The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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LadyFiction#1: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
The Trans-Atlanticist launches its second new podcast series called LadyFiction. In the first episode, our host Dr. Stefanie Schaefer and her guest Prof. Alexandra Ganser-both from the Universi...
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NovelROMANtics #1: Attica Locke's Bluebird,Bluebird and Heaven, My Home
February is African-American History month in the United States, and the Trans-Atlanticist is celebrating with a number of podcasts about African-American authors.
For this first episode o...
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Michele Obama and FLOTUS Studies with Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
Dr. Stefanie Schäfer discusses the cultural history of the “first family,” the concept of civil religion in the US, the development of the academic specialty of First Lady of the United States (...
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Explaining Trump's Economic Policies with Gabriel Felbermayr
Renowned economist and expert on international trade, Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr explains President Trump’s economic policies. Topics include the Trump tax cuts, US-EU trade imbalances, Nordstream...
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The US Mid-Term Elections: The View from Germany with Stephan Bierling
On November 6, 2018, Americans went to polling places across the US to cast their votes in the mid-term elections. Prof. Bierling, a leading expert in transatlantic relations, discusses the elec...
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The Prague Spring after 50 Years with Historian Thomas Murphy
Fifty years after the Prague Spring, Dr. Thomas Murphy discusses his new book, Czechoslovakia Behind the Curtain: Life, Work, and Culture in the Communist Era. Dr. Murphy and host Andrew Sola ex...
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Introduction to Ecocriticism with Alexander Phillips
Dr. Alexander Phillips and Andrew Sola chart the history of ecological thinking and the origins of ecocriticism as a scholarly discipline and then discuss the importance of the environment in th...
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This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
In the June 2018 edition of “This Month at the EU with Dr. Danner,” Andrew Sola and EU insider Guenter Danner discuss Europe’s immigration and refugee crisis, the Latvian banking scandals, and t...
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This Month at the EU with Guenter Danner
In the April 2018 edition of “This Month at the EU with Dr. Danner,” Andrew Sola and EU insider Guenter Danner discuss the elections in Hungary, the state of the Greek economy at the end of the ...
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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience with Dieter Schulz
Professor Dieter Schulz and Andrew Sola discuss Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” and its influence on Dr. Martin Luther King.