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Amber Jamilla Musser on Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined
This discussion is with Amber Jamilla Musser, a professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes and researches at the intersections o...
Philip Janzen on An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean
This discussion is with Philip Janzen, an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Florida. He studies the cultural and intellectual histo...
Doyle D. Calhoun on The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
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-b...
Therí Alyce Pickens on What Had Happened Was
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 Li...
Jessie Cox on Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices
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 question...
Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz on Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema
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 s...
Jody Benjamin on The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850
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...
Sandhya Shukla on Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place
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 ...
Laura Helton on Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
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 a...
Mary Hicks on Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of Atlantic Slavery, 1721-1835
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...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
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 co...
Benjamin Barson on Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons
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...
Bryan Sinche on Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
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 appe...
Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery
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 Caribbea...
Nana Osei-Kofi on AfroSwedish: Places of Belonging
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 O...
Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté on Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing
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 ...
Julia Hauser on A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism
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...
Imani D. Owens on Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
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 Caribb...
Jason Allen-Paisant on Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits
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 Jou...
Kathleen Spanos and Sinclair Emoghene on Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences
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 Jou...