The Trans-Atlanticist
Episode Archive
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A Better Democracy Is Possible Part 1: An Introduction to Sortition and Deliberation
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...
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Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
Welcome to Season 4 of the Trans-Atlanticist at the Amerikazentrum in Hamburg. We are republishing this episode from 2021 (Season 2) in honor of African-American Heritage Month. In this episode,...
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The Politics Podcast: 2022 Year in Review
In the final episode of 2022, Andrew and Günter discuss the important transatlantic events of 2022 and (mis)forecast the future. This episode's six topics include the war in Ukraine, the politi...
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NovelRomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series: Stuart Dybek's The Coast of Chicago
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Gregory Miller, discuss Stuart Dybek's 1990 book of short stories, The Coast of Chicago. In particular, they place Dybek's depiction of the shi...
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NovelRomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor Michael Coyle, discuss Carl Sandburg's 1919 collection, Chicago Poems. They interpret a handful of poems, including his most famous p...
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The Reichsbürger Conspiracy: Understanding Extremism in Modern Germany
On December 7, 2022, German police announced that they had uncovered a plot to overthrow the government and install a new king of Germany. Who are these seditionists, known as Reichsbürger or c...
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The US Mid-Term Elections: Republican Failure or Democratic Success?
Andrew Sola of the Amerikazentrum-Hamburg teams up with Sarah Wagner and David Sirakov of the Atlantische Akademie in Rheinland-Pfalz to analyze the 2022 mid-term elections in the United States....
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Lady Fiction #15: Gone with the Wind vs. The Wind Done Gone: The Demolition of an American Classic
With Dr. Cedric Essi, Stefanie Schäfer talks about the legacy of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, a mainstay of US culture and a holiday classic, and the politics of the 1991 “unauthorize...
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Novel RomAntics: Literature of Chicago Series #5: Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project
In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor Robert Eaglestone discuss The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon, published in 2008. The conversation looks at the novel's structure...
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LadyFiction #14: Kiss, Kick, Kiss: Indigenous Erotica and Body Sovereignty
In this episode, Stefanie Schaefer and her guest Savage Bear (Cree) commemorate Native American Heritage Month. They discuss sensuality and the politics of decolonizing sexuality in contemporar...