by admin | Feb 17, 2026 | arts and humanities, earth and environment
Dr Andrea Haefner | How Civil Society Groups Are Speaking Up for the Mekong River About this episode The Mekong River is one of Southeast Asia’s great lifelines, supporting more than 65 million people and sustaining extraordinary biodiversity. Yet it is also a river...
by admin | Feb 17, 2026 | arts and humanities, behavioural sciences
Dr Charlotte Parham – Dr Louis Nadelson | Lessons in Connection: What School Desegregation Meant for Black Students in the American South About this episode The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision is often remembered as a cornerstone of American progress,...
by admin | Jan 29, 2026 | arts and humanities, behavioural sciences
Dr Ori Soltes | The War Within: How Our Search for Meaning Can Unite or Divide Us About this episode Religion has long helped people make sense of the world, but as Dr Ori Soltes argues in a recent paper, this guidance comes with deep complications. Even the word...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | arts and humanities
Professor Robert Slesinski | Love, Death, and the Unity of All Things: Lev Karsavin’s Philosophy of “Liebestod” About this episode In the chaos of early twentieth-century Russia, philosopher and historian Lev Karsavin (1882–1952) sought to reconcile faith, reason, and...
by admin | Dec 9, 2025 | arts and humanities
Dr Alexandra Anna Spalek – Dr Louise McNally | When Verbs Stretch: How Grammar Shapes Figurative Language About this episode Language is full of creativity, but that creativity follows rules we don’t always notice. When we say a politician “swept the election”...
by admin | Dec 2, 2025 | arts and humanities, behavioural sciences
How Chinese Words Transform When They Enter Mongolic Languages About this episode When languages come into contact, they often borrow words from each other. But what happens if the donor-recipient language pairs are similar but set in different sociolinguistic...
