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New Books in African American StudiesThe Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigette FielderWelcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we’d bring in an expert about something? Email us at cgessler05(at)gmail.com or dr.danamalone(at)gmail.com or find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.
In this episode you’ll hear about: the importance of expanding the boundaries of academic theory through interdisciplinary studies, why you need t...2021-06-071h 02
The Academic LifeThe Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigitte FielderWelcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we’d bring in an expert about something? Email us at cgessler05(at)gmail.com or dr.danamalone(at)gmail.com or find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.In this episode you’ll hear about: the importance of expanding the boundaries of academic theory through interdisciplinary studie...2021-06-071h 02
Eyes Cool PodcastQueering the Catalog and Public Lands as LibrariesWe hear from two groups of students exploring topics in library and information studies. The first focuses on intersections of LBGTQ people, queer theory, and libraries --- especially cataloging. Another group thinks about how public lands and public libraries relate to each other as resources for the public good and human wellbeing. 2020-11-0300 minEyes Cool PodcastAcademic libraries now? And the misinformation landscape.An interview with Peg Cook, interim library director at Elmhurst College, on academic libraries now, followed by a discussion of the misinformation in the online information ecosystem. 2020-10-2700 minEyes Cool PodcastLibraries, Empire, and Book BansStudent discussions of the embeddedness of libraries and archives within imperial power, with emphasis on indigenous lands and knowledges. Followed by a reflection on literature for youth and Banned Books Week 2020.2020-10-2700 minEyes Cool PodcastNew Season! Interview with New iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-SpiekerWe launch season 3 of the Eyes Cool Podcast and everything around here is new, new, new! New students, a new episode format for this season, and, today, an interview with new iSchool professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker. 2020-10-2200 minEyes Cool PodcastScience Fiction!Some relevant links:
Worlds Without End: http://www.worldswithoutend.com/
Locus Mag: https://locusmag.com/2020-04-2329 minEyes Cool PodcastFantasy!Links:
N.K. Jemisin's Dream Worlds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds
Den of Geek - Top New Fantasy Books
https://www.denofgeek.com/books/top-new-fantasy-books-2020/
World Fantasy Awards
http://www.worldfantasy.org/world-fantasy-awards%e2%84%a0-2019/
Nebula Awards
https://nebulas.sfwa.org/
Hugo Awards controversy
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/21/17763260/n-k-jemisin-hugo-awards-broken-earth-sad-puppies
The Problem of Innocence in the...2020-04-2359 minEyes Cool PodcastMystery!Our recommendations/favs:
From Mia:
M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin Mystery Series
Kathleen Ernst: Chloe Ellefson Mystery Series
Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None and Hercule Poirot mysteries
Ashley Weaver: The Amory Ames Mysteries
Amy Stewart: Kopp Sisters Mysteries
Meg Cabot: Heather Wells Mysteries
Reality Check by...2020-04-2339 minEyes Cool PodcastTrue Crime!Bibliography and Notes
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorized London by Brian McDonald
Watching the Detectives: Crime Programming, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes About the Criminal Justice System by Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn (The Sociological Quarterly vol. 52 issue 1)
Why Do Women Love True Crime? by Kate Tuttle (The New York Times, 15...2020-04-2246 minEyes Cool PodcastRomance Novels!We launch season two - which takes a series of deep dives into genres popular with adult readers - with an episode about Romance Novels!
Links to resources mentioned in the episode:
https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/
https://www.claireryanauthor.com/blog/2019/12/27/the-implosion-of-the-rwa
http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/readers-advisory-episode-96-a-princess-in-theory/
https://bellwetherfriends.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/episode-92-we-need-inclusive-romance/
https://bellwetherfriends.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/episode-41-we-love-historical-romance/
https://www.mindyklasky.com/index.php/for-writers/romance-tropes/
http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/fanfiction-101/
2020-02-0854 minEyes Cool PodcastSeason Two Coming Soon!Season Two of EYES COOL PODCAST is coming soon! This season we take a series of deep dives into genres that are popular with adult readers from romance to true crime and everything in between. We're embedded in a course called Reading Interests of Adults where we'll get a taste of what interests adult readers, how and why we read together, and how industry factors like reviews and recommendation systems affect the literary scene.
Launching soon, episode one focuses on Romance Novels!2020-02-0802 minEyes Cool PodcastHow to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention EconomyIn the final episode of the season, we discuss Jenny Odell's How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. How can we reclaim control over our most precious resource in the 21st-century information economy: attention? Odell theorizes withdrawal, refusal, and self determination an puts the digital attention economy within the larger context of human history and ecology.
Then, at the end of the first season, our host reflects on the end of season one and teaching with podcasts! 2019-12-0939 minEyes Cool PodcastDecolonizing MuseumsThis week we discuss Amy Lonetree's 2012 book, Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Lonetree, who is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, discusses how museums can shed centuries of colonial violence at the core of their collecting and display practices by centering Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing. She also discusses Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums, or TLAM, a specialized area of libraries and archives that UW-Madison iSchool staff and faculty have been involved in for over a decade.
This podcast is produced in Madison, Wisconsin where University of...2019-12-0251 minEyes Cool PodcastArchiving the UnspeakableThis week we discuss Michelle Caswell's Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia. Then a discussion of the prod-Democracy protests in Hong Kong and how the tech industry has been involved. Closed out by a conversation about digital humanities and book history in the UW-Madison Special Collections library. 2019-11-251h 03Eyes Cool PodcastCruising the LibraryOn this week's pod we discuss Melissa Adler's Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge (Fordham 2017, https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823276363/cruising-the-library/). From there, we learn about the Madison LGBTQ Archive and the Madison LGBTQ Oral History Project. Finally, a look at parent challenges of LGBTQ books in school libraries. 2019-11-191h 03Eyes Cool PodcastProgrammed InequalityMisogyny in tech industries and the information professions isn't an accident. It was created and has a long history. And it comes with great costs to individual people and society at large. This week the pod's main segment is on Mar Hick's award-winning 2018 book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. 2019-11-1157 minEyes Cool PodcastBehind the Screen.A look at Sarah T. Roberts' new book Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.2019-11-0450 minEyes Cool PodcastAnti-Social MediaMark Zuckerberg went before Congress last week and tried to defend facebook's positions on privacy, truth in targeted advertising, and cryptocurrency. And this week we're reading Siva Vaidhyanathan's Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. 2019-10-2852 minEyes Cool PodcastThe Dark FantasticWhen did you first feel represented by the media you read and viewed? A group of students sit down to discuss Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's new book, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games. Episode also features an interview with iSchool professor Rebekah Willett whose work focuses on youth and media. Rounding out the episode is a look at the Wisconsin Book Festival.2019-10-211h 02Eyes Cool PodcastOn Being IncludedShow Notes
On Being Included:
Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke University Press, 2012).
Sara Ahmed: The Institution as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection
Solid Ground, Definition & Analysis of Institutional Racism
Current Events:
Mettler, K. (2019, April 14). A black college student went looking for free food. He ended up pinned down by campus officers. The Washington Post.
Cutlup, C. (2019, April 19). Black columbia student restrained by campus security [Video]. The New York Times.
Peet...2019-10-1448 minEyes Cool PodcastThe New Jim CodeShow Notes
content warning: In this episode, hosts read the content of an anti-semitic tweet in order to analyze how AI bots learn and repeat racist language.
Sources Referenced in Podcast
Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code. Polity Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/WISC/detail.action?docID=5820427
Vincent, J. (2016, March 24). Twitter taught Microsoft’s AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-chatbot-racist
Connor, J. (2019, April 19). Racial profiling or nah? TSA sc...2019-10-0754 minEyes Cool PodcastWhat's this Pod? And Black Feminist Critiques of Search and Tech.In this episode we introduce the pod, discuss Safiya Noble's groundbreaking 2018 book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, take a look at the NYPL CulturePass program, and get to know how some new grad students decided on the UW-Madison iSchool!
SHOW NOTES!
Audio clip sources:
Donavan, Joan. (2018, May 15.) Algorithms of Oppression. Data & Society Research Institute.
Retrieved from https://listen.datasociety.net/algorithms-of-oppression/
Elevator Speech (00:09 - 00:39) Titling of book (30:52 - 32:01)
Dr. Joan Donavan (the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s...2019-09-2951 min
C19: America in the 19th CenturyS02E04 | Staging William Wells Brown’s The Escape; or a Leap for Freedom: An Interview with Mark H.In February 2018, Mark H., then a Columbia MFA Directing Candidate, presented his production of William Wells Brown’s 1858 play, The Escape; or a Leap for Freedom to a full house at the Lenfest Center for the Arts in Harlem. In this episode of the podcast Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne (University of Wisconsin-Madison) talk to Mark H. about being only the second director to stage this 150-year old play. Their conversation includes discussion of attitudes toward melodrama and, significantly, of some of the decisions involved when presenting nineteenth-century depictions of anti-black violence to a contemporary audience. Post-production help from Melissa Gn...2019-01-2842 min
PhDivasS03E24 | #SavetheNEHWe want YOU to help #SavetheNEH. If Congress passes this budget, the National Endowment for the Humanities will be eliminated in 2018. What do we, as a society, stand to lose for savings of a mere .006% of the federal budget? Liz interviews Xine about the devastating impact this would have on the cultural, historical, artistic, and ethical lives of communities of every size everywhere in the US. The PhDivas share the specifics of the "human" in the "humanities." Xine put out a call for stories from academics who received funding from the NEH -- and in less than 24 hours, received an...2017-05-2647 min