschränkt https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/20-jahre-nach-9-11-die-freiheitsrechte-bleiben-eingeschraenkt/27584398.html Weidner, Stefan: 9/11 und das Ende des „Westens“. Apuz: 9/11, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, 2021, S. 14-20.

This is a special encore edition of Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. This segment originally aired on May 2nd, 2021. New Orleans natives are typically thought of as descendents of the Africans, French and Spanish who arrived on the Gulf Coast in the 17th century. But for nearly 50 years, the city has also been home to a community of Vietnamese immigrants. Eric Nguyen gives us an intimate look at that community through the fictionalized lives of a mother and her sons in his debut novel ”Things We Lost to the Water.” It was our May selection for Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club. Guest: Eric Nguyen — editor-in-chief of diaCRITICS

“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it's still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it's still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it's still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

(S6, EP 2) Eric Nguyen (He / Him) is a queer Viet-American author based in DC. He recently released his debut fiction novel, Things We Lost To The Water which is a story about a Vietnamese single mother raising her two teenage sons in Louisiana in the late 80s - early 90s. His book was named by former President Obama as his top 2021 summer reading list. We talk about the genesis in creating his novel, and his own vision in writing stories about the Vietnamese diaspora. Please check out this episode and get your copy of his book in stores now! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bio: Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in creative writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. He is currently the editor-in-chief of diaCRITICS. he currently lives in Washington, DC. His debut fiction book, Things We Lost To The Water was recently released this past Spring. This past summer, former President Obama named his book as part of his Top 2021 Summer Reading List. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This episode is sponsored by Red Scarf Revolution (RSR). RSR is a merchandise line that honors and celebrates the Cambodian diaspora identity and experience. Feel free to check out their merchandise line and get yourself a t-shirt, hat, or other gifts. Be sure to visit www.redscarfrevolution.com or their IG at red_scarf_revolution to learn more about their work(s). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/banhmichronicles/support

We're so pleased to announce, the 9th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Tan. Natalie has a bi-weekly newsletter called Simmer Down, that reflects on food and memory, and she sent us some back issues (links below). After we started the /food page on our website last year, we've been hoping to be able to support somebody else's writing around the subject & then Natalie's work came along. It is so sensitive, descriptive, atmospheric and personable. The writing feels all visibly based in the political and the historical too, which we found incredible value and energy in. It's really enjoyable writing to read, as both writers and wannabe food-eggheads ourselves. So we are really excited to be able to support Natalie and Simmer Down, and we hope you find the same joy in her work Bio: Natalie Tan is a cultural practitioner and writer based in London. Expressed with an unbridled passion influenced by the forever-classic emo tracks of the 2000s, she examines maladaptive wistfulness, traditions formed from migration, and the impact of colonialism on Hong Kong and its diaspora. She is the author of Simmer Down, an ongoing, bi-weekly reflection on food and memory, and is currently writing her first play on family, loss, and Hong Kong as part of Bush Theatre's West London Playwrights' Group. Her work has been included in diaCRITICS, Radio Slumber, and the Breakfast B Reading Series. Links below if you want to read her work, listen to it, or follow Natalie online: Read Strawberry Jam-Tinted Glasses Read On the Reliability of Dumplings Read through the rest of the Simmer Down archive You can find Natalie on Twitter and Instagram You can find out more about the Writers Grant here

Eric Nguyen, editor-in-chief of DiaCritics and author of the new novel 'Things We Lost to the Water,' joins us today. 'Things We Lost to the Water' tells the story of a family who escapes Vietnam after the war and ends up settling in New Orleans, spanning a time period from the late 1970s to the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. We discussed why he set the story in New Orleans, why the theme of water is so important to the book, what he wants readers to take away from it, his work at DiaCritics, and much more. Learn more about Eric's debut novel: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652032/things-we-lost-to-the-water-by-eric-nguyen/ And check out DiaCritics: https://dvan.org/diacritics/

“For many years I wrote, taught, and published about climate change from a more philosophical, existential point of view, especially thinking about deep time, but I did come back to fuels with my Fuel book in part for the fact that so much of the press and so much of public discourse confuses fuel and energy, and it's still happening today. I thought about this so long and the same themes, the same tropes are still being recycled.”Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org

Sebastian Garber is the Senior Designer at the Anchorage Museum and he is currently working on designing a typeface that includes Alaska Native languages. It will be a typeface stripped of geographic references and it will encompass all the necessary diacritic. Diacritics are accent marks that indicate pronunciation. And when finished, it will become the official font of the Anchorage Museum.

Introducing Chatter Marks, a podcast of the Anchorage Museum, hosted by Cody Liska. Chatter Marks is dedicated to exploring Alaska’s identity through the creative and critical thinking of ideas—past, present and future.  In this episode, Cody talks with Sebastian Garber, the Senior Designer at the Anchorage Museum. Sebastian has been a graphic designer for about 12 years now, and in that time he’s worked for large companies, small firms and a magazine. He says that the most important things he’s learned in those 12 years is being able to adapt to changing trends in design and communication, and the importance of a strong team.  Sebastian is currently working on designing a typeface that includes Alaska Native languages. It will be a typeface stripped of geographic references and that will encompass all the necessary diacritics. Diacritics are accent marks that indicate pronunciation. And when finished it will become the official font of the Anchorage Museum.

On this week's show, we begin (1:08) with a conversation about our recent decision to use diacritics in Vietnamese names on the Saigoneer website. What are the benefits of using the language to its full extent, and what does the fact that most websites publishing in English don't use diacritics say about our relationship to Vietnamese? Then (21:16), we look at the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak centered on Da Nang - how has this development impacted daily life in Saigon, and what do we think of the protective measures being taken here? As always, we close with Bánh Mì Banter (31:38).

A short tour of diacritics in English, and their absence. The circumflex accent and the acute are often substituted for a missing letter. What looks like an impenetrable and intimidating topic can quickly be understood in context of the etymology.

Amber joined us to talk us through her PhD and the radical possibilities of Black feminism in literature. We also talk about including Black man taking part in conversations on Black feminism and our complicated relationship with academic heroes! Reference list - Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (London: Zed, 1980) Simon Gikandi's chapter in Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek, In Search of the Afropolitan: Encounters, Conversations, and Contemporary Diasporic African Literature (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016) Achille Mbembe, ‘Afropolitanism' from Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent (Johannesburg: Jacana Media, 2007), pp.26-29 Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) Hortense Spillers, ‘Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book' Diacritics, 17 (John Hopkins University Press, 1987), 64 —81 Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande, To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (London: Pluto Press, 2019)

Born in Vietnam, Dao Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where she first began writing and thinking about the world as a beautiful place yet filled with contradiction. She talks with us about learning to play music in Iowa City, how she maintains her creativity from project to project, Cat Power, and why people are occasionally surprised by her love of folk and country music. Strom's latest book is You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else and, recording as The Sea and The Mother, her latest album is a 6 song EP entitled Sense. In addition to her own creative work Strom is also a founding member of She Who Has No Master(s), a collective of women writers of the Vietnamese diaspora, co-director of a PoC library collective/social engagement project, De-Canon, and the editor of diaCRITICS.

Join Bridget Keown, Jackie Gronau, James Robinson, Matt Bowser, and Thanasis Kinias as we join PhD Candidate Feruza Aripova to discuss her research into the suppression of same sex desire in the Soviet Union, either through punishment in the Stalinist era to later pathologizing same sex desire as a disease to be treated. The 1930s saw the rolling back of both legalization of homosexuality and abortion that had been gained by the Revolution. Feruza guides us through what happened, how same sex desire continued in prisons and underground communities, and how her background growing up in Soviet Central Asia shaped her experience. How did same sex desire come to be defined as a threat to the Soviet state and Communist Party? Feruza guides us through her research in the archives in the Baltics, and private archives in Moscow. We round it up with talking about the Women's Section of the Communist Party in exploring Soviet Feminism, specifically on Alexandra Kollontai. Further Reading: Agamben, Giorgio. What Is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. Aldrich, Robert. Gay Life and Culture : A World History. New York, NY: Universe, 2006. Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia : The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness : Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. Foucault, Michel, and Jay Miskowiec. “Of Other Spaces.” Diacritics 16, no. 1 (April 1, 1986): 22–27. doi:10.2307/464648. Kollontai, A., and Alix. Holt. Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai. Westport, Conn.: L. Hill, 1977. Kon, I.S. The Sexual Revolution in Russia : From the Age of the Czars to Today. New York: The Free Press, 1995. Rudusa, Rita., Forced Underground: Homosexuals in Soviet Latvia, 2014. Credits: Brought to you by the Northeastern Graduate History Association Producers and Sound Editors are: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero Music by Kieran Legg Rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes! Feedback/love/hate/comments/concerns/suggestions: breakinghistorypodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breakhist/ breakinghistorypodcast.com/

In Part Two of this series on Diacritics, Phil Thompson and Eric Armstrong discuss the intricacies of diacritic symbols and what they mean when applied to vowel and consonant symbols of the IPA. The guys follow along with the list of diacritic marks on the Wikipedia page for the International Phonetic Alphabet. The episode begins at laminal diacritic, which Wikipedia classifies as part of the “articulation diacritics”, and continue on to discuss “co-articulation diacritics” and “suprasegmentals”.

Though Phil and Eric had intended to cover all the diacritical marks in the IPA in this podcast, they just couldn’t do it. In fact, Eric’s recorder stopped recording after 45 minutes, though they kept talking for 15 more minutes... so this is merely an introduction to diacritics, not an exhaustive review of all of them. For reference, the boys work their way through the symbols following the order that the wikipedia article on the International Phonetic Alphabet’s section on diacritics takes, so you might want to follow along.

Diane Burns guest co-host; Multilingual Publishing; Sharing DPS apps; Obscurity of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke -- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-193.mp3 (17.8 MB, 33.54 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Special! David and guest co-host Diane Burns rock this episode. How to publish in more than one language How to share a DPS app with a group (bypassing the App Store) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke -- News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko has this neat add-on called Frame Reporter. It adds a little label next to any page object which you can configure to show whatever information you need to see without having to dig through panels: Effective resolution, Name and/or path of the placed image, Name of the currently selected story, word count, and many more (you can even make your own if you know a little Javascript!). They’ve written up a detailed explanation of all the options and how their customers have used FrameReporter to streamline their work.  Normally $39.00 US, you can get it for 50% off if you enter the coupon code INDESIGNSECRETS193 upon purchase. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > This episode was recorded a few days before PEPCON (our Print + ePublishing Conference) > Diane's company: TransPacificDigital > Diane's titles at lynda.com include Multilingual Publishing Strategies in InDesign and InDesign Tables in Depth > World Tools plug-in for multilingual publishing > InDesignSecrets posts about multilingual publishing: Diacritics, Typesetting Hebrew, Foreign Language Characters, Non-English Placeholder Text, Changing the Language with Find/Change, Change UI Language, Bilingual Documents > Diane and Sandee Cohen's Digital Publishing with InDesign book has a companion web site > In the podcast, Diane mentioned running a VMware version of the Mac OS inside Mac OS so you can have more than one language running, or for testing. Here's how to do that with Mountain Lion

The latter half of the twentieth century highlighted the failure of redemptive understandings of the Shoah. Dividing the history of Holocaust studies into separable periods, we may identify (1) a period of silence, in which the survivors endeavored to speak and few cared to listen (1945-1960); (2) a period in which redemptive narratives flourished, begun perhaps with the Eichmann trial, and represented in popular culture by an event like the TV production "Holocaust" (1960-1985); and (3) a period in which anti-redemptive narratives began to appear, marked for example by Claude Lanzmann's film, Shoah, or the various stages of the so-called Historickerstreit, among other ways of engaging non-representational or anti-representational understandings--trauma studies, for example (1985-present). I wonder whether for the past ten years or so we have been broaching a fourth moment, one no longer focused exclusively upon either conscious or unconscious understandings but one that would include a new emphasis upon the structure of interpretation itself, and one in which the re-articulations of silences of the past, the activation of redemptive narratives, and the challenges to such interpretations (either in the form of anti-redemptive accounts or the invention of counter memory and counter redemptive accounts) would assume new significance in historiography, cultural analysis, literary analysis, and the modalities of memorialization. Sandor Goodhart is Director of Interdisciplinary Program in Classics, former Director of Jewish studies, and faculty in Philosophy and Literature Ph.D. Program at Purdue University. Goodhart received his Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo and was one of the earliest graduate fellows of the School of Criticism and Theory at the University of California at Irvine. With his English background, Goodhart specializes in dramatic literature, literary theory and criticism, and Jewish Studies. Good hart has published articles in Diacritics, Philosophy And Literature, and Modern Judaism, among many others. He is also a member of various editorial boards, including Contagion: Journal of Mimesis, Religion, and Culture and Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Currently Goodhart is at work on two books: Moebian Nights: Literary Reading After Auschwitz and The Tears of Esau: Reading, Revelation, And The Prophetic.

Great Scott! Hosts Phil & Eric think awfully hard on the sounds of the lexical sets lot, cloth, thought. A set up for the trifecta (tetrafecta?) of our next few shows, in this episode we talk through the sounds typically associated with these lexical sets, particularly in “standard” accents like Received Pronunciation, so-called General American, Canadian, and the tendency for cloth to merge with either lot or thought.Typical Sounds encountered in these lexical sets range from a type aɑ script aɒ turned script aɔ open oDiacritics discussed:o̞ loweredo̝ raised o̘ Advanced Tongue Root (forward)o̙ Retracted Tongue Root (back)o̟ Advancedo̠ retractedo̽ mid-centralizedö centralizedo̹ roundedo̜ unrounded

So, zis iz eet! Our show about those two hissy consonants, /s/ and /z/. Phil and Eric chat their way through a discussion of sibilance, and spend a lot of time talking about so-called-gay-speech, and other aspects of what may be perceived as the continuum of masculinity/femininity in speakers, regardless of gender, sexual orientation or affectional preferences. Show Notes:Voiced/ Voiceless Apical/Laminal Alveolar Fricative (sibilant)FormationEither tongue tip up or down, narrowing behind the upper front teeth; groove down the center of the tongue; pulmonic air pressureSibilants, sibilance, hyper-sibilant, hypo-sibilantDentalizationJaw thrustHow to explore/modify degree of sibilanceGarden Hose metaphor: like putting your thumb over the end of the hoseadjust: • the size of the hose (make the groove wider, relax your tongue)• your thumb position (aim the air stream more/less at your teeth or gum ridge; explore laminal or apical articulation; check jaw position)• turn the water down (less air pressure)Story of teacher who told me to say "'even 'wan' 'wam 'wiftly and 'ilently".Symbols s/zDiacritics: dental (subscript bridge: a little tooth-like staple shape) apical (subscript turned bridge)laminal (subscript box)Symbol History:Proto-semitic: bum shape; Phoenician shin: W; Etruscan S, angular 3 shape; Greek Sigma Σ; The minuscule form of s was ſ, called the long s, up to the fifteenth century or so, and the form 'S' was used then only as upper case, just like 'G' and 'A' were only upper case. With the introduction of printing, the modern form s began to be used at the end of words by some printers. Later, it was used everywhere and eventually spread to manuscript letters as well. For example, "sinfulness" would be rendered as "ſinfulneſſ" in all medieval hands, later it was "ſinfulneſs" in some blackletter hands and in print. The modern usage "sinfulness" didn't become widespread in print until the beginning of the 19th century, largely to prevent confusion of 'ſ' with the lower case f in typefaces which had a very short horizontal stroke in their lowercase 'f'. The ligature of ſs (or ſz) became the German ess-tsett, ß.Occurrence -s plurals: when ending is after a voiceless consonant, (or, arguably, at the end of an utterance)-z plurals: when end is after a voiced consonant or a vowel-es plurals: Words Ending in 'sh', 'ch', 's', 'x', and 'z'Pathology: lispsLaterial Lisp: substitutes voiceless ɬ and voiced ɮ for s and zInterdental Lisp: substitutes voiceless θ and voiced ð for s and zPalatal Lisp: substitutes voiceless ç and voiced ʝ for s and zWhistle /s/: gopher from Winnie the PoohSo-called-Gay-LispWikipedia: Two studies (Linville, 1998; Munson et al., 2006) did find that a subset of gay men produce /s/ distinctively; however, the way in which /s/ was pronounced—with a high peak frequency and a highly negatively skewed spectrum—made it more distinctive from other similar sounds, rather than less. That is, this was arguably a hyper-correct /s/.[5][6]Rogers et al found that what people perceived as "gayer sounding" was longer duration /s/ and /z/ and higher peak frequencies for s,z. He also found that their vowels tended to be more "Distinct", that is, more spread out on the vowel chart.Gender difference around /s/ pitch exerciseKorean /s/ tense and lax? Dutch /s/Sean ConneryRSC /s/

Filip talks about books, his dearest possession, being the Czech Atypi delegate, his Diacritics project Atypi :: The 2004 Atypi conference in Prague :: Diacritics project :: File Download (9:59 min / 12 MB)

Sheila Ngoc Pham is a writer, editor and producer working across radio, print, online and screen. She regularly writes for literary and mainstream publications, and collaborates closely with cultural and art institutions. She is Contributing Editor (Australia) for diaCRITICS, the online journal for the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, and recently co-edited Kill Your Darlings' Vietnam Showcase. Sheila has held digital and editorial roles at the ABC and continues to produce radio documentaries and stories for ABC Radio National. She co-produced 'Tongue Tied and Fluent', a five-part series exploring multilingualism in Australia, which won an ABU-UNESCO Together for Peace Media Award 2021.Her previous radio features include The Lost Cinema of Tan Hiep and Saigon's Wartime Beat. Sheila is undertaking a PhD at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and casually lectures in public health ethics at Macquarie University. She lives on Dharug land in Sydney with her husband and two children.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-vietnamese-with-kenneth-nguyen/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy