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One Heat Minute ProductionsTHE DECADE PROJECT: EX MACHINA (2014) w/Veronica FitzpatrickIn the latest episode, I catch up with educator, writer and podcast host Veronica Fitzpatrick, to talk about Alex Garland's expression of the "vicious prosthesis" Ex Machina. Veronica Fitzpatrickis a film writer and professor based in Providence, Rhode Island. My writing has appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, Screen Slate, Post45, the Village Voice (rip), and elsewhere. In 2022, I contributed to BFI's Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.Formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, I teach in Brown's department of Modern Culture and Media...2025-01-071h 00
From the Ground Up with Marc Weller30 years of Impact investing with Pegasus Capital AdvisorsJoin Marc and Matt as they are joined by one of the pioneers of ESG investing, Craig Cogut, Founder of Pegasus Capital Advisors, as they discuss ecotourism, environmental sustainability and resilience, and the future of impact investing.2024-11-2032 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsMINHUNTER: SCENE FOURTEEN WITH VERONICA FITZPATRICK“Michael Mann films are for people who have been in love, which I really really appreciate.” The amazing educator, writer and podcast host Veronica Fitzpatrick, joins MINHUNTER to discuss the precision and the levity of one of MANHUNTER’s misdirections.Veronica FitzpatrickA film writer and professor based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her writing has appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, Screen Slate, Post45, the Village Voice (rip), and elsewhere. In 2022, I contributed to BFI's Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.Formerly a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cogut Institute for the Hum...2024-11-1748 min
Meeting StreetAI and the HumanitiesAt a time when headlines repeatedly underscore the dangers of artificial intelligence to human endeavors of all sorts, what role can the humanities play in assessing the uses and limitations of new AI tools such as ChatGPT? What do developments in AI teach us about academic inquiry and humanistic questions in particular?In this episode of “Meeting Street,” Hollis Robbins, scholar of African American literature and Dean of Humanities at the University of Utah, joins host Amanda Anderson for a wide-ranging conversation on the institutional and disciplinary condition of the humanities at the present time. Through concrete exam...2023-12-0630 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsCOLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: PASSIONATE APPRECIATOR OF THE IMPLICIT w/ Veronica FitzpatrickHosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join educator and host of The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast Veronica Fitzpatrick in the second of two new episodes to discuss how Cartel's put on a better party than AI, the Tom Cruise 'meaningful squint' and the impressions that abound in COLLATERAL.Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclusive weekly podcast + access to the OHM discord here.ABOUT VERONICA FITZPATRICKVeronica Fitzpatrick is a writer and teacher. Recently a 2021-2023 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Brown's Cogut Institute for the Humanities, teaches film...2023-08-2834 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsMIAMI NICE: THIS IS WHY WE NEED INTIMACY COORDINATORS w/ Veronica FitzpatrickHosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join educator and host of The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast Veronica Fitzpatrick in the first of two new episodes to discuss Jamie Foxx's account of his sex scene with Naomi Harris' body double and begin unpacking the failed L.A infrastructure depicted in COLLATERAL.Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclusive weekly podcast + access to the OHM discord here.ABOUT VERONICA FITZPATRICKVeronica Fitzpatrick is a writer and teacher. Recently a 2021-2023 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Brown's Cogut Institute for the Huma...2023-08-2225 min
One Heat Minute ProductionsMIAMI NICE: FROM CUBA WITH LOVE w/ Veronica FitzpatrickHosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join educator and host of The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast Veronica Fitzpatrick to discuss "I dance" as a precursor to "DTF", the weird corollary between the Linkin Park / Jay Z collab and Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx pairing and so much more.Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclusive weekly podcast + access to the OHM discord here.ABOUT VERONICA FITZPATRICKVeronica Fitzpatrick is a writer and teacher. Recently a 2021-2023 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Brown's Cogut Institute for the Humanities, teaches f...2023-07-2235 min
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)377: Bonus Episode: Seeds of Success: Investing in Farmers for a Sustainable FutureAs part of a recent event recorded live from Capitol Hill, policymakers and food systems leaders discussed the importance of centering farmers’ voices, connecting the dots between agriculture and climate resilience, and solutions that can help producers and their communities thrive. Speakers include Senator Chris Coons, Congressmember Sara Jacobs, Craig Cogut of Pegasus Capital, Ambassador Ertharin Cousin of Food Systems for the Future, Simballa Sylla of Sustainable African Foods, Samir Ibrahim of SunCulture, Matthew Meredith of Ifria, Allison Aubrey of NPR News, and more. This convening marked the official launch of the Forum for Farmers and Food Se...2023-05-1244 min
Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)375. Keith Agoada and Craig Cogut on the New Coalition for Farmers and Food SecurityOn "Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg," Dani speaks with Keith Agoada, Founder and CEO of Producers Trust and Craig Cogut, Founder, Chair, and CEO of Pegasus Capital. They discuss the importance of market access and purchasing commitments for farmers' livelihoods, how a new coalition is working to drive tangible action to transform food and agriculture systems, and what lies ahead on the road to COP28 in Dubai. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your pod2023-05-0437 minMeeting StreetDisability Narratives and Research-CreationWhat happens when illness changes the trajectory of a career? How can disability and chronic pain become generative experiences? And how can we reshape the way we think about disability to better live with differences in and beyond the academy?In this episode of “Meeting Street,” disability scholar Emily Lim Rogers, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cogut Institute, talks with Megan Moodie, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. They explore what it means to work at the intersection of academic and creative practice, the power of art to articulate and build community around illness, and...2023-04-0742 min
The Chemical Sensitivity PodcastME/CFS & MCS: Emily Lim RogersThank you for listening to The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast!New episodes twice a month. Subscribe for free where you get your podcasts.If you like the podcast, you can support our work to help us continue creating greater awareness about MCS. Thank you very much! We really appreciate it.In this episode, I’m speaking with Professor Emily Lim Rogers. Emily is a Disability Studies researcher and educator who specializes in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or ME/CFS. She is the Mel...2022-11-0741 minMeeting StreetMental Health in History: Psychiatry and Anti-PsychiatryHow did the World Wars shape the practice of psychiatry and the larger mental health field? And how has psychiatric discourse in turn changed how we think about the self? What constitutes mental illness? Who gets to define it and how it should be treated?In this episode of “Meeting Street,” performance studies scholar Leon Hilton and historian Jennifer Lambe join host Amanda Anderson for a conversation exploring the development of contemporary psychiatry, the role of reformist movements within the field, how gay rights activism and disability justice have challenged our understanding of mental illness and the doma...2022-10-2840 min
Design Lab with Bon KuDesigning Healthcare through Stories | Jay BaruchDoes creativity help physicians care for their patients? Can making space for stories improve healthcare? How does imagination come into play in the practice of Medicine?Jay Baruch is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he directs the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration. He's a practicing ER doc, writer and educator. His upcoming book of non-fiction, narrative essays is: Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER (MIT Press, fall 2022) He is also the author of two award-winning short fiction collections, "What's Left Out"...2022-08-1139 min
African American Studies at Princeton UniversityA Black GazeHow do we look at, and respond to, work by Black contemporary artists? In this episode, we sat down with Tina Campt, Visiting Professor in Art & Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton. We trace the arc of Prof. Campt’s career, from her earlier research on family photography in the African diaspora and how one can “listen to images,” all the way to her current writing and recent trip to this year’s Venice Biennale. Along the way, we discuss concepts that elucidate the aesthetic, political, and experiential dynamics of work by artists like Jennifer Packer...2022-06-1656 minMeeting StreetChristopher Newfield on Building a More Democratic UniversityHow do inequities in working conditions and resources across academic departments jeopardize the central project of higher education? And how might the humanities serve as a model for thinking about university reform and ensuring the democracy of our institutions?In this episode of Meeting Street, Christopher Newfield, director of research at the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) and 2022 president of the Modern Language Association (MLA), joins host Amanda Anderson for a conversation on the current state of higher education. Taking the field of critical university studies as a starting point, they consider how economic choices have led...2022-03-1835 min
Investing For Ocean Impact5. Infrastructure projects and the right enabling conditionsBig problems require big solutions. We need to start integrating the conservation and restoration of nature into even the largest of development and infrastructure projects. Creating the right market conditions and policy incentives is key. In this episode BNCFF manager Dorothée Herr talks to three experts about the opportunities and limitations of green-grey investments – including a government representative from Chile, who explains how to make Nature-based Solutions work on the national level. With special thanks to Carolina Urmeneta, head of Chile’s Office of Climate Change; Alejandro Litovsky from Earth Security; and Craig Cogut from...2022-01-1234 minMeeting StreetHappiness in Psychology and PhilosophyIs pleasure the measure of happiness? Does happiness make life meaningful? How does it factor in economic and political life? The boom of contemporary research on happiness has been driven by psychologists, though historically philosophy has long examined the subject. What happens when philosophy and psychology enter into conversation?While happiness may be found through a walk in the woods with a friend, happiness research also illuminates social and public issues ranging from social media to authoritarianism. In this episode of Meeting Street, psychologist Joachim Krueger and philosopher Bernard Reginster explore with host Amanda Anderson t...2021-12-1035 minMeeting StreetBlack AlivenessA wide-ranging and revelatory conversation with scholar and writer Kevin Quashie about his new book Black Aliveness, which emphasizes the experience of Black life through readings of poetry and first-person essays. We discuss the notion of aliveness in the context of Afropessimism and anti-Black violence, critique and post-critique, and the fields of aesthetics and cultural studies. In the course of our conversation, Quashie also offers a philosophical analysis of pronouns, an account of study as an ethical act, and a beautiful reading of “Reply” by Lucille Clifton.Transcript2021-11-0542 minMeeting StreetOn Catastrophe and Planetary RealismHow do the humanities help us respond to what feels like a new era of planetary catastrophe? Join Meeting Street host Amanda Anderson as she speaks with literary scholar and humanities institute director Debjani Ganguly about how humanities scholars and contemporary novelists have conceptualized large-scale transformations affecting our planet and our societies. Topics include the climate emergency, artificial intelligence, drone wars, viral threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and new novelistic forms of “planetary realism.” Transcript2021-10-0131 min
HelgaTina Campt"How exactly do we listen to images? We listen by feeling. We listen by attending to what I call 'felt sound'."
Helga Davis invites Scholar and Author Tina Campt to explore her relationship to her practice and her family, centering the conversation on the power and pleasure of listening to images.
Tina L. Campt is Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Campt is a black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art. She leads the Black Visualities Initiative at the Cogut Institute for Humanities and is...2021-07-2848 minMeeting StreetHistorical Racism and the Politics of LossHow do we understand experiences of loss politically? And what role have accounts of loss played historically, from slavery through the Movement for Black Lives and the pandemic? Meeting Street host Amanda Anderson speaks with political scientist Juliet Hooker and historian Emily Owens about their teaching project across the humanities and social sciences. We discuss quantitative vs. qualitative frameworks; the significance of public feelings of grief, rage, and exhaustion; and the powerful role that both numbers and art can play in political movements. Transcript2021-05-2136 minMeeting StreetFeminist Criticism After TrumpWhat does feminism teach us about the Trump years and democratic life today? In this episode of Meeting Street, Amanda Anderson talks with political theorist and cultural critic Bonnie Honig about a form of politics in which misogyny is a central feature, the use of gaslighting and other gendered forms of shock politics in public life, and the politics of refusal.Transcript2021-04-1628 min
Impact Leaders - Sustainable & Impact Investment and Performance with PurposeCraig Cogut of Pegasus Capital: Climate Funds and Nature Based SolutionsCraig Cogut | Founder, Chairman & CEO | Pegasus Capital AdvisorsCraig Cogut has spent a career building successful investment businesses. Mr. Cogut founded Pegasus, a private equity fund, in 1995 and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Through Mr. Cogut’s leadership, Pegasus has focused on sectors influenced by global resource scarcity and the need to combat climate change, as well as on the growth in demands globally for human health and wellness, leading to Pegasus becoming the first U.S. private equity fund manager to be accredited by the Green Climate Fund. In 1990 Mr. Cogut co-founded and was one of the original partners at...2021-03-301h 33Meeting StreetWhy We Need the Environmental HumanitiesHumanities scholars are at the forefront of the response to climate change. In this show Amanda Anderson talks with two influential and innovative scholars in the field of the environmental humanities: Bathsheba Demuth, an environmental historian who studies the Arctic North, and Macarena Gómez-Barris, a cultural critic whose work focuses on the Global South. Topics include the environmental justice movement, extractivism, ecotourism, and the nature-culture divide.Transcript2021-03-0541 minMeeting StreetUncovering the Humanities in Data ScienceWhat ideas and assumptions about human social life underlie data science and new media? How might scholars in and beyond the humanities work together to diagnose and respond to the algorithmic frameworks of digital culture, especially those that reinscribe or reinforce forms of division and discrimination? In this episode, host Amanda Anderson talks with media scholar Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, founding director of the innovative Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University.Transcript2021-01-2929 minMeeting StreetThe History and Science of Virtual RealityVirtual reality may seem like a new technology, but forms of immersive experience have a long history during which scientific and imaginative aspects often developed hand in hand. Host Amanda Anderson talks with a humanities scholar (Massimo Riva) and a cognitive scientist (Fulvio Domini) about their collaborative teaching project on the history and science of virtual reality, part of a larger initiative at Brown University in the collaborative humanities.Transcript | Spring 2020 Student Projects Video2020-12-0436 minMeeting StreetThe Humanities in the Time of Covid-19Amanda Anderson in conversation with Jonathan Kramnick (Yale University) on the challenges facing the humanities during Covid-19. We discuss the job market crisis for doctoral students, the role of the humanities in and beyond the pandemic, and the broader landscape of knowledge production across the disciplines of the modern university.Transcript2020-10-2327 minMeeting StreetDisability Studies and the PandemicA conversation with two scholars in disability studies, Janet Lyon (literary studies) and Ashley Shew (science and technology studies). We explore how disability studies has influenced academic research and participated in larger communities of activism, with special emphasis on the challenges of the pandemic.Transcript2020-10-0241 min
Another World is PodableEpisode 7: The Revolution Continues with Jeremy GilbertJeremy Gilbert is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London. His most recent publications include the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato's Experimental Politics and the book Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism and Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity 2020). Right now he is a Visiting Professor in the Humanities at at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Rhode Island, until May.
He writes regularly for the British press (including the Guardian, the New Statesman, open Democracy and Red Pepper).2020-03-021h 36
Hyacinth PodcastImagining Democracy: Thinking, talking, and doing democratic lifeDemocracy is under threat across the globe. Humanities studies are in decline in universities around the world. Is there a connection? This episode is not about politics. It's about democracy as an idea. It's about the skills needed to be democratic citizens, including deliberative discussion and community-building, and how the humanities are central to teaching us how to think and act democratically. Guests: Dave Meslin - Democracy activist and author of Tear Down: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up Dr. Amanda Anderson - Professor of English, Director of the Cogut Institute for...2020-02-0900 min
Jewish Ideas to Change the WorldNathaniel Berman - A Poetic Mythology for our Age of Anger?Professor Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University’s Religious Studies Department, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "A Poetic Mythology for our Age of Anger? The Furious Emergence of Gods, Devils, and Human Beings in Kabbalah and its Lesson for Today" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ.
ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Nathaniel Berman is the Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University’s Religious Studies Department. For much of his career, Berman’s scholarship focused on the construction of modern intern...2019-12-201h 23
Jewish Ideas to Change the WorldNathaniel Berman - “But Now God is Not One”Professor Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University’s Religious Studies Department, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "'But Now God is Not One': Kabbalah as the Cry of a Broken World Longing for Redemption" before an audience at Temple Beth Shalom (tbsaz.org/) in Sun City, AZ.
ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Nathaniel Berman is the Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University’s Religious Studies Department. For much of his career, Berman’s scholarship focused on the construction of modern internationalism through its relationships to nationalism, coloni...2019-12-201h 20
Trending Globally: Politics and PolicyPolitics and Fashion in the Revolutionary CubaOn this episode, guest host Rich Snyder talks with Maria Cabrera Arus, a visiting professor at the Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies at Watson. Maria studies the sociology, politics, and history of something we all interact with every day: clothes. Specifically, at how clothes communicate power, and project values in a culture. She and Rich explore a place and time that exemplifies this relationship between politics, power, and fashion especially well: Revolutionary Cuba.
You can learn more about Maria’s upcoming public lecture at Watson here: [https://watson.brown.edu/clacs/events/2019/maria-cabrera-arus-la-moda-la-revoluci-n-cubana-y-el-hombre-nuevo-fashion-cuban]
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