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Living in Time Audio Archive9. Caroline WintererCaroline Winterer has been fascinated by dinosaurs since her childhood. She remembers thumbing through illustrations of prehistory growing up, intrigued by the distant past. In her forthcoming book, How the New World Became Old, she honors her inner child with the historian’s eye for change over time – deep time. Coined by the writer John McPhee, deep time refers to the new idea that Earth is not thousands of years old but millions, indeed billions, as modern scientists established last century. An intellectual historian and historian of science, Winterer tells the story of how the idea of deep...2024-02-021h 16
The Stanford Daily PodcastOffice Hours Air: 5. Caroline WintererCaroline Winterer has been fascinated by dinosaurs since her childhood. She remembers thumbing through illustrations of prehistory growing up, intrigued by the distant past. In her forthcoming book, How the New World Became Old, she honors her inner child with the historian’s eye for change over time – deep time.
Coined by the writer John McPhee, deep time refers to the new idea that Earth is not thousands of years old but millions, indeed billions, as modern scientists established last century. An intellectual historian and historian of science, Winterer tells the story of how the idea of deep...2024-02-011h 16Living in Time Audio Archive8. Bruce Feldstein, "Death is not a failure of life"After working as an emergency medicine physician for 19 years, including here at Stanford, Dr. Bruce Feldstein suffered an injury that made it impossible for him to continue. With the encouragement of other medical professionals, he began to consider, and then pursue, chaplaincy. Two decades later, Feldstein has served as a hospital chaplain longer than he worked as a physician.In this interview, conducted a few weeks before his seventieth birthday, Feldstein discusses spiritual care in the hospital setting and then reflects on his own mortality. He also describes his transition from physician to spiritual care provider and...2024-01-181h 23
The Stanford Daily PodcastOffice Hours Air: 4. Bruce Feldstein, "Death is not a failure of life"After working as an emergency medicine physician for 19 years, including here at Stanford, Dr. Bruce Feldstein suffered an injury that made it impossible for him to continue. With the encouragement of other medical professionals, he began to consider, and then pursue, chaplaincy. Two decades later, Feldstein has served as a hospital chaplain longer than he worked as a physician.
In this interview, conducted a few weeks before his seventieth birthday, Feldstein discusses spiritual care in the hospital setting and then reflects on his own mortality. He also describes his transition from physician to spiritual care provider and...2024-01-181h 23
The Stanford Daily PodcastOffice Hours Air: 3. Tiffany SteinwertIn this episode the Rev. Dr. Tiffany Steinwert joined Office Hours Air host Noah Sveiven in conversation about her life and work. Rev. Steinwert is the Dean of the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life at Stanford University, a post she has held since February 2019. Steinwert discusses her religious formation, the role of pastoral care on an inherently interfaith campus, and the challenges and opportunities facing religious life on campus today.
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Managing Editor and Producer: Ellen Yang2023-12-071h 07Living in Time Audio Archive7. Tiffany SteinwertIn this episode the Rev. Dr. Tiffany Steinwert joined Office Hours Air host Noah Sveiven in conversation about her life and work. Rev. Steinwert is the Dean of the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life at Stanford University, a post she has held since February 2019. Steinwert discusses her religious formation, the role of pastoral care on an inherently interfaith campus, and the challenges and opportunities facing religious life on campus today.2023-12-071h 07Living in Time Audio Archive6. Alexander NemerovIn this wide-ranging conversation Alexander Nemerov discusses his life and work with Stanford senior Noah Sveiven. Topics include the art history professor’s two most recent books – The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s and Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York – along with Nemerov’s relationship with his parents, some recollections from childhood, and reflections on university life. Nemerov believes in the importance of emotional truths. He explains that when he decided to feature his own emotional truths in his art history lectures, enrollment increased from a few dozen to several hundred...2023-11-161h 08
The Stanford Daily PodcastOffice Hours Air: 1. Alexander NemerovIn this wide-ranging conversation, Alexander Nemerov discusses his life and work with Stanford senior Noah Sveiven. Topics include the art history professor’s two most recent books – The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s and Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York – along with Nemerov’s relationship with his parents, some recollections from childhood, and reflections on university life.
Office Hours Air is a new Stanford Daily podcast and radio program. The show, created and hosted by Noah Sveiven, features guests in conversation about their work and the experiences in their life that drew them to t...2023-11-161h 08Living in Time Audio Archive5. Roxanne Nilan, Karen Bartholomew, Larry HortonIn this episode of Office Hours Air, Roxanne Nilan discusses her newly published biography of Stanford University president Wallace Sterling in conversation with Karen Bartholomew (the contributing editor of the book) and Larry Horton (the president of the Stanford Historical Society). Nilan's book is titled "Stanford's Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency 1949-1968."2023-11-091h 04Living in Time Audio Archive4. Thomas SheehanIn this program retired professor of religious studies Thomas Sheehan discusses the ongoing war in Palestine, the course of his career at Loyola and Stanford, his upbringing in San Francisco, and his activist work with Mexican farmworkers and in El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War. Sheehan also discusses what he has learned from his students, and from his children.2023-11-021h 00Living in Time Audio Archive3. Peter StanskyOn this episode of Office Hours Air, Noah Sveiven interviews Peter Stansky, the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History Emeritus. Prof. Stansky is a historian of England with a special interest in the history of literature.2023-10-2659 minLiving in Time Audio Archive2. Paul RobinsonPaul Robinson is a retired professor of history at Stanford. In this wide ranging conversation, Prof. Robinson discussed his life and scholarship with Living in Time host Noah Sveiven.2023-10-191h 00Living in Time Audio Archive1. Dana LaMonDana LaMon is a retired administrative law judge. He was the first blind undergraduate student at Yale and a candidate for the California State Senate in 2020. In 1992, Dana won the Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking. He is also the author of four books. In May 2023 Dana was hospitalized. For ten days he was in a coma during which time he nearly died. Now Dana is in recovery. He has resumed his public speaking work and is now working on his fifth book.2023-10-121h 00