The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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The Politics Podcast: Unrest in France, an AFD Election Win, and 500 Days of War in Ukraine
It's turning into a hot summer in Europe. France is burning in protest after the killing of an ethnic teenager by the police. A Koran was torched in Stockholm, inflaming tensions with Turkey a...
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LadyFiction #19: Cultivating Democracy Now: A Conversation with Nora Krug
The past is present and the present is personal. With her guest, German American author and illustrator Nora Krug, Stefanie Schäfer talks about visualizing Timothy Snyder’s "On Tyranny: 20 Less...
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Lady Fiction #18: Oksana Marafioti on Immigration and Belonging in her Memoir "All of Us Fragile and Brave"
Narratives of immigration and identity formation are never fully told,
and they change as we mature. In this episode, Stefanie Schäfer talks to
author and activist Oksana Marafioti a...
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Lady Fiction #17: Oline Eaton on Her Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, "Finding Jackie"
In this episode, Lady Fiction returns to the First Lady mystique with a particular glance at 'the Jackie moment' with Oline Eaton, the author of "Finding Jackie. A Life Reinvented" (Diversion Bo...
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NovelRomantics: Literature of Chicago Series: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
In this episode, Douglas Cowie and Adrienne Brown (University of Chicago) discuss the life and poetry of Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks. They talk about her poems that document lif...
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US Blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan and Hope for Ukraine
Andrew Sola provides a new introduction to this episode, originally published in 2021 to mark the end of the War in Afghanistan, by reflecting on the 20-year anniversary of the War in Iraq.
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The Politics Podcast: Mass Shooting in Hamburg, Feminist Foreign Policy and Ukraine War Update
Our first politics podcast of 2024 begins on a tragic note after the mass shooting in Hamburg, which claimed the lives of at least 7 victims and injured many more. The Amerikazentrum would like...
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LadyFiction #16: Gasp! Gossip's Public Intimacies in the 19th Century
In this special Women's History Month episode, Stefanie Schäfer discusses gossip
with American Studies Scholar Katrin Horn, head of the research project MP3 | AAC | OGG | OPUS
In Episode 2 of A Better Democracy Is Possible, Antoine Vergne from Missions Publique and our sortition expert Ahmed Radi Teleb continue the conversation about new democracy initiatives. They h...
The year 2022 proved to be a hard test for the resilience of democracies, and 2023 continues to test the strength of democracies worldwide. Threats are both external and internal. Authoritaria...