The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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Jane Addams, Advocate for All Part 1: Early Life to the Founding of Hull House
"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life." Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
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LadyFiction #21: Solastalgia-The Feeling in the Anthropocene
Poet and scholar Lindsay Tuggle is Stefanie Schaefer’s guest in this
episode. They talk about "solastalgia," the feeling of loss that occurs
when you are "home" but your home is dest...
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History of Chicago Part 4: The Rise and Fall of Germanic Culture (1865-1917)
In Episode 4 of our history of Chicago, we discuss the continuing growth and then decline of German Chicago, which largely disappeared with America's entry into WWI in 1917.
Topics inclu...
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History of Chicago Part 3: The First German Immigrants (1833-1865)
In Part 3 of our history, Dr. Sola and Dr. Wuepper, historian of German immigration, explore the first two waves of Germanic migrants to Chicago, the so-called Dreiziger (the 30-ers, the ones wh...
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History of Chicago Part 2: Resistance, Removal, Erasure
In the second episode of the series, Dr. Sola and his guests, Dr. Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Ohio State University-Newark) and Dr. Karamanski (Loyola University-Chicago) tell the story of ...
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History of Chicago Part 1: Native Ground
In the first episode of this series about Chicago history, Dr. Sola and his expert guests, Dr. Keating (North Central College) and Dr. Karamanski (Loyola University-Chicago) discuss the history ...
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LadyFiction #20: My Body Is Not Your Battleground
Stefanie Schäfer kicks off the new season of LadyFiction with her guest Katharina Motyl. They confront many difficult and complex questions about feminist solidarity with the Iran protests, imp...
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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...