The Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies is entering the second year of its podcast with a whole new lineup of thought-provoking episodes. In conversation with Kevin Lewis O’Neill, the Director of CDTS, the newly renamed Between, Across, and Through podcast investigates the exciting research topics of scholars from the University of Toronto and beyond. New episodes every month!
Episode List
October 1, 2019: “Lessons in Space” with Professor Ato Quayson, founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and current professor of English at Stanford University.
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November 1: 2019: “The Language of Freud” with Professor Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts at the University of Toronto.
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December 1: 2019: “Voice and Revolution” with Farzaneh Hemmasi, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto.
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January 1, 2020: “Secrets from 17th Century Vietnam” with Nhung Tuyet Tran, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.
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February 1, 2020: “The End of Diversity” with Rinaldo Walcott, Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
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March 1, 2020: “What’s Proper Anyway?” with Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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View the working paper on which the conversation was based: Beyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man by James Ferguson and Tania Li
April 1, 2020: “Life is Gouda” with Ken MacDonald, Associate Professor and Acting Director of the Culinaria Research Centre at UTSC.
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May 1, 2020: “Sex, Love, and Passion in Brazil” with Andrea Allen, Assistant Professor of Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
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June 1, 2020: “The Tugboat” with Austin Zeiderman, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics.
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July 1, 2020: “Fashion and Power in Manila” with Denise Cruz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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September 1, 2020: “Dancing Dissent” with VK Preston, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
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October 1, 2020: “Yiddish Glory” with Anna Shternshis, Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.
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November 1, 2020: “The Double Edge of Amelioration” with Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, cross appointed to the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies.
Transcript to be released.
