The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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German Election Preview
Political correspondent Christina Neuhaus and host Andrew Sola discuss the upcoming federal elections in Germany. They cover the top six parties: CDU, SPD, the Greens, FDP, AFD, and the Left. ...
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9/11 Literature and the Art of the Present in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation"
Marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Stefanie and
her guest, Americanist Marius Henderson, discuss contemporary literature
and the concept of American art afte...
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Introduction to US Foreign Policy 20 Years after 9/11
In this show, Andrew Sola and his guest, Prof. Steven Durand, discuss different theoretical approaches to understanding US foreign policy and international security 20 years after 9/11. Topics ...
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Novel RomAntics #7: "No One Is Coming to Save Us" by Stephanie Powell Watts
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor of English at Colgate University, Michael Coyle, discuss No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts. This is the first of ...
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Norwegian Election Preview & the 10-Year Anniversary of the July 22 Terrorist Attack
Dr. Trygve Svensson, director of the Norwegian think tank AGENDA, and Andrew Sola preview the upcoming elections in Norway on 13 September. Topics include antagonistic politics, social and econ...
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Novel RomAntics #6: Willy Vlautin's The Night Always Comes
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor Robert Eaglestone, discuss The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin, a novel set in Portland, Oregon that dramatizes the human cost of...
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LadyFiction Goes to the Movies: Chloe Zhao‘s "Nomadland“
With her guest, film expert and documentary maker Anna Sola, Stefanie
Schäfer discusses the winning film of the 2021 Academy Awards, zooming
in on visual anthropology, freedom and mo...
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LadyFiction #5: On Electric Women: Reading Margaret Fuller's "Woman in the 19th Century"
With her guest Andrew Wildermuth, Stefanie Schaefer discusses the text
that kicked off the white women's movement in the US, Margaret Fuller's
1845 "Woman in the 19th Century", inter...
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Novel RomAntics #5: Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
In this episode, novelist Nadifa Mohamed and host Douglas Cowie discuss What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, a collection of short stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah. They discuss several of...
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LadyFiction#4: Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson and Bettina Judd
Recorded on International Women's Day, LadyFiction’s episode 4 turns to the history of science—and the forgotten role black people played as study objects in this context. Stefanie Schäfer and D...