Welcome to visual storytelling with me, Gary Fernon, the podcast where I talk things photography and video that help you create better visual content for yourself, and your clients. If you enjoyed these episodes then why not subscribe to hear more like this. My main focus is all about sharing, so let’s start a conversation. But above all, be creative, be inspired, be you.
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Visual Storytellers Podcasts
Join host Fred Ranger On The Visual Storytelling podcast, where we explore the art and craft of creative storytelling through photography and filmmaking in this day and age. This show features candid conversations with some of our time's most innovative and inspiring creators and practical insights & tips to help you improve your storytelling skills. Whether you're a pro or just starting, learn how to connect with your audience through compelling stories. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify ...
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The Terrible Photographer is a storytelling podcast for photographers, designers, and creative humans trying to stay honest in a world that rewards pretending
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How do images tell stories? Discover the hidden language everyone understands but few can truly “speak.” Cinematographer and educator Tal Lazar unveils the most sought-after lessons from his workshops at the American Film Institute Conservatory, Columbia University, Sundance and other top institutions. Whether you’re a filmmaker, photographer, or any other visual storyteller, this is your chance to learn how movies communicate through images—and apply it to your own work.
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Welcome to Chasing the Same Sun: Global Adventures in Filmmaking, a podcast where Hometeam Global Content co-founders dive behind the scenes of production, interviewing incredible directors, filmmakers, and creators from their worldwide network. Discover the diverse paths and common threads that unite filmmakers in their pursuit of impactful storytelling, from wherever they are in the world.
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Illustrators Will Terry, Lee White, and Jake Parker talk about illustration, how to do it, how to make a living at it, and how to make an impact in the world with your art.
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Curious about transforming your brand's narrative with visual storytelling? Dive into the Visual Storytelling Today podcast! Host Shlomi Ron, the visionary Founder/CEO of the Visual Storytelling Institute, engages with leading storytellers across industries. Discover their journeys, challenges, and successes. Each episode is a treasure trove of insights, available in audio, video, and blog formats for a full storytelling immersion. newsletter.visualstorytell.com
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Story for Good w/ Lars Grote is a podcast at the intersection of storytelling and changemaker success, uncovering how purpose-driven organisations can harness storytelling for real impact. Our mission is to empower the movement for good to master storytelling and outshine those who benefit from the status quo.
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Welcome to this monthly podcasts about visual storytelling, digital helpers, tools and gadgets that will take your videos to the next level. All about new apps for mobile filmmakers and journalists, tools for documentary filmmaking and talks with filmmakers and visual storytellers from around the globe. You find additional information and video tutorials on youtube.com/MatthiasSdun Twitter: @SdunNet IG:@sdun_net
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Join filmmakers & business owners Angela & Nathan as they discuss all topics and tips related to running a visual creative business.
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Storytellers Unleashed is a podcast series about storytelling. Hosted by two Estonian content creators Ranno and Marko (TEB Creative) based in London. We meet up with storytellers from different fields of life to talk about what makes a great story, where the inspiration comes from and how do you get your story out to those who need to hear it. Also, once and for all, we try to find out what is the Greatest Story Ever Told.
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A podcast about art and its role in our lives. Artist and armchair aesthetic philosopher Greg Beam probes various topics in the arts, asking how art both reflects and shapes our perceptions of the world.
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The Lean Into Art Cast serves visual and interactive storytellers with topics and coversation that explores design thinking, creative communication, visual arts, comics, illustration, creative coding, and more.
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Most business communication is noise. It's loud but unclear, expensive but ineffective. The Cinematic Strategist, hosted by Muhammad Idoniwako, is the antidote. This is not a show about filmmaking; it's a show about business strategy disguised as filmmaking. Each day, we deconstruct how visionary brands use strategic visual storytelling to build trust, command authority, and drive results. If you're a leader tired of guesswork, this is your playbook for achieving absolute clarity. mohgix.sub ...
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We empower business advisors to transform businesses. This podcast is your source for information and news you need for your accounting, bookkeeping, or tax practice. Don't forget to check out ScalingNewHeights.com for information about our conference in June. And if you subscribe to this podcast, we will have a special registration offer just for you coming up soon. For more information, please visit https://www.woodard.com/podcast
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Depth Of Field: A Creative Change in Perspective with Penny De Los Santos
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Find inspiration and creativity with your host Penny De Los Santos. Listen to interviews with other visual storytellers, photographers, chefs, mentors, editors, and creative directors about those times in our creative lives when we feel a little lost and uninspired. Penny is a photographer, director, and a visual storyteller, with over 20 years of experience in the photography industry. Watch the video episodes of Depth of Field on YouTube. Keep up with Penny and the Depth of Field podcast a ...
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A podcast about the meaning of Star Wars, beginning with the original trilogy.
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Need to connect with your audience yet unsure how? We know a phenomenal way to begin --- your visual story! Lehmancreativegroup.com
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Where strategy meets common sense. Hosted by a seasoned marketing consultant and hospitality insider, Marketing Sensibility dives into the real mistakes businesses make—and how to fix them. From branding blunders to digital missteps, each episode delivers sharp insights, smart solutions, and a dash of wit to help you market with clarity and confidence!
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Mike Rohde interviews sketchnoters about tools, techniques, and their approach to the practice and craft of sketchnoting.
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Nineteen80 is a management consultancy x creative agency founded by Daniel Hoang. He was born in 1980 and falls in the Xennial generation, the generation between Gen X and Millenials. He was born in an analog world but came of age in a digital world.Nineteen80 is about bridging worlds, from analog to digital, from pre-covid to the new operating norm.We'll tackle issues of technology, generational aging, pop culture, and racial equity. No matter how hard the issue can be, we'll find a way to ...
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Comix Experience opened in San Francisco April 1, 1989. Since 2015, our monthly Graphic Novel Clubs have been bringing the greatest books by the greatest creators to the greatest readers: you! As part of this service we conduct in-depth video interviews with creators about the joys and terrors of making comics! Find out more about the clubs at https://www.graphicnovelclub.com/start
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The ET project is produced to support executive talent around the world, by bringing you conversations with leading experts covering the latest industry news, and development topics, while offering guidance along the way. It will be a portal for our talent community - TEAM ET, to ask questions and share their own stories.
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The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization
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Your one-stop-shop for essential data storytelling, data visualization, and presentation skills for data analysts, digital marketers, data science, and data practitioners. With regular original content and luminary guest appearances from Nancy Duarte, Rand Fishkin, Alberto Cairo, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Jim Sterne, Dustin Mathews, Garr Reynolds, and more. This is the toolset you need to present your insights, inform business decisions, inspire action, and become INDISPENSABLE.
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Conversations on Transformation, Healing, and Consciousness
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Join social ecologist and river restoration expert Dr. Siwan Lovett in conversations about the ideas, issues and opportunities that relate to our connections with nature and each other. This podcast offers open, honest and practical insights for us to reflect on in our daily lives.
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Your Small Business is Invisible to Mobile Users? Stop the Madness! In a world where everyone's glued to their phones, being online isn't enough – you need to be MOBILE. Forget waiting for customers to stumble upon you. When they're out and about, craving that coffee, searching for your unique service, their smartphone is their guide. Miss this boat, and you're missing out BIG TIME. Tired of throwing money at outdated local advertising that delivers zilch? Chamber fees collecting dust? Commu ...
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A podcast about the world of branding. From tone to typography, we explore how logos happen, what makes advertising successful, and why this all matters.
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We believe that everyone has the potential to live their best life, no matter what obstacles they may face. We want to inspire you to pursue your dreams, overcome challenges, and live a life full of purpose and fulfillment. Our podcast will feature interviews with inspiring individuals who have overcome adversity and achieved great success, as well as discussions on personal development, mindset, health and wellness, relationships, and much more. Whether you’re looking for motivation to star ...
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Voice of Influence: Personal Brand and Communication Strategy for Message-Driven Leaders is a podcast featuring interviews with thought leaders and experts who have a highly developed voice of influence. Creative, message-driven leaders will appreciate the support, insight and advice that will help them develop their own voice and compelling communication that makes a difference in the world.
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Inside the process of exceptional business storytellers and how they craft their work to resonate, plus practical frameworks and techniques you can use everywhere you communicate. Hosted by Jay Acunzo, speaking and storytelling advisor to some of the business world’s biggest thinkers and strongest storytellers.
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From locking in tech vendors to booking high-impact speakers to ensuring the cocktail hour goes off without a hitch, planning meetings or events can be a daunting task, and the likelihood of something going sideways is inevitable. No matter your experience level or the number of events you've planned. Brought to you by eSpeakers, No More Bad Events is the professional event planner's best resource for navigating this tenuous universe towards event perfection every time. Hosted by Scott Bloom ...
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The intersection of Data Analysis and Passion. Casual Conversations with Data Pros + Artists and Bite-Sized Data Stories
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With more than 35 years of combined experience in vacation rentals, Alex Husner and Annie Holcombe have teamed up to connect the dots between inspiration and opportunity, seeking to find the one story, idea, strategy or decision that led to their guests big A-HA moment. Join them, as they highlight the REAL stories behind the people and brands that have built vacation rentals into the 100 BILLION dollar industry it is today.
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Lights, camera, audio! Are you an Audio Visual director, producer, video producer, creative director, designer, or just interested in everything AV? Follow us as we take you behind the lens and beyond the mic for a close-up at the nexus of voice and video in storytelling. Get insights, tips, hacks, and advice from script to screen and everything in between as we give a voice to leading AV companies!
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Welcome to Actual People, an unfiltered exploration of individual and societal shifts in a world undergoing tremendous change. I open up about my own experiences in order to dive into social and cultural phenomena, positive developments, and collective pain. We look at survival, endurance, strength, triumph and despair while imagining a future with creative joy and hope. Each episode is dedicated to meaningful conversations about the evolving landscape of our lives and the power of our own c ...
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Welcome to Sunshine Junkie — the wildest new podcast straight outta Florida! Hosted by the ever-curious Chad Crawford, we dive headfirst into all things Sunshine State with some of its most passionate, outrageous, and unforgettable characters. We're kicking things off with a nostalgic ride through the Discover Florida Channel’s most iconic shows, dishing out behind-the-scenes stories you never saw on screen. Chad sits down with past guests to relive epic moments, spill some untold secrets, a ...
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A light-hearted show discussing and dissecting the themes, stories, and filmmaking of your favorite film franchises and filmographies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Podcast - With San Diego’s Most Loved Plastic Surgeons
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Go beyond the surface with insights from the plastic surgery experts at La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Centre. Dive deep into the latest advancements, patient stories, and the artistry behind cosmetic surgery from a globally recognized practice, the 12x winner of the San Diego’s Best Union-Tribune Readers Poll, and the 2025 winner of Best Cosmetic Surgery Group in San Diego Magazine’s Best of San Diego Awards. With your hostess Monique Ramsey, we take you inside LJCSC, the place where dreams beco ...
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Do you love food, photography and social media? Are you a food photographer, food instagrammer, food blogger or content creator eager to hone your creative craft and leverage your social media presence? Then the EAT, CAPTURE, SHARE podcast is for you! Join your host food photographer, stylist and educator Kimberly Espinel from The Little Plantation as she shares her expertise AND interviews inspirational guests for practical tips and invaluable insight into building, growing and monetising y ...
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The Truth In This Art is a podcast hosted by Rob Lee. In each episode, Rob has authentic conversations with artists, creative thinkers, and innovators. They share their work, ideas, and what inspires them. Listeners get to hear stories that matter from people who are making waves in arts and culture today.
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14X Award Winning show featuring the world's most impressive emerging and established Wickedly Smart Women, this is the show where we interview women who have left high power corporate jobs or exited their companies because they felt a stronger calling. We love to share the journey of transformation and elevate, celebrate & spotlight the Wickedly Smart Women who are making a massive difference in the world! Listeners who are Wickedly Smart Women "in the making" tune IN to be well fed with dy ...
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Learn how to be a great data communicator and visualizer with host Jon Schwabish. Hear from experts in the fields of data science, data visualization, and presentation skills to improve how you and your organization collect, analyze, and communicate your data in better, more efficient, and more effective ways.
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How Visual Storytelling Shapes Trust in Modern Brands
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Today's guest resides in Noblesville, Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana, and is the founder and lead photographer of the corporate branding photography company, Studio 13. Lesle Lane is a third-generation photographer with more than three decades of personal experience in the industry. She serves on the alumni board at her alma mater, Butler Un…
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Meet Gretchell, LJCSC’s talented video content specialist and the creative mind behind so many of the stories you see on our social media. She started here as a medical photographer, capturing before-and-after photos, but her knack for storytelling and video editing quickly stood out. With encouragement from Dr. Swistun, Dr. Salazar, and the team, …
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#17 - Beyond The Brochure (Visual Storytelling)
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“Beyond the Brochure: Visual Storytelling for Hotels and Spas” Welcome back to Marketing Sensibility, the podcast where we unpack everyday challenges with clarity and insight. I’m your Faruk and today we’re stepping beyond the glossy brochure and diving into something far more powerful: visual storytelling. If you manage a hotel, spa, or guesthouse…
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Lindsay Wilson brings spoken words to life through visuals - S17/E06
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In this episode, Lindsay Wilson reflects on her evolution as an artist… from sketching playful portraits at 7 to the defining moments when constructive feedback reshaped her career path. She discusses her role at Ink Factory, hints at upcoming projects, and offers thoughtful perspectives on the intersection of AI and visual art. Sponsored by The Re…
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In the penultimate episode of season 2 of Soundscapes NYC, hosts Ryan Purcell and Kristie Soares sit down with acclaimed historian Alice Echols, author of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. Echols—who holds the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California—unpacks how disco not on…
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Obi-wan's adventures aboard the Death Star are in stark contrast to the other heroes'. Where they narrowly escape danger after danger, desperately thinking their way out of jams, Obi-wan wanders through the Death Star unnoticed, fully in control of the situation. Obi-wan doesn't have to overcome fear because he is so good at setting the terms of en…
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Meet Jillian, Plastic Surgery Patient Care Coordinator
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With over a decade of experience in cosmetic surgery, Jillian combines professionalism with creativity and compassion to make every patient feel comfortable and confident. She believes that research and education are key to feeling empowered, and she’s always happy to help you navigate your options. She completed her associate’s in Visual Communica…
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Golden Balls, Human Behavior, and Cognitive Flexibility: Dr Matthew Nagler on PYP 628
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In this episode, Matthew Nagler and I discuss a bunch of things, after intending to focus on cognitive flexibility. That's pretty meta... We meander through various behavioral science "greatest hits," including the endowment effect, loss aversion, and altruism. We explore how these phenomena affect human behavior and social dynamics, specifically b…
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The Top Five Questions Artists Ask Pros
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What’s the best schedule for illustrators? How do you choose your materials? What keeps you motivated? Anthony Wheeler, Samantha Cotterill, and Lee White tackle their most commonly asked questions and pepper in time-tested advice. 3 Point Perspective Podcast is sponsored by SVSLearn.com, the place where becoming a great illustrator starts! Click he…
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Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and class remain the most reliable predictors of educational achievement in America. In attempting to address this divide, many school reformers have championed school choice: solutions like charter schools, vouchers, and other innovations designed to bu…
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Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
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In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which…
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Maya Arad, "Happy New Years" (New Vessel Press, 2025)
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In Happy New Years (New Vessel Press, 2025), after finishing her teaching degree, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades. She keeps up with her old classmates in an annual new year’s letter that outlines mostly her triumphs, with brief allusions to her losses, her failur…
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Hilary Allen, "Fintech Dystopia: A Summer Beach Read about Silicon Valley Ruining Things" (2025)
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Silicon Valley wants to disrupt finance, and it might just succeed. In FinTech Dystopia, professor Hilary Allen offers an accessible, irreverent, and occasionally furious account of how tech elites are quietly taking over the financial system and making it worse in the process. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of conversations…
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Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)
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There was a time when women's health was marginalized. There was a time when breast cancer wasn't discussed. There was a time when October wasn't pink. But three women--Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, and Evelyn Lauder--refused to be silenced. Their courage ignited a movement that forever changed the way society addresses breast cancer. When th…
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Dag Nikolaus Hasse, "What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
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It is common to define Europe by its democratic, scientific, religious, and cultural traditions. But in What is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought (Amsterdam UP, 2025), Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues that the search for Europe's essence has taken a troubling turn. He shows that many traditional ideas about Europe are cultural…
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Phillips Payson O'Brien, "War and Power: Who Wins Wars--And Why" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
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A bold, revisionist study of modern warfare, showing that military victory is rooted not in large armies and decisive battles, but in the full spectrum of economic, political, and social power. For nearly two centuries, international relations have been premised on the idea of the "Great Powers." As the thinking went, these mighty states--the Europ…
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Robert de la Chevrotiere, "Tall Is Her Body" (Kensington, 2025)
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In this NBN episode, Hollay Ghadery speaks with Robert de la Chevrotiere about his novel, Tall is Her Body (Kensington, 2025). Readers of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man’s journey to wholeness—both emotionally and physically—is shape…
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Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025)
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With breathtaking complexity and haunting beauty, the songs of whales have long fascinated scientists. Whales are the only mammals that can sing continuously for ten hours or more, changing the unique songs they sing every year. In Why Whales Sing (JHU Press, 2025), bioacoustician and cognitive scientist Eduardo Mercado transforms our understanding…
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Eric Lee, "The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism" (McFarland, 2025)
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For three years following the Russian Revolution, the small South Caucasian country of Georgia was a democracy, but Stalin later ordered the Red Army to invade and to bring the country back under Russian rule. Communist attacks on political opponents, trade unions, cooperatives, and even the church sparked resistance, and an armed uprising broke ou…
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How Government Made the U.S. into a Manufacturing Powerhouse
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Colleen Dunlavy, Emeritus Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison, about her recent book, Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the U.S. Into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. Small, Medium, Large examines the crucial role that the U.S. federal government played in rationalizing and diffus…
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Ellen Muehlberger, "Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World" (U California Press, 2025)
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How do you know the nature of another person: who she is, or what she is capable of? In four exploratory essays, a seasoned historian examines the mechanisms by which ancient people came to have knowledge—not of the world and its myriad processes but about something more intimate, namely the individuals they encountered in close quarters, those the…
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In “Pluribus” An America Without Division, But At What Price?
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It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we analyze the first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s new series Pluribus. The show posits an extraordinary intervention in worldwide politics and culture producing a utopia (that is of course simultaneously a dystopia) of quiescent bliss. Is the show shaping up to be another hit for the showrunner, previously r…
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Have you ever felt that you keep making the same mistakes or that you have fallen into a pattern that could be Exhibit A as proof of reincarnation? The Beast (2023) uses all kinds of world-building and three different timelines to explore these ideas–and does so while faithfully adapting a 1903 story by Henry James. It’s the kind of film in which o…
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Amie Thomasson, "Rethinking Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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The word “metaphysics” conjures up thoughts of very hard questions about reality and deep, perhaps unresolvable, metaphysical mysteries. But is that the right way to think about the subject matter of metaphysics? According to Amie Thomasson, very clearly no. In her new book, Rethinking Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2025), Thomasson argues t…
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Wolfgang Wagner, "The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be overcome-for the sake of a common national interest. This book shows that this is not the case. Examining votes in the US Congress and several European parliaments, the book demonstrates that contesta…
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Concetta Principe, "Disorder" (Gordon Hill Press, 2024)
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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Concetta Principe about her poetry collection, DIsorder (Gordon Hill Press, 2024). Disorder, the newest collection of poetry from Concetta Principe, explores the metaphorical relationship between the home and the mind, where a home should be place of sanctuary but can have its safe borders destab…
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Joseph Stiglitz, "The Origins of Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peace Prize, and honorary degrees from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford and more than fifty other universities, and elected not only to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Lett…
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Jason A. Higgins, "Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
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In Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (University of Mass. Press, 2024), Dr. Jason Higgins examines the connections between the military and carceral system through the stories of those most knowledgeable about it: veterans who were incarcerated after their military service. Combining a thorough historical narrative with…
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Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
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When the African Union was founded in 2002, it promised to deliver a more united, prosperous, and people-centred continent. Two decades later, Africa’s political landscape tells a more complex story: one of ambition and frustration, democratic progress and reversal, renewed activism, and enduring inequality. How far has the AU come in shaping “The …
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This is the episode I’ve been avoiding. Not because I don’t have an opinion about AI — but because I have too many feelings about it. Gratitude. Fear. Anger. Wonder. All tangled together. AI has become my external brain — a tool that helps me function, organize, even parent. And at the same time, it’s the thing that might end my career. In this epi…
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Thomas Fleischman, "Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West Germany and the UK, while also suffering myriad unintended consequences of this centrally planned practice: manure…
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Jorge Coronado, “Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
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In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), Jorge Coronado, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, examines photography to further the argument that intellectuals grafted their own notions of indigeneity onto their subjects. He looks specifically at the Cuzco School o…
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Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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In her scintillating new book, The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins, Feminine Ideals (Oxford UP, 2021), Nerina Rustomji presents a fascinating and multilayered intellectual and cultural history of the category of the “Houri” and the multiple ideological projects in which it has been inserted over time and space. Nimbly moving between a vast ra…
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Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh. She explores the way these relations are changing due to climate ch…
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Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
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Today I talked to Alfred S. Posamentier, a co-author (with Christian Spreitzer) of Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians (Prometheus, 2020). This charming book is more than just mathematics, because mathematicians are not just makers of mathematics. They are human beings whose life stories are often not just entertaining, but…
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Clint Smith, "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America" (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
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How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relationship to enslavement in his first nonfiction book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021). From Monticello plantation to Angola …
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Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)
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As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital divide. In Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity (MIT Press, 2021), Dr. Christopher Ali analyzes the promise and the failure of nationa…
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Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—who in response to industrialization experimented with radical social reform in the antebellum United States. Foremost amon…
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David Burkus: Stories about others should still say something about YOU
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The more experienced and accomplished my guests are, the more they tend to care deeply about the little things. They're the ones who could "wing it" and actually get away with it, and yet, they don't. In their speeches, stories, messages, and everywhere they show up, they focus on the tiny details that make their words resonate. My guest in this ep…
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Ziggy Hanaor, "Life (As We Know It)" (Cicada Books, 2025)
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Ziggy Hanaor is the director of Cicada Books, a boutique children’s publishing company. She has also written nine books including Fly Flies, Alex and Alex and The Pocket Chaotic, which have won awards and have been translated into over 20 languages. In our conversation we celebrate her new book about the history of the universe and us, entitled, Li…
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Shoshana Walter, "Rehab: An American Scandal" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
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In Rehab: An American Scandal (Simon and Schuster, 2025), Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Our country’s leaders all seem to agree: People who suffer from addiction need treatment. Today, more pe…
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Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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In her new book Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester UP, 2021), Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo explains how the modernization of this great city shaped and was shaped by print media and mass culture. A growing population, industrial immigration, mass connection with the wider world (making it both sm…
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Andrea Kitta, "The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore" (Utah State UP, 2019)
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Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one. This is the central tenet underlying The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Utah State University Press 2019) by Andrea Kitta, Associate Professor in the English department at East Carolina University, examines the discourses and metaphors of contagion and contamination in ve…
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E. Alaverdov and M. W. Bari, "Cultural Heritage Protection and Restoration in Conflict and Post-Conflict Zones" (IGI Global, 2025)
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The protection and restoration of cultural heritage is essential, especially in conflict and post-conflict zones. Armed conflicts frequently result in the destruction or collateral damage of cultural landmarks, artifacts, and traditions. In post-conflict recovery, preserving cultural heritage is not only a matter of historical conservation but help…
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Vania Smith-Oka, "Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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In Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals (Rutgers University Press, 2021), Vania Smith-Oka follows a cohort of interns throughout their year of medical training in hospitals to understand how medical students become medical doctors. She ethnographically tracks their engagements with one another, interactions with patients, experience…
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Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
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Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt. For many civil rights activists, the Vietnam War brought the dangers of US imperialism and the global nature of antiracist struggle into sharp relief. Martha Biondi tells the story of one such group of activists who built an internatio…
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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Today’s guest is Jenny Mann, who has a new book titled The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime (Princeton University Press, 2021). Jenny is Professor in both New York University’s English Department and the Gallatin School, and her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She …
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Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II an…
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Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)
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Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action 'for the environment' is not only a moral imperative; instead, it is activated by our everyday experience in the city. Based on the a…
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