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Houston Law Nerd Podcast, with Dylan Russell
Episode 14 - Professor Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes, Professor of Law and Charles Weigel II Research Professor of State & Federal Constitutional Law, South Texas College of Law Houston

Houston Law Nerd Podcast, with Dylan Russell

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 100:35


In the 14th episode of Houston Law Nerd Podcast, I sit down with Professor Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes, a Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston, and the Charles Weigel II Research Professor of State & Federal Constitutional Law. His faculty page at South Texas College of Law Houston is located here: https://www.stcl.edu/academics/faculty-and-adjuncts/#member-7558-info Listen in and learn while we discuss many topics including his easy decision, as a 10-year-old, to become a lawyer like his father and uncle, his decision while at Baylor Law School, where he was class valedictorian, to ultimately become a law professor, his start as an attorney at the Texas Supreme Court, his time in private practice in a large firm where he worked on appeals and trials, his crossroads decision to apply for a law professor position, which he accepted at South Texas College of Law in 2001, his thoughts on the purpose of the law, including the late Professor Charles Weigel's answer "to provide certainty," the changing landscape of U.S. Constitutional jurisprudence including likely demise of Chevron deference, his approach to amicus briefs depending on whether he's advocating for a client or focusing on a particular area of law not fully addressed by the litigants or other amici, the change over the last two decades on how South Texas and other law schools approach assessing students and grading, the importance of doing your own research when presenting oral argument or briefs in appellate courts, and tips for current law students, among numerous other topics.Email me with questions, comments, or suggestions for guests at HoustonLawNerd@gmail.com. 

Tourist Information
Episode 78: Mark Blyth

Tourist Information

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2021 54:43


Mark Blyth is a Scottish-American political scientist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of several books, including Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century,  Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, The Future of the Euro, and most recently, Angrynomics in 2020.

The Learning Curve
Oxford & UCLA Pulitzer Winner Prof. Daniel Walker Howe on Horace Mann, Common Schools, & Educating for Democracy

The Learning Curve

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 33:50


This week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Daniel Walker Howe, Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA. Drawing from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, he provides background information on Horace Mann, the first secretary of the... Source

How to Fix Democracy
Mark Blyth

How to Fix Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2020 28:55


Mark Blyth is William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics at Brown University. In this interview, he discusses how our economics are rife with anger and frustration. Blyth’s “angry-nomics” emerged from financial crises and a decline in social institutions, like unions, that give people feelings of stability and control. In this frank discussion of the conflicts between our economics and politics, Blyth offers several concrete recommendations to get capitalism to work for democracy instead of against it.

Leadership In Extraordinary Times
The Business-Government Boundary

Leadership In Extraordinary Times

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2020 34:13


In episode 5, Michael Warren and Professor Mari Sako explore how far the Covid-19 crisis has blurred the boundary between business and government.We also hear from Dr Mo Ibrahim and Professor Wale Adebanwi on the need to put governance at the centre of Africa's development. Featuring:Michael Warren, Global Managing Director, Albright Stonebridge Group.Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.Mo Ibrahim, Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation.Wale Adebanwi, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations; Director of the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford.https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/ For more Business Insights head to Oxford AnswersCredits:Producer/editor – Eve Streeter for Stabl

Taking Stock with Vincent Wall
Taking Stock Podcast: Angryonomics

Taking Stock with Vincent Wall

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 0:24


Vincent is joined by Mark Blyth the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and co-author of ‘Angrynomics’. Listen and subscribe to Taking Stock with Vincent Wall on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Africa Oxford Initiative
Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture

Africa Oxford Initiative

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2019 46:39


The Oxford Africa Society will host an annual lecture delivered by the Director of the University of Oxford's African Studies Centre and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Wale Adebanwi.

Africa Oxford Initiative
Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture

Africa Oxford Initiative

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2019 46:39


The Oxford Africa Society will host an annual lecture delivered by the Director of the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Wale Adebanwi.

Turning Points in the Civil War
The Second Birth of Our Nation: The 1864 Presidential Election as a Turning Point for Democracy

Turning Points in the Civil War

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2018 44:05


Richard Carwardine, Rhodes Professor of American History at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, discusses how the 1864 presidential election served as a "second birth of our nation," and a turning point for the United States.

New Books in Mexican Studies
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in Mexican Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man's conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Diplomatic History
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in Diplomatic History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man's conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man’s conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in the American West
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in the American West

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man’s conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Native American Studies
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in Native American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man’s conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man’s conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in History
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man’s conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Latin American Studies
Pekka Hämäläinen, “The Comanche Empire” (Yale UP, 2008)

New Books in Latin American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2018 54:57


In his book, The Comanche Empire (Yale University Press, 2008), Pekka Hämäläinen refutes the traditional story that Indians were bit players or unfortunate victims of the white man’s conquest of the American West. Old maps that divided America into Spanish, French, and British territories, Hämäläinen argues, are “fictions” insofar as they entirely miss great indigenous contenders of military, economic, and political power. Such a one were the Comanches who fought, traded, and cooperated—often simultaneously—with European and Native American rivals, and rose to be a dominating power in the Great Plains for almost 200 years. The Comanche Empire brings a riveting narrative in a dialectical spirit to the fields of American, American Indian, Spanish and Mexican Imperial, and Borderlands histories. Professor Hämäläinen is Rhodes Professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in early and nineteenth-century North American history especially in indigenous, colonial, imperial, borderlands, and environmental history—all topics that invite comparative discussion and a global view. His first book was When Disease Makes History: Epidemics and Great Historical Turning Points (2006); The Comanche Empire is his second book; he is currently working on a history of the Lakota-Sioux that will be published next year. Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of the Early Modern Spanish Empire specializing on culture, diplomacy, and travel. He completed his PhD in 2017 at UC Berkeley where he is now a Visiting Scholar; he also teaches at Los Medanos College and Berkeley City College. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Makes us Human?
An iodabenzene story

What Makes us Human?

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2017 7:29


Nobel Laureate and the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, explains what chemistry teaches us about being human.

New Books Network
Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 75:03


In the third podcast of Arguing History, historians William J. Cooper and Richard Carwardine address the question of the role presidential leadership played in determining the outcome of the American Civil War. Considering the respective positions of both Abraham Lincoln and his Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis, they discuss the respective backgrounds of the two men, the political environment in which each of them operated, their relationship to their military commanders, and their contributions to the questions of slavery and emancipation as they pertained to the war. In discussing their abilities and actions, Carwardine and Cooper describe some of the important ways in which the two men shaped the conflict and its legacy for us today, in ways both intended and unexpected. William J. Cooper is Boyd Professor of History emeritus at Louisiana State University and the author of several books about American history, including Jefferson Davis, American; We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861; and, most recently, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics. Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History emeritus and the former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Among his works are Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power and his newest book, Lincoln’s Sense of Humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 75:16


In the third podcast of Arguing History, historians William J. Cooper and Richard Carwardine address the question of the role presidential leadership played in determining the outcome of the American Civil War. Considering the respective positions of both Abraham Lincoln and his Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis, they discuss the respective backgrounds of the two men, the political environment in which each of them operated, their relationship to their military commanders, and their contributions to the questions of slavery and emancipation as they pertained to the war. In discussing their abilities and actions, Carwardine and Cooper describe some of the important ways in which the two men shaped the conflict and its legacy for us today, in ways both intended and unexpected. William J. Cooper is Boyd Professor of History emeritus at Louisiana State University and the author of several books about American history, including Jefferson Davis, American; We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861; and, most recently, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics. Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History emeritus and the former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Among his works are Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power and his newest book, Lincoln’s Sense of Humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Biography
Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?

New Books in Biography

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 75:03


In the third podcast of Arguing History, historians William J. Cooper and Richard Carwardine address the question of the role presidential leadership played in determining the outcome of the American Civil War. Considering the respective positions of both Abraham Lincoln and his Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis, they discuss the respective backgrounds of the two men, the political environment in which each of them operated, their relationship to their military commanders, and their contributions to the questions of slavery and emancipation as they pertained to the war. In discussing their abilities and actions, Carwardine and Cooper describe some of the important ways in which the two men shaped the conflict and its legacy for us today, in ways both intended and unexpected. William J. Cooper is Boyd Professor of History emeritus at Louisiana State University and the author of several books about American history, including Jefferson Davis, American; We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861; and, most recently, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics. Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History emeritus and the former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Among his works are Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power and his newest book, Lincoln’s Sense of Humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in History
Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 75:03


In the third podcast of Arguing History, historians William J. Cooper and Richard Carwardine address the question of the role presidential leadership played in determining the outcome of the American Civil War. Considering the respective positions of both Abraham Lincoln and his Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis, they discuss the respective backgrounds of the two men, the political environment in which each of them operated, their relationship to their military commanders, and their contributions to the questions of slavery and emancipation as they pertained to the war. In discussing their abilities and actions, Carwardine and Cooper describe some of the important ways in which the two men shaped the conflict and its legacy for us today, in ways both intended and unexpected. William J. Cooper is Boyd Professor of History emeritus at Louisiana State University and the author of several books about American history, including Jefferson Davis, American; We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861; and, most recently, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics. Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History emeritus and the former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Among his works are Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power and his newest book, Lincoln’s Sense of Humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Military History
Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?

New Books in Military History

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 75:03


In the third podcast of Arguing History, historians William J. Cooper and Richard Carwardine address the question of the role presidential leadership played in determining the outcome of the American Civil War. Considering the respective positions of both Abraham Lincoln and his Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis, they discuss the respective backgrounds of the two men, the political environment in which each of them operated, their relationship to their military commanders, and their contributions to the questions of slavery and emancipation as they pertained to the war. In discussing their abilities and actions, Carwardine and Cooper describe some of the important ways in which the two men shaped the conflict and its legacy for us today, in ways both intended and unexpected. William J. Cooper is Boyd Professor of History emeritus at Louisiana State University and the author of several books about American history, including Jefferson Davis, American; We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861; and, most recently, The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics. Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History emeritus and the former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Among his works are Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power and his newest book, Lincoln’s Sense of Humor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Literary Series - Spring 2016
Chemistry in Art, Art In Chemistry, And the Spiritual Ground They Share: Metaphoric Kommuniques: A Reading of Poetical Works

Literary Series - Spring 2016

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2016 76:36


Roald Hoffmann-awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Kenichi Fukui) and now a Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University-will read selections and talk about his writing, which has carved out a land betw

Exploring Environmental History
Biological invasions, culture and biodiversity in South Africa

Exploring Environmental History

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2009 24:24


The guest on this episode of the podcast is William Beinart, Rhodes Professor of race relations and director the African Studies Centre in Oxford. Professor Beinart critiques Alfred Crosby’s idea of ecological imperialism. He argues that from the vantage point of Africa, part of the old world, Crosby’s discussion of asymmetrical plant exchange is problematic. Many species from the America’s were highly successful in Africa. He suggests that demographically, economically, and socially, the benefits have outweighed the costs of such invasive plants as prickly pear from Mexico and black wattle from Australia. The ecological costs have been greater but they are difficult to value. The podcast concludes with some brief comments on the relevance of a more flexible and less purist approach to concepts of biodiversity, and how this might be adapted to cater for transferred plants.

American History
Abraham Lincoln’s Opposition to the Mexican War

American History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2009


To mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, The Huntington brought together a distinguished group of scholars to discuss America’s 16th president, his times, and his historical impact. The conference, “A Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century,” took place in April 2009. Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University and professor of history emeritus at UCLA. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848.

Lincoln and the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln’s Opposition to the Mexican War

Lincoln and the Civil War

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2009 36:18


To mark the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, The Huntington brought together a distinguished group of scholars to discuss America’s 16th president, his times, and his historical impact. The conference, “A Lincoln for the Twenty-First Century,” took place in April 2009. Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University and professor of history emeritus at UCLA. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848.