We speak with Maggie Jackson about technology. Maggie Jackson is the author of “Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention” and a contributor to the anthology “Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robots.”
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We talk with Dorit Geva about the far-right in France. Dorit Geva is a political sociologist and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University, where she is overseeing CEU’s new BA programs in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been studying the populist radical-right in Europe. She has also written on the gender politics of military service, including her book, Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States (2013).
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We speak with Nana Osei-Opare about some of the books he teaches. “Assigned Reading” is a new segment on the podcast. Once a month we will interview scholars and teachers about books they use in the classroom. Nana Osei-Opare is an Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University. The books we discuss include:
117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law (Penguin Classics, 2009), by Ruth First
I Write What I Like , by Steve Biko
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Holt, 2005), by Caroline Elkins.
A Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution (International Publishers, 1969), by Kwame Nkrumah.
Kwame Nkrumah
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We speak with Thomas J. Froehlich about Fake News. Thomas J. Froehlich, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, School of Information, Kent State University (27 years). His teaching areas included: information science, information ethics, information architecture, knowledge management, network and software resources, online searching, computer programming and user interface design. He was the chief architect and former Director of the Master of Science Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State University (2001-2011), recently transformed into Master’s degrees in Knowledge Management, User Experience Design and Health Informatics. Dr. Froehlich is currently working on a book titled 10 Lessons for the Age of Disinformation.
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We speak with Coco Rhum and Hebh Jamal about the effort to integrate the NYC school system. These are two of the most inspiring activists I’ve ever spoken to and I am excited to share these interviews!
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We speak with Greer Valley about why decolonization needs to be more than a metaphor. Greer Valley is a South African visual artist. You can find her work here.
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We speak with Michael W. Klein about the legacy of Paul Volcker and the importance of an independent Federal Reserve. Michael W. Klein is the William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He served as the chief economist in the Office of International Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury from 2010-2011. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the founder, research director, and co-executive editor of EconoFact, a website that provides economic analysis on timely policy issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston, New York, San Francisco and Dallas. His research and teaching focus on international macroeconomics.
President Barack Obama meets with Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chair Paul Volcker in the Oval Office January 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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We speak with Emily Banks on why public health is the answer to nearly everything. Professor Banks is a public health physician and epidemiologist with interest and expertise in large scale cohort studies, pharmacoepidemiology, women’s health, Aboriginal Health and healthy ageing. She currently leads the Epidemiology for Policy and Practice group at the Australian National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, Senior Advisor to the Sax Institute, Deputy Chair of the NHMRC Alcohol Working Group, Deputy Chair of the Heart Foundation Research Committee and a Visiting Professor at Oxford University.
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We speak with Lorena Lombardozzi about UBI. Lorena Lombardozzi is a Lecturer in Economics at the School of Social Sciences & Global Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Open University. She completed her PhD thesis in Economics at SOAS, University of London (fully funded by SOAS Economics dpt.) with a title ‘A nexus between the role of the state, market transition and food consumption: The case of Uzbekistan’. She holds a MSc from SOAS in Political Economy of Development (fully-funded). She received a previous Masters in Development Economics from University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy. Before returning to academia Dr. Lombardozzi worked as a development economist in Latin America in 2014, in Uzbekistan for the regional office of UNODC in Central Asia from 2010 to 2012, and between 2007 and 2010 with the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs in the field of development economics, trade and environmental policy.
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We speak with Monica de Bolle about how we might stop the “carbon bomb” in the Amazon from going off. Monica de Bolle, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2017, was director for Latin American studies and emerging markets at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Named as "Honored Economist" in 2014 by the Order of Brazilian Economists for her contributions to the Brazilian policy debate, de Bolle focuses on macroeconomics, foreign exchange policy, monetary and fiscal policy, trade and inequality, financial regulation, and capital markets.
Her views on Brazil's economy and economic policy have been published widely by the international and Brazilian media. She contributes regularly to major Brazilian newspapers Exame, O Globo and O Estado de São Paulo.
Amazon fires 15-22 August 2019. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview,
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