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Society & Culture
Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
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Jul 28, 2023 · 29 minAmor Mundi: Robert Harrison on World Love
A monologue in which our host, Professor Robert Harrison, reflects on different kinds of human love, and above all, love of the world.
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Apr 12, 2023 · 57 minHumanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Ana Ilievska
Ana is a Mellon Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and a Lecturer of French and Italian at Stanford. Her teaching and research focus on the relationship between literature, the industrial revolution, and technology from a Southern perspective.
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Mar 13, 2023 · 58 minThe Wilds of Artificial Intelligence with Bryan Cheong
A conversation with Bryan Cheong about Artificial Intelligence. Bryan Cheong received his Bachelor of Science from Stanford University, with a degree in applied and computational mathematics. He then went on to receive a Masters degree in Materials Science, also from Stanford. This is Byran’s second apparance on our show (previous episode title: What is Matter?) […]
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Mar 2, 2023 · 25 minThe Idea of America
Our host Robert Harrison on America’s nature and political history. Songs in this episode: “I’m A King Bee” by Grateful Dead “Machine Gun” by Jimi Hendrix “Dear Mother Earth” by Canned Heat
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Dec 21, 2022 · 21 minThree Poems for the Winter Solstice
Reflections by our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: “Winter Mind” by Robert Harrison “St. Lucy” by Robert Harrison “Adagio per archi” by Samuel Barber “Annabel Lee” by Glass Wave
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Dec 16, 2022 · 54 minOn Democracy with Aishwary Kumar
Aishwary Kumar is Professor and Shri Shantinath Endowed Chair in Political Nonviolence at California State and Polytechnic University, Pomona, Los Angeles. Aishwary is the author of “Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy”– subject of two Entitled Opinions episodes back in 2016. He returns to the show today to speak on what he calls […]
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Sep 23, 2022 · 1 hr 1 minDark Matter, God, and the Fate of the Universe with Maria Elena Monzani
A conversation with Maria Elena Monzani, lead scientist at SLAC national accelerator laboratory and one of the world’s pioneer investigators of dark matter.Songs in this episode:“The World Spins” by Julee Cruise
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Aug 26, 2022On Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy with Andrew Mitchell
Andrew J. Mitchell is professor of philosophy at Emory University. He has appeared on Entitled Opinions in the past, and he is back today to discuss Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy" with our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: "Echo" by Glass Wave "Tenerè" by Agricantus Image: a scene from the Franco-Prussian War
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Jun 13, 2022Robert Harrison on Depression
In this episode our host, Professor Robert Harrison, speaks on the topic of depression. Songs in this episode: "All Along The Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix "Ophelia" by Glass Wave "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix
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Jun 12, 2022California Writers Part 2
A conversation with Scott Thomas Anderson, writer and producer of the documentary podcast series "Drinkers with Writing Problems". Season 2 of Scott's podcast premiered on January 20, 2022. Songs played in this episode: "Moby Dick" by Glass Wave "Fat Angel" by Jefferson Airplane
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May 27, 2022Czeslaw Milosz: A Discussion with Cynthia Haven
Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of Czesław Miłosz: A California Life, from Berkeley’s Heyday Books and 2018’s Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard, the first-ever biography of the renowned French theorist. She has also published two previous books on Czesław Miłosz: An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz and Czesław Miłosz: Conversations. She has been a Milena Jesenská Fellow with the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement and has also contributed to the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the Wall Street Journal, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and others. She blogs at The Book Haven, at bookhaven.stanford.edu Songs in this episode: "Black Cat" by Gentle Giant "Swiety Szczyt" by Kryzys
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May 13, 2022To the Lighthouse with Miles Osgood
Dr. Miles Osgood received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard University, and he is currently a Lecturer in the Structured Liberal Education program at Stanford. He has designed and taught classes on Ulysses, modernist women writers, and global short fiction. In this episode, Dr. Osgood and Robert Harrison discuss the 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse. Song in this episode: "Indian Summer" by The Doors
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Apr 29, 2022Letter writing: A Media Revolution with Chloe Summers Edmondson
Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson is a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program at Stanford. She received her PhD from Stanford in the French & Italian Department in 2020, and MA in Communication in 2014. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies, with a focus on 17th and 18th-century France. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Modern History, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, including a volume she co-edited with Dan Edelstein entitled "Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters" (Liverpool University Press/ Voltaire Foundation, 2019). Songs in this episode: "Moby Dick" by Glass Wave "We Used to Know" by Jethro Tull "Sunrain" by Ash Ra Tempel
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Apr 9, 2022The Epic of Gilgamesh with Sophus Helle
Sophus Helle is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. He previously translated "The Epic of Gilgamesh" into Danish with his father. His English translation of the epic was recently published by Yale University Press. Songs in this episode: "Helen" by Glass Wave "Gilgamesh Blues" by Glass Wave
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Apr 1, 2022Thought and Perception with Markus Gabriel
Markus Gabriel holds the chair in epistemology, modern, and contemporary philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany, and also serves as the Director of its International Center for Philosophy. He works mainly in epistemology and metaphysics (ontology) drawing his inspirations from the history of philosophy (in particular, 19th century Post-Kantian philosophy, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein). He has a particular interest in problems of skepticism and their history. His books include: "Transcendental Ontology: Essays in German Idealism" (2011); "Why the World Does not Exist" (2017); "I Am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century" (2019); "The Limits of Epistemology" (2020); "The Power of Art" (2020); and "The Meaning of Thought" (2021). Songs in this episode: "Echo" by Glass Wave "Soliloquio" by Alusa Fallax
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Mar 24, 2022In The Flow: A Brief Monologue
This episode is a brief monologue by our host, Professor Robert Harrison. Songs in this episode: "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix "Present Tense" by Radiohead
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Jan 18, 2022California Writers Part 1
Scott Thomas Anderson is a journalist whose work regularly appears in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Sacramento News & Review. He studied American Literature at the University of California at Davis, and while the bulk of his 15-year career has been primarily as a crime reporter, he’s recently started to balance that focus by returning to his roots of writing about literature, culture and travel. His most ambitious project on this front has been writing and producing a documentary podcast series that involves traveling to different cities around the world to study the link between drinking cultures and creative legacies. He calls the series “Drinkers with Writing Problems”. Season 1, which includes episodes written and recorded in Ireland, Scotland, Spain, New Orleans and Hollywood, is currently available on most podcast platforms. The premier of Season 2, which is an episode about writers during the California Gold Rush, premiers on January 20, 2022. Songs played in this episode: "Echo" by Glass Wave "Easy Wind" by The Grateful Dead
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Dec 21, 2021Baroque Modernity with Joseph Cermatori
Joseph Cermatori is assistant professor of English at Skidmore College. He specializes in the fields of comparative literature, modern and contemporary drama, performance studies, and critical theory. Beyond his research in twentieth-century modernism, his scholarship encompasses the broad history of art and ideas in Western culture from 1600 to the present, focusing on the philosophical content of artistic and creative forms. This episode is on the topic of his book: Baroque Modernity: An Aesthetics of Theater(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Songs played in this episode: Original guitar composition by Robert Harrison "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
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Dec 3, 2021The Uses of Trauma with Alex Rex
Alex Rex Nielson is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He is the founding member of the UK band Trembling Bells, which recorded six albums before Alex went on to make four solo albums under the band name Alex Rex. Songs played in this episode: "Directing Hand- for PB"— drum solo by Alex Rex "Master" by Alex Rex "Uses of Trauma" by Alex Rex "Bramley Fall Woods" by Alex Rex "I Am A Stick" by Baby Dee "Funeral Music for Alex Rex" by Alex Rex