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Cultures of the Black diaspora, with Louis Chude-Sokei and Scott Black

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YouTube     Apple Podcasts     Spotify Louis Chude-Sokei, author of Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, discusses the Black diaspora, sound, accent, masculinity, Afrofuturism, dub music, and AI with Scott Black. Links: Louis Chude-Sokei, Floating in a Most Peculiar Way Louis Chude-Sokei, The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora  Louis […]

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Writing in the age of AI, with Lizzie Callaway and Scott Black

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YouTube     Apple Podcasts     Spotify Why learn to write in the age of artificial intelligence? Elizabeth Callaway, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Utah, talks with Scott Black about writing pedagogy with and about AI. Links: Josh Dzieza, “Inside the AI Factory” Ethan Mollick, “I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence” NYT review of Chris […]

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Oscar Wilde in Utah, with Randell Hoffman and Robert Carson

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YouTube     Apple Podcasts     Spotify In 1882, Oscar Wilde visited Utah during his famous lecture tour of the United States. Local historian Randell Hoffman discusses the scandals of Wilde’s visit, and the Victorian-era conventions that Wilde challenged. Robert Carson examines Wilde’s lectures on the importance of beauty and his provocations about taste and […]

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Sex and the Planet, with Peggy Battin and Jim Tabery

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YouTube     Apple Podcasts     Spotify What if advances in technology were already changing the causal logic of human reproduction which is now taken for granted? Could pregnancy shift from an event which some opt out of through prevention or termination, to an intentional, elective choice? How should such a system work, and what […]

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On Death and Memory: Alice Dailey, author of Mother of Stories, with Lindsey Drager

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Alice Dailey recounts the life and death of her mother, who was “a gifted teacher, a passionate reader, and a pathological liar.” Dailey is Professor of English and Director of Faculty Affairs at Villanova University. She discusses her scholarly memoir, Mother of Stories: An Elegy, with Lindsey Drager (Assistant Professor of English, University of Utah). […]

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