We speak with Reshad N Ahsan about the relationship between trade and war in Europe between 1640 and 1896. Reshad N Ahsan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. Reshad’s research interests are at the intersection of International Trade and Development Economics. His work uses empirical methods to better understand the impact of trade liberalization on unemployment, labour bargaining power, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries.
Co-Host Keisha C Taylor-Wesselink on Digital Platforms and Entrepreneurship
Keisha is interested in using historical, multi-cultural and philosophical insights often unknown or sidelined to support better research and outcomes and writes about this at www.techilosophy.com. At present she is a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin conducting research for the Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices (Shape-ID) project. She has a PhD and MSc in Web Science from the University of Southampton, an MA in International Relations from the Universiteit van Amsterdam and a BSc in Sociology from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago.
Brandon R. Byrd on The Haitian Revolution and Black Internationalism
We speak with Brandon R. Byrd about his book The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti. Byrd is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century Black intellectual and social history, with a special interest in Black internationalism. It has been featured in publications such as the Journal of African American History, the Journal of Haitian Studies, Palimpsest, and Slavery & Abolition. In addition to teaching and research, Byrd serves as co-editor of the Black Lives and Liberation series published by Vanderbilt University Press.
Santiago Pérez on Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration
We talk with Santiago Pérez about why their experiences as immigrants in each country differed widely. Santiago Pérez is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He works on economic history, with a focus on immigration and social mobility. He holds a Phd in Economics from Stanford University.
Peter Hudis on Rosa Luxemburg's Theories of Imperialism and Political Economy
We continue our conversation with Peter Hudis about the ideas of the great Rosa Luxemburg. Peter Hudis is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Oakton Community College. He has published extensively on Marxist theory and is General Editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.
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Brenna Wynn Greer on Pursuing Civil Rights Through Capitalism
We speak with Brenna Wynn Greer about how Black mediamakers’ representation of Black America encouraged expansive ideas of citizenship in the civil rights era. Greer is the Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College. Her book is Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship .
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Fiori Berhane on the Mediterranean Sea as A Nowhere Space
We talk with Fiori Berhane about migration. Fiori Berhane is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Brown University. Berhane's research focuses on refugee's political activism as it pertains to local histories, diaspora and the migration crisis. Broadly, it asks how do refugees make political claims to belonging under conditions of protracted political and social crisis; this research is based on the experiences of third wave Eritrean diaspora in relation to the first wave diaspora in Bologna, Italy.
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Katerina Kolozova on the Defeat of Liberalism (and what comes next)
We talk with Katerina Kolozova about imagining a new universalism. Katerina Kolozova Is Professor of political philosophy in Skopje and Belgrade, author of Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals (Bloomsbury Academic-UK, 2019) and Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (Columbia University Press, 2014).
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Arati Kreibich on Why She is Running For Congress
Arati Kreibich (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent New Jersey's 5th Congressional District. Arati Kreibich is a neuroscientist, a mother, a grassroots organizer, an immigrant, and a local elected official. She is has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Ayanna Pressley, Working Families and The Sunrise Movement.
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Vincent Lloyd on Prison Abolition
Vincent Lloyd is associate professor of theology and religious studies and director of Africana studies at Villanova University. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of religion, race, and politics. His books include In Defense of Charisma (Columbia, 2018), Black Natural Law (Oxford, 2016), and a coedited volume, Race and Secularism in America (Columbia, 2016). Vincent Lloyd and Joshua Dubler co-authored Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons (2019).
