Bowdoin Presents

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Bowdoin Presents is a podcast produced by Bowdoin College that addresses current topics being considered in our classrooms, around our campus, and across culture and society. Guests include subject matter experts who are Bowdoin alumni, faculty, students, staff, or other members of the Bowdoin community in conversation with journalist Lisa Bartfai.

  1. 05/03/2023

    PROMO: Tracy McMullen

    Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—to teach anti-racism and inclusivity. Tracy

    24 sec

  2. 05/03/2023

    Tracy McMullen on Jazz and Justice

    Tracy McMullen is a self-proclaimed maker-thinker. She’s a saxophonist, composer, and an academic. In this episode, Tracy discusses jazz as a moral practice and how she uses music—jazz in particular—to teach anti-racism and inclusivity. Tracy McMullen is associate professor of music at Bowdoin College, and ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice (through 2023). Her 2019 book, "Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real," examines musical performance and its relationship to conceptions of the past, history, and identity. She is currently researching her second book, "Jazz Humanism: Responsibility and Blur in the New Human."

    25 min

  3. 02/14/2023 · BONUS

    PROMO: Zorina Khan

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    25 sec
  4. Zorina Khan on Another American Century

    12/13/2022

    Zorina Khan on Another American Century

    Professor Zorina Khan is trying to answer the question of how the US overtook England and France as an economic powerhouse in the nineteenth century. In this episode, she talks about the unique US attitude to creativity, ideas, and innovation that she believes underlies the country’s industrial successes. Professor Khan also shares anecdotes from her current research focusing on an often neglected and marginalized group of inventors: women. Zorina Khan is the William D. Shipman Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College. Her most recent book, Inventing Ideas: Patents, Prizes, and the Knowledge Economy, was awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize by the Economic History Association, as was her 2005 book, The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development.

    27 min
  5. PROMO: Birgit Tautz

    11/29/2022 · BONUS

    PROMO: Birgit Tautz

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    25 sec
  6. Birgit Tautz Ponders the Global Through the Local

    11/29/2022

    Birgit Tautz Ponders the Global Through the Local

    Professor Birgit Tautz is on a treasure hunt. She’s mining the local literary scene of Germany in the 1800s to tell a much larger story of global literature, then and now. In this episode, Professor Tautz talks about German literature, translation, and how she works within the field of digital humanities. Tautz is the George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages at Bowdoin. Her most recent book, Translating the World: Toward a New History of German Literature around 1800 (PSU Press, 2018), is the winner of the 2019 SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Studies Book Award.

    27 min

  7. 11/15/2022 · BONUS

    PROMO: Robert Morrison

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    25 sec
  8. Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels

    11/15/2022

    Robert Morrison on How Knowledge Travels

    As a historian of science and scholar of Islam, Professor Robert Morrison wants to know how information spread around the Mediterranean in medieval times. In this conversation, we talk about horoscopes, medieval party tricks, and how Copernicus figured out that the planets circle the sun. Morrison is the George Lincoln Skolfield Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin, and the author of several books, most recently Astronomy in al-Andalus: Joseph Ibn Naḥmias’ The Light of the World (University of California Press, 2016).

    27 min
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Bowdoin Presents is a podcast produced by Bowdoin College that addresses current topics being considered in our classrooms, around our campus, and across culture and society. Guests include subject matter experts who are Bowdoin alumni, faculty, students, staff, or other members of the Bowdoin community in conversation with journalist Lisa Bartfai.

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  • Creator
    Bowdoin College
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2021, Bowdoin Presents, Bowdoin College
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