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Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph.D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literature, art, music, and intellectual history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. In this episode we discuss his book Modernism and Mimesis. Book link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-53134-8 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (FSG, 2023), which explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am." Well before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors' “animal spirits,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. Have a listen to our conversation here. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (FSG, 2023), which explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am." Well before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors' “animal spirits,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. Have a listen to our conversation here. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (FSG, 2023), which explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am." Well before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors' “animal spirits,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. Have a listen to our conversation here. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (FSG, 2023), which explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am." Well before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors' “animal spirits,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. Have a listen to our conversation here. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (FSG, 2023), which explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am." Well before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors' “animal spirits,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. Have a listen to our conversation here. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In this interview the distinguished historian Jackson Lears talks about his latest book, Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street (FSG, 2023), which explores an alternative American cultural history by tracking the thinkers who championed the individual's spontaneous energies and the idea of a living universe against the strictures of conventional religion, business, and politics. From Puritan times to today, Lears traces ideas and fads such as hypnosis and faith healing from the pulpit and stock exchange to the streets and the betting table. We meet the great prophets of American vitality, from Walt Whitman and William James to Andrew Jackson Davis (the “Poughkeepsie Seer”) and the “New Thought” pioneer Helen Wilmans, who spoke of the “god within—rendering us diseaseless incarnations of the great I Am." Well before John Maynard Keynes stressed the reliance of capitalism on investors' “animal spirits,” these vernacular vitalists established an American religion of embodied mind that also suited the needs of the marketplace. In the twentieth century, the vitalist impulse would be enlisted in projects of violent and racially charged national regeneration by Theodore Roosevelt and his legatees, even as African American writers confronted the paradoxes of primitivism and the 1960s counterculture imagined new ways of inspiriting the universe. Today, scientists are rediscovering the best features of the vitalist tradition—permitting us to reclaim the role of chance and spontaneity in the conduct of our lives and our understanding of the cosmos. Have a listen to our conversation here. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. 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

Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph.D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literature, art, music, and intellectual history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. --- --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

Pius Akumbu is a senior researcher at Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique (LLACAN), a research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and INaLCO University that specializes in the study of the languages and cultures of Africa. Before joining LLACAN, Pius was a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg from 2019 to 2021. Before leaving Cameroon, Pius taught Linguistics courses at the universities of Buea and Bamenda. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon, including his mother tongue, Babanki. Additionally, Pius researches multilingualism in Cameroon as well as language planning and policy in Africa. He is an ELDP grant recipient, and a depositor at the Endangered Languages Archive. Since November 2022, Pius has been one of the Endangered Languages Project's (ELP) language revitalization mentors.

Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia's imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be higher. It follows that grappling with Russia's imperial history is inescapable. After all, “[s]elective, exaggerated or patently false reimaginings” of the past “have been central to Russia's justification of its claims on its neighbor to the southwest,” write today's guests in the introduction to his new edited volume. Picturing Russian Empire offers an rich, sweeping overview of the history of Russia from the tenth century to the present through the connections between empire and visuality. Using thought provoking images, Picturing Russian Empire presents readers with a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times in more than a millennium of history. Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, Picturing Russian Empire consistently raises big historical questions to stimulate readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire. The authors challenge the reader to not only to see images as the creations of individuals, but as objects circulating among viewers in a variety of contexts, creating new impressions, meanings, and experiences. Valerie A. Kivelson is Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Cartographies of Tsardom, Desperate Magic, and Autocracy in the Provinces. Joan Neuberger Professor emerita of at the University of Texas at Austin. Her books include: This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia (Cornell: 2019) and Hooliganism: Crime, Culture & Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914. Sergei Kozlov is senior researcher at Tiumen State University in Siberia, Russia and a trained medievalist. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find a case where governments—be it an empire, republic, or nation—were completely left out of the picture. At least, that is how it's been historically. Questions about how people and other types of entities organize and generate capital, AND the role that governments play in all of this, fill libraries. The ramifications of the dynamics and rules surrounding money have proved so consequential—and increasingly so, in our increasingly technologized world—that it is no surprise that historians have devoted much energy to the study of political economy. Political economy, in the broadest terms, is the subject of our conversation today. Today on History Ex we put two recent books that bring important perspectives to these questions in conversation with each other. In this conversation Philip Stern and Quinn Slobodian discuss: • Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by Philip J. Stern. • Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Metropolitan Books, 2023), by Quinn Slobodian. The periods of time being studied are centuries apart and marked by much innovation. Our authors find points of convergence as well as divergence in aims, methods, and outcomes of the people at the center of their books. Stern and Slobodian discuss methodologies and chronologies, the ideologies that animated their actors, how memory and history were mobilized in promoting various visions; they probe the historian's perennial challenges of disentangling ideologies from interest, explain how similar actions in different historical contexts can demand different interpretations; and more. Philip Stern is an associate professor of History at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. His work focuses on various aspects of the legal, political, intellectual, and business histories that shaped the British Empire. He is also the author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) and many other scholarly works. Quinn Slobodian is a professor of the history at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. He is also the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), which has been translated into six languages, and a frequent contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, The New York, Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent and the Nation. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you are reading this, it's probably hard—nearly impossible—to imagine a world without writing—without print, books, newspapers, signs, graffiti, advertisements, forms, letters, texts, internet memes, and New Books Network blogposts like this one. How would you do your work? How would you communicate with your friends and family? How would you learn about the world around you? The historians in this conversation have written path-breaking books that deepen our understanding of an age when the written word was still emerging as a feature in everyday life. These books focus on different places—Russia and the Netherlands—where writing and print emerged quite differently but they share a deep erudition and ambitious methodological creativity in endeavoring to account for the ephemeral. Simon Franklin is emeritus professor of Russian history at University of Cambridge, Clare College. His books include Writing Society and Culture in Early Rus, 950–1300 (2002), The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200 (1996), co-authored with Jonathan Shepard, and Information and Empire: mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600–1850 (2017), co-edited with Katherine Bowers. In The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850 (Cambridge UP, 2019) Franklin reconstructs with deep erudition and carefully contextualized sleuthing the concrete and conceptual ways in which people in Russia from the mid-sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries encountered various types of writing. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen are historians at University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Pettegree's books include The Invention of News (2014), Brand Luther: 1517, printing and the making of the Reformation (2015), and most recently, The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict (2023). Arthur der Weduwen followed up his award-winning first monograph, Dutch and Flemish Newspapers of the Seventeenth Century with the newly released State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age (2023). As has Simon Franklin, they have brought great creativity to the history of texts. Known for its now world-famous still life paintings produced by the affluent incubator of capitalism that was the seventeenth-century Netherlands, Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale UP, 2020) shows us that what was going onto the canvases in the Dutch Golden Age paled in comparison to what was coming off the printing presses. With many unexpected revelations, this ambitious attempt to account for the (perhaps?) countless texts that did not survive demonstrates how the production, distribution, and consumption of books was central to economic, political, and cultural life in seventeenth-century Netherlands. They continue to collaborate on the Universal Short Title Catalogue and have also co-authored The Library: A Fragile History (2021). Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian Merkel, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, about his first book, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. 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

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/animal-studies

The Soviet Union killed over six hundred thousand whales in the twentieth century, many of them illegally and secretly. That catch helped bring many whale species to near extinction by the 1970s, and the impacts of this loss of life still ripple through today's oceans.  In this new account, based on formerly secret Soviet archives and interviews with ex-whalers, environmental historian Ryan Tucker Jones offers a complete history of the role the Soviet Union played in the whales' destruction. As other countries—especially the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Norway—expanded their pursuit of whales to all corners of the globe, Stalin determined that the Soviet Union needed to join the hunt. What followed was a spectacularly prodigious, and often wasteful, destruction of humpback, fin, sei, right, and sperm whales in the Antarctic and the North Pacific, done in knowing violation of the International Whaling Commission's rules. Cold War intrigue encouraged this destruction, but, as Jones shows, there is a more complex history behind this tragic Soviet experiment. Jones compellingly describes the ultimate scientific irony: today's cetacean studies benefited from Soviet whaling, as Russian scientists on whaling vessels made key breakthroughs in understanding whale natural history and behavior. And in a final twist, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (U Chicago Press, 2022) reveals how the Soviet public began turning against their own country's whaling industry, working in parallel with Western environmental organizations like Greenpeace to help end industrial whaling—not long before the world's whales might have disappeared altogether. Erika Monahan is the author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell UP, 2016) and a 2023-2024 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

This lecture was given on April 15th, 2023 at the University of Rochester. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his Ph.D., he taught in the Department of Theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011-12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. Isaac was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018. He has taught at Providence since August of the same year.

Bjorn Stevens is the Director of the Max Plank Institute for Meteorology in Berlin - Bjorn is a top climate scientist, with particular expertise in clouds. New climate model simulations of the world - EVE) Earth Virtualisation EnginesHuman vs science-centric climate scienceEarth in 100 yearsDarwin and the theory of e-0volutionIt's also clear that humans are responsible for global warming and not enough is being done if the goal is to stop the warming, whats the scientific consequence of that?What's the difference between 2 and 1,5 degrees of warming?How AI aids people with different backgrounds and knowledge bases to understand the same thingsWhat is Bjorn Stevens's favourite thing about clouds?Born 1966 in Augsburg. Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, USA (1990), PhD in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA (1996), Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Advanced Study Program of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, USA (1996 - 1998), Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (1998 - 1999), University of California (UCLA), USA, Department of Atmospheric Sciences: Assistant Professor (1999), Associate Professor (2003), Professor (tenured, 2007), Affiliate Scientist at NCAR (since 2000), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (since 2008).The Max Planck Society conducts basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities. It was founded in 1948 as a successor organisation to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and has 30 Nobel laureates in its ranks. With its 85 Max Planck Institutes and facilities, it is the international flagship for German science: in addition to institutions outside of Germany, it operates another 20 Max Planck Centers with research institutions such as Princeton University in the USA, the Paris University Science Po in France, the University College London in UK, and the University of Tokyo in Japan. Equally funded by federal and state governments, the University College London in UK, and the University of Tokyo in Japan. Equally funded by federal and state governments, the Max Planck Society had an annual budget of 1.98 billion Euros in 2022.https://www.mpg.de/343990/meteorology-stevenslatestthinking.orgIf you want better insights into challenges and decisions you or your business are facing, GARI's analytical services are of unmatched complexity and high accuracy - whether your questions are on the green energy transition, trade and supply chains, or political and security related - contact us for a free consultation and see how you can optimise your decision-making.www.globari.org@LinkedIn @GARInstitute) / Twitter

In today's podcast episode, I talk with Renee Wegrzyn,  appointed by President Biden as the first director of a federal agency created last year called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H. It's inspired by DARPA, the agency that develops innovations for the Defense department and has been credited with hatching world changing technologies such as ARPANET, which became the internet.Time will tell if ARPA-H will lead to similar achievements in the realm of health. That's what President Biden and Congress expect in return for funding ARPA-H at 2.5 billion dollars over three years. How will the agency figure out which projects to take on, especially with so many patient advocates for different diseases demanding moonshot funding for rapid progress. I talked with Dr. Wegrzyn about the opportunities and challenges, what lessons ARPA-H is borrowing from Operation Warp Speed, how she decided on the first ARPA-H project which was just announced recently, why a separate agency was needed instead of trying to reform HHS and the National Institutes of Health to be better at innovation, and how ARPA-H will make progress on disease prevention in addition to treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, among many other health priorities.Dr. Wegrzyn's resume is filled with experience for her important role. She was a program manager at DARPA where she focused on applying gene editing and synthetic biology to the goal of improving biosecurity. For her work there, she was given the Superior Public Service Medal and, just in case that wasn't enough ARPA experience, she also worked at another ARPA that leads advanced projects in intelligence, called I-ARPA. Before that, she was in charge of technical teams in the private sector working on gene therapies and disease diagnostics, among other areas. She has been a vice president of business development at Gingko Bioworks and headed innovation at Concentric by Gingko. Her training and education includes a PhD and undergraduate degree in applied biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and she did her postdoc as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Heidelberg, Germany.As Dr. Wegrzyn told me, she's “in the hot seat” - the pressure is on for ARPA-H especially after the need and potential for health innovation was spot lit by the pandemic and the unprecedented speed of vaccine development. We'll soon find out if ARPA-H can produce something in health that's equivalent to DARPA's creation of the internet.Show links:ARPA-H - https://arpa-h.gov/Dr. Wegrzyn profile - https://arpa-h.gov/people/renee-wegrzyn/Dr. Wegrzyn Twitter - https://twitter.com/rwegrzyn?lang=enPresident Biden Announces Dr. Wegrzyn's appointment - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/09/12/president-biden-announces-intent-to-appoint-dr-renee-wegrzyn-as-inaugural-director-of-advanced-research-projects-agency-for-health-arpa-h/Leaps.org coverage of ARPA-H - https://leaps.org/arpa/ARPA-H program for joints to heal themselves - https://arpa-h.gov/news/nitro/ - ARPA-H virtual talent search - https://arpa-h.gov/news/aco-talent-search/Leaps.org is a not-for-profit initiative that publishes award-winning journalism, popularizes scientific progress on social media, and hosts events about bioethics and the future of humanity. Visit the platform at www.leaps.org. Podcast host Matt Fuchs is editor-in-chief of Leaps.org.

ESG Decoded is a podcast powered by ClimeCo to share updates related to business innovation and sustainability in a clear and actionable manner. In this episode, Amanda Hsieh talks with Piper Wilder, Founder & CEO of 60Hertz Energy, a Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) for microgrids. From villages to remote industrial sites like mines, telecom, or fleets of backup power units, this software enables assets and those who maintain them to reach their full potential. Piper is a Humboldt Fellow and the former Vice President of Amatis Controls. She is committed to creating meaningful work and enabling a transition to renewable energy while economizing necessary diesel use. Piper holds multiple awards for her entrepreneurship and social impact initiatives. Listen as Amanda and Piper discuss how microgrids are a resiliency tool and are used to bring power to hard-to-reach communities. Maintenance of these assets is true sustainability - shifting the focus from replacement to repair and creating maintenance jobs in underserved communities. (What a significant tie to the 'E' & 'S' in ESG!) Additionally, Piper explains how 60Hertz deploys a human-centered approach to designing better products by engaging the end users in the process. Make sure to subscribe to ESG Decoded on your favorite streaming platforms and our new YouTube Channel so that you're notified of our vodcast episodes! Don't forget to connect with us on our social media channels. Enjoy this episode! Episode Resource Links 60Hertz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/60hertz-energy 60Hertz Website: www.60hertzenergy.com Hail the Maintainers / Favorite Article: https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more

This week we're featuring Dr Yihui Quek, a postdoctoral researcher and Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. Dr Quek did her undergraduate degree at MIT, followed by postgraduate studies at Stanford, and is currently in her first postdoctoral position.For more information and a full audio transcript, see our website insidequantum.org.

This lecture was given on February 22, 2022 at the University of Dallas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011-12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

Dr. Scott Lafontaine, Humboldt Fellow at the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB), joins Cade in the lab this week to talk about his work on the impact on-bine maturity has on Cascade hop aroma. The Brü Lab is brought to you by Imperial Yeast who provide brewers with the most viable and fresh yeast on the market. Learn more about what Imperial Yeast has to offer at ImperialYeast.com today. | Read More | Impact of harvest maturity on the aroma characteristics and chemistry of Cascade hops used for dry-hopping

Piper Foster Wilder is the Founder and CEO of 60Hertz Microgrids. The company develops software to maintain microgrids — from village infrastructure to remote industrial sites to resiliency microgrids on critical infrastructure. The company has won more than seven national and international awards for its work. In 2020, Piper became a Tory Burch Foundation Fellow. Foster Wilder came to Alaska to serve as Deputy Director of the Renewable Energy Alaska Project in Anchorage. There she became acquainted with the opportunity and challenges of project development, financing, and maintenance of remote power grids. Foster Wilder was previously the Vice President of Amatis Controls, an Internet of Things company. She was named in Aspen Magazine's Ten Women of Aspen. Foster Wilder is a Humboldt Fellow who worked at Ecologic Institute in Berlin for several years and authored several papers on utility-scale renewables. She lives in Anchorage with her husband and 3 yr old daughter. Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piper-foster-wilder-323a3710/ Learn more about her business and company links here: http://www.60hertzenergy.com https://blog.60hertzenergy.com/?_ga=2.32026295.826665670.1621385076-1862972299.1621119749

Piper Foster Wilder is the Founder and CEO of 60Hertz Microgrids. The company develops software to maintain microgrids — from village infrastructure, to remote industrial sites, to resiliency microgrids on critical infrastructure. Foster Wilder came to Alaska to serve as Deputy Director of the Renewable Energy Alaska Project in Anchorage. There she became acquainted with the opportunity and challenges of project development, financing, and maintenance of remote power grids. In 2016, Foster Wilder led a contract with the Colorado Energy Office to develop a solar-thermal-as-a-service program in partnership with six Rural Electric Cooperatives in Colorado's Western Slope.  Foster Wilder came to clean tech through her work as Vice President of Amatis Controls, an Internet of Things company. There, she developed their thermal metering product line, opening markets in Austria, Germany and North America. During this time she was named in Aspen Magazine's Ten Women of Aspen. Prior to this she helped launch Colorado's Energy Smart initiative.  Foster Wilder is a Humboldt Fellow and worked at Ecologic Institute in Berlin for two years studying land use planning to accommodate large renewable installations. She served as Executive Director of the McBride Family's Sopris Foundation from 2005-2010, and was responsible for all aspects of the Foundation's annual conference on Best Practices in Sustainability for Western Communities, which drew 200+ elected officials, land-use planners, and decision makers from the intermountain West each year. She lives in Anchorage with her husband, commercial photographer, Nathaniel Wilder, and their daughter Bingitt. About 60Hertz: https://www.60hertzenergy.com/ (60Hertz) is a Computerized Maintenance Management System software (CMMS) which compliments monitoring/control hardware by enabling field technicians or mechanics to create work orders/tickets at site – even with limited cellular or wifi connectivity – using an app. The software enables photo documentation of the site, preventative maintenance, messaging and reports. The solution is flexible for any generation asset, works for SmartMeters, and even appliances like fridges or radios. Data from monitoring hardware + field activities can be aggregated and visible at our Maintenance Manager for Supervisors and Admins. WhatsApp and Excel will not enable scale; 60Hertz builds a culture of maintenance to ensure that assets achieve their full lifespan and personnel their full potential. 60Hertz is active across the Arctic, in Latin America, the Caribbean and SubSaharan Africa. Customers include utility companies, Original Equipment Manufacturers, and microgrid developers. -- CONNECT WITH THE WILD FEATHER -- Website: https://www.thewildfeatherpodcast.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewildfeatherpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewildfeather_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewildfeatherpodcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thewildfeatherpodcast

Konstantin Vodopyanov obtained his MS from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (“Phys-Tech”) and his PhD and DSc (Habilitation) from the Oscillations Lab. of Lebedev Physical Institute (later General Physics Inst.), led by Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov. He was an assistant professor at the Moscow Phys-Tech (1985-90) and later did research as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany (1990-92), and at Imperial College, London, UK (1992-98). In 1998, he moved to the United States to became head of the laser group at Inrad, Inc., NJ (1998-2000), and later director of mid-IR systems at Picarro, Inc.,CA (2000-2003). His other industry experience includes co-founding and providing technical guidance for several US and European companies. In 2003 he returned to Academia (Stanford University, 2003-2013) and is now an Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics and Physics at CREOL, the College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida. Konstantin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering, UK Institute of Physics (IOP). His research interests are lasers and their spectroscopic and biomedical applications. His passion is music, hiking is wild jungles of Florida, swimming in the ocean, and long bicycle rides.FIND KONSTANTIN ON SOCIAL MEDIALinkedIn | Facebook

Konstantin Vodopyanov obtained his MS from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (“Phys-Tech”) and his PhD and DSc (Habilitation) from the Oscillations Lab. of Lebedev Physical Institute (later General Physics Inst.), led by Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov. He was an assistant professor at the Moscow Phys-Tech (1985-90) and later did research as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany (1990-92), and at Imperial College, London, UK (1992-98). In 1998, he moved to the United States to became head of the laser group at Inrad, Inc., NJ (1998-2000), and later director of mid-IR systems at Picarro, Inc.,CA (2000-2003). His other industry experience includes co-founding and providing technical guidance for several US and European companies. In 2003 he returned to Academia (Stanford University, 2003-2013) and is now an Endowed Chair & Professor of Optics and Physics at CREOL, the College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida. Konstantin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering, UK Institute of Physics (IOP). His research interests are lasers and their spectroscopic and biomedical applications. His passion is music, hiking is wild jungles of Florida, swimming in the ocean, and long bicycle rides. FIND KONSTANTIN ON SOCIAL MEDIA LinkedIn | Facebook ================================ SUPPORT & CONNECT: Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrich Twitter: https://twitter.com/denofrich Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denofrich YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrich Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/ Hashtag: #denofrich © Copyright 2022 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

Jane Lo, Singapore Correspondent speaks with Professor Sean Smith, Director at National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) following SuperComputing Asia 2021. Professor Sean Smith commenced as Director of the NCI in January 2018 and is conjointly Professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the Australian National University. He has extensive theoretical and computational research experience in chemistry, nanomaterials and nano-bio science and technology. He returned to Australia in 2014 at UNSW Sydney, founding and directing the Integrated Materials Design Centre to drive an integrated program of materials design, discovery and characterization. Prior to this, he directed the US Department of Energy funded Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of five major DOE nanoscience research and user facilities in the US, through its 2011-2013 triennial phase. During his earlier career, he joined The University of Queensland as junior faculty in 1993 after post-doctoral research at UC Berkeley (1991-1993) and Universität Göttingen (Humboldt Fellow 1989-1991); became Professor and Director of the Centre for Computational Molecular Science 2002-2011; and built up the computational nanobio science and technology laboratory the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) at UQ 2006-2011. He worked with colleagues in the ARC (Australian Research Council) Center of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials 2002-2011 as Program Leader (Computational Nanoscience) and Deputy Director (Internationalisation). Professor Smith has published over 330 refereed journal papers with more than 22,000 citations. In 1998 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. In 2006 he was recipient of a Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2012 he was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). He received his PhD in theoretical chemistry from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1989. In this podcast, Professor Smith discusses the evolution of Australian high performance computing (HPC) and its pivotal role in advancing science that delivers societal and economic value.  He introduces NCI’s supercomputer Gadi, and its architecture driving its processing capabilities, currently ranked as the most powerful in the southern hemisphere. Using the examples of the cyclone and bushfire that he presented at the SuperComputing Asia 2021 conference, Professor Smith explains how Gadi’s exascale compute tackles the challenges of building models at levels of complexity that were previously not possible.  He also highlights how big data and analytics is relied upon by big agency mission science (such as geoscience, earth and climate science), and decision makers in private sectors for more accurate and timely information. These aspects, he notes, are increasingly critical to enable, for examples, more effective disaster event responses and further practical applications of medical research. Recorded: 5th March 2021 SGT 7.30am/ Canberra 10.30am. MySecurity Media were proud media partners to SuperComputing Asia 2021.  

In this episode, I chat with Prof. Anant Kapdi, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Dyes at the Institute of Chemical Technology. He received his PhD in 2008 under the supervision of Dr. Fairlamb at York University and completed a postdoc in the research group of Prof. Lutz Ackermann at the Georg-August-University Gottingen as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow before joining the faculty at the Institute of Chemical Technology. He also served as the inaugural Deputy Director of the Institute of Chemical Technology. Prof. Kapdi's research focuses on the development of synthetically efficient processes using novel metallacycles. We indulge in a fantastic conversation on his incredible journey in science and chemistry in particular; terrific mentors who have influenced and inspired him; groundbreaking research at the frontiers of palladium chemistry; translational research and the importance of industry-academia collaboration; donning administrative roles and helping build a new institute; founding the Innovation & Sustainability Chemistry Consortium (ISCC) to answer the pressing challenges of the day; and many more things!!

Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Leonard Mlodinow was Stephen’s closest colleague in his final years. Who better to put us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for wine and curry; shares his feelings on love, death, and disability; and grapples with deep questions of philosophy and physics. Whether depicting Hawking’s devotion to his work or demonstrating how he would make spur of the moment choices, such as punting on the River Cam (despite the risk the jaunt posed), or spinning tales of Hawking defiantly urinating in the hedges outside a restaurant that doesn’t have a wheelchair-accessible toilet, Mlodinow captures his indomitable spirit. This deeply affecting account of a friendship teaches us not just about the nature and practice of physics but also about life and the human capacity to overcome daunting obstacles. my previous conversation with Len, Deepak Chopra and Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/E-8mF4HWDnE?sub_confirmation=1 Get the book here https://amzn.to/3gWgS7U Len received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include the bestsellers The Grand Design and A Briefer History of Time (coauthored with Stephen Hawking), Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award), and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), as well as Elastic, Euclid’s Window, Feynman’s Rainbow, and The Upright Thinkers. 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:39 The story of the book cover 00:08:05 Stephen Hawking Inc. 00:12:51 Living with ALS 00:15:55 Hawking Radiation 00:16:28 The origin of the book 00:18:51 How do you rebuke Stephen Hawking!? 00:20:45 Even Stephen Hawking got writer’s block 00:28:27 Our book is NOT an argument against God. 00:29:49 More thoughts on God how Hawking was “Israeli”! 00:30:54 Do singularities exist? Can we ever know? 00:33:50 What was Stephen Hawking’s philosophy of science? 00:38:45 Have you ever “seen” a triangle? An example of realism. 00:42:42 What could the role of God be in the universe? 00:56:04 Which was the more jarring event: completing your last collaboration with Professor Hawking or his death? 00:59:28 How did Leonard balance his life while collaborating with Prof. Hawking? 01:00:37 What would you tell Stephen now if you could? 01:01:27 Thrilling 3 Final Questions 01:01:56 What is in your “Ethical Will”? 01:04:27 What would you put on your monolith? 01:09:25 What advice would you give to your younger self? Watch my most popular videos: Jim Simons, the World’s Smartest Billionaire  Bill Perkins: DIE WITH ZERO:  Patrick Bet-David YOUR NEXT FIVE MOVES  Sheldon Glashow Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner  Frank Wilczek Jill Tarter  Eric Weinst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does your mind create matter? What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object? What is the nature of free will? Find out, in this special episode of the Into the Impossible Podcast in collaboration with Deepak Chopra’s “Chopra Well”. Fundamentals: Closer to Truth: A Look at the work of Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek and physicists Leonard Mlodinow and Brian Keating. In this riveting conversation, co-hosted with Deepak Chopra, physicists Frank Wilczek, author of Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, Leonard Mlodinow co- author with Stephen Hawking of two books, The Grand Design and A Briefer History of Time, and me discuss what we know about the physical world, questions that fundamental science cannot address, and more. Frank Wilczek is world-renowned both as a theoretical physicist and as a writer and speaker on science. He has received many honors for his work, notably including the Nobel Prize. Watch my first video with Frank here: https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0 Find Frank here: frankawilczek.com Massachusetts Institute of Technology | T.D. Lee Institute & Wilczek Quantum Center Shanghai Jiao Tong University | Arizona State University | Stockholm University. Frank has literary and inventive projects in the works. Frank has an insatiable appetite for puzzles and games. He is also an avid, though mediocre, musician. And he is proud of his family. Wilczek has made seminal contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials. His current research focus includes Axions, Anyons, and Time Crystals. These are concepts in physics which he named and pioneered. Each has become a major focus of world-wide research. In recent years Frank has become fascinated with prospects for expanding perception through technology. He is developing hardware and software tools for this. He has authored several well-known books, and writes a monthly “Wilczek’s Universe” feature for the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality will be released on January 12, 2021. LEONARD MLODINOW received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include the best sellers The Grand Design and A Briefer History of Time (both with Stephen Hawking), Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award), and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), as well as Elastic, Euclid’s Window, Feynman’s Rainbow, and The Upright Thinkers. His latest book, “Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics” released on November 8, 2020. https://leonardmlodinow.com/ Watch my most popular videos: Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose https://youtu.be/H8G5onAqlVo?sub_confirmation=1 Juan Maldacena’s First Podcast Interview: https://youtu.be/uIzTliTHn7s?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This talk was given on September 26, 2020 as part of the Thomistic Institute's East Coast Intellectual Retreat. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011/12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

This talk was given on September 26, 2020 as part of the Thomistic Institute's East Coast Intellectual Retreat. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011/12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

One of the most influential physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking touched the lives of millions. Recalling his nearly two decades as Hawking’s collaborator and friend, Leonard Mlodinow brings this complex man into focus in a unique and deeply personal portrayal. We meet Hawking the genius, who employed his mind to uncover the mysteries of the universe — ultimately formulating a pathbreaking theory of black holes that reignited the discipline of cosmology and paved the way for physicists to investigate the origins of the universe in completely new ways. We meet Hawking the colleague, a man whose illness leaves him able to communicate at only six words per minute but who expends the effort to punctuate his conversations with humor. And we meet Hawking the friend, who could convey volumes with a frown, a smile, or simply a raised eyebrow. Modinow puts us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for wine and curry; shares his feelings on love, death, and disability; and grapples with deep questions of philosophy and physics. This deeply affecting account of a friendship teaches us not just about the nature and practice of physics but also about life and the human capacity to overcome daunting obstacles. Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: what it was like working with Stephen Hawking, what Stephen Hawking was like as a person and personality, Hawking’s place in the pantheon of great physicists in the history of science, Hawking’s major contributions to physics, What is grand about the grand design of the universe? model dependent realism and the philosophy of science, Can we ever know reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? What caused the Big Bang to bang? What there was before time began? Why does the universe look fine-tuned and designed? Is the universe itself a giant black hole? Did the universe begin in a singularity? Hawking’s beliefs about God and why the concept isn’t necessary to explain the universe. Leonard Mlodinow received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California, Berkeley, was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, and was on the faculty of the California Institute of Technology. His previous books include the best sellers The Grand Design and A Briefer History of Time (coauthored with Stephen Hawking), Subliminal (winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award), and War of the Worldviews (with Deepak Chopra), as well as Elastic, Euclid’s Window, Feynman’s Rainbow, and The Upright Thinkers.

This episode marks the Season Two finale with Professor Pius Akumbu, an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon, including his mother tongue, Babanki. Additionally, Pius researches multilingualism in Cameroon as well as language planning and policy in Africa. He is an ELDP grant recipient and a depositor at the Endangered Languages Archive. He is also a member of the KPAAM-CAM project.  Things mentioned in this episode:Babanki languageMultimedia Documentation of Babanki Ritual Speech (ELAR deposit)KPAAM-CAM projectNjem (Njyem) language Cameroonian Pidgin EnglishELDPFirebird FoundationFoundation For Endangered LanguagesEndangered Language FundPius Akumbu's websiteBabanki literacy classes and community-based language research by Pius Akumbu (2018)Episode 13: Jeff Good on Facilitating Language Documentation in Cameroon Get in touch: Website: https://fieldnotespod.comEmail: fieldnotespod@gmail.comTwitter & Instagram: @lingfieldnotesField Notes Support Page

This episode marks the Season Two finale with Professor Pius Akumbu, who is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg since January 2019. He received his PhD in Linguistics from The University of Yaounde 1, in Cameroon. His research focuses … Continue reading Ep 24: Pius Akumbu on Insider Research in Babanki

Amigo ouvinte, estamos de volta em meio à pandemia de COVID-19 e iniciamos nossa temporada 2020 com uma entrevista incrível que fizemos com o Professor Fernando Buarque. Ele nos deu uma aula sobre as diversas revoluções tecnológicas da Humanidade e como chegamos à Inteligência Artificial, que está transformando não apenas os mercados mas a própria teia social. Conversamos sobre a preocupação que a indústria discute e estuda, não apenas em criar algorítimos e tecnologias mais inteligentes, mas principalmente mais éticos e transparentes. O nosso convidado, o Fernando Buarque, é Ph.D. em Inteligência Artificial pelo Imperial College – London, com Estágios Pós-Doutorais na Universidade de Münster – Alemanha e Universidade da Florida – EUA. Professor Associado e Livre Docente da Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE). Ele é Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Membro Sênior da IEEE, e possui quatro nomeações ad-hominem internacionais: Texas A & M University (professor adjunto),University of Exeter (professor honorário),Universidade of Johannesburg (professor visitante),University of Münster (professor visitante e embaixador de pesquisa). Sua linha de pesquisa é a Inteligência e Semiótica Computacional aplicadas ao suporte de decisão em problemas complexos. Nos últimos anos, ele tem se dedicado à internacionalização do Programa de Doutorado em Engenharia de Computação da POLI/UPE e, desde 2014, serve à integração latino-americana, como coordenador do comitê organizador do LA-CCI (Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence). Se gostou, ajude o nosso podcast a crescer, compartilhe com seus amigos nas redes sociais e deixe o seu comentário aqui no site, no nosso Twitter @podebug, na nossa página do Facebook ou mande um e-mail para podcast@podebug.com PODebug · #040 Inteligência Artificial: A 4ª Revolução Dicas do Episódio Dicas do Borba:Música: Cérebro Eletrônico, Gilberto GilArtigo: PAC-MAN Recreated with AI by NVIDIADicas do Buarque:Livro: O mundo de ParmênidesPaper: A semiotic-inspired machine for personalized multi-criteria intelligent decision supportDicas do Marcelo:Código: Microsoft GW-Basic Source CodeLivro: The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game Assine o Podcast Apple PodcastsNo Google PodcastsNo SpotifyNo SoundCloudNo TuneInNo StitcherVia Feed RSS Créditos Música tema e audio clips por Jason Shaw do site audionautix.comMúsica de encerramento do site audioblocks.comEdição e mixagem por Kaio Anderson (20 a 20 produtora)

Is God Behind COVID-19? w/ Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP In this episode, Fr. Anthony Giambrone joins me to talk expand some of the ideas in his recent lecture for the Thomistic Institute entitled "Plagues: What We Can Learn from the Bible." We talk about breakfast with Emmanuel Macron, Albert Camus' The Plague, Thomas Aquinas, King David, and theological continuity between the Old and New Testaments. Anthony Giambrone, O.P., is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph (New York) and Professor of New Testament and Vice-Director of the École biblique et archéologique française in Jerusalem. He has authored more than 200 academic and popular publications, focused on a range of biblical and theological themes. His most recent, forthcoming works are One Sacrifice for Sins: A Biblical Theology of the Priesthood (Baker Academic, 2020) and (editor) Rethinking the Jewish War: Archeology, Society, and Traditions (Peeters, 2020). Presently, as a visiting Humboldt Fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Fr. Giambrone is working on a book exploring the ecclesiology of Acts. We also mention Fr. Anthony's translation of George Bernanos' Saint Dominic. If you're interested in reading this book, check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944418482 We'd love to hear what you think of this episode! Reach out to us: Email | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon Other shows on the Vernacular Podcast Network: Vernacular | Breaking Pod | The Popped Cast | The Lineup

"African Voices from the Transatlantic Slave Trade" Aaron Fogleman, Presidential Research Professor of History, Northern Illinois University Aaron Spencer Fogleman is a Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department at Northern Illinois University. His research and teaching interests include forced and free transatlantic migrations, revolution, slavery, religion, and gender in the Atlantic World and Early America. He previously taught at the University of South Alabama and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Distinguished Fulbright Chair at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, a McNeil Center Fellow, and a Research Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia in the second year of the fellowship program (1988). This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, April 16, 2020.

s1e12. In conversation with Dr. Greg Brennecka, Humboldt Fellow in cosmochemistry at University of Muenster, Germany. 01:55 From Missouri to Germany via the West Coast 02:50 Why study meteorites? 04:10 Meteorite searches 04:50 The oldest material in the Solar System 06:10 Origin of chemical elements heavier than Fe 07:50 A supernova explosion nearby when the Solar System was forming? 08:49 The first 10 million years of the Solar System 11:13 Migration of Jupiter and Saturn 12:59 Meteorites from Mars 15:30 Allende meteorite (1969) 17:11 How Aristotle and Newton held back the study of meteoritics 19:15 Life outside research 20:59 Back to California ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Greg_Brennecka

This talk was offered at Trinity University, San Antonio on February 11th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: https://thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Lecture Description: Every year around Christmas and Easter, it seems, the media runs a story about “who Jesus really was.” Magazine articles and television specials purport to tell us the truth about the man from Nazareth – a truth, they often claim, that the Church has tried to cover up for centuries. These stories represent one popular manifestation of what has come to be known as the “quest for the historical Jesus.” While this quest is a legitimate scholarly discipline, it can sometimes unsettle believers, leading them to question the reliability of the gospels and the truth of the Church’s faith in Christ. In this talk, Fr. Morales will first consider a couple of the main presuppositions that underlie much historical Jesus scholarship. He will then discuss the nature of the gospels and their relation to history. Finally, he will offer a brief sketch of what we can know about Jesus based simply on historical research, arguing that a responsible historical sketch helps to illuminate the Church’s faith in Christ. Speaker Bio: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 201112, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the LudwigMaximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

**3. Teil: Vortrag von Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**2. Teil: Vortrag von Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**1. Teil: Vortrag von Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**2. Teil: Vortrag von Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**3. Teil: Vortrag von Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**2. Teil: Vortrag von Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**3. Teil: Vortrag von Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0

**1. Teil: Vortrag von Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel ***"Ich stimme nicht für Befürworter der Folter, ich will das Brasilien der Liebe!"* steht auf dem Schild das die Demonstrantin hochhält** Brasilien hat gewählt. Schon im Wahlkampf zeigte sich eine enorme politische Polarisierung zwischen reaktionären und progressiven Parteien. So wurde von Anhängerinnen und Anhängern des rechtextremen Kandidaten Jair Messias Bolsonaro der deutsche Nationalsozialismus als „linke Ideologie“ dargestellt, um progressive Parteien zu diskreditieren. Gleichzeitig ist Brasilien von wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Instabilität gezeichnet und durch politische und juristische Krisen geprägt. Diese wurden nicht zuletzt durch die Inhaftierung des früheren Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva der Arbeiterpartei (PT), als auch durch unzählige Streiks im öffentlichen Dienst, den Ölarbeiterinnen und Ölarbeitern, sowie den landesweiten Blockaden der LKW-Fahrerinnen und Fahrern deutlich. Mittlerweile ist Jair Bolsonaro zum Präsidenten des Landes gewählt worden. Er hat bereits angekündigt verschiedene Ministerien mit Offizieren des Militärs, Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der evangelikalen Gruppen und bereits in Korruptionsfälle verwickelte Politikerinnen und Politikern zu besetzen. Eine Welle von Hass, Angst und Gewalt geht um in Brasilien während Anhängerinnen und Anhänger von Bolsonaro ihre Hoffnung auf die wirtschaftliche Erholung des Landes setzen. • Wie geht es nach den Wahlen weiter? • Kann sich Brasilien tatsächlich wirtschaftlich stabilisieren? • Welche Perspektiven haben Gewerkschaften und soziale Bewegungen in diesen Kontext? Diese Fragen werden bei der Veranstaltung gemeinsam diskutiert! Gäste auf dem Podium: **Guilherme Leite Gonçalves**, Professor für Rechtssoziologie an der Staatlichen Universität von Rio de Janeiro (derzeit Humboldt Fellow im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel) **Carolina Alves Vestena**, Mitglied des Kollegs “Soziale Menschenrechte” und LfBA im Fachgebiet für Politische Theorie an der Universität Kassel **Kristina Hinz**, Doktorandin im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der FU Berlin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Center for Studies on Inequalities and Gender Relations (NUDERG), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Moderation: Anne Engelhardt, Doktorandin im Fachbereich Globalisierung und Politik an der Universität Kassel. Der Vortrag fand am 05.12.18 an der Universität Kassel statt Quelle: https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/termin/post/detail/News/podiumsdiskussion-brasilien-nach-den-wahlen-rueckkehr-zur-militaer-diktatur/ ---------------------------------------- Creative-Commons-Nachweis Symbolbild: "#Elenão Barbacena" by Hilreli, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/31205522@N08/30057869427/ licenced under CC BY-NC 2.0 "Plenário do Congresso" by Senado Federal, in https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciasenado/43933842150/in/photolist-29WhqD5-2cCgJEU-2cGMeee-2cCxrwy-2bjfxoM-2dmURP6-2cfVet5-2cCC5FL-NWrwMg-29W4rcA-29Wd7sy-2cGMe3x-NWwvT2-Qz2U9y-NWGD3c-29Wd7Z5-29Wd7C3-2bB3L3L-QzkrLs-NWCxpM-2dmUgpe-2cCo7Aq-PALTUv-QyZRZs-2dmVyyn-2dmUgnv-2aAjD1N-2bAMSuy-2cCo7sE-2cCEM9A-Qz7cTd-29Wj5Mh-29WhfLQ-2bAMSBh-NWGf4X-2cCcRMC-2cGXsf4-29Wj5PS-2cGNUWi-2cCxr9E-QyVfxJ-Qz6Mb7-PALTL4-Re6AQj-PAMjBX-2aAjD6C-2aAjCsd-2dmUgBP-Re5Wmq-2cCm8tS licenced under CC BY 2.0