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Odyssey—May 31, 2005 |
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The History of the Senses: Smell
William Cohen—Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Mark Smith—Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina
We're pretty comfortable dividing the world into good and bad smells. But noses aren't impartial. Things that smell bad are often feared and associated with filth, disease, even foreignness. What kind of cultural baggage do our noses carry?
Historian Mark Smith and literary scholar William Cohen join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Smith is author of Listening to Nineteenth Century America, and he's finishing the book, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. Cohen is coeditor of the anthology, Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life.
Learn more about and hear other installments in our series, The History of the Senses >> |
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Odyssey—May 30, 2005
Originally broadcast January 26, 2005
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The Social Meanings of Prostitution
Philippa Levine—Professor of History, University of Southern California
Carole Vance—Director, Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights; Columbia University
In the U.S., prostitutes are mostly cast as either sexual deviants or victims of exploitation. But concerns about global sex trafficking have opened new conversations about the relationships among sex, labor, and society.
Historian Philippa Levine and anthropologist Carole Vance join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Levine is author of Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. Vance has written extensively on sexuality, politics, and health. |
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Odyssey—May 27, 2005 |
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Film Forum: Film and Sex
Virginia Wright Wexman—Professor of Film Studies, Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Linda Williams—Professor, Departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Even though movies with explicit sex scenes often face censorship and struggle to find U.S. distributors, their explicit
activity frequently fails to engage its audience and leaves viewers embarrassed or even bored. Why is movie sex so
unsatisfying?
Film scholars Virginia Wright Wexman and Linda Williams join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion.
Wexmen is author of the books, Film and Authorship and Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage, and Hollywood
Performance. Williams is editor of the anthology, Porn Studies, and author of the book, Hard Core: Power,
Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible.” |
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Odyssey—May 26, 2005 |
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Hoaxes
Alex Boese—Creator, Museum of Hoaxes
Michael Saler—Professor of History, University of California, Davis
Piltdown Man, crop circles, Hitler's diary—history is full of famous hoaxes. They leave us feeling betrayed or amused or maybe a little disappointed. So why do we keep falling for hoaxes?
Alex Boese and historian Michael Saler join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Boese is author of the book, The Museum of Hoaxes, and he's finishing the book, Nothing Is Real Anymore. Saler is author of The Avant-Garde in Interwar England: Medieval Modernism and the London Underground. |
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Odyssey—May 25, 2005 |
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Aftermath of the Senate Showdown
Brian Sala—Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science; University of California, Davis
Gregory Wawro—Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
The filibuster is one of several mechanisms that gives voice to the minority party in the Senate. But in an era of increased
partisanship, even this institution’s most sacred rules seem up for grabs. What is the political fallout from the filibuster
debate?
Political scientists Brian Sala and Gregory Wawro join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Wawro is
the author of the book, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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Odyssey—May 24, 2005 |
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The History of the Senses: Taste
Denise Gigante—Assistant Professor of English, Stanford University
Carolyn Korsmeyer—Chair, Department of Philosophy; State University of New York, Buffalo
Our sense of taste isn't just about food. It's also about preferences: someone can have good taste in art or bad taste in clothes. What kinds of connections exist between our gustatory pleasures and aesthetic judgments?
Carolyn Korsmeyer and Denise Gigante join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Korsmeyer is author of Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy. Gigante is author of Taste: A Literary History, and she's editing the anthology, Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-century Gastronomy.
Learn more about and hear other installments in our series, The History of the Senses >> |
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Odyssey—May 23, 2005 |
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Russia in the World
Ted Hopf—Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
Celeste Wallander—Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Although it has the world's second-largest nuclear arsenal and retains a permanent seat on the UN security council, Russia is no longer treated like a superpower. So what kind of global power is Russia today?
Political scientists Celeste Wallander and Ted Hopf join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Wallander is author of Swords and Sustenance: The Economics of Security in Belarus and Ukraine. She's also finishing the book, Global Russia: Economics, Politics, and Security. Hopf is author of Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow 1955 and 1999. |
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Odyssey—May 20, 2005
Originally broadcast January 25, 2005
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Miracles
Candy Gunther Brown—Assistant Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University
Suzanne Kaufman—Faculty Member, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago
Miracles are an official part of some religions. But the miraculous has also found its way into popular culture. What does this popular belief in miracles reveal about modern faith?
Historians Candy Gunther Brown and Suzanne Kaufman join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Brown is author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880, and she's been researching divine healing movements in the Twentieth Century. Kaufman is author of Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. |
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Odyssey—May 19, 2005 |
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Factories and the Contradictions of Globalization
Michael Blim—Associate Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Andrew Schrank—Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Do global factories exploit cheap labor in sweatshop conditions, or are they the first signs of economic improvement for developing nations? We discuss what factories tell us about tensions in the global economy.
Sociologist Andrew Schrank and anthropologist Michael Blim join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Schrank researches and writes about foreign investment, local entrepreneurship, and economic transformation in the Caribbean basin. Blim is coeditor of Anthropology and the Global Factory. He's also finishing the book, Equality. |
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Odyssey—May 18, 2005 |
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The Evolution of the New Testament
Robert Kraft—Berg Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
Elaine Pagels—Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, Princeton University
The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell the Christian story in the New Testament. But some of the texts that weren't included offered profoundly different views. Why does the New Testament look the way it does?
Robert Kraft and Elaine Pagels, scholars of early Christianity, join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Kraft is coeditor of Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity. Pagels is author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas. |
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Odyssey—May 17, 2005 |
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The History of the Senses: Hearing
Jonathan Sterne—Assistant Professor of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
Emily Thompson—Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego
Every day, we're immersed in the sounds of technology: traffic, cell phone chatter, white noise. As technology changes what we hear, does it also affect how we hear it?
Jonathan Sterne and historian Emily Thompson join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Sterne is author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Thompson is author of The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933.
Learn more about and hear other installments in our series, The History of the Senses >> |
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Odyssey—May 16, 2005 |
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Motherhood in the Margins
Chris Bobel—Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Annelise Orleck—Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
The image of a “good” mother put forth by advertisers, the medical system, and even government policies leaves little room for those such as single, lesbian, and poor moms. What do our idealized notions of motherhood mean for those who don't fit the mold?
Historian Annelise Orleck and women's studies scholar Chris Bobel join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Orleck is author of Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty. Bobel is author of The Paradox of Natural Mothering. |
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Odyssey—May 13, 2005 |
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Film Forum: The Audience, Race, and the Movies
Alice Maurice—Professor of English, University of Utah
Jacqueline Stewart—Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Hitch, and Beauty Shop all did surprisingly well. Their success was due in part to their un-anticipated cross over appeal. How much does race—on the screen and in the seats matter at the movies?
Film scholars Alice Maurice and Jacqueline Stewart join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Stewart is author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity.
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Odyssey—May 12, 2005 |
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Gay Marketing
Lee Badgett—Director, Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies, and Associate Professor of Economics; University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Suzanna Walters—Chair, Department of Gender Studies, and Professor of Sociology and Communications and Culture; Indiana University, Bloomington
Gayness is increasingly used to attract consumers, both gay and straight. Some celebrate this as a sign of acceptance, but others argue that it's co-opting gay identity and politics. What does the marketing and consumption of gayness mean?
Economist Lee Badgett and sociologist Suzanna Walters join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Badgett is author of Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men. Walters is author of All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America. |
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Odyssey—May 11, 2005 |
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American Mania
Lennard Davis—Professor of English, Disability Studies, and Medical Education; University of Illinois, Chicago
Jennifer Fleissner—Assistant Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Mania has become a prism through which we understand the American character: our hyperproductivity, the 24/7 news cycle, even the bold risks taken by early settlers. How did the idea of mania acquire such explanatory power?
Literary scholar Jennifer Fleissner and disability studies scholar Lennard Davis join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Fleissner is author of Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. Davis is author of Bending over Backwards: Dismodernism, Disability, and Other Difficult Positions. |
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Odyssey—May 10, 2005 |
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The Railroad in America
William Deverell—Professor of History, University of Southern California
Amy Richter—Assistant Professor of History, Clark University
Amtrak's passenger rail service is strapped for cash and customers. But passenger and freight trains were once the engines of American capitalism as well as powerful forces for social change. How did the railroad transform American life?
Historians Amy Richter and William Deverell join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Richter is author of Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity. Deverell directs the Huntington-USC Center on California and the West, and he's author of numerous books, including Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850–1910. |
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Odyssey—May 9, 2005 |
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Security and Governance
Thomas Dumm—Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
Jonathan Simon—Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law; University of California, Berkeley
Long before the September 11 terrorist attacks, anxieties about public safety were shaping government policies in both visible and more subtle ways. How have concerns over security influenced American governance?
Legal scholar Jonathan Simon and political scientist Thomas Dumm join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Simon is author of Land of the Free, Home of the Afraid: Governing America through Crime. Dumm is author of A Politics of the Ordinary, and he's finishing the book, Alone, a study of loneliness. |
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Odyssey—May 6, 2005 |
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Extinction
Jim Endersby—Adrian Research Fellow, Darwin College; Department of History and Philosphy of Science, University of Cambridge
Paul Semonin—Historian
Since the discovery of the first fossils and dinosaur bones, humans have grappled with the concept of extinction. How do ideas about extinction affect they way we think about the natural world?
Science historian Jim Endersby and historian Paul Semonin join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Endersby is finishing the books, A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology and Imperial Nature: Joseph Dalton Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science. Semonin is author of the book, American Monster: How the Nation's First Prehistoric Creature Became a Symbol of National Identity. |
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Odyssey—May 5, 2005 |
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The Wide World of Boredom
Elizabeth Goodstein—Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University
Peter Toohey—Professor and Department Head, Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary
At one time or another, we've all been bored: with our jobs, with the world, with ourselves. But boredom isn't easy to explain. Is it an emotion? a reaction to the monotony of modern life? When we say we're bored, what kind of experience are we having?
Peter Toohey and Elizabeth Goodstein join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Toohey has written several books, including Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature. Goodstein is author of Experience without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity. |
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Odyssey—May 4, 2005 |
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The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Peter Lavoy—Director, Center for Contemporary Conflict, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Scott Sagan—Professor of Political Science and Codirector, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Created in the 1960s, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has become widely panned because it hasn't stopped countries such as Iran and North Korea from pursuing nuclear capabilities. Can the NPT still address the dangers of weapons proliferation?
Political scientists Peter Lavoy and Scott Sagan join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Lavoy is finishing the book, Learning to Live with the Bomb: India and Nuclear Weapons: 1947–2002. Sagan is coeditor of The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed. |
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Odyssey—May 3, 2005 |
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Reviving Ancient Greece
Richard Armstrong—Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Caroline Winterer—Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University
Hundreds of previously illegible ancient Greek plays and poems are in the process of being deciphered, promising new insight into Greek society. What are we searching for in our desire to connect with ancient Greece and the ideas we attach to it?
Classicist Richard Armstrong and historian Caroline Winterer join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Armstrong is author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World. Winterer is author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910. |
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Odyssey—May 2, 2005 |
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Chicago Matters: Money Talks: American Charity
Arthur Brooks—Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director, Nonprofit Studies Program; Maxwell School, Syracuse University
David Hammack—Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History, Case Western Reserve University
Wealthy philanthropists such as Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates attract attention with their large donations, but Americans at all levels of income are far more generous than their counterparts in other countries. What drives Americans to give?
Historian David Hammack and public policy expert Arthur Brooks join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Hammack is editor of Making the American Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader. Brooks is finishing the book, Charity and Selfishness: The Truth about Who Gives in America and the World.
To hear related reports, documentaries, and personal stories, please visit the Chicago Matters: Money Talks Audio Library >> |
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