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RehashHacktivismCall them what you will: hactivists, cypherpunks, phone phreaks, e-bandits… these digital vigilantes may be the last bastions of hope in an Information Age where information is not dispersed equally. Growing from a group of pranksters at MIT in the 50s to the “ultra-coordinated mother-f*ckery” of Anonymous and WikiLeaks today, hactivism uses information technologies to achieve political objectives. With their hyper-sophisticated coding skills, hacktivists do everything from leaking classified documents, to providing oppressed citizenry with military grade encryption. They believe that access to computers should be total, that information should be free, and that anarchy reigns supreme. But ever s...
2025-12-2255 min
Empire: World History306. Joseph Conrad: From Russian Exile To The Heart of DarknessHow did a Polish sailor become one of the greatest writers in the English language? Why were Conrad’s parents exiled to the harsh conditions of northern Russia? Should we continue to read The Heart of Darkness in spite of its outdated views?
Anita and William are joined by Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch, to discuss the adventurous life of Joseph Conrad and how his work shaped readers' understanding of imperialism.
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2025-11-111h 00Empire: World History270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4)Why did Washington invade Quebec? How did the US fail to take the Canadian territories during the Revolutionary Wars? And why did the British burn the White House?
Anita and William are once again joined by Maya Jasanoff to discuss how the American Revolution birthed Canada.
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2025-07-0851 minEmpire: World History269. Colonising Canada: The Truth Behind ‘The Last of The Mohicans’ (Ep 3)Is there any truth in the film 'The Last of The Mohicans' and how did the French and Indian War that it's based on change the make-up of Canada? Why was the Seven Years War the first truly global war? What is the connection between the forced removal of the Acadians in Canada and cajun spices?
Anita and William are joined by Maya Jasanoff to discuss how the French and Indian War affected Canada.
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2025-07-0357 min
New Books in Economic and Business HistoryIan Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the...
2025-06-2744 min
New Books in EconomicsIan Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the...
2025-06-2744 min
New Books in World AffairsIan Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the...
2025-06-2744 min
NBN Book of the DayIan Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Safe Esperia. And later on, to the Bibby Resolution. And after that . . . in short, a vessel with so many names, and so many fates, that to keep it in our sights—as the protagonist of this fascinating economic parable—Ian Kumekawa has no choice but to call it, simply, the...
2025-06-2744 min
Krieg die Krise010 Stumpf ist Trump(f) - Wissenschaft, du bist gefeuert!"I don't think science knows, actually." - The DonaldDer War on Science in den USA nimmt absurde Ausmaße an. Wissenschaftsskepsis spielt eine Rolle. Da muss dann eben nochmal erklärt werden, wie wichtig Wissenschaft ist. Wie wichtig Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist. Was Wissenschaft besonders macht. Und wie unfassbar dumm und kurzsichtig diese ganzen Maßnahmen sind. So wird America bestimmt nicht great again. **Shownotes**5 Minuten CNN Interview mit Geschichtsprofessorin (Harvard) Maya Jasanoff:https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/video/the-lead-harvard-donald-trump-education-dei-lawsuit-federal-funding-jake-tapperAll of...
2025-04-2659 min
Independence 250October 1774 - Closing Congress and Opening DividesIt's October 20, 1774. American Independence is 623 days away. As the First Continental Congress draws to a close in Philadelphia, 53 out of the 56 members of the Congress put their signature on a document that represents the culmination of two months worth of intense deliberation and debates. The document they signed, known by history as the Articles of Association, would eventually be looked back upon 93 years later by Abraham Lincoln in his first Inaugural Address as the true moment that the America Union was first born. This month's episode picks up where September left off...
2024-10-2139 min
Where Shall We MeetOn Ancestry with Maya JasanoffQuestions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message!We are talking about Ancestry today. Our guest is Maya Jasanoff who is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University’s History Department.Maya’s teaching and research extend from the history of the British Empire to global history. She is the author of three prize-winning books. The Dawn Watch examines the dynamics of modern globalization through the life and times of the novelist Joseph Conrad. Her other books are Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World and her first book, Edge of Empire explore...
2024-10-161h 02
La CulturetaLa Cultureta Gran Reserva: Un marinero polaco llamado Joseph ConradEsta semana, los culturetas saldan su deuda con el centenario de la muerte de Joseph Conrad. Charlamos sobre el escritor de origen polaco, que escribió una de las novelas más leídas del mundo en su tercera lengua. Lo hacemos gracias a la perspectiva de una de sus biógrafas más recientes, Maya Jasanoff, que lo retrata como el testigo del nacimiento de un mundo global. También hablamos sobre la última adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas, "El Conde de Montecristo".
2024-09-141h 25Empire: World History158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3)The Declaration of Independence establishes the ideals on which this break away nation founds itself on. But it’s full of contradictions. It complains of white colonists being enslaved by King George III, yet its signatories own enslaved Africans. It declares all men are created equal, but what about women? Listen as Anita and William are joined by Maya Jasanoff as they explore the war, from the evacuation of Boston, to the battle of Yorktown.Twitter: @EmpirepodukEmail: empirepoduk@gmail.comGoalhangerpodcasts.comAssistant Producer: Anouska Lewis...
2024-06-1158 minEmpire: World History157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2)The infamous Boston Tea Party sees colonists dressed as Native Americans dump British tea in the surrounding waters. Calls of “the British are coming!” rally untrained militias to stand together against one of the most advanced militaries in the world. The two sides have their first face off. A war begins. Listen as Anita and William are joined by Maya Jasanoff who explains how the War of Independence was just as much a civil war as any other kind.Twitter: @EmpirepodukEmail: empirepoduk@gmail.comGoalhangerpodcasts.comAssistant Prod...
2024-06-0650 minEmpire: World History156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1)From sugar to paper, a series of taxes in the 1760s spark outrage amongst American colonists that snowball into a revolution. Was it inevitable that thirteen of Britain's 26 colonies in the Atlantic would band together and break away from the British Empire? Listen as Anita and William are joined by Maya Jasanoff to discuss the beginning of the American Revolution.Twitter: @EmpirepodukEmail: empirepoduk@gmail.comGoalhangerpodcasts.comAssistant Producer: Anouska LewisProducer: Callum HillExec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn...
2024-06-0447 min
Grand Podcast AbyssTHE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Joseph Conrad's The Secret AgentThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.comWelcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The 2024 syllabus can be found here. This lecture is about the life and work of Joseph Conrad, with a focus on his novel of anarchism and terrorism, The Secret Agent. I first discuss Conrad’s biography: his harrowing childhood as the son of a Polish nationalist under Russian occupation; his seafaring years in the merchant marine amid the industrial revolution in sailing from wind to steam power; an...
2024-04-1916 min
Opening LinesHeart of DarknessJoseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness remains one of the most enigmatic works of 19th Century literature, charting as it does the story of Marlow, the captain of a steamboat heading up an unnamed river in the employ of an unnamed organisation described simply ‘the Company’. He becomes fixated on tracking down the figure of Kurtz, a company agent in charge of a trading post - but this is no action adventure so typical of the time. John asks what the phrase Heart of Darkness - and Kurtz’s famous epigram ‘The horror. The horror’ might actually represent, and also attempt...
2024-03-1714 min
Stepwell RadioThe Craft of South Asian Writing with Pallavi Narayan and Maya JasanoffOn the latest episode of the Stepwell podcast, Pallavi Narayan, Associate Professor of Practice and Director, Ahmedabad Writing Programme, Ahmedabad University is in conversation with renowned historian Maya Jasanoff, X.D. and Nancy Yang Professor, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University. They explore themes like South Asian Studies, commercialism in publishing, digitisation, South Asian and non-South Asian audiences, e-books and the landscape of book delivery, the Global South, diversity, literary writing, the Booker Prize, writing fellowships and residencies. Jasanoff elaborates on access, funding for writing, publishing, translation, reading habits, issues surrounding writing in South Asia, and artificial intelligence. Narayan...
2024-02-1155 min
Did That Really Happen?Love and FriendshipThis week we're going back to the 1790s with Love and Friendship! Join us as we learn about marriage practices, loyalists in Britain, "bad air", influenza, and more! Sources: RB Outhwaite, "Age at Marriage in England From the Late Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1972. Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. Excerpt available at https://www.amrevmuseum.org/read-the-revolution/liberty-s-exiles Benjamin H. Irvin, "Tar and Feathers in Revolutionary America." Available at https://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/irvin.feathers.html#10 Nathaniel Philbrick, "The...
2023-12-1145 min
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2023-09-0110 min
Time To Say GoodbyeModi’s India, with Anjali KamatHello from the diasporic battleground! This week, we’re joined by investigative journalist and filmmaker Anjali Kamat to discuss Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s red-carpet state dinner and the spread of his Islamophobic, anti-democratic Hindutva ideology. (1:45) We start with a short history since Modi was elected in 2014, (12:20) dig into the conspiratorial lynchings that mirror right-wing campaigns in other countries, and (26:15) consider how Indian diasporic communities help maintain (and challenge) Modi’s power. We also track the responses of U.S. politicians, from Trump’s “Howdy Modi” rally in Texas, celebrating the Prime Minister’s reelection in 2019, to progressive Rep...
2023-07-1954 min
Stepwell RadioFuture of higher education in India - Professor Pankaj Chandra in Conversation with Professor Maya JasanoffGet ready for a thought-provoking and informative radio show on the future of higher education. Join us as we explore the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in this ever-changing field. Our expert guests Professor Pankaj Chandra and Professor Maya Jasanoff will discuss the impact of technology on the way we learn, the changing needs of the workforce, and the role of higher education in shaping the future. We'll also delve into the latest trends and innovations in online education, and how they are making higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone.Whether you're a student, educator, or...
2023-07-0952 minEmpire: World History63. Creating Sierra Leone: The Land of the FreeThese former slaves have fought valiantly for the British and have been promised a new life. With things not working out in North America, eyes turn toward Africa. Could their homeland, from which they had been so brutally torn, offer sanctuary? Listen as William and Anita are again joined by Maya Jasanoff to talk about the attempts to create a colony in Sierra Leone.This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/empirepod.Twitter: @EmpirepodukGoalhangerpodcasts.com
2023-07-0644 minEmpire: World History62. When Slaves Fought for the British EmpireThe Boston Tea Party has occurred. War has broken out on the American continent. The British need to bolster their forces to keep hold of the 13 colonies, but to whom do they turn? Their own slaves. Listen as William and Anita are joined by Maya Jasanoff to discuss the slaves who fought for the British in the America War of Independence and how they were rewarded afterwards.Sign up to The Knowledge here: www.theknowledge.com/empire/LRB Empire offer: lrb.me/empireThis...
2023-07-0449 min
Key Conversations with Phi Beta KappaWhy Harvard History Professor Maya Jasanoff Studies the Past to Understand the PresentGrowing up, Professor Maya Jasanoff was surrounded by academics and scholars—an environment she believes gave her the confidence to explore academia herself. Initially, her fellowship at Cambridge sparked her interest in studying the British Empire, and as she dove deeper into the subject matter, she began recognizing the many ways that British imperialism has infiltrated our world. Today, the author and professor writes about history and is interested in how people—and power— have historically crossed borders, and how the relationships between power and people shift and align over time. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company...
2023-05-2923 min
Arts & IdeasClimate change and empire buildingHaggling with Indian customs officials and presenting a mighty emperor with the distinctly unimpressive gifts of a cheap sword and a broken carriage are two particularly inauspicious moments that feature in the tale told by historian and New Generation Thinker Nandini Das in her new book about the four years Thomas Roe spent as James VI and I's ambassador to the Mughal Empire. Peter Frankopan has previously written about The Silk Roads and the First Crusade. Now he has turned his attention to writing a 5 billion year long history of the natural world, geography and climate change and the...
2023-02-2344 min
New Books in South Asian StudiesNeilesh Bose, "India After World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization" (Leiden UP, 2022)In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner's The Written World, Maya Jasanoff's The Dawn Watch, or the three novels that encompass Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, have rekindled a variant of history and literature's embrace in...
2022-09-2638 minNew Books in World AffairsNeilesh Bose, "India After World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization" (Leiden UP, 2022)In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner's The Written World, Maya Jasanoff's The Dawn Watch, or the three novels that encompass Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, have rekindled a variant of history and literature's embrace in...
2022-09-2638 min
Biografi-poddenJoseph Conrad: Mørkt sjømannshjerte
Dette er historien om en polakk som strengt tatt aldri bodde i Polen, i hvert fall ikke i et fritt og selvstendig Polen.
Faren til dagens hovedperson var med i den polske motstandskampen mot den russiske tsaren, men mislyktes fatalt og familien ble sendt i eksil. Vår hovedperson mister tidlig både mor og far og han drar til sjøs som ungdom. Han tilbringer mange år på havet og særlig på sjørutene mellom Asia og Europa, men han seiler også langt inn i den mektige Kongoelven i Afrika.
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2022-03-1636 min
Raport o stanie świata Dariusza RosiakaRaport o książkach - 11 października 2021Aleksandria, Londyn, Bombaj, Petersburg, Lwów - w październiku ruszamy literackim szlakiem miast.
Przewodnikami będą: Andre Aciman, Joseph Conrad, Fiodor Dostojewski i inni wielcy pisarze.
Mapy miast kreślą nie tylko kartografowie, ale także literaci.
Paryż to miasto wielu literackich wcieleń - o swoich ulubionych opowie Grzegorz Dobiecki.
A gdyby tak zapytać miasta o to kim jesteśmy? Taką próbę podjął profesor Rafał Matyja, autor książki "Miejski grunt", w której narratorami historii o Polsce są miasta.
Czy książki Josepha Conrada były literackim zwiastunem gl...
2021-10-112h 22
Warrior NationWar and Memory: Empire (SE3 EP5)In the fifth instalment of our series on war and memory Joe speaks with Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff on the ways Empire is remembered in Britain and the disconnect between the state's projection of the country's colonial past vis-a-vis the way it's seen by different communities. Maya also discusses how these histories - including the cult of Winston Churchill and nostalgia for World War II - bleed into more recent British military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the decision to leave the European Union.Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of History at H...
2021-10-0627 min
Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's HistoryEpisode 21: Stuff A Child With LearningElizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston to William Martin Johnston, January 15, 1784 In which an exiled wife of a British loyalist teases her husband for maybe not knowing how old his son is, tries to figure out what to do once Britain cedes Florida to the Spanish, and tries to avoid ending up in Jamaica. Kathryn is joined by her friend from graduate school Sian Leach, who used this letter along with hundreds of others in her graduate thesis about loyalist women. Further Reading: Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, New York and London, M. F. Mansfield & company, 1901. 217-219 for this letter...
2021-04-2732 minYour Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's HistoryEpisode 21: Stuff A Child With LearningElizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston to William Martin Johnston, January 15, 1784 In which an exiled wife of a British loyalist teases her husband for maybe not knowing how old his son is, tries to figure out what to do once Britain cedes Florida to the Spanish, and tries to avoid ending up in Jamaica. Kathryn is joined by her friend from graduate school Sian Leach, who used this letter along with hundreds of others in her graduate thesis about loyalist women. Further Reading: Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, New York and London, M. F. Mansfield & company, 1901. 217-219 for this letter...
2021-04-2732 min
Jaipur BytesTacky's Revolt - The Story of an Atlantic Slave War: Vincent Brown in conversation with Maya JasanoffAcclaimed author and historian Vincent Brown's groundbreaking geopolitical thriller Tacky′s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War takes on the Atlantic slave trade with a subversive and powerful reconstruction of the history of insurgency, rebellion, victory and defeat. With a keen emphasis on the seminal uprising that upended the dominant imperial rule of the British Atlantic world, eventually becoming known as the Tacky’s Revolt and ultimately leading the way for abolition, the book explores the contentious climate of oppression and slavery, offering an alternative perspective of the events that occurred, with an unflinching look at the brutal...
2021-03-1140 min
Jaipur Literature Festival with Brave New WorldNiall Ferguson and Maya Jasanoff: Lessons from History Niall Ferguson in conversation with Maya JasanoffIn a riveting conversation, world-renowned academics Niall Ferguson and Maya Jasanoff delve into the history of pandemics and share their perspectives on one of the most pressing questions of our time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2020-07-0745 minArts & IdeasThe 2020 Wolfson History Prize: David Abulafia, Hallie Rubenhold, Prashant KidambiFrom Indian cricket, a survey of the oceans to the women killed by Jack the Ripper: Rana Mitter with the second set of shortlisted authors for the history writing prize.David Abulafia The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Hallie Rubenhold The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Prashant Kidambi Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of EmpireYou can hear the other shortlisted historians in a progarmme broadcast on May 12th and available as an Arts & Ideas Podcast. It features
Marion Turner has written...
2020-05-1945 min
Har du inte läst den?#4 Joseph Conrad - Mörkrets hjärtaI fjärde avsnittet börjar bildningsprojektet urarta till existentiell närkamp med noggrann nördighet. Hur många böcker måste man egentligen läsa för att ta sig an Mörkrets Hjärta? Hedvig fångas av Conrads livshistoria snarare än av hans verk medan Lydia konstaterar det uppenbara: Kurtz är galen! Kolonialkritik vs individualpsykologisk mardrömsresa samt publiceringsvånda hos den blivande författaren i sällskapet hinner också avhandlas. Och såklart - ännu mer Olof Lagercrantz! Mörkrets hjärta - Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Penguin) The Dawn Watch - Maya Jasano...
2020-03-211h 06
Better KnownMaya JasanoffHarvard historian Maya Jasanoff discusses with Ivan six things that she thinks should be better known. Find out more about Maya at https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/maya-jasanoff. Her most recent book is The Dawn Watch, which you can buy at https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Watch-Joseph-Conrad-Global/dp/0143111043/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.
Albert Kahn global photo archive https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-kahn-archives-of-the-planet
Shakespeare Wallah http://www.merchantivory.com/film/shakespearewallah
Aeon online magazine https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-the-mirror-test-say-about-self-awareness-in-animals
The Invention of Tradition http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism...
2019-11-1029 min
StepwellThe history of the present, with Maya JasanoffOn the latest episode of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French and renowned Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff explore themes of globalisation, imperialism, identity and how these factors shape the modern world.
2019-06-0800 min
Stepwell11: The history of the present, with Maya JasanoffOn the latest episode of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French and renowned Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff explore themes of globalisation, imperialism, identity and how these factors shape the modern world.
2019-06-0835 min
Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, & Detective FictionE25: In a Lonely Place (pt. 2) -- Deep Discussion -- 5 Round BurstWe might be discussing In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes, but this episode is anything but lonely. We simply loved this book and have a great time discussing it in detail. We cover quite a few reviews as well, taking a look at both books and television this time around. TV Reviews: The Expanse, Damnation, Happy!, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened Book Reviews: "A Walk Among The Tombstones" by Lawrence Block "The Green Ripper: a Travis McGee Novel" by John D. MacDonald "The...
2019-03-011h 00Arts & IdeasWhat kind of history should we write?Peter Frankopan brings his history of ties across Asia into the present while Maya Jasanoff, winner of the world's richest history prize, uses the novels of Joseph Conrad to show that the novelist was wrestling with the same problems and opportunities of globalisation we face today.
Historian Peter Mandler also joins Rana Mitter to discuss new proposals for publishing historican research.
As the centenary of the birth of Orkney film maker and poet Margaret Tait is celebrated nationally, New Generation Thinker, Elsa Richardson, discusses how Tait's medical training shaped her subsequent film work and writing while the curator Peter...
2018-11-2144 min
Conversations with Tom AshbrookGlobalization and empireWith Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. The great novelist Joseph Conrad took the world up the Congo River in his classic "Heart of Darkness." Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff finds the dawn of the age of globalization upriver with Conrad. He would well recognize, she says, the great disruptor of our time.
2018-06-2552 min
On Top of the WorldEp 33 - The Dawn WatchersDave and Matt have read Maya Jasanoff’s new book on the life and times of Joseph Conrad, The Dawn Watch. We discuss Conrad’s life, and the limits of his vision in the turbulent world of the late 19th-century. This is a story that has remarkable parallels to our own moment in history: a world of transnational corporations, terrorism, immigration, and disruptive technological change. Plus, why our world is more similar to the lead up to the First World War than you think! For History teachers with students who have read Conrad’s works for a literature...
2018-01-3156 min
The World in Time / Lapham’s QuarterlyEpisode 20: Maya Jasanoff“The book teaches me things,” Barack Obama explained to his friends when defending his decision to read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, “about white people…the book’s not really about Africa. Or black people. It’s about the man who wrote it. The European. The American. A particular way of looking at the world.” In her introduction to The Dawn Watch, Maya Jasanoff writes that she came to agree with what the future president wrote in Dreams from My Father, that Conrad’s perspective was valuable “not just despite its blind spots but because of them. Conrad captured something about the...
2017-12-2233 min
Think Again - a Big Think PodcastMaya Jasanoff (Historian) – Civilization and Its DiscontentsJason Gots: I want to read you a quote: “For reasons which can certainly use close psychological inquiry the West seems to suffer deep anxieties about the precariousness of its civilization and to have a need for constant reassurance by comparison with Africa.”
That’s Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe writing about Joseph Conrad and his famous book Heart of Darkness. We’ll come back to that. Born in Poland in 1857, Conrad, like us, lived at a time of rapid globalization, of technological disruption, and of all the wonders and horrors that unleashes. My guest today, Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff, has written...
2017-11-251h 03
Best of The Miami Book Fair2017 Miami Book Fair featuring Maya JasanoffMaya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 and Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, which received the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the […]
2017-11-1917 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya JasanoffPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307724 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lekfow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from...
2017-11-0710 min
Start the WeekHeart of Darkness: Conrad and OrwellAndrew Marr discusses the work of Joseph Conrad with his biographer Maya Jasanoff. Conrad wrote about the underbelly of colonialism, terrorism, immigration and isolation and Jasanoff looks at the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of his life and work. While Conrad's Nostromo reflected the changing world order with the emerging dominance of the US and global capitalism, the FT columnist Gideon Rachman looks at the decline of the West amidst the growing power of the East, as well as reflecting on Britain's imperial amnesia. A young George Orwell was also part of the British colonial system...
2017-11-0642 min
Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya JasanoffPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308353 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World Author: Maya Jasanoff Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 19, 2017 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shape...
2017-10-1905 min
Get Hooked On This Captivating Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Dawn Watch by Maya JasanoffPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/25672to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Dawn Watch
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 10-19-17
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 6 ratings
Genres: Africa
Publisher's Summary:
2017-10-1910h 05
Book Cougars Podcast: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good ReadLibrary Sale Booty, Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and moreEpisode Twenty Nine Show Notes
CW = Chris Wolak
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OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army – Ann Todd (CW)
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2017-10-0358 min
Living HistoryEpisode #8 (Brian Jordan)FINALIST FOR THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY.From the publisher: A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans― tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions― tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new Americ...
2016-04-2023 min
Press Play On The Full Audiobook That Keeps Curious Minds Hooked.Liberty's Exiles by Maya JasanoffPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/166363to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Liberty's Exiles
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Narrator: L. J. Ganser
Format: mp3
Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 11-12-12
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 62 ratings
Genres: Emigration & Immigration
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2012-11-124h 10