Best Francophone Philosophy Podcasts (2025)

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Doyle D. Calhoun on The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire 1:06:29

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This episode includes discussions of suicide within the historical contexts of slavery, colonization, and empire. Please listen with care and be mindful of your well-being as you engage with this episode. If you or someone you know is in crisis or struggling, you are not alone. Support is available through the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline a…

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Therí Alyce Pickens on What Had Happened Was 56:47

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This discussion is with Dr. Therí A. Pickens received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University (P’05) and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA (2010). She is a poet-scholar who focuses on Arab American Studies, Black Studies, Comparative Literature, and Disability Studies. In today’s conversation, we discu…

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Jessie Cox on Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices 1:05:47

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This discussion is with Dr. Jessie Cox, an Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. Active as a composer, drummer, and scholar, his work thematizes questions at the intersection of black studies, music/sound studies, and critical theory. From Switzerland, with roots in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Cox thinks through questions of race, migrat…

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Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz on Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema 1:03:41

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This discussion is with Dr. Devin Bryson and Dr. Molly Enz. Dr. Bryson is a professor of French and Francophone studies and Gender and Women's studies in the global studies program at Illinois College. He has published work in Research in African Literatures, the Journal of the African Literature Association, Black Camera, and African Studies Revie…

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Jody Benjamin on The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 1:05:12

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This discussion is with Dr. Jody Benjamin, a social and cultural historian of western Africa with expertise in the period between 1650 and 1850. He received his PhD in African and African American Studies at Harvard University in 2016. His research is informed by a methodological concern to center the diverse experiences and perspectives of African…

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Sandhya Shukla on Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place 54:58

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This discussion is with Dr. Sandhya Shukla is associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia, where she is also an affiliate faculty member of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. She is the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton Un…

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Laura Helton on Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History 53:00

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This discussion is with Dr. Laura Helton, a historian who writes about collections and how they shape our world. She is an Associate Professor of English and History at the University of Delaware, where she teaches African American literature, book history, archival studies, and public humanities. Her interest in the social history of archives aros…

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Mary Hicks on Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of Atlantic Slavery, 1721-1835 1:09:11

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This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging …

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition 1:04:56

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This is Fatima Seck and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging fro…

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Benjamin Barson on Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons 1:00:13

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This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging …

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Bryan Sinche on Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature 1:13:13

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This discussion is with Dr. Bryan Sinche, a Professor and Chair of English at the University of Hartford. He has written more than twenty essays and reviews which appear in journals such as American Literary History, African American Review, ESQ, Legacy, and Biography and in collections published by Basic Books, Cambridge University Press, and the …

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Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery 1:22:27

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This discussion is with Professor Jenny Shaw, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama where she teaches classes in the histories of the Caribbean, the Atlantic World, Comparative Slavery & Emancipation, and Early Modern Black Britain. She is the author of Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the …

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Nana Osei-Kofi on AfroSwedish: Places of Belonging 1:06:05

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This discussion is with Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi, (she/her) a Professor Emerita of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Language, Culture, and Society at Oregon State University. Her research centers on two primary lines of inquiry focused on justice and the politics of difference. One line examines structural shifts in higher education …

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Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté on Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing 1:40:18

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This discussion is with Dr. Étienne Achille and Dr. Oana Panaïté. Dr. Achille is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Villanova University. His publications include the monograph Mythologies postcoloniales. Pour une décolonisation du quotidien (2018, co-authored with L. Moudileno;) and the volume Postcolonial Realms of Memory…

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Julia Hauser on A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism 54:53

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This discussion is with Dr. Julia Hauser, a cultural historian interested in the entanglements of Europe, the US and Asia, mainly India and the Middle East, during the nineteenth and twentieth century. She has worked on female mission in late Ottoman Beirut, the entangled history of vegetarianism between Europe, the US, and India, and the global hi…

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Imani D. Owens on Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean 1:20:15

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This discussion is with Dr. Imani D. Owens, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She studies and teaches African American and Caribbean literature, music, and performance. Her research has been supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies at Princeton University, a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhanc…

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Jason Allen-Paisant on Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits 1:14:18

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Kathleen Spanos and Sinclair Emoghene on Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences 1:10:22

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Joshua Myers on Of Black Study 1:09:24

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Autumn Womack on The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial data, 1880-1930 1:02:51

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Mark Deets on A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal 1:23:23

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This discussion is with Dr. Mark W. Deets, an Assistant Professor of African and World History and the Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at The American University in Cairo. His research and teaching focus on 19 th and 20th century West African social and cultural history, especially in the Senegambian region. His first book,…

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Marlene Daut on Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution 1:08:42

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Marlene Daut , she is a Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the recently published book Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. She is series editor of New World Studies at UVA Press, co-editor of Global Black History at Public Books, and ha…

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Eziaku Nwokocha on Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States 1:40:26

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This discussion is with Dr. Eziaku Nwokocha, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. She is a scholar of Africana religions with expertise in the ethnographic study of Vodou in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Her research is grounded in gender and sexuality studies, visual and material culture and A…

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Drew Dalton on The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism 1:24:55

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You’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In collaboration with the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, these conversations explore the cultural, political, and philosophical traditions of the Atlantic world, ranging from European critical theo…

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Isaac Vincent Joslin on Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions 1:15:59

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This discussion is with Dr. Isaac Joslin who holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Francophone Studies. Currently Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Global Futures Scholar at Arizona State University, he has travelled extensively for research in Francophone Africa in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, Burkina Faso, Rwanda…

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Tina Post on Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression 55:24

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Tina Post, an Assistant Professor of English and Theater and Performance at the University of Chicago. Her recent first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, is the first book in NYU Press’s new Minoritarian Aesthetics series. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Modern Drama, TDR: The Drama Rev…

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Rima Vesely-Flad on Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation 1:03:31

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad, she is the author of Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice (Fortress Press, 2017). She is the Visiting Professor of Buddhism and Black Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she teaches classes on Buddhism and social just…

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Jasmine Nichole Cobb on New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair 45:16

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Jasmine Nichole Cobb is Professor of African & African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, as well as a co-director of the “From Slavery to Freedom” (FS2F) Franklin Humanities Lab. A scholar of black cultural production and visual representation, Cobb is the author of two monographs, Picture Freedom: Rema…

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Darieck Scott on Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics 53:07

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Darieck Scott, a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination (NYU Press 2010), was the winner of the 2011 Alan Bray Memorial Prize for Queer Studies of the Modern Language A…

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Perry Zurn on Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry 55:47

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John Drabinski hosts this conversation with Perry Zurn, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. In addition to dozens of articles on key figures and issues in the European philosophical tradition, Perry has edited three volumes: with Andrew Dilts, Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Inform…

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Mari Crabtree on My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching 1:20:20

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This discussion is with Mari Crabtree, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Mari has published on African American history and culture, with particular emphasis on trauma, the history of lynching, and critical aspects of African American humor. Along with a number of a…

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Shanna Greene Benjamin on Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay 1:20:34

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This discussion is with Shanna Greene Benjamin, who teaches in the Department of African American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She has published widely on African American literary and cultural studies, with particular emphasis on Black women’s literature and intellectual history. Along with numerous articles,…

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Stefanie Dunning on Black to Nature: Pastoral Return in African American Culture 1:19:35

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John E. Drabinski hosts a conversation with Stefanie Dunning, Professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The author of numerous essays on African American literature and culture, Stefanie has authored two books: Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture, published by Indiana …

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Sarah Jane Cervenak on Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life 1:14:46

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John E. Drabinski hosts a discussion with Sarah Jane Cervenak, who teaches in the departments of Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of a number of critical essays on African American art and literature with particular focus on Black feminist writing and p…

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Andrea A. Davis on Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean & African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation 59:11

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This discussion is with Dr. Andrea Davis, she is an Associate Professor at York University,Toronto in the Department of Humanities and the Academic Convenor of the 2023 Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. She teaches and supervises in literatures and cultures of the Black Americas and holds cross-appointments in the g…

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Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford on Lyotard and Critical Practice 1:32:36

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This conversation is with Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford, editors of a new collection of essays entitled Lyotard and Critical Practice, published in late-2022 by Bloomsbury. Margret teaches political theory at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the author of a number of scholarly and popular media pieces, ranging from French cr…

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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora 1:19:30

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A conversation with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has written widely in popular and scholarly venues on African American literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Black feminist tradition, queer theory, and twentieth and twenty first century li…

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Christopher Freeburg on Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death 1:09:27

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This discussion is with Professor Christopher Freeburg, Dr. Freeburg is the John A. and Grace W. Nicholson Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Freeburg is an award-winning author of three scholarly books and numerous articles including, Melville in the Idea of Blackness (Cambridge UP, 2012), Black Aesthetics an…

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Habiba Ibrahim on Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life 1:26:05

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This conversation is with Habiba Ibrahim, who teaches in the Department of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. In addition to a number of published articles on African American literature and cultural studies, Ibrahim co-edited with Badia Ahad a 2022 issue of South Atlantic Quarterly organized around the theme “Black Tem…

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Nicholas Harrison on Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education 58:30

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Nicholas Harrison, he is a Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies at King’s College London. During his student years he worked as a teacher at the university of Tunis, at a school in rural Quebec, and at the ENS in Paris. He returned to the UK to take up a Junior Research Fellowship at St Catharine’s College, Ca…

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Rinaldo Walcott on The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom 1:18:11

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This conversation is with Rinaldo Walcott, who teaches in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada (1997), Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Cri…

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Felisa Vergara Reynolds on The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995) 56:04

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This discussion is with Dr. Felisa Vergara Reynold, an Associate Professor of French for the Department of French and Italian at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Her focus is on literature in French from the Antilles, West Africa, and North Africa. She primarily works on the legacy and impa…

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Brian Valente-Quinn on Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theatre-Making in Francophone Africa 54:42

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This discussion is with Dr. Brian Valente-Quinn, he is an associate professor of Francophone African Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on the histories and politics of theatrical performance in West Africa, and especially the stage’s interplay with questions of decoloniality, Pan-Africanism, popular culture, and fo…

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Bruce Janz on African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought 1:23:28

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Today’s conversation is with Bruce Janz, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, where he also co-directs the Center for Humanities and Digital Research. In addition to dozens of articles, he is the editor of a special journal issue with History of Intellectual Culture on space and interdisciplinarity and a…

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Nick Bromell on The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass 1:44:01

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This conversation is with Nick Bromell, Professor Emeritus in the English Department at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass. Bromell is the author of numerous articles on 19th and 20th century literature and politics, and has edited the Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom, as well as a collection of ess…

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Sandra Gunning on Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic 1:02:43

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This discussion is with Professor Sandra Gunning, Dr. Gunning is a literary scholar working jointly in the Department of American Culture, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently she’s at work on an alternate Black literary history of the American Civil War. In today’s conversation,…

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Muriam Haleh Davis on Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria 59:05

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This discussion is with Dr. Muriam Haleh Davis, Dr. Davis teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the author of Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Duke University Press, 2022). Her research studies the relationship between decolonization and the history of the social sciences. She is a frequent comme…

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Catriona MacLeod on Invisible Presence: Drawing Women in French Comics 1:02:26

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Catriona MacLeod, a Senior lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris. Her research interests concern women in French-language graphic novels (or bandes dessinées) and migration and trauma narratives in bandes dessinées and caricatures. She has published on these topics in a range of aca…

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Andil Gosine on Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean 1:09:43

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This discussion is with Dr. Gosine, a Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University in Toronto. His publications include co-authorship of the text Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada and contributions to many journals including Small Axe, Wasafiri, Sexualities, Topia, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Art in America, as we…

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Dannelle Gutarra Cordero on She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World 46:08

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Today’s discussion is with Dr. Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, she is a Lecturer in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus in 2012. Gutarra Cordero specializes in the Intellectual History of the Caribbean and the Atlantic World…

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