THE MIT PRESS JOURNALS PODCASTS
Episode 2: Bill Fowler, Chair of NEQ's Board of Directors, speaks with Bob Gross about the events leading up to Shays's Rebellion and how they relate to today's circumstances. Mr. Gross's article, "A Yankee Rebellion? The Regulators, New England, and the New Nation", appears in the March 2009 issue of The New England Quarterly. The discussion was recorded at Northeastern University on April 10, 2009.
AUDIO COMPANION TO WALKING TOURS OF BOSTON'S MADE LAND
An audio tour of Boston's Central Waterfront, intended as a companion to Nancy Seasholes' book. Listen to the tour.
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The MIT Press Podcast series is a monthly audio program spotlighting the authors of The MIT Press. Hosted by Chris Gondek of Heron & Crane Productions.
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| 2009 Interviews
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Episode 24: Mary Flanagan
Episode 23: M. Paloma Pavel & Carl Anthony
Episode 22: Mark Dowie & Benjamin Weiss
Episode 21: Richard D. Roberts & Elizabeth Losh
Episode 20: Graham Pullin & Charlie Hailey
Episode 19: Adrian Parr & Joshua Gans
Episode 18: Stephen H. Axilrod & Ian Bogost
Episode 17: Colin J. Bennett
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EPISODE TWENTY-FOUR (OCT. '09): MARY FLANAGAN
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Mary Flanagan artist and game designer, is Founder and Director of Tiltfactor Laboratory and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Critical Play: Radical Game Design and coeditor (with Austin Booth) of Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture and re:skin
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EPISODE TWENTY-THREE (JULY/AUG '09): M. PALOMA PAVEL & CARL ANTHONY
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M. Paloma Pavel is editor of Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis. Dr. Pavel is Founder and President of Earth House Center in Oakland, California, which is dedicated to building multiracial leadership. She is a psychologist and international educator and the coauthor of Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty. |
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Carl Anthony is a contributor to Breakthrough Communities. A Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Geography at UC Berkelely, he is Founder of the Earth House Leadership Center and the Urban Habitat program in Oakland, CA.
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EPISODE TWENTY-TWO (JUNE '09): MARK DOWIE & BENJAMIN WEISS
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Award-winning journalist Mark Dowie is the author of Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples, Losing Ground: Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, American Foundations: An Investigative History, and four other books. |
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Benjamin Weiss is co-author of Obelisk: A History and Manager of Adult Learning Resources at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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EPISODE TWENTY-ONE (MAY '09): RICHARD D. ROBERTS & ELIZABETH LOSH
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Richard D. Roberts is the co-author of What We Know about Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health. Mr. Roberts is Principal Research Scientist at the Center for New Constructs, Educational Testing Service. With Moshe Zeidner and Gerald Matthews, he is also co-author of Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth (MIT Press). |
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Elizabeth Losh is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes. Ms. Losh is Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches courses on digital rhetoric and public communication.
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EPISODE TWENTY (APR. '09): GRAHAM PULLIN & CHARLIE HAILEY
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Graham Pullin is the author of Design Meets Disability. Mr. Pullin is a lecturer in Interactive Media Design at the University of Dundee. He has worked as a senior designer at IDEO, one of the world's leading design consultancies, and at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, a prominent rehabilitation engineering center in the United Kingdom. He has received international design awards for design for disability and for mainstream products. |
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Charlie Hailey is the author of Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space and Campsite: Architectures of Duration and Place. Mr. Hailey is Assistant Professor in the University of Florida's School of Architecture.
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EPISODE NINETEEN (MAR. '09): ADRIAN PARR & JOSHUA GANS
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Adrian Parr is the author of Hijacking Sustainability. Ms. Parr is Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of Deleuze and Memorial Culture and other books. |
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Joshua Gans is the author of Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting. He is the father of three and Chair of Management at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. Mr. Gans is the author of several economics textbooks and the 2007 recipient of Australia's Young Economist award.
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EPISODE EIGHTEEN (FEB. '09): STEPHEN H. AXILROD & IAN BOGOST
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Stephen H. Axilrod is the author of Inside the Fed: Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke. Mr. Axilrod worked from 1952 to 1986 at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., rising to Staff Director for Monetary and Financial Policy and Staff Director and Secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's main monetary policy arm. Since 1986 he has worked in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy with foreign monetary authorities. |
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Ian Bogost is the author of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System. Mr. Bogost is Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, at Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner, Persuasive Games LLC. He is also the author of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogame Criticism and Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, both published by the MIT Press.
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EPISODE SEVENTEEN (JAN. '09): COLIN J. BENNETT
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Colin Bennett is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance and coauthor (with Charles Raab) of The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective (updated paperback edition, MIT Press, 2006).
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