Podcasts about north american studies

In this episode I am joined by Dr. Matt Sheedy, visiting professor in the department of North American Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany. Together we discuss the trucker convoy for Freedom and dive deep on Westerns to unpack the traces of Fascism in John Ford's classic, THE SEARCHERS (1956)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=53819266)

A short preview of our latest premium episode, where we discuss the changes to East German universities in the wake of reunification. Featuring an interview with Markus Kienscherf, junior professor of sociology at the JFK Institute of North American Studies at FU Berlin. To listen to the full episode, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/spassbremse If you're not able to support us monetarily right now, we totally get it! We'll be back in a few days with another full-length episode for the main podcast feed.

A short preview of our latest premium episode, where we discuss the changes to East German universities in the wake of reunification. Featuring an interview with Markus Kienscherf, junior professor of sociology at the JFK Institute of North American Studies at FU Berlin. To listen to the full episode, support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/spassbremse If you're not able to support us monetarily right now, we totally get it! We'll be back in a few days with another full-length episode for the main podcast feed.

Dr. Curd Knüpfer (Assistant Professor) and Mike Cowburn (PhD Candidate), from the JFK Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, discuss their research on right-wing alternative media. We start out by discussing what right-wing alternative media are, and how they are transnationally linked across Western democracies. Then, we explore Mike and Curd's ongoing work into how Members of Congress' social media engagement with these sites may be predictors of political positionality. We also look at how Republican Members of Congress' use of the fake news label also relates to their political ideology. The (published) studies discussed in the episode are: Beyond Breitbart: Comparing Right-Wing Digital News Infrastructures in Six Western DemocraciesToward a Transnational Information Ecology on the Right? Hyperlink Networking among Right-Wing Digital News Sites in Europe and the United StatesLegislator Adoption of the Fake News Label: Ideological Differences in Republican Representative Use on Twitter

Free City Radio 72 A conversation with historian, writer and professor David Huyssen. David wrote the book "Progressive Inequality" out via Harvard Press. This conversation locates the contemporary moment of extreme wealth inequality within a historical context, looking at the likes of Amazon and figures like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk within a historical context. Looking at the economic situation pre New Deal in the US and globally, during what many refer to as the Gilded Age. I ask David about this new gilded age, and how it compares, while also exploring the central role of progressive social movements historically in challenging extreme wealth inequality, and bringing about the grassroots political context that created the possibilities for things like the New Deal to happen. Social movements are often written out of mainstream historical narratives as central to the process of such major policy shifts, like the New Deal, but in fact radical social movements for gender justice, and against systemic racism and economic inequality played a central role in shaping history. David is currently working with the Institute for North American Studies at the Free University in Berlin and also teaches at University of York in the UK. Music on this show is the track "Passage" from the new @anarchistmountains album out on Alien Garage records. Free City Radio comes out twice a week and is hosted / produced by Stefan Christoff, broadcasting on @radiockut and accessed globally through the Free City Radio podcast.

Feminisme in de popmuziek, we kunnen er niet meer omheen. Het nummer Flawless van Beyonce was een keerpunt. Wat is daar in gang gezet? Wat hebben we eraan? En krijgen deze Amerikaanse supersterren ook een sociale functie? Promovendus in Amerikanistiek aan de Graduate School of North American Studies in Berlijn, Annelot Prins doet onderzoek naar celebrity feminism. Ze is cynischer dan toen ze begon, ‘alles wordt gezien als je eigen probleem, of je het wel of niet gaat maken ligt aan jezelf. De muziek geeft een quick fix, voor de korte termijn wat extra zelfvertrouwen maar het systeem wordt niet aan de kaak gesteld. Er wordt voorbij gegaan aan de institutionele ongelijkheid. The game is rigged!', zegt Prins. Ook presentator Mirthe van der Drift moet eraan geloven, haar empowering song wordt tot op het bot ontleed.

Candid but honest conversation with Former UK SFO prosecutor Lloydette Bai-Marrow on Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) & Non Prosecutorial Agreement (NPA) process with the U.K. SFO, lack of insensitive in the whistleblower program, and of course about Africa.Lloydette Bai-Marrow is a former Principal Investigative Lawyer at the U.K’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO). She specialises in the investigation of top-tier and high profile complex bribery, fraud and corruption cases, involving some of the biggest corporations in the U.K. and globally. Lloydette was the Case Lawyer for the second Deferred Prosecution Agreement ever entered into by the SFO – deeply involved in the drafting and negotiating of the agreement. Her experience includes investigating and helping to bring to court both domestic and foreign entities and individuals, negotiating extradition requests and working with law enforcement agencies and government institutions in other jurisdictions. Lloydette has extensive experience of working within the U.K.’s criminal justice system as a prosecutor and has worked in a number of government departments including the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office (now part of CPS). She has lectured on various legal topics at the University of London and the Open University. Lloydette has also designed and delivered training to diverse audiences within the public and private sectors. Lloydette earned her B.A. (Hons) in Law with North American Studies from Sussex University in 2004, her Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the College of Law in 2005 and her LLM in Law, Governance and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) in 2009. She is admitted as a Solicitor Advocate in England and Wales. She now runs her own boutique firm PARAMETRICS GLOBAL https://www.parametricglobal.co.uk/about-us

In just three months from now, Iranians will elect a new President. With reformist Hasan Rouhani having reached his two term limit, many are concerned the candidate preferred by the country's hardliners will claim victory in June. Conservatives have been quick to criticize Rouhani for "showing weakness" in dealing with the United States, particularly when it comes to the 2015 nuclear accord and the US "maximum pressure" campaign. Add that to the threat of European powers issuing a censure warning over Iran's failure to cooperate with the IAEA- and hardliners can dangerously argue that reformist-led diplomacy has failed and humiliated the country. So, just how dangerous is the diplomatic dance around what once seemed like a straight-forward return to the terms of the JCPOA? Guests: John Ghazvinian Author, 'America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present' Ali Fathollah-Nejad Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Afro Middle East Centre Setareh Sadeqi Political Analyst and Researcher in North American Studies

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally created by Richard F. Outcault, the Kid first appeared as a character in the comic strip Hogan’s Alley. He was an immensely popular figure, and quickly migrated to other comic strips, as well as appearing on merchandise and various consumer products. As one of the first popular serial characters, the Yellow Kid was emblematic of an emerging consumer culture. In Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (Ohio State UP, 2019), Christina Meyer uses the mobility of the Yellow Kid as a prism through which to explore a range of issues surrounding serialisation, cultural production and consumption, and authorship. Meyer’s book is an insightful, rigorously researched account of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the role of comic strips in that development of that culture. Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally created by Richard F. Outcault, the Kid first appeared as a character in the comic strip Hogan’s Alley. He was an immensely popular figure, and quickly migrated to other comic strips, as well as appearing on merchandise and various consumer products. As one of the first popular serial characters, the Yellow Kid was emblematic of an emerging consumer culture. In Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (Ohio State UP, 2019), Christina Meyer uses the mobility of the Yellow Kid as a prism through which to explore a range of issues surrounding serialisation, cultural production and consumption, and authorship. Meyer’s book is an insightful, rigorously researched account of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the role of comic strips in that development of that culture. Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally created by Richard F. Outcault, the Kid first appeared as a character in the comic strip Hogan’s Alley. He was an immensely popular figure, and quickly migrated to other comic strips, as well as appearing on merchandise and various consumer products. As one of the first popular serial characters, the Yellow Kid was emblematic of an emerging consumer culture. In Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (Ohio State UP, 2019), Christina Meyer uses the mobility of the Yellow Kid as a prism through which to explore a range of issues surrounding serialisation, cultural production and consumption, and authorship. Meyer’s book is an insightful, rigorously researched account of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the role of comic strips in that development of that culture. Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally created by Richard F. Outcault, the Kid first appeared as a character in the comic strip Hogan’s Alley. He was an immensely popular figure, and quickly migrated to other comic strips, as well as appearing on merchandise and various consumer products. As one of the first popular serial characters, the Yellow Kid was emblematic of an emerging consumer culture. In Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (Ohio State UP, 2019), Christina Meyer uses the mobility of the Yellow Kid as a prism through which to explore a range of issues surrounding serialisation, cultural production and consumption, and authorship. Meyer’s book is an insightful, rigorously researched account of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the role of comic strips in that development of that culture. Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Yellow Kid was a ubiquitous figure at the end of the nineteenth century. Originally created by Richard F. Outcault, the Kid first appeared as a character in the comic strip Hogan’s Alley. He was an immensely popular figure, and quickly migrated to other comic strips, as well as appearing on merchandise and various consumer products. As one of the first popular serial characters, the Yellow Kid was emblematic of an emerging consumer culture. In Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid (Ohio State UP, 2019), Christina Meyer uses the mobility of the Yellow Kid as a prism through which to explore a range of issues surrounding serialisation, cultural production and consumption, and authorship. Meyer’s book is an insightful, rigorously researched account of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the role of comic strips in that development of that culture. Christina Meyer is Visiting Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also the author of War and Trauma Images in Vietnam War Representations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Romina Achatz is in conversation with Michael Thomas about „Race and Reality“- which is the title of the book project he is working on. Currently is examining racial aesthetics as an intersection between phenomenological experience and socio-political conditions. Michael Thomas is an African-American philosopher and social theorist born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His current position is a Humboldt Foundation fellow at the Freie Universtität Berlin’s JFK Institute for North American Studies. His research explores the aesthetic dimension of social life. In the end, the conversation widens up and they talk about capitalism, sexism and the power structures within institutions.

Cameron Seglias is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Recent and forthcoming publications have appeared/will appear in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and H-Soz-Kult. Research and archival work for his dissertation, tentatively entitled “Paradoxes of Liberty: Antislavery, Print, and Colonial Power in Crisis, 1729-1793,” has been generously supported by fellowships from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. His teaching interests include slavery and antislavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, the history of pacifism in America, as well as modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Seglias was a Barra Foundation International Fellow at the Library Company in 2019. This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, August 13, 2020.

Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling.  Packer investigations and litigation.  Trade.  Slaughter regulations.  These are just some of the topics related to the beef industry that have been in the news recently.  I went to some of the leading experts in the country to talk us through these issues to help understand what has been going on and the economics and law behind these issues. Contact info for Dr. David Anderson (Email) danderson@tamu.edu  (Phone) (979) 845-4351 (Twitter) @LivestockEcon  https://twitter.com/LivestockEcon Contact info for Dr. Justin Benavidez (Email) justin.benavidez@ag.tamu.edu (Blog) https://agrilife.org/amarilloagecon/  (Twitter) @amarilloagecon  https://twitter.com/AmarilloAgEcon (Facebook) @Amarillo AgEcon  https://www.facebook.com/AMAAgEcon/ Contact info for Beth Rumley (Email) erumley@uark.edu (National Ag Law Center Website) https://nationalaglawcenter.org/  (National Ag Law Center Twitter)  @nataglaw  https://twitter.com/nataglaw Links to Topics Mentioned on the Show NDSU, TAMU, WVU podcast series on beef industry topics TAMU Center for North American Studies website Dr. Justin Benavidez Amarillo Ag Econ blog National Agricultural Law Center website  National Agricultural Law Center reading rooms National Agricultural Law Center meat processing laws in the US   Tiffany Lashmet is a partner of the National Agricultural Law Center (www.nationalaglawcenter.org) at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, which serves as the nation’s leading source of agricultural and food law research and information. This material is provided as part of that partnership and is based upon work supported by the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Luis Ribera, Director of the Center for North American Studies at Texas A&M University, explains the impact of COVID-19 on Texas agriculture, how the industry is adapting to the crisis, and possible outlooks for the future. // Luis Ribera, Director del Center for North American Studies en Texas A&M University, explica el impacto de COVID-19 en la agricultura texana, detalla cómo la industria se ha adaptado, y ofrece algunas posibilidades para el futuro.  

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran, to talk about how US sanctions on Iran are stymieing efforts there to contain the Coronavirus outbreak, why US meddling in Iran's economy and media ecosystem represent a form of psychological and economic terrorism, why the mainstream press seems to hold the Chinese and Iranian responses to a higher standard than those of NATO states, what gloating by senior US officials over the spread of the virus in Iran and China tells us about the short-sightedness of the neoliberal capitalist outlook, whether the US healthcare system is even logistically capable of containing the virus, and why references to the illness as the "Chinese" or "Wuhan" Coronavirus are fundamentally racist.

On this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor of North American Studies and dean of the Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran, to talk about how US sanctions on Iran are stymying efforts there to contain the COVID-19 Coronavirus, why US meddling in Iran's economy and media ecosystem represent a form of psychological and economic terrorism, why the mainstream press seems to hold the Chinese and Iranian responses to a higher standard than those of NATO states, what gloating by senior US officials over the spread of the virus in Iran and China tells us about the short-sightedness of the neoliberal capitalist outlook, whether the US healthcare system is even logistically capable of containing the virus, and why references to the illness as the "Chinese" or "Wuhan" Coronavirus are ultimately racist.In the second segment, Jacquie and Sean are joined by Jason Dzubow, an immigration attorney, partner at Dzubow & Pilcher, PLLC and writer at www.asylumist.com, to talk about the Supreme Court's decision to allow Trump's Remain in Mexico policy to stand while the case is litigated, the kind of threats faced by asylum-seekers as a result of the new policy, what the horrors endured by migrants on the journey to the US say about the hellacious conditions in their home countries, why the change in rules seems to represent a return to a cruelty-based immigration policy, and how questions of privacy for asylum seekers continue to complicate even well-intentioned attempts to make changes to the immigration system. In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Dr. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, to talk about reports that Zimbabwe is reversing course on the land reforms it's pursued for the last twenty years, the role of sanctions in creating the dire circumstances which prompted this move, why economic aggression towards Zimbabwe from the US, NATO, and Australia is also a warning to other African nations away from pursuing economic self-determination, whether it's fair to lay all the current financial problems at the doorstep of the ruling party, why a reduction of sanctions is the only way the US can improve the situation, how the counterattacks by white Rhodesians, imperial powers, and opposition parties mean Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa must tread lightly, whether the European Union may reconsider their current sanctions on Zimbabwe in light of Britain's departure from the international bloc, and the ongoing role of Russia and China in helping keep the Zimbabwean economy afloat amid the economic attacks.Later in the show, Jacquie and Sean are joined by Aja Taylor, Advocacy Director at Bread for the City, to talk about the many profound social problems exposed by the Coronavirus response, what steps public authorities are taking in Washington, DC, whether quarantine measures may be used to justify increased militarization of marginalized and racialized communities, why the robust and largely-successful response by "authoritarian" governments reveals the glaring deficiencies in our capitalist model, whether the Fed's stimulus package represents $1.5 trillion flushed down the toilet, whether the Democratic Party's actions in Florida in 2000 foreshadowed their treatment of Bernie Sanders in 2020, how attempts to manage Coronavirus outbreaks are affecting various religious congregations and educational facilities, whether Bernie Sanders has to go on the attack against Joe Biden if he wants to stay in the race, why the insistence on civility in politics masks a fundamentally violent political system, and why good organizers have to do more than be right—they have to win.

Donald Trump called it the worst deal ever. The U-S president decided a year ago to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement, which imposed limits on Tehran’s nuclear activities. Trump then reimposed sanctions against Iran, and recently extended them to threaten those countries still party to the deal. Iran’s now reacted, warning the UK, France, Germany, China, and Russia, it’ll step up uranium production unless they meet their commitments within 60 days. Russia is putting the blame on what it calls 'lamentable' behaviour from the U-S, while EU leaders are warning Iran of possible consequences. Can the deal be renegotiated and revived? Presenter: Imran Khan Guests: Mohammad Marandi - Professor of North American Studies at University of Tehran. Rina Shah - Republican Strategist and Consultant. Ali Fathollah-Nejad - visiting fellow at Brookings Doha Center.

Our very first episode features the two editors of the current special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies on Digital Humanities. They are talking about the challenges and advantages of DH, bring up some of their favorite projects that merge computational methods and North American Studies, and even give some advice for complete beginners.Listen in, and let me know what you think!FeaturingDr. Alexander Dunst: https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/dr-alexander-dunst/Dr. Dennis Mischke https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iaa-amlc/academic-staff/dr-dennis-mischke.htmlVerena Adamik https://vadamik.wordpress.com/ Projects and Papers mentionedArcGIS (mapping tools): https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/about-arcgis/overviewBrennan, Timothy. “The Digital Humanities Bust,” The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 15, 2017. https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Digital-Humanities-Bust/241424DARIAH Geobrowser: https://geobrowser.de.dariah.eu/Google Maps (mapping tool): https://www.google.de/maps/Hybrid Narrativity (research group on Graphic novels with Dr. Alexander Dunst): https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/graphic-literature/wp/?lang=enMelville Electronic Library: https://mel.hofstra.edu/ Stanford Literary Lab: https://litlab.stanford.edu/Thaller, Manfred. “Geleitwort.” Digital Humanities. Grundlagen und Technologien für die Praxis, by Susanne Kurz. Springer, 2016. vii – viii. The Viral Texts Project: https://viraltexts.org/Voyant (word cloud and concordance tool): https://voyant-tools.org/ Music Intro/OutroTitle: pine voc - coconut macaroon; Author: Stevia Sphere; Source: https://soundcloud.com/hissoperator/pine-voc-coconut-macaroon License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Royalty Free Open Music from https://starfrosch.com All links were last checked on Dec. 15, 2018. They are provided as an information service. The creator of this podcast and the parties involved in creating the podcast have no control over third party sites and are not responsible or liable for any content or material on such sites, do not endorse the linked sites or resources or the respective contents thereof, nor are they responsible or liable, whether directly or indirectly, for any damages or loss caused or sustained in connection with any use or reliance on information or material obtained from third party sites.​

Season 1, Episode 9. Bahar got a taste for the relaxed German lifestyle on a short visit to a village that left her hungry for more. She'd studied English language and literature in Istanbul, so when she heard of an English-language Masters in British and North American Studies in Freiburg, it was a no-brainer to apply. Bahar talks us through her experience getting a student visa in Germany as a Turkish citizen, including what bank account she needed and how a 2017 law introducing fees for international students impacted her program. Now approaching the end of her program, Bahar reflects on her experience throughout the program, discusses her research interest on immigrant identity, and shares her ideas about what she'll do after graduation.   CONNECT theexpatcast.com Instagram @theexpatcast  Twitter @theexpatcast 

Guest: Irwin Collier, Free University of Berlin Hosted and produced by Reinhard Schumacher In this episode Irwin Collier, professor of Economics at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, talks about his project Economics in the Rear-View Mirror, which recently celebrated its third anniversary. On his website, Irwin is collecting and making available teaching resources used in economics programmes at US universities. These resources include syllabi, exams, and lecture notes. His project is covering the period from roughly 1870 – 1970. So far, the website features more than 750 artefacts, including documents from Joseph Schumpeter, Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Frank Knight, and many more well-known and lesser-known economists. Irwin’s website is a treasure for historians of economics, and a treasure that is still growing. The interview covers the motivation and aim of the project, some technical and archival topics, as well as some lessons on the development of economics from 1870–1970 that can be drawn from the project so far.

In this edition of Auxiliary, Ryan speaks to author Robbie Graham on UFO's in our popular culture and in UFO themed films. Robbie Graham is a leading authority on the cultural and political interplay between UFOs and Hollywood. He has lectured around the world on his topic and been interviewed for BBC Radio, Coast to Coast AM, Canal+ TV, and Vanity Fair , among others. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications including The Guardian , New Statesman , Filmfax , Fortean Times , and the peer-reviewed Journal of North American Studies, 49th Parallel. Robbie studied Film, Television, and Radio at Staffordshire University, and Cinema the University of Bristol. He is the author of Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood’s UFO Movies. Find Robbie's book on *Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Screen-Saucers-Sorting-Hollywoods/dp/1910121118?ie=UTF8&ref_=cm_cr_pr_product_top )* Visit Ryan Sprague on his *website ( http://www.somewhereintheskies.com/ )* , *Facebook* ( https://www.facebook.com/Ryan-Sprague-284777698328827/?fref=ts ) and *Twitter ( https://twitter.com/RyanSprague51?lang=en )* Mister-Sam’s *FACEBOOK ( https://www.facebook.com/samshearon?fref=ts )* page. iTF on Facebook: *interactive group page ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/478749618970394/ )* and the *official radio page ( https://www.facebook.com/IntoTheFrayRadio/ )* Twitter: *Official iTF ( https://twitter.com/iTF_Radio )* and *Shannon’s personal account ( https://twitter.com/ShannonLegro )* Subscribe to iNTO THE FRAY in *iTunes ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-fray-radio/id1042017993 )* and *Stitcher ( http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/into-the-fray-radio?refid=stpr )* , and if you have a moment to rate and review, we would surely appreciate it. If you have an encounter or story you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to contact me *HERE* ( https://intothefrayradio.com/contact/ ) or via email, shannon@intothefrayradio.com. Music for iTF Auxiliary provided by Caleb Hanks' *The Clerk ( https://soundcloud.com/theclerk )* and *Electus ( https://soundcloud.com/electusofficial )* Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Gene and Chris discuss movies, TV shows, pop culture and UFOs with Robbie Graham, author of "Silver Screen Saucers: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood's UFO Movies." According to his bio: "Robbie Graham is a leading authority on the cultural and political interplay between UFOs and Hollywood. He has been interviewed on these subjects for BBC Radio, Coast to Coast AM, Canal+ TV, and Vanity Fair, among others. His articles have appeared in a variety of publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Filmfax, Fortean Times, and the peer-reviewed Journal of North American Studies, 49th Parallel." Consider how the classic 1951 sci-fi film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still," influenced early flying saucer contact claims from George Adamski and others.

In this podcast Dr Sonja Schillings explores how the use of the Latin term Hostis Humani Generis (the enemy of all mankind), which was originally applied to pirates, now creates an extralegal space which is being used to legitimise the assassination of international terrorists all over the world. This is just part of her forthcoming book, Hostis Humani Generis and the Narrative Construction of Legitimate Violence. Podcast presented and produced by Tatiana Prorokova. Tatiana Prorokova: Hello and welcome to Pod Academy. My name is Tatiana Prorokova and I am glad to have here Dr. Sonja Schillings to discuss her forthcoming book based on her dissertation titled Hostis Humani Generis and the Narrative Construction of Legitimate Violence. Before we proceed, however, I’d like to say a couple of words about Dr. Schillings’ academic career. She wrote her dissertation at the graduate school of North-American Studies at Freie-Universität Berlin in Germany, where she also held a position of a substitute junior professor for North-American Literature in summer semester 2014. And since October 2014, she is a post-doctoral researcher at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture at Giessen University in Germany. So, Sonja, in your dissertation, your main concern is the relationship between two criminal groups - pirates and terrorists. You argue that both have one thing in common and that is they can be characterized as Hostis Humani Generis. Could you elaborate on that and maybe explain your choice of these particular groups? Sonja Schillings:  My basic concern is about Hostis Humani Generis.  It is a legal term of arts,  a Latin term, which means “enemy of all human kind”,. It is, quite generally, a legal fiction that is assigned to perpetrators who are considered not just enemies but enemies of the law, of the normative order.  They are enemies so hostile and so extreme that you can  commit legitimate violence against them, just because you commit it against them. And it’s a term that was traditionally,  in legal history, equivalent or synonymous with the crime of piracy. And “the enemy of all” means that everybody, without distinction, is being attacked by them. This is why violence against them is said to be representative of the entire human race.  Or rather it’s claimed to be. The claims I look at are only ever in text. So much for that. So, pirates and terrorists. As I’ve been saying, Hostis Humani Generis was originally designated to describe pirates only, until the early nineteenth century when Hostis Humani Generis and the crime of piracy separated and Hostis Humani Generis was also used to describe slave traders – international slave traders. And then later, in the twentieth century, it was also used about perpetrators of crimes against humanity - the torturer is the most established example here. And now, what we see since the 1980s, is the political initiative to describe international terrorists as pirates. It is this link that originally spurred my interest in the topic of Hostis Humani Generis because other than the fiction itself, other than , the legal description of Hostis Humani Generis, and other than the characterization of what they do to society (i.e. the orders they attack), pirates and terrorists have very little in common.  Even so, they were constantly combined or associated with each other, despite the grave reservations of the entire maritime securities community. This is what the “pirate-terrorist nexus” refers to. T.P: So, you provide a brief historical overview of this “pirates-terrorists nexus”. But can you actually spot any difference between pirates and terrorists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? Was there any shift after 2000/2001? S.S.: Well, yes and no. There was certainly a shift of it being more do-able – first of all that. And, second of all, you suddenly had Somali pirates, which is why maritime security became seen as piracy -  mariti...

Cemil Aydin is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Aydin presented, "Impossibility of the Millet System in the Age of Active Publics: Ottoman Tanzimat, Imperial Citizenship, and Cosmopolitan Pluralism, 1839-1915" at the March 19, 2015 workshop "Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back". This presentation will discuss why Ottoman Tanzimat Era reforms in the millet system, which included granting full equality to non-Muslim citizens of the modernizing empire, eventually failed. It argues that this failure, best symbolised by the image of Sultan Abdulhamid II as an oppressor of his Christian subjects, has global roots and comparable to the failure of imperial citizenship projects in Russian, British, Dutch, Austria-Hungarian, and French Empires. The very technologies that empowered the imperial governments in ruling diverse subjects over large areas, such as steamship, trains, telegraphs and journalism, also empowered reading publics of each empire, making their claims to imperial administration more articulate, globally entangled and organized. The Ottoman millet system tried to adjust to these new technologies of imperial governance by reforming its foundations and its social contract base thoughout the 19th century. What were the achievements and failures of this 19th century Ottoman institutionalisation of religious difference and identity accommodation? How did it transition to the notions of citizenship during the era of Turkish Republic after 1923? The project, “Reasonable Accmommodations?“: Minorities in Globalized Nation States, is a series of four workshops that will take place during the 2014-2015 academic year and will explore religious diversity and minority religious freedoms in different regions of the world. It is directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with the Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office at Duke University.

Michael Reynolds is an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Reynolds presented, "Global Norms, Geopolitics, and the Evolution of Minority Politics in Turkey" at the March 19, 2015 workshop "Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back". The transformations of Turkey’s minority policies over the course of the past century have been intimately bound up with broader geopolitical processes. As a result, the origins, evolution, and contradictions of those policies can only be understood by taking into account changes in the norms of global order and Turkey’s position in the interstate system. This presentation first examines the ways in which the global proliferation of the national idea, great power competition, and imperial collapse interacted to shape the formation of official Turkish nationalism and secularism at the founding of the Turkish Republic. It then explores the synergy over the past decade between the revival of public interest in the Ottoman past, the relative liberalization of policies toward minorities, and the pursuit of a new foreign policy vision. It concludes with observations on how Turkey’s foreign policy setbacks and current external challenges complicate efforts to restructure the place of minorities inside Turkey. The project, “Reasonable Accmommodations?“: Minorities in Globalized Nation States, is a series of four workshops that will take place during the 2014-2015 academic year and will explore religious diversity and minority religious freedoms in different regions of the world. It is directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with the Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office at Duke University.

Nora Fisher Onar is a Research Associate of the Centre for International Studies of the University of Oxford and a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund in Washington DC. Fisher Onar presented "The Cosmo-Politics of Nostalgia: Istanbul, Identity, and Difference" at the March 19, 2015 workshop "Turkish Reasonable Accommodations: From Multiculturalism to Secular Nationalism and Back". The project, “Reasonable Accmommodations?“: Minorities in Globalized Nation States, is a series of four workshops that will take place during the 2014-2015 academic year and will explore religious diversity and minority religious freedoms in different regions of the world. It is directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with the Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost’s Office at Duke University.

Bill Waiser, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan and Visiting Scholar with the Council of North American Studies, Duke University The talks is an illustrated examination of the homesteading experience for men, women, and children in Saskatchewan, Canada in the early twentieth century. Presented by the Council for North American.

A co-sponsored event from the Asian Studies Centre, the Dahrendorf programme for the Study of Freedom, the Middle East Centre and North American Studies Programme from the world renowned from the author of the award-winning book a Secular Age

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Lecture by Robert Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).

Lecture by Robert Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).

Lecture by Robert Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University; from the Latin American Briefing Series of the Center for Latin American Studies (http://clas.uchicago.edu).