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In this episode, Dewey Dovel and Austin McCormick speak with Dr. Justin Miller, Pastor of FBC Puxico (MO), about the Expositor's Institute   For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

A weekly podcast exploring stories at the intersection of faith and culture through an inclusive Christian lens. This week Mitch and Autumn talk about the vaccine rollout for children, the current pending cases with justice hanging in the balance, and how we can all look forward to the future.Later, Sarah Riggs Reed, managing director for the Center for Interfaith Relations in Louisville, KY and Dr. Lewis Brogdon, associate professor of Preaching and Black Church Studies and director of the Institute for Black Church Studies at the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, join the show to talk about the upcoming Festival of Faiths. Learn more at festivaloffaiths.org.

Our next guest is Spyros Makridakis, Professor at the University of Nicosia, the director of the Institute For the Future (IFF), and an Emeritus Professor at INSEAD. Spyros is also one of the co-founders of the IIF and has significantly contributed to the field by running famous forecasting M-competitions.In this episode, we get his advice on how to build a forecasting career and why strategy is so important. He shares his opinion on the best current forecasting methods and practices.  Spyros recommends some of his favourite books,  Forecasting Methods for Management and Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions, along with these papers Accuracy of Forecasting: An Empirical Investigation, and A brief history of forecasting competitions.

Irvin Studin is a Canadian academic, author, public intellectual, and former two-time all Canadian soccer player who is the editor-in chief of Global Brief Magazine and the President of the Institute of 21st Century Questions. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Schulich Busines School. He studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar earning a Master of Arts degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He studied International Relations at the London School of Economics and has a PHD in Constitutional Law from Osgood Hall Law School where he earned the Governor General's Gold Metal. We chat about Irvin's professional soccer experience and how that influenced his academic pursuits. We discuss a number of topics such as the new strategic borders facing Canada in the 21st century and the importance of China. Why Canada needs a  population of 100 million. The 6 major crises facing Canada in the post pandemic world with a particular focus on the disintegrating education system in Canada.  We talk about the future of Canada in the 21st century, and Irvin discusses his thoughts on what being Canadian means to him.Irvin Studin can be reached on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/irvin.studin, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/irvin-studin-28087b112/?originalSubdomain=ca. Global Brief Magazine - https://globalbrief.ca/Institute For 21st Century Questions - https://www.i21cq.com/I hope you enjoy the episode. If you like what you are hearing please remember to hit the subscribe button. Please feel free to reach out to me and provide feedback at MikeRyanG1@gmail.com On Twitter @MikeRyanGOn Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mike_ryang/    @Mike_RyanG

Parliamo di scuole e come la Didattica a Distanza non sia arrivata con il Covid19. Parliamo di come sia verosimilmente destinata restare offrendo un'opportunità senza precedenti per la diffusione del sapere e per la democratizzazione della conoscenza. * L'OSPITE Pasquale Cirillo (https://twitter.com/dottorpax, http://www.pasqualecirillo.eu) è ricercatore presso (https://www.unic.ac.cy/cirillo-pasquale/) l' Institute For the Future (IFF) ( https://www.unic.ac.cy/iff/) e Visita il sito e iscriviti per rimanere aggiornato www.liberioltreleillusioni.it FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/liberioltreleillusioni/ TWITTER https://twitter.com/liberioltre TELEGRAM https://t.me/liberioltre INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/liberioltre/ SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/liberioltre SPOTIFY http://bit.ly/SpotifyLO * CRONACHE DAL VILLAGGIO GLOBALE Questa rubrica di Liberi Oltre, prova a gettare un ponte ideale tra il paese degli emigranti con la valigia di cartone, che non esiste più, ma è ancora un rilevante modello di riferimento per la cultura del paese, e la patria dei cervelli in fuga, quella fucina di talenti, che dopo aver allevato tante persone in gamba, sembra non sapere più che farsene. Cronache dal Villaggio Globale prova a lasciare uno sguardo curioso fuori dalla bolla italiana con l'atteggiamento salutare di chi fa le domande senza pretendere di avere già la risposta. Potete lasciare commenti, spunti, idee e suggerimenti, compilando questo form https://forms.gle/MtKytEDQSn1CnBDV8 La rubrica è condotta da Massimo Famularo, investment manager (Distressed Assets e NPL) e blogger (economia e politica). Massimo ha un blog personale https://massimofamularo.com/ un podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/la-finanza-in-soldoni e i seguenti canali social YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/MassimoFamularo/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MassimoFamularo FB: https://www.facebook.com/FamularoMassimo LINKEDIN:https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimofamularo

Our guest this week is Mike Liebhold. Mike is a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Researcher at the Institute For the Future, exploring future technology systems, working with clients, global leaders, researchers, and public groups. Mike's a pioneer and veteran with decades of experience as a senior researcher for iconic companies like Atari, Apple, Netscape, and Intel. You can find him on Twitter @mikeliebhold. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/mike-liebhold-senior-researcher-at-iftf

Dr. Nicole M. Jackson, Associate Professor of History at BGSU, discusses her research undergone in the Fall of 2019 as an ICS Faculty Fellow. Her project, titled “Women Writing Black to the British Empire,” considers black British women's contemporary popular literature as a site for working out ideas about race, sex, gender, love, and national belongings.  Transcript: Introduction: From Bowling Green State University and the Institute For the Study of Culture and Society, this is BG Ideas. Intro Song Lyrics: I'm going to show you this. What a wonderful experiment. Jolie Sheffer: Welcome to the Big Ideas podcast, a collaboration between the Institute For the Study of Culture and Society and the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. I'm Dr. Jolie Sheffer, Associate Professor of English and American Culture Studies and the Director of ICS. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Nicole M. Jackson, who is an Associate Professor of History. She researches the contemporary African diaspora with a focus on post World War II black social movements, migrations, race, and imperialism in Britain and the United States. She joins me today to talk about research undergone in fall, 2019, as an ICS faculty fellow. This project considers black British women's contemporary popular literature as a site for working out ideas about race, sex, gender, love, and national belongings. I'm very pleased to sit down with you today and learn more about your work and an alternative canon of black British women's literature. Thanks for being here, Nicole. Nicole Jackson: Thanks for having me. Jolie Sheffer: Why don't we begin by having you give a little background on your research and how you came to be interested in this particular project. Nicole Jackson: So my PhD research, what this shoots off from is I look at black British and African American postwar social movements about migrant populations. So in the US, I'm looking at people who are migrating at the end of the second World War to primarily the West. I'm looking at California. And then in the UK, I'm looking at Caribbean people who are migrating to primarily London. And all of my work is about community activism, so I want to understand how these migrants become socially active around things that are affecting their community. And in particular, for the dissertation I was looking at three frames, so education, reproductive justice, and policing. And then that blew out a little bit more to looking at belonging and citizenship. Although that was embedded at the time, not that I realized that it was important. Nicole Jackson: And so in the UK, part of what I saw was that so much of their community activism was institution building. And probably the most significant institution were black bookshops. They were spaces of congregation, they were spaces of education, so there were a lot of like extracurricular educational things happening, like Saturday schools and afterschool programs. And they were also printing houses, so they were printing a wide range of work. So some academic texts, some informational pamphlets, and a lot of poetry from community members, and then as well novels. So that's the connection between community activism and social movements and black literature. Jolie Sheffer: I'm curious as to, you're a historian, but this project has you looking at literature. So how do you approach the study of this literature from your perspective as a historian? Nicole Jackson: Carefully. I think I'm aided in the fact that Caribbean people have a really long history of artistic production. So there is a really large body of work, especially for instance Carol Boyce Davies, who was looking at migrant Caribbean population. She does the US and the UK. So there are people who are looking at Caribbean, in particular women's writings, as connected to the historical context in which they live, so I don't have to make a leap. I would say the literary criticism makes me really uncomfortable because that is not my area. But so much of this is embedded in Caribbean cultures anyway, so that I don't have to feel as if I'm stepping out on my own. So I thankfully am able to look at these other Caribbean scholars in particular who have done a lot of that legwork. Jolie Sheffer: So is part of your approach a kind of social history or cultural history? Nicole Jackson: I'm a social and cultural historian, so absolutely. Jolie Sheffer: So for folks who don't really know, how does that differ from a lot of the maybe more conventional focus of history that other folks might be familiar with? Or assume from watching Ken Burns documentaries or something? Nicole Jackson: Oh man. You can cut that out. So I would argue that a social and cultural historian, as opposed to a legal or political historian, is interested in people and their lives. So for me, I really am always asking, what do people think about the world in which they live? Which includes a legal structure, it includes a political reality, but it is not focusing on lawmakers or politicians, it is focusing on those people who have to live that political and legal reality enacted. And at least for me... And that's different in these populations. So for African Americans, the black bookstores don't publish, so I'm not looking at literature in those contexts because they're not producing it. Nicole Jackson: What I am looking at, there's a long history of protest, so I have looked at literally protest actions. There's a really great record of that. But the black British and Caribbean people don't have the same kinds of protest reality, so I can see some of that reaction literally in their work. So a lot of the groups that I study have newsletters. I was really shocked to find that almost all of those newsletters had poetry in the end or they had cartoons. Literally, their artistic production was a part of their protest, and so I let them lead me to this. And that's what a social and cultural historian is doing. Jolie Sheffer: For listeners who may not be familiar, what is some of the essential historical context that shapes the contemporary period in black British history and cultural production? Nicole Jackson: Oh man. So pretty much all contemporary black British history starts, for better or for worse, with 1948 and the British Nationality Act, as well as the docking of the Windrush ship in London. I say for better or for worse because that is where we get the large scale beginning of the migration, and they are able to move because of the British Nationality Act in an easier manner. But there is migration that is happening before that period. The biggest distinction is that the period before is actually usually transitory, so people are coming for a few years. So Caribbean people are coming for education or something like that. African people are also coming for the same thing, and probably African people are coming in larger numbers. But they are not settling. After 1948, we start to see people settling in larger numbers, and also settling really all over Britain, as opposed to just in port cities or major metropolitan areas. Nicole Jackson: After that, there's a riot in 1958. It's called the Nottingham Riots, where these young white youth called Teddy Boys rampage through London and beating up and attacking Caribbean people as well as white women who are in relationships with black men. The next year, Kelso Cochrane is murdered, and so the two... And Tegan Mann, a migrant, he lived in London. So those two are usually connected together. And then there are a whole bunch of legal things that happened, those are boring. Nicole Jackson: And then for me, probably the next significant thing... So after the Notting Hill riot and Kelso Cochrane's murder, the Caribbean community responds in a way they had not before, because that's not the first time there had been any antagonism. Also not the first race riot in England, although people write as if it is. But so they begin to respond in a community building kind of way. So before that we, see Jamaicans, people from Barbados, Antiguans, Guyanese people who don't really see themselves as part of a singular community. They see their community as people from their island. But after the riot, because it's indiscriminate violence, they begin to think of themselves as a pan Caribbean community. Nicole Jackson: And so they organized the first Notting Hill Carnival, which actually still happens to this day. It's the August bank holiday, if you were in London. And so they organized the first one, I think in 1959. And then it actually happens almost every year until 1970, there's not a period where it doesn't happen. But in 1976, there's a whole bunch of commotion around it because it has gotten larger in the almost 20 years. Police have started to attend in higher numbers and the community begins to respond adversely. And so in '76, there's a riot at the Notting Hill Carnival because police arrest some young black men they say were pickpocketing, because crime is an issue at the carnival. But the community members who saw some of these boys being arrested say that it was unnecessarily harsh, and also that some of them weren't even pickpocketing, they were just targeted. Nicole Jackson: And that leads to a lot of protesting, primarily around policing, until 1981, which is the really significant moment, which there are riots in really every region of the UK. The most famous is the Brixton riot, but there are riots in Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool. I think there's one in Scotland that I don't know as much about. Name a British city with a large Afro Caribbean population and in 1981, they riot. They also then riot again in 1983, but those are slightly different. Jolie Sheffer: What is it that you think the concept of diaspora makes visible that more nation based approaches obscure? Nicole Jackson: That's a lovely question. So when I was a grad student, we read this book by Penny Von Eschen, I think it's probably Race Against Empire. But she covers this in a couple of different books where she essentially is pushing back with the idea that African Americans are provincial, that they don't understand what's happening in the rest of the world. And she says they're not provincial. They actually care deeply about what's happening in spaces where there are other people of African descent. And so that particular book is looking at, I think, Africa. So she's thinking about apartheid South Africa. That's a lot of her work. But there are other scholars who argue that insight. People know what's happening in East Africa, they care deeply about what's happening there because of their own religious connections. Nicole Jackson: So there are a whole bunch of scholars who essentially say that African Americans care, and particularly this is where it starts, that they care about what's happening in the world. And that was really revolutionary for me, if only because I come from a working class background where people don't get to travel, they cannot afford to travel. My grandfather used to drive from California to the South every summer and that felt luxurious. But leaving the country was not something I could imagine. And then when I did, what I was surprised to find is how much people in the UK knew about what was happening in the US, and that changed my mind. Nicole Jackson: So what I asked for in particular is, one, thinking about how much people of African descent know about one another and want to know about one another. But then my own work and why I study migrants is because it's not just that they want to know and that they read newspapers, stuff like that, but they also travel to see one another. Whether it is leisurely travel, so like the 1930s, Elsanda Robeson and Paul Robeson actually end up living in the UK for a while, and Eslanda travels all over Europe. She spends a lot of time in the Soviet union, which is actually, I think, where she passes. But she travels to Africa as well. That is her greatest hope, she wants to get to Africa. Hell, that was terrifying. I'll start. Nicole Jackson: But yeah, Eslanda Robeson wants to get to Africa and she does, and she actually writes about it as well. And while she's in Africa, she's meeting future African statesmen who are students at the time. She's meeting Caribbean people who are also students. She spends a lot of time in France where she meets a whole bunch of people from the French Caribbean who were there. So they are moving and their ideas are moving. And even though these are not rich people, almost none of the people I study, they're all pretty much working class people. But they were able to move, whether that's back and forth between the Caribbean and England or to the US, which they really want. Many of them, because of the time period, want to end up in the Soviet Union. Some of them ended up in Asia. A lot of them want to end up in North Africa. So it is literally that people are moving. Nicole Jackson: I think for me, the diaspora, I'm always shocked at who is moving at the same time and who is in conversation with one another. Sometimes in their work, literally. But also marriages. I mean, Stokely Carmichael was married to Miriam Makeba for a while and it's like, how did that happen? But it's like, he's moving and she's moving. She's exiled for a while. Literally, they're moving. So for me, it's those two things, that of knowledge of one another, and information is moving, but also people are moving as well. Jolie Sheffer: Another aspect of this research is around the idea of canons and challenging the conventional British canon with these black British authors. So can you talk about what you see as distinctive about the writers you're looking at and how they challenge the dominant narratives of British literature in this period? Nicole Jackson: Yeah. I think one, and probably the most significant, is language. It is not accidental that I want to look at popular literature, if for no other reason than I think when we read British literature, even if we're not reading a white author, it's almost always literature that is challenging to understand. That's part of what makes it great, is that you have to read it three and four times and you have to look up a million words. Jolie Sheffer: It's difficult. Nicole Jackson: It's difficult, right. So that's what makes it good literature. And that's, in my opinion, elitist. But it essentially means that the vast majority of people will never be able to engage with good literature. Nicole Jackson: My grandfather was illiterate and that mattered to me as a kid. He used to have me read things to him. He used to have my brother and I do math for him or check his math, because he was better with numbers than anything. And I remember never having any judgment, it was just a reality. He grew up in a rural lifestyle. But I love to read and he loved to buy me books that he would never read. And so that idea that something has to be difficult to be good literature never made sense to me. And that people who can't access it bereft of culture. That didn't make sense to me. Nicole Jackson: But what I found in black women's literature is that there is this interplay of wanting to write about really significant and deep things in ways that are intensely accessible. So Andrea Levy writes intensely accessible books that are, many of her books are in first person. It is very intimate. She's very often writing about families, and so that everyday reality of whatever, Dad woke up later than everyone or something. She's writing about the everyday realities of life that are accessible and understandable. Or someone like Louise Bennett-Coverley, who's literally writing in Jamaican Patois. She wants people who speak Patois to be able to read in their own everyday language. And then in that everyday language, she's writing these really intensely critical and anti-imperial things because that's the language people are talking about anti-imperial things in. So for me, language and accessibility is one of those things that I think stands out in black British literature in particular, but especially this. Nicole Jackson: And then I think the other thing is an actual focus on black women. I would be hard pressed to think of much British literature that has a focus on black women, and that includes even black authors who are writing in that canon. I think they have been written out in very particular ways. Black men have not in the same way, not that they are overly represented, but they have not been written out in the same way. Whether they're there as the kind of specter of [inaudible 00:18:31] or some other way, they're there. Black women don't tend to be there. And I think it is not incidental that the black women are writing themselves into this canon. Jolie Sheffer: Great. Let's talk about some of the people that you're researching. So how do people specifically, like Beryl Gilroy or Andrea Levy or Vanessa Walter, fit into... So you've talked about some of them. Talk to us a little bit about who Beryl Gilroy was and how she contributes to this alternative canon. Nicole Jackson: So Beryl Gilroy, she was a black female teacher in the UK in the 1950s, and I think early 1960s before she stepped away. She was an activist, she was an anti-imperialist, but also a proponent of multicultural education in England because of her work as a teacher. And she later has a life where she writes... Near the end of her life, she's writing a lot of fiction, which doesn't actually play into my research because it is almost entirely set in the Caribbean, which I don't think is accidental by any means. But it is just not quite the conversation I want to have. Nicole Jackson: So mostly it's her memoir, Black Teacher, which she's featuring in. It is really significant in that it is the only one written by a black woman who was a teacher in the UK in the 50s, where most black teachers were actually barred from doing so. I don't like this phrasing, but she was one of the lucky ones who was able to use her credentials. It's kind of a boring book. It's really strange. I should have told someone, you can tell that she understand that most people will ignore that she even existed. Nicole Jackson: So she gets into the minutia of her life, which makes some chapters really interesting and some chapters super dry. But I think as a historian, that's great. She knows that someone is going to want to know about her life at some point. And so she makes sure that it's all there, not just herself in the classroom or trying to find a job, but how she feels about it, how people react to her, what her names, literally names, all of that. She's being meticulous in that documentation. I think she matters so much, not just because of her life, but because of the ways in which she's been effectively erased, which is a shame. Jolie Sheffer: Do you want me to ask the followup question? Nicole Jackson: Sure. Jolie Sheffer: Yes. So how is it that she has been erased and who has she been eclipsed by? Nicole Jackson: So she's eclipsed by her son, which I think on some level, she probably wouldn't be mad about. But her son is Paul Gilroy, who is a preeminent scholar of race and racism in contemporary England. I don't know why this has happened, but I think she's kind of inconvenient in a number of ways. I like a lot of Paul Gilroy's work, but I think that in particular in the black Atlantic, he is erasing of the Caribbean and the significance of the Caribbean. His mother's Guyanese, and as I said, a lot of her fiction is set in the Caribbean. And I think she becomes, if people even understand that they're related, which it's easy to not even think, Gilroy's not an uncommon name. But it's super easy to erase how significant and the Caribbean had to have been in his life, at least maybe as a child. So it is a shame that we have forgotten that. Nicole Jackson: It's not just that. He writes intensely about black British people needing to be a part of British society and he writes about the ways in which they are excluded. But he is doing so from the standpoint of a mixed race person, which is significant. And a lot of my work is arguing that it is easier for mixed race people to be assimilated in ways that Caribbean migrants are not. And so the fact that we aren't thinking about his mother's impact on England, because we don't know her or because we only connect her to the Caribbean, I think is maybe emblematic of that, the problem of that. Jolie Sheffer: Great. We're going to take a quick break. Thank you for listening to the Big Ideas Podcast. Speaker 1: If you are passionate about Big Ideas, consider sponsoring this program. To have your name or organization mentioned here, please contact us at ics@bgsu.edu. Jolie Sheffer: Hello and welcome back to the Big Ideas Podcast. Today I'm talking to Dr. Nikole Jackson about her research into contemporary black British women writers. You previously talked about how black British history is an emerging field of historical inquiry. Can you tell us a little bit about why the domestic study of black British citizens has been overlooked and how you're trying to put them back into the story? Nicole Jackson: Racism. It's just racism. So it's weird. British history is an odd one. I'm just going to stop and think about that. Jolie Sheffer: Okay, yeah. Nicole Jackson: It's a rough one. So I think part of what a lot of scholars have talked about after World War II is the impending end of empire, and that really changes the way that British people or English people think about themselves. And part of what that means, there are some scholars that argue it's a constriction. So they begin to jettison the importance of the empire in politics. Which before, that was how England, a small country on a fairly small, in Britain in a small island, the ability to dominate other places was considered a birthright. And it was, for a small country, the justification for the impact they had on the world. But World War II smashes that. Nicole Jackson: And then after that, the US becomes a preeminent world power. They whine about that too. You can keep that whine part in. And so rather than try and fight with the Soviet union or the US, they say, "You know, it's not about that anymore. The empire doesn't really matter." Not that they don't fight some colonies leaving, but the empire for some people matters less after World War II. Part of that, though, then, is that the impact of countries with large not white populations becomes... Or people think it doesn't matter anymore. Because it doesn't have to matter because it's no longer about England, it's just these places. Nicole Jackson: There's also a heavy focus on white dominion spaces too. So if any foreign spaces matter, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Rhodesia before. So when the world matters, it's only the white spaces. And so English history, English popular culture too, becomes intensely white. Not that it was multicultural before, but there's an understanding that the empire is part of the English story. But after, all of that gets written out. Nicole Jackson: There are also some changes happening in education, which are super boring. But essentially, global history, for instance, doesn't matter as much anymore, if it ever mattered a lot. They stopped teaching it and they teach it in an intensely racist way, because then there's justification for why you don't have to teach more of it, because nothing interesting has ever come out of Africa. Anything interesting that ever happened in Africa is coming from British hands. So there's almost no understanding in English culture, until very recently, about the significance of the empire that can understand these places and these people as just as significant, if not more so, than English people. Nicole Jackson: There are also huge class issues. So most people who go to university in the UK until, again, very recently, were the middle class and wealthy, and they were almost entirely white. And so there's at the same time... The US is actually a really perfect example as a comparison. So after the civil rights movement in the US, African American history becomes part of not just higher education but also K through 12. That does not happen in the same time period in the UK. In fact, every push from about the 1950s on to teach South Asian history or Caribbean history or African history is met with... The essential response is, but why does it matter here? And some of the justification is, well, we're here now. But another justification could have been, you were in those spaces. But that doesn't quite happen. Nicole Jackson: And so if there is any black history education happening, it's happening in black spaces. So those bookstores or churches or things like that. And they further allow the Department of Education and Science, and also some of these other educational research bodies, to say, "Well, that can happen over there because those black kids need it. But those white English kids, they don't need it." So there hasn't been a institutionalizing of black history to the point where we are just now starting to see black British MAs in history and culture. Some of this happened earlier in cultural studies and social criticism, but not a lot. Jolie Sheffer: So one of the things you and I talked about is that there's a whole secret part of academic work and the calculations you make as a scholar in what your projects are, how to tackle them, and the idea of feasibility. And we talk about with our students about, oh, that project doesn't seem feasible. And often what we mean is in the time span of your degree with the resources you have, this methodology will be more difficult than this, that sort of thing. But you and I had a conversation about there are other dimensions of feasibility that need to be part of that calculation. Would you talk a little bit about some of those parts of your decision making process? Nicole Jackson: So I am an intensely pessimistic person, but I study what I study because I love black people and I love social movements and I love people who are going out into their communities and making tangible changes. And so in the back of my 20, 23 year old mind, I thought I was going to write this really powerful and inspiring story about black activists. And what I have written over and over again is that there is a period where so much as possible and people are doing absolutely everything they can to change their lives in England and then they are swiftly cut off. And so I think I have resisted writing the actual final chapter of my book because it is a story about how these really fascinating, amazing people who were smart and dedicated were overwritten, essentially, by Parliament and other British politicians. And so the story we get erases them. But also social and legal realities were shaped in opposition to what they wanted. And that's super sad to write about. Nicole Jackson: There was a moment where I could have done it easily. And then to be honest, the election made everything that was really hard harder. And I think it was hard for me to write a sad story, because it is sad to me. These are people who, some of them died young, some of them died destitute, many of them have been forgotten outside of their own communities. And I hate to think that what they did was in vain, but that was the historical story about their activism. Certainly not a comment on their lives, but this particular movement was a sad story. In terms of my mental health, it was really hard, certainly harder than it had ever been to write a story about a movement failing. But so many movements fail that it shouldn't have been hard, because I know that. But it just was. And that was the feasibility part. Writing a failing social movement didn't seem like something that was good for me. Jolie Sheffer: Yeah. And I think that that's such an important thing. We don't tend to reveal the curtain to what these conversations are that we have with ourselves or with other colleagues about, the work that we do is intensely personal to us. We invest time. It's intellectual, but it is also things we care deeply about. And we are in the work as well as the work being in us. And I think that's really important to recognize, that sometimes the answer is, I want to do this work, but I can't do it right now or I can't do it here. And perhaps you'll return to it in the future, but now you're heading in a different direction. So would you tell us a little bit about some of the things you're thinking about for what might be the next project? Nicole Jackson: I want to say I'm trying to pawn some of my research off onto a friend. Sometimes it's just I'm not the right person, someone else is. So there's that. So I didn't read for about a year after the election, and then when I started reading, I started getting popular fiction, which is another relationship to the current project. A lot of that popular fiction, almost all of it eventually, was romance novels. I started reading black romance novels, one, because a part of my dissertation that all of my advisers hated was about love. There's a whole chapter about the theoretical implications of love is a radical politics. And my advisors were like, "What the hell is this?" Can I cuss? They were like, "This is terrible. I hate it." And so it's not part of the book, but it is the thing that made it possible for me to theorize these relationships between migrants in these two different countries. And I love love, realistically. So the romance novels were a nice way for me to read again and keep my brain active. Nicole Jackson: And then I started sort of thinking about, one, how radical I still think love is, especially in this particular context. So I'm hopefully moving into a project that is thinking, first because it is my wheelhouse, it feels comfortable, historical black romance and how we can pedagogically use them to teach the things that are a little bit harder. And love, for me, is the thing that is hard to teach as a historian, but I know that it is the central thing for me. Like how do black people endure, how do they become socially active? So much or that is literally about various kinds of love. Romantic love, familial love, love of community, love of diaspora. So it is me trying to think through some of these things and how they are accessible to my students. Jolie Sheffer: And it sounds like, thinking about black romance novels, it's also an extension of your interest in popular culture by black British writers. Nicole Jackson: Absolutely. And for the same reasons. I don't come from a family of people who love to read, but I had an older cousin who was my hookup for romance novels and urban contemporary books when I was a kid. She probably will never read any of my academic work. She probably would hate it. It would be a slog. But she reads 30 books a month. This is not because she's not active, but it's what's accessible, what tells a story that she wants to hear, what she can make a connection with. Jolie Sheffer: Thank you so much, Nicole. It's been a pleasure talking with you. Our producers for this podcast are Chris Cavera and Marco Mendoza. Research assistance was provided by ICS intern Renee Hopper with editing by Stevie Scheurich. This conversation was recorded in the Stanton Audio Recording Studio in the Michael & Sara Kuhlin Center at Bowling Green State University.  

Playing for Team Human today is systems thinker, writer, and filmmaker Nora Bateson. Nora will be telling us how to stop looking at things as objects and begin seeing the spaces and connections between them. It’s not too late to bring our species back from the brink! This conversation was recorded backstage in Palo Alto at the Institute For the Future's (IFTF) 50th Anniversary Gala.I first met at Nora Bateson at a general semantics conference where she was screening her then brand new film An Ecology of Mind about her father Gregory Bateson, one of the principle developers of cybernetic and systems theory. But as I got to know Nora and her work, particularly the book Small Arcs of Larger Circles, I realized she was taking what we think of as systems theory to a whole new and intrinsically human level. I ran into her again at the fiftieth anniversary conference of the Institute For the Future in Palo Alto where she gave an entirely optimistic yet grounded talk on how to bring an awareness of the liminal spaces between systems into account as we attempt to make our world more consonant with the values of life.Douglas opens today's show with a monologue on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and why, if the goal is economic justice, a universal "allowance" just won't do.“The vast transfer of wealth from the poor to rich may be complete, but now we can use UBI to funnel even more capital up to the already wealthy and keep the scheme going.”To learn more about our guest, Nora Bateson, please visit https://norabateson.wordpress.comYou can watch her film here: http://www.anecologyofmind.com/If you liked this episode, check out Team Human Ep. 07 featuring IFTF executive director Marina Gorbis On this episode you heard Fugazi’s “Foreman’s Dog” in the intro, Herkhimer Diamonds “Xmas Underwater” and our closing music is thanks to Mike Watt.Team Human is listener supported. To subscribe via Patreon or Drip, go to TeamHuman.fm/support . You can also help by reviewing the show on iTunes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Certified Nutrition Therapy Practitioner Jodelle Fitzwater is our interview guest today in Episode 1414 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”   Jodelle Fitzwater from GetFitWithJodelle.com has been in the nutrition and fitness industry since 2001 and was actually born to a mother who owned her own fitness center. She is a graduate of the NTP program as a Nutrition Therapy Practitioner as well as the very extensive Institute For the Psychology of Eating, as a Food Psychology Coach. Jodelle is an avid podcaster with both “Get fit with Jodelle” podcast on tunes and youtube as well as a PaddleFit SUP audio workouts.  After the death of her mother to stomach cancer, Jodelle dove into the understanding of how nutrition and lifestyle habits contribute to disease or lack thereof. Listen in today as Jimmy and Jodelle talk about her amazing story of digging into health and fitness to try to unlock the mystery of why we get sick, toxic EMF radiation we are unknowingly getting from our digital lives, UCD - unintentional chronic dehydration, lack of good circadian rhythm and poor sleep with phone underneath our pillow and all kinds of devices strapped to our bodies and in our bedrooms, lack of outdoor exposure and lack of sunlight, lack of what she calls “Vitamin P”, and much more. GET A $39 BOTTLE OF OLIVE OIL FOR JUST A BUCK GET YOUR $39 BOTTLE FOR JUST $1 NOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: Paid sponsorship  Join The Keto Clarity Club For $1 Blood Ketone Test Strips! THE PERFECT KETO SUPPLEMENT USE COUPON CODE LLVLC FOR 15% OFF NOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: Paid sponsorship FREE TWO DAY SHIPPING FOR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERSNOTICE OF DISCLOSURE: Paid sponsorship   LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 1414 – SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: The world’s freshest and most flavorful artisanal olive oils. Get your $39 bottle for just $1 – KetoWhiteBoard.info – SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Keto without the keto flu. (FREE TWO DAY SHIPPING FOR AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS) – SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Join The Keto Clarity Club For $1 Blood Ketone Test Strips! BestKetoneTest.com – SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Jump start your ketogenic diet with PerfectKeto.com/Jimmy (USE PROMO CODE LLVLC FOR 15% OFF) –  GetFitWithJodelle.com – Jodelle's Podcast

Welcome to the January installment of Aquarium Drunkard’s recurring Transmissions podcast, a series of interviews and audio esoterica from Aquarium Drunkard. For our first episode of 2018, we explore three unique stories. First, we dive into the story of Ozma Records’ new reissue of the Voyager Golden Record. Launched into outer space in 1977 onboard the Voyager space probes, the Golden Record was a sort of cosmic mixtape, designed by a team led by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan as a representation of life, arts, and culture on Earth. We spoke to co-producer David Pescovitz of Boing Boing from his office at the Institute For the Future about how this new reissue allows us to more fully understand the scope of the Golden Record —and what it has to say to listeners today. Then, we sit down with comedian, writer, and musician Tim Heidecker. Best know for his work on Tim and Eric Awesome Show — Great Job, Decker, and films like The Comedy, Heidecker is an extraordinarily busy guy: he recently finished The Trial of Tim Heidecker, a part of his meta-comedy saga On Cinema with Gregg Turkington — AKA Neil Hamburger. He’s also got a recent album out, Too Dumb for Suicide, a collection of songs about the president. We dive into his strange, sometimes confusing world. And finally, we close out the show by shining a light on some of our favorite mixtapes from the Aquarium Drunkard archives, The End is at Hand collections, a four-volume series of super-obscure, often private press, outsider psychedelic guitar and folk music from the ‘60s and ‘70s centered around the Jesus People Movement. We’re joined by BlackForrestry — Josh Swartwood and Doug Cooper — who put these mixes together, to investigate the roots and feral faith of these “Jesus Freaks,” whose apocalyptic visions shimmer throughout these mixtapes — and whose faith still speaks to Josh and Doug.

Playing for Team Human is Micah Sifry. Next month Micah will host the 2017 Personal Democracy Forum. On today’s show, Micah and Douglas discuss how the stakes are higher than ever for bringing people into an active civic life and engagement with democracy. Looking beyond the 2016 electoral postmortems and whodunits, Micah and Douglas talk about the power of humans breathing together–conspiring–in real space and time, while also leveraging technologies of connection, to build an actionable progressive agenda. Listeners of Team Human will find kindred spirits at the Personal Democracy Forum and Civic Hall. If you voted and you've been marching and calling your representatives but are still looking for ways to enhance your civic power and find community, PDF 2017 is ready for you. Personal Democracy Forum 2017, themed What We Do Now, will be held June 8-9 at the NYU Skirball Center, NYC. Team Human will be recording on location at this year’s PDF. Also check out Team Human Ep. 07 recorded at last year’s PDF featuring Institute For the Future’s Marina Gorbis and Douglas Rushkoff’s PDF keynote speech.Also on today's show, a monologue from Rushkoff about why so many of us have to drive to work. (Hint: it’s not because the world was created that way.)A special thanks goes out to listeners who are supporting and sustaining Team Human. Visit Teamhuman.fm for more info. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you would love to break the shackles of yo-yo dieting once and for all, or to finally put an end to your diet spiral, you will really gain a lot from today's show, with Alex's super smart guest, Isabel Foxen Duke, a Health Coach who graduated with Alex, from the Institute For  Integrative Nutrition. Listen in today and find out about Isabel's outlook on body positivity and how you too can develop a positive outlook towards your own body image. Isabel was put on her first diet at around three years of age, by her pediatrician, who clearly had no idea how it would affect her later in her life. That was the beginning of what would become a life long obsession for her. When Alex met Isabel, she was just kicking off with her program, Stop Fighting Food. Now, Isabel helps women to stop feeling crazy around food, which is how she felt for most of her life, until she began to learn many things that are not taught conventionally, about emotional and binge eating and the ways that they affect women. Isabel explains that the sad reality of many dieters lives is that with any rigid attempt to control your body, it will only be a matter of time before you violently lose control and start eating anything that you can get your hands on. She vividly describes the cycle of determination to diet, followed by 'losing it' and falling off the wagon.  On today's show, she talks about how it felt for her, when she fell off the wagon and the about the physical and emotional pain one experiences as a result of yo-yo dieting. She also discusses how landing up in treatment for Binge Eating Disorder was the beginning of her journey towards learning what it means to have a  health-full and balanced relationship with food and how this learning involved un-learning much of what she had been conditioned with, through being so engaged with the diet industry for so many years.  Listen in and find out more. You can read the full show notes at www.alexandrajamieson.com/135.