We speak with Natasha Warikoo about race and admissions policies. Natasha Warikoo is the author of “The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities” and an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Back to School Week Special! Ethical Schools Meets A Correction Podcast
This is an episode from the new podcast Ethical Schools. You can find their show wherever you download your podcasts.
In this episode I offer advice to new teachers. We talk about the future of reading, technology in the classroom, the Haitian Revolution and more!
Yugoslav Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
We speak with Vjeran Pavlaković about the Yugoslav volunteers in Spain. Vjeran Pavlaković is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka. His research interests include on the Spanish Civil War, collective remembrance, and transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav volunteers fighting in Spain, 1937.
Last month over 8,000 people listened to the podcast and lots of people are giving feedback. Thank you. Please don’t hesitate to let us know how we are doing and what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.
Music by Podington Bear
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A Weekly Correction: 14 Years After Katrina
Rural America: The Path to Victory?
We speak with LaTosha Brown about the untapped power of the rural voter. LaTosha Brown (@MsLaToshaBrown) is a political strategist and a founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund.
Last month nearly 8,000 people listened to the podcast and lots of people are giving feedback. Thank you. Please don’t hesitate to let us know how we are doing and what topics you’d like us to cover in the future.
Music by Podington Bear
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Public Banks: Financing a Green Transformation
We talk with Thomas Marois about the power and potential of public banks. Thomas Marois is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto, 2014) and States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey (2012).
The End of the Washington Consensus
We talk with Laura Basu about what a just alternative might look like. Laura Basu is Europe Editor of ourEconomy, and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University, and Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis and co-editor of The Media & Austerity.
A Weekly Correction: The Partition of India
On 15 August 1947, the UK Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act 1947, freeing India from British colonial rule. The Act also resulted in the partition of India, in which British India was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan. This partition resulted in violent riots, mass casualties, and the displacement of nearly 15 million people due to religious violence.
Burundi: Pathways to Reconstruction
We speak with Namakula E. Mayanja about the roots of Burundi’s ethnic conflicts, and the pathways to reconciliation. Namakula E. Mayanja, PhD is a scholar and instructor in peace and conflict studies at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. She is an experienced researcher in Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Her research interests include Africa’s leadership, security, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, non-state armed groups, and natural resource wars.
The UN and the World Economic Forum: A Love Story?
We speak with Harris Gleckman about a new agreement between the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. Harris Gleckman is Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability, UMass-Boston and Director of Benchmark Environmental Consulting. Dr Gleckman’s latest study:, Multistakeholder Governance and Democracy : A Global Challenge was published by Routledge on Oct 5, 2018. He is the former Chief of the NY Office of UNCTAD, Senior Officer for the first Financing for Development Conference, and Chief of the Environmental Unit of the Centre on Transnational Corporations.
