The second installment of our live taping at the British International Studies Association annual…
Episode 33: Status? You Just Met Us!
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Jarrod Hayes
Professor Jarrod Hayes joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Jarrod was born in Colorado, but moved to Utah at a young age and grew up there for a bit before relocating with his mother to just outside...
Episode 32: Social Forces, States, and Clydeside Whisky
Robert Cox’s landmark article, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Rela…
Episode 31: Great Balls of Power
Back in 2019, Uri Friedman wrote that we “find ourselves—as you will have heard in the corridors …
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Oumar Ba
Dr. Oumar Ba of Cornell University visits the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Dr. Ba grew up in Senegal, attending his first school at an early age near the Senegal-Mauritania border. He developed an interest in politics in high school and at his first university (Cheik Anna Diop in Dakar) where he pursued Geography. Oumar moved to the United States in early 2001, taking a Greyhound Bus from New York to Ohio. Following a series of jobs, including one at an auto manufacturing plant, he would return to academia pursuing a Master's in International Affairs and Political Science at Ohio University. It...
Episode 30: A Long, Strange Trek
It’s our first “actual” installment of Whiskey & IR Theory in Space! We discuss Star Trek: Th…
LIVE recording of Whiskey & IR Theory at BISA 2023
Don't miss the live recording of episodes 32 and 33 of Whiskey & IR Theory on June 21, 2023, starting at 3pm. We'll be taping at the BISA annual conference. Rumors suggest that there may be whisky for tasting and schwagg for... something. Episode 32 will be in "classic format." We'll discuss Robert Cox's classic 1981 article, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory.” Episode 33 will be a "whiskey optional" on status and international-relations theory. BISA attendees should register in advance for one or both of the special sessions.
Rita Abrahamsen
Professor Rita Abrahamsen joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Rita grew up on a small island off the coast of Southern Norway. She was a good student, very interested in the world with parents who had been the Merchant Marines, and a father who had served during World War II. She talks about the subjects she enjoyed in school, the decision to go to university and pursue journalism, and her career in journalism, especially radio, working including serving as an anchor for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company. Her purpose in graduate school was to get more training to become a foreign...