The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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The Politics Podcast: 2024 European and US Preview
In the final episode of 2023, Sola and Danner look ahead to 2024. They discuss three issues that will influence a number of elections in 2024: the immigration crisis, the war in Ukraine, and th...
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The Politics Podcast: 2023 European Year in Review
In our wrap-up of political developments in the EU in 2023, Sola and Danner discuss the results of the five big European elections this year in Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain...
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Jane Addams, Advocate for All Part 2: Ideas that Shaped Chicago, the US, and the World
In the second of our two-episode series about Jane Addams, we continue telling the story of Hull House and Addams' impact on the development of the the city of Chicago. Addams was a keen advocat...
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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...