Interrobang: A Writing Podcast‽

Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication, UBC Library

Interrobang: A Writing Podcast‽ is an open access educational resource produced by the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication. Each episode, we speak with one or more writers affiliated with the University of British Columbia, chosen from across the disciplines to speak to the methods, challenges, and rewards of writing.

Episodes

  1. 02/05/2024

    Where the World and Self Meet: Kamal Al-Solaylee

    Journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee is deeply invested in writing about people and ideas in a way that journeys outward from the self. His most recent book, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From, published by HarperCollins (2021), examines the complex relationships that immigrants have with the countries they leave and what compels them to return home.

  2. 06/08/2021

    Self and Consciousness: Evan Thompson

    Evan Thompson is the author of Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (Columbia University Press 2015). The book offers a fascinating exploration of consciousness at the limits of both neuroscientific knowledge as gleaned from Western science and phenomenological insight as established through many centuries of meditative practice in Asian traditions.

  3. 06/08/2021

    Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife: Gregory Mackie

    Gregory Mackie's new book is Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife, published by University of Toronto Press (2019). This charmingly written monograph is an innovative study of Wilde’s afterlives, which is to say, all the ways in which his legend continued to circulate after his trials and death by way of literary forgeries and impersonations.

  4. 06/08/2021

    Health Communications During Covid-19: Tworek, Beacock, and Ojo

    What is the relationship between the public health and the health of democracies? What part do effective communications play in establishing and maintaining their mutual well-being? Heidi Tworek, Ian Beacock, and Eseohe Ojo investigate these questions in their policy report “Democratic Health Communications during COVID-19: A RAPID Response.”

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About

Interrobang: A Writing Podcast‽ is an open access educational resource produced by the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication. Each episode, we speak with one or more writers affiliated with the University of British Columbia, chosen from across the disciplines to speak to the methods, challenges, and rewards of writing.

Information

  • Creator
    Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication, UBC Library
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2021 All rights reserved.
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    Interrobang: A Writing Podcast‽