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Little Known Facts with Ilana LevineEpisode 449 - Merri SugarmanInitially an actress ('Les Miserables', 'Aspects of Love', et al.), Merri found herself out West some years back where she quickly made a name for herself at Liberman/Hirschfeld Casting, then Liberman/Patton Casting, working on such shows as Seinfeld, Party of Five, HBO’s Band of Brothers, the feature film My Big Fat Greek Wedding and the Miramax feature film "Playing By Heart", starring Sean Connery and Angelina Jolie. In 2000, Merri moved to Dreamworks Studios as the Casting Executive in charge of TV Pilots and Series- including "Spin City", “Freaks and Geeks” and the cri...2025-03-3143 minLittle Known Facts with Ilana LevineEpisode 441 - Ethan SlaterTony Nominee Ethan Slater can most recently be seen in the feature film Wicked, where he portrays the role of Boq. The film will be followed up by Wicked: Part 2, where Slater will reprise his role, and will be released by Universal Pictures in November of 2025. In another recent film, Slater also stars in the drama film Lost on a Mountain in Maine, based on the novel. He is currently in production on the indie feature The Designer, alongside Gina Gershon and Katherine Waddell.Slater is best known for his Broadway debut as SpongeBob in SpongeBob SquarePants...2025-02-0349 min
Matan: One on One Parsha PodcastEpisode 177 - Parshat Ve'etchanan: A Rendition of His OwnIn this sweeping conversation with author and translator Ilana Kurshan, we explore Moshe's perspective on the nation's wilderness experience in text, midrash, and literary expansions.
This episode has been sponsored in memory of Esther Yocheved bat Chaya Leah and Gershon whose yartzheit is on the 11th of Av.2024-08-1138 min
Uncommon SenseBreakups, with Ilana Gershon“Follow”? “Block”? “Accept”? Anthropologist Ilana Gershon joins us to reflect on breakups in both our intimate and working lives. She tells Alexis and Rosie how hearing her students’ surprising stories of using new media – supposedly a tool for connection – to end romantic entanglements led to her 2010 book “The Breakup 2.0”. She also shares insights from studying hiring in corporate America and describes how, in the febrile “new economy”, the very nature of networking and how we understand our careers have been transformed.Ilana also celebrates Marilyn Strathern’s influential article “Cutting the Network” for challenging our assumptions about endless and easy connection. She...2023-04-1447 min
Inner StatesWho Makes Decisions At WorkA lot of people who’ve quit jobs lately thought they were sticking it to the man. But their employers - and coworkers - apparently didn’t realize. This week, anthropologist Ilana Gershon on power in the workplace and what it means for democracy. Plus, a conversation with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.2022-12-0251 min
Platypod, The CASTAC PodcastPlatypod, Episode Four: Connections and Disconnections on Social MediaIn this episode, Platypod presents a conversation between Baird Campbell (Rice University) and Ilana Gershon (Indiana University Bloomington). They discuss the politics of connection and disconnection via social media in Chile and the US. Transcript available at https://blog.castac.org/2022/10/platypod-episode-four-connections-and-disconnections-on-social-media/2022-10-2732 minInner StatesWho Makes Decisions At WorkA lot of people who’ve quit jobs lately thought they were sticking it to the man. But their employers - and coworkers - apparently didn’t realize. This week, anthropologist Ilana Gershon on power in the workplace and what it means for democracy. Plus, a conversation with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams.2022-04-0852 min
Lexi's LoungeE30 | Turning your Influence to Impact & Owning Who You Are w/ Ilana GershonWhat's Covered in this Episode:
Mindset shifts for a healthier life
Social Media Health & Boundaries
The Importance of Self Care
About Ilana:
Ilana is a passionate holistic nutritionist, published author, healthy habits coach, fitness lover, mom of 2, speaker and online soulpreneur. She went from burnout to badass and helps women take ownership of their health and wellness so they can step into their greatness while loving the skin they're in. As a result of working with Ilana her clients feel empowered and energized after completing their 30 Days to Healthy L...2022-03-0842 min
Real Sh*t with Brit and WhitUnbecoming with Ilana GershonIlana Gershon is on the podcast talking about her new book "Unbecoming". If you need to learn self care, meditation, taking time for yourself, affirmations, and letting go of things that don't serve you. This one's for you!Special Guest: Ilana Gershon.2022-01-2145 min
The Hard To Kill Podcast with Dave MorrowEpisode 4 - Tony MorrowTony is the creator and managing director of ATMorrow Consulting & Media Inc, is also the creator and managing director of the Getting2Hired Podcast and is a retired Naval Warfare officer of the Royal Canadian Navy. Create a LinkedIn account and follow ATMorrow Consulting here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/atmorrow-consulting-media-inc/about/ Check out his Getting2Hired Youtube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsGi7jPIU0M6yGi2j3-Y3w Tony's book recommendation: Down and out in the new economy, Ilana Gershon 2019-04-022h 45
To The Best Of Our KnowledgeEnding With A Flourish [Rebroadcast]New Years celebrations are all parties and hats, songs and champagne. No one ever seems to talk about the fact that something big just ended. An entire year of life, come and gone. Shouldn’t we pause to mourn, or mark its passing with a little reverence?
We don’t handle endings well, in general. So this hour, let’s learn about how to make a good ending — whether leaving a lover, quitting a job, or getting ready for the end of life itself.
Guests:
Steve Almond, Ilana Gershon, Sean Hemingway, Simon Critchley, David Giffel2018-12-2950 min
The Human Show: Innovation through Social ScienceSusanna Helen Trnka: The many ways in which people make medical technologies work for them; how to approach building multifaceted medical apps; what’s next for a student of anthropologySusanna Helena Trnka holds a PhD from Princeton University in social anthropology and has studied the body, citizenship and subjectivity. Her specific interests include (amongst others) illness experience; new medical technologies and patient-doctor communication. She has studied extensively the politics of childhood asthma in New Zealand and the Czech Republic out of which came the published book = The Blue Child. She is currently doing research on the intersections between bodies, technologies, and temporalities.
One facet of this research examines how digital healthcare technologies are reshaping patient-doctor communication as well as patient-to-patient communication through the creation of virtual...2018-04-1638 min
Behind The Scenes with Theresa RoseArtistic Director Jean Marie McKeeI adored spending time with the luminescent Artistic Director of Naked Angels Jean Marie McKee. Naked Angels, for over 30 years, has been the creative home for many colleagues for which Jean-Marie is a founding member. She is also the founder of it’s educational program, 3T. We were able talk about her history with Naked Angels, 3T, where the company is today, its future endeavors, and the wealth of talent that has come out of the membership such as Fisher Stevens, Joe Mantello, Kenneth Lonergon, Gina Gershon, Marisa Tomei, Ilana Levine, and David Marshall Grant.2018-03-1500 minTo The Best Of Our KnowledgeEnding With A FlourishWe don’t handle endings well, in general. So this hour, let’s learn about
how to make a good ending — whether leaving a lover, quitting a job, or
getting ready for the end of life itself.
Guests:
Steve Almond, Ilana Gershon, Sean Hemingway, Simon Critchley, David Giffels
Interviews:
What We Really Ask For When We Ask For Relationship Advice, The Most Important Job Skill In The New Economy Is Quitting , Hemingway's 47 Endings to "A Farewell to Arms", Only Grief Can Actually Stop Time. And It's Horrible., Would You Build...2017-12-3050 min
Thinking AllowedThe New EconomyThe New Economy: How people turn themselves into 'brands' in the quest for work. Laurie Taylor talks to Ilana Gershon, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, and author of a new study exploring the way that people do (and don't) find work by re-defining themselves as unique business enterprises. Also, the death of homo economicus. Peter Fleming, Professor of Business and Society at Cass Business School, argues that the creation of a fake persona - the rational, self interested economic 'man' - originated by classical economists such as Adam Smith, no longer serves any purpose in the contemporary...2017-12-0627 min
CamthropodEpisode 15. An interview with Ilana Gershon, by Oliver BalchIlana Gershon visited Cambridge University this summer, and after her Senior Research seminar at the department, Oliver Balch caught up with her to talk about her research on new media and the contemporary world of work, and her latest book Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today.
Ilana is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her intellectual interests range from linguistic anthropology, science studies, media studies, legal anthropology, anthropology of democracy, and anthropology of work.2017-10-2723 min
Open Stacks#24 Modern Times: Adam Greenfield & Ilana GershonThis week on Open Stacks, we face the future of work, data and technology. First, Ilana Gershon takes on the future of work in the information age, as discussed in her book "Down and Out in the New Economy." Then, Adam Greenfield on "Radical Technologies," which explores the future of technology and data, from smart phones to Bitcoin. Open Stacks is the official podcast of the Seminary Co-operative Bookstores. This episode was produced by Kit Brennen and Imani E. Jackson. Special thanks to Data & Society for sharing their recording for this episode. 2017-10-2357 min
ICologyHeads Up #27 - The ways your brain manages overloadWelcome to episode #27 of Heads Up!, a weekly podcast summarizing research, writing and retweets that I think communicators will find interesting.
Here are this week's stories:
The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Them (Srini Pillay)
How to let go of your creative ego (Lisa Maltby)
How companies can deal with unpredictability (Virpi Oinonen)
How work changed to make us all passionate quitters (Ilana Gershon)
To Be a Better Communicator, Think Like an Engineer (Alison Davis)
Employee Survey fatigue? On a scale of 1 t...2017-08-0700 min
The University of Chicago Press PodcastIlana Gershon, “Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)Labor markets are not what they used to be, as Ilana Gershon argues in Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Job seekers are increasingly being taught that they need to sell themselves as if they were their own business, and what will set them apart from other applicants is not their skills or their experience, but the distinctiveness of their brand. Join us for a provocative discussion about how workers are being taught to position themselves to employers, and how modern labor markets, as a co...2017-08-0644 min
Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your JobWhat’s Hot, What’s Not in Resumes with Jacqui Barrett-PoindexterYour resume is probably the most important document you use when looking for a job. It offers a great opportunity to tell your story and demonstrate what you can offer an employer. Guest expert Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter shares her top 6 list of what’s hot and what’s not in creating a great resume for today’s job market. What’s Hot in Resumes Focus — Make your resume format quick and easy to read and keep it employer focused. What's in it for the Employer — Research pain points the employer has and integrate your strategic insights about the issue. C...2017-07-2650 min
Data & SocietySocial Dilemmas Around New MediaIlana Gershon discusses how we all have moments in which someone’s use of new media baffles us, and we have to ask a friend how to respond. It often isn’t just the content of the message, it is also using that particular medium in that way which leaves us scratching our heads. In this talk, I discuss what anthropological concepts can help us understand our confusion. I will turn to LinkedIn as my case study and analyze the dilemmas people face when using LinkedIn as they look for a job. This will be my starting point to disc...2017-01-2541 min