Jarrod is joined by Daniela Lai and Adam Lerner to talk about the role of big questions in IR scholarship and teaching.
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Episode 12 – Priya Dixit
Professor Priya Dixit talks about being born in Thailand, growing up in Nepal, college and her master’s in Australia, working for the United Nations, and life as an academic.
Episode 11: Embedded Liberalism
John Ruggie’s 1982 article, which appeared in a special issue of International Organization on ‘i…
Episode 11 – Maria Mälksoo
Professor Mälksoo talks growing up in a small town in Estonia during and at the end of the Cold War, the decision to go to the University of Tartu, her exchange year in Montana taking the GRE in Helsinki, and getting her picture taken following a rainstorm.
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Episode 2 – Cian O’Driscoll (part 1)
ian O'Driscoll from the University of Glasgow does work on Just War theory, international security, and international political theory, and international ethics. He has been a friend of Brent's for well over a decade. They spoke in April 2019 following a workshop at the University of Warwick. Their conversation went a little long, so this is part 1 of 2 episodes with Cian. In this episode, Cian tells us about his intellectual journey: growing up in Limerick and going to the uni there, spending some time in the US, his Master's work at Dalhousie in Nova Scotia, his memory...
Episode 1 – Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
he first episode of the Hayseed Scholar podcast is an interview with Professor Peri Schwartz-Shea of the University of Utah. We discuss her evolution as a scholar and academic, the questions she's pursued in her research, and how she became so interested in interpretive methods.
Podcasting Killed the Lecturing Star
The first video ever played on MTV, back when MTV played music videos most of the time, was the one-hit wonder "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. A lament about how new technology ended the career of a singer who was well-adapted to the production standards and genre constraints of an earlier era, the song recounts an irreversible process: In my mind and in my car We can't rewind we've gone too far Pictures came and broke your heart Put the blame on VTR Maybe this rings a faint bell for some of you. In any case, for a quick refresher, you can watch the whole thing here. The great...
New Podcast: Interview with Patrick James
Well, sort of. I've been getting a surprising number of emails asking for new podcasts. This semester was a killer, and no one else on the team wants to spearhead the effort. I hope to do some more before all hades breaks loose next academic year. But for now, I should note that my series over at New Books in Science Fiction & Fantasy has reemerged from its own hiatus -- and with a cross-over podcast! In it, I interview USC's Patrick James about his and Abigail E. Ruane's book, The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from the Lord of the Rings. Well, what are you waiting...