We discuss Turkey’s assertive foreign policy with Gönenç Uysal. Gönenç Uysal is Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. Professor Uysal pursued a PhD in War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focuses on the interaction between and among capitalism, class, state, modernity, religion, war, and military affairs. She tweets @gonencuysal.
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Fall Reading List!
We thought it would be fun to put together a Back to School reading list. Here are the books that we’ve taken out from the library and have on our nightstands right now. The list is broken up into fiction and non-fiction. We hope you enjoy them!
Fiction
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Severance by Ling Ma
Non-Fiction
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie
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Agroecology and African Agricultural Innovation
We speak with Chris Conz about resisting the capitalist agricultural development model. Chris Conz teaches African history at Tufts University.
On Reparations
We speak with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad about reparations. Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is chief of equity and inclusion at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and co-author of the report, “Ten Solutions to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide.”
Back to School Week! Are Asian-Americans being held back?
We speak with Andrew Lam about Asian-Americans and college admissions. Andrew Lam is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, and the author of “Saving Sight” and “Two Sons of China.”
Back to School Week! Who deserves to get an elite education?
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.
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