The Many Academies Podcast

2.2: “I couldn’t think of a better way”

Season Two Episode Two 2.2: “I couldn’t think of another way”: Tim Roberts on the challenges of inventing new university presses “It’s a really generativeplace to be. And . . . I can’tthink of a better way than this kind of institutional reinvention to critiquean institutional daily life that we are all confronted with.” Tim…

  • “Maybe the future of our writing lies in that weirdness”: Katina Rogers on her new book and the difficult beauty of critical hope

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t87u7-19f4d0c Katina Rogers describes the value of understanding the ecology of higher education as networks of care and possibility. Discussing her forthcoming book, “Unexpected Flourishing: Growth from Decay in the Mycelial University,” she considers the necessity of critical hope when we might be given to despair. Listen ⇢

  • 2.1: Notes from a Research Assistant

    Season Two Episode One 2.1: Notes from a Research Assistant: Talking about Many Academies, Graduate School, and Thinking Now “. . . how are we trying to, one, survive, and two, like, actually look at each other and help each other survive and help each other live, and help each… Listen ⇢

  • 1.6: “The proliferation I see everywhere”

    Season One Episode Six “The proliferation I see everywhere”: Sophie Lewis on the praxis and theory of utopia and abolition Lette Bragg talks with Sophie Lewis, author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms, about actualizing care and thinking. This episode is also available for streaming on PodBean… Listen ⇢

  • 1.5: Incognito Academic: Pia Deas on How Intellectuals Meet the World

    Season One Episode Five  Incognito Academic: Pia Deas on How Intellectuals Meet the World One of the challenges to thinking or being otherwise is naming what you do. On this episode of Many Academies, we name the practices and values that orient Pia Deas within the Black tradition. This episode is also available… Listen ⇢

  • 1.4: The Poets Made All the Words

    Season One Episode Four The Poets Made All the Words The Cyborg Jillian Weise talks about Borg.Diem, a dictionary created from a game on twitter. The dictionary begins (and stays) a game for disabled people by disabled people, and its format requires changing the rules of academic publishing and thinking about the… Listen ⇢

  • 1.3: Studying at the Night School Bar

    Season One Episode Three Studying at the Night School Bar In this episode, Lindsey Andrews and D.M. Spratley talk about Night School Bar, a faculty collective offering evening classes in the arts and humanities. We talk about the school’s origins, Marxism, study, and the connections between learning and life, trying to work through the push… Listen ⇢

  • 1.2: What the Seagrass Said

    Season One Episode Two What the Seagrass Said I talk to Kriti Sharma and Michal Osterweil about their new book, which they co-authored with Arturo Escobar. Kriti and Michal talk about the tenderness with which they treat the reader, where they turn for guidance, their interlocutors, and what it takes to transition from one story of… Listen ⇢

  • 1.1: Thinking Out Loud with Punctum Books

    Season One Episode One Thinking Out Loud with Punctum Books On the first episode of Many Academies, Eileen Fradenburg Joy and Vincent van Gerven Oei, co-directors of punctum books, talk about the origin and mission of punctum, building an infrastructure to get books out, and how to infiltrate existing structures. Visit punctumbooks.com to browse the catalog, support the… Listen ⇢