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Speaking Out of Place
Public activism on human rights, environmental and indigenous justice, and educational liberation, with an emphasis on politics, culture, and art. Website:
https://speakingoutofplace.com/
Episodes
Speaking Out of Place"Beyond Kafkaesque": Will Hassan Diab Receive Justice?
In 1980, a synagogue in Paris was bombed, killing four and injuring 40 others. Thirty-four years later, French authorities settled on one suspect--Hassan Diab…
Speaking Out of PlaceAsian American Literature Festival Abruptly Cancelled without Explanation
This August, the Asian American Literary Festival was to take place in Washington, DC.. The event had already garnered substantial investments and expectations…
Speaking Out of PlaceHow do Asian Americans Factor in the Recent Supreme Court Decision on Affirmative Action? A Conversation with Activist-Scholar Jeff Chang
On today’s Speaking Out of Place we talk with journalist., activist, and public intellectual Jeff Chang. Jeff’s most recent book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On…
Speaking Out of PlaceJennifer Jacquet Reveals "The Playbook" for Corporate Deception
Today on Speaking Out of Place we talk with Jennifer Jacquet, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Director of XE…
Speaking Out of PlaceNarrating Humanity: A Discussion with Cynthia Franklin
Today we talk with Cynthia Franklin about her new book, Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea. Taking on pivotal…
Speaking Out of PlaceA Black Feminist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse: A Conversation with author Dr. Jennifer Gomez
In today’s episode of Speaking Out of Place we speak with Dr Jennifer Gomez about her new book, The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women and Girls: A Black…
Speaking Out of PlaceRace, Nativism, and Natives in France: A Conversation with Olivia Harrison
On today’s episode of Speaking Out of Place we talk with Olivia Harrison, author of a new book entitled, Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhat the World Needs to Know About the Struggle in Kashmir
In today’s episode of “Speaking Out of Place” we speak with Dr. Haley Duschinski and Mr. Imraan Mir, who people active in trying to grow global awareness of…
Speaking Out of PlaceAnthropologists Must Answer the Call from Palestinian Civil Society: a Conversation with Nadia Abu El-Haj and Sami Hermez
In November 20, 2015, a resolution presented to the members of the American Anthropological Association for a boycott of Israeli institutions narrowly missed…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Climate Crisis: Activism to Save the Planet. A Talk with Adam Aron
In today’s episode of “Speaking Out of Place” we talk with Professor Adam Aron, author of the book, “The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology…
Speaking Out of PlaceDecolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common--Conversation with Ashley Dawson
In this episode of Speaking Out of Place we talk with Ashley Dawson about his new co-edited book, Decolonize Conservation: Global Voices for Indigenous…
Speaking Out of PlaceAre Marketplaces "Magic"? Activist and Scholar Naomi Oreskes Thinks Not
On today's episode of Speaking Out of Place, we speak with Naomi Oreskes, who is Henry Charles Lea professor of the History of Science and affiliated Professor…
Speaking Out of PlaceA Major Victory for Pro-Palestinian Activism: Court Dismisses Case Against BDS Activism in the American Studies Association
On today’s episode of Speaking Out of Place, we talk with Professor J. Kēhaulani Kauanui and Professor Sunaina Maira, two people involved in the 2013 effort to…
Speaking Out of PlaceAbsolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum--Interview with Françoise Vergès and Jamille Pinheiro Dias
Today we talk with Françoise Vergès and Jamille Pinheiro Dias about the difficulty of "decolonizing" the museum, and engaging passionately with another…
Speaking Out of PlaceConversation with Award-winning Author, Activist, and Intellectual Hilton Obenzinger
Today on Speaking Out of Place I talk with the intellectual, writer, and activist Hilton Obenzinger about his remarkable life as all those things. He starts by…
Speaking Out of PlacePalo Alto, California, Capitalism, the World: A Conversation with Malcolm Harris
In this episode of Speaking Out of Place, we talk with Malcolm Harris, author of a new book entitled, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the…
Speaking Out of PlaceSilencing Human Rights Advocates, and Speaking Back: Interview with Jim Cavallaro and Omar Shakir
Recently the US State Department withdrew its nomination of eminent international human rights scholar Jim Cavallaro, solely on the basis of some tweets in…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Struggle for Palestinian Rights, and Justice Everywhere: Conversation with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
On today’s show, a conversation with Dr Rabab Abdulhadi, who has recently won a major national award from the Middle East Studies Association for her lifetime…
Speaking Out of PlaceCars and Jails: Interview with Julie Livingston and Andrew Ross
How does the automobile—the All American symbol of freedom--become part of a “cascading” process of unfreedom for recently incarcerated people? Livingston and…
Speaking Out of PlaceGiving Universities, and People, the Courage to Address Sexual Harassment and Violence: Interview with Jennifer Freyd
Today Professor Jennifer Freyd speaks out against institutional betrayal, specifically about issues of sexual harassment and violence. We talk about what…
Speaking Out of PlaceThe Nature of Middle East Scholarship Committed to Activism--a Conversation with Joel Beinin
On this episode of “Speaking Out of Place” we talk with eminent Middle East historian Joel Beinin on a range of topics that center on the fact that for some…
Speaking Out of PlaceInterview with Noted Public Intellectual Richard Falk
In today's show I speak with Richard Falk about his recent autobiography—Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim. Falk is Albert G. Milbank…
Speaking Out of PlaceWe Need a Culture of Care: A Conversation with author, journalist, essayist and critic Liza Featherstone
Liza is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. In this podcast, Featherstone explains the structural…
Speaking Out of PlaceAcademic Strikers Form Solidarity Across the Atlantic
Interviews with organizers, strikers, and faculty participating in the University of California strike, and their counterparts at the University and College…
Speaking Out of PlaceWhat Is Behind the Revolutionary Moment in Iran?
An in-depth interview with scholar, activist, and poet Dr. Persis Karim, director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University…
Speaking Out of PlaceRadical, or Liberal, Race Studies at the University?
A dialogue between David Kyuman Kim and David Palumbo-Liu at Stanford, on the possibilities, or the impossibility, of doing radical work on race at…