140 Episodes

  1. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 36: Difficult Pleasures

    Published: 13/12/2019

  2. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 35: Capitalism’s Hidden Crises

    Published: 09/11/2019

  3. On (Not) Guilty Pleasures

    Published: 28/06/2019

  4. Podcast for Social Research, Episode 33: Ecology, Community, Prosperity: a Conversation with Eliza Griswold

    Published: 01/06/2019

  5. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 32: Another Odicy: On the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Keats' Odes of 1819

    Published: 20/03/2019

  6. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 31: Night of Philosophy and Ideas 2019

    Published: 06/03/2019

  7. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 30: At Year's End with the Angel of History: A 2018 Cultural Retrospective

    Published: 18/12/2018

  8. The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 29.5, Shortcast: Phenomenology of the Holidays

    Published: 18/12/2018

  9. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 29: The Fall that Wasn’t: A Decade Since the Financial Crisis

    Published: 18/12/2018

  10. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 28: Theory on the Radio

    Published: 18/12/2018

  11. The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 27, Unnatural Disaster: Puerto Rico One Year after Hurricane Maria

    Published: 09/11/2018

  12. The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 26.5, Shortcast: The Dialectic of HGTV

    Published: 19/10/2018

  13. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 26: Mandatory Separation--Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine

    Published: 05/10/2018

  14. The Podcast for Social Research, Ep. 25.5, Shortcast: Bicentennial Frankenstein

    Published: 03/08/2018

  15. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 25: Borders, Migration, and Crisis

    Published: 20/07/2018

  16. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 24: Perennial Fashion--Music and Criticism

    Published: 23/04/2018

  17. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 23: Dire States

    Published: 23/03/2018

  18. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 22: Seeing Red--On the Centenary of the Russian Revolution

    Published: 03/11/2017

  19. The Podcast for Social Research, Special Minicast Episode

    Published: 13/09/2017

  20. The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 21: Science and Society – Education, Access and the Question of Boundaries

    Published: 18/08/2017

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From Plato to quantum physics, Walter Benjamin to experimental poetry, Frantz Fanon to the history of political radicalism, The Podcast for Social Research is a crucial part of our mission to forge new, organic paths for intellectual work in the twenty-first century: an ongoing, interdisciplinary series featuring members of the Institute, and occasional guests, conversing about a wide variety of intellectual issues, some perennial, some newly pressing. Each episode centers on a different topic and is accompanied by a bibliography of annotations and citations that encourages further curiosity and underscores the conversation’s place in a larger web of cultural conversations.

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