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Odyssey—January 31, 2005 |
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The Future of an All-Volunteer Army
Ronald Krebs—Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
James Burk—Faculty Member, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University
The U.S. army is experiencing a manpower shortage. Service in the Army has been voluntary since 1973, an approach that has broad support. What has an all-volunteer Army meant for our ideas of the military and of American citizenship?
Political scientist Ronald Krebs and sociologist James Burk join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Krebs is working on the book, Rights and Gun Sights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship. Burk is editor of The Adaptive Military: Armed Forces in a Turbulent World, among other books. He's written extensively on civil-military relations. |
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Odyssey—January 28, 2005 |
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Gun Control in America
Originally broadcast September 8, 2004
Saul Cornell—Director, Second Amendment Research Center; John Glenn Institute for Public Policy, Ohio State University
Jan Dizard—Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of American Culture, Amherst College
Debates over access to firearms have been a part of American politics from the very beginning. What sorts of social and political conditions have led Americans to regulate guns?
Sociologist Jan Dizard and historian Saul Cornell join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Dizard is author of Mortal Stakes: Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America. Cornell is author of Armed in the Holy Cause of Liberty: Guns and the American Constitution. |
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Odyssey—January 27, 2005 |
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Self-Determination and the International System
Erez Manela—Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University
Daniel Philpott—Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
The idea of self-determination, a claim by a people to political autonomy, was popularized during World War One. But the principle remains a driving force in the 21st century. How has the idea of self-determination evolved?
Historian Erez Manela and political scientist Daniel Philpott join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Manela is author of The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. Philpott is author of Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations. |
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Odyssey—January 26, 2005 |
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The Social Meanings of Prostitution
Philippa Levine—Professor of History, University of Southern California
Carole Vance—Director, Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights; Columbia University
In the U.S., prostitutes are mostly cast as either sexual deviants or victims of exploitation. But concerns about global sex trafficking have opened new conversations about the relationship among sex, labor, and society.
Historian Philippa Levine and anthropologist Carole Vance join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Levine is author of Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. Vance has written extensively on sexuality, politics, and health. |
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Odyssey—January 25, 2005 |
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Miracles
Candy Gunther Brown—Assistant Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University
Suzanne Kaufman—Faculty Member, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago
Miracles are an official part of some religions. But the miraculous has also found its way into popular culture. What does this popular belief in miracles reveal about modern faith?
Historians Candy Gunther Brown and Suzanne Kaufman join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Brown is author of The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880, and she's been researching divine healing movements in the 20th century. Kaufman is author of Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. |
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Odyssey—January 24, 2005 |
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Propaganda and Democracy
Geoffrey Stone—Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Bruce Williams—Professor, Institute of Communications Research; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Propaganda is associated with totalitarian regimes, but it also has a long history in democracies—and the United States is no exception. What is the place of propaganda in a democratic society?
Communications scholar Bruce Williams and legal scholar Geoffrey Stone join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Williams is finishing the book, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Eroding Boundaries Between News and Entertainment and What They Mean for Mediated Democracy in the 21st Century. Stone is author of Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorrism. |
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Odyssey—January 21, 2005 |
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What Kind of Archive is a Film?
Philip Rosen—Professor, Modern Culture and Media and English, Brown University
Vanessa Toulmin—Research Director, National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England
Movies are made primarily to entertain us. But a film can also function as a record of a time and place in history. How does this capacity of film to preserve the past change our relationship to the movies—or history?
Media scholar Philip Rosen and historian Vanessa Toulmin join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Rosen is author of Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory. Toulmin is author of Visual Delights: Essays on the Popular and Projected Image in the 19th Century and coeditor of The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film.
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Odyssey—January 20, 2005 |
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The Moral Logic of Social Security
Jennifer Klein—Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
Theda Skocpol—Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University
The debate over Social Security reform is usually framed in economic and financial terms. But from its inception, Social Security has also embodied ideas about the individual's relationship to society, the economy, and the state.
Sociologist Theda Skocpol and historian Jennifer Klein join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich to discuss the moral implications of Social Security reform. Skocpol is author of The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy. Klein is author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State. |
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Odyssey—January 19, 2005 |
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American Pageantry
Thomas Dumm—Professor of Political Science, Amherst College
David Glassberg—Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
By the time President Bush's second inauguration is over, we'll have witnessed speeches, parades, a reviewing stand, and a raucous partisan party. What is the function of pageantry in American politics?
Political scientist Thomas Dumm and historian David Glassberg join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Dumm is author of A Politics of the Ordinary. Glassberg is author of Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life. |
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Odyssey—January 18, 2005 |
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Sentencing Guidelines
Albert Alschuler—Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Law, Northwestern University
Douglas Berman—Professor of Law, Ohio State University
The Supreme Court decision invalidating part of the federal sentencing guidelines has led to both confusion and controversy, as it remains unclear what effect the Court's fix might have. Why is criminal sentencing such a difficult issue?
Legal scholars Douglas Berman and Albert Alschuler join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Berman is coauthor of Sentencing Law and Policy: Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines. Alschuler has written extensively on plea bargaining and sentencing reform. |
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Odyssey—January 17, 2005 |
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The State of Sexism
Jill Hasday—Associate Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Moya Luckett—Media Studies Scholar, New York University
Most people would agree that sexism is wrong, but what they actually consider sexist is subject to debate. From legal fights over sex discrimination to arguments about media images of women, what's at stake when we take up the issue of sexism?
Legal scholar Jill Hasday and media studies scholar Moya Luckett join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Hasday has written extensively on sexual discrimination and the law. She's a visiting legal scholar at Vanderbilt University. Luckett is coeditor of Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s. |
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Odyssey—January 14, 2005 |
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Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America
Caroline Jones—Associate Professor of the History of Art, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah Rich—Assistant Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock are often seen as avant garde artists, outside the mainstream. But their
work was deeply embedded in the politics of postwar America. What are the forces that gave rise to abstract expressionism?
Art historians Caroline Jones and Sarah Rich join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Jones is
finishing the book, Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Rich is
finishing the book, Zip! Barnett Newman in the '60s. |
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Odyssey—January 13, 2005 |
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The Life of Susan Sontag
Stanley Aronowitz—Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Deborah Nelson—Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
Susan Sontag is remembered for the range of her interests and writings, and some commentators see her death as the loss not only of a singular intellectual, but of a whole way of public life. What kind of phenomenon was Susan Sontag?
Sociologist Stanley Aronowitz and literary scholar Deborah Nelson join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Aronowitz has written numerous books, including The Knowledge Factory and, more recently, How Class Works: Power and Social Movement. Nelson is author of Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America. She's working on the book, Tough Broads, which explores contemporary writings on suffering, including the work of Susan Sontag. |
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Odyssey—January 12, 2005 |
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Religious Understandings of Suffering and Evil
Jonathan Brockopp—Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Wendy Doniger—Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Divinity School; Director, Martin Marty Center; University of Chicago
For religions around the world, the South Asian tsunami disaster renews this longstanding question: if there exists an all-powerful and just God, why do terrible events such as natural disasters occur?
Religious studies scholars Jonathan Brockopp and Wendy Doniger join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Brockopp is editor of Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia. Doniger is author of The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology. |
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Odyssey—January 11, 2005 |
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Humanitarian Relief
Michele Landis Dauber—Associate Professor of Law and Sociology, Stanford University
Kevin Rozario—Assistant Professor of American Studies, Smith College
Disastrous events—from famine in Ethiopia to the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.—are often met by efforts to provide both financial and practical support. What compels governments as well as citizens to give?
Legal scholar Michele Landis Dauber and American studies scholar Kevin Rozario join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Landis is finishing the book, The Sympathetic State, which explores the role of disaster relief in the origins of the American welfare state. Smith is completing the book, The Culture of Catastrophe. |
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Odyssey—January 10, 2005 |
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The Future of the Death Penalty
Austin Sarat—William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
Robert Weisberg—Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr., Professor of Law; Stanford University
Capital punishment remains the law of the land in most states. But with the number of executions nationwide at a 30-year low and a number of court decisions narrowing the legal conditions for the death penalty, is capital punishment on its way out in the U.S.?
Legal scholar Robert Weisberg and political scientist Austin Sarat join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Weisberg has written extensively on criminal law and criminal procedure. Sarat is author of When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition. |
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Odyssey—January 7, 2005 |
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Film Forum: The Martial Arts Film
David Desser—Director and Professor, Unit for Cinema Studies, Program in Comparative and World Literature; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Christina Klein—Associate Professor of Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Films such as Hero and House of Flying Daggers suggest a new direction for the martial arts genre. What can changes in the martial arts film tell us about cinema worldwide?
Film scholars David Desser and Christina Klein join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Desser has written numerous books on Asian cinema. He's also coeditor of The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. Klein is author of Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961. |
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Odyssey—January 6, 2005 |
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Congressional Rules
Jeffrey Jenkins—Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Steven Smith—Kate M. Gregg Professor of Social Sciences, Washington University
When it comes to getting a bill through Congress, political capital and public support are important. But success can often depend on the rules and procedures under which Congress operates. How do Congressional rules shape legislation?
Political scientists Steven Smith and Jeffrey Jenkins join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Smith is director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University. He's also author of The Principles and Practice of American Politics. Jenkins is finishing the book, Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government, of which he is coauthor. |
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Odyssey—January 5, 2005 |
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The Body and Knowledge
Lynn Enterline—Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
Dalia Judovitz—National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of French, Emory University
Philosophy and literature have had a lot to say about the human mind. But the human body is often a site of inquiry as well.
What can the body tell us about the way we understand the world?
Joining Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion are Lynn Enterline and Dalia Judovitz. Enterline is
author of The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare. Judovitz is author of The Culture of the Body:
Genealogies of Modernity. |
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Odyssey—January 4, 2005 |
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New Year's Resolutions
David Finkelstein—Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
David Velleman—Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
They usually involve promising to better ourselves in some way, but most New Year's resolutions don't make it past the spring. Why do we make promises to ourselves that we can't—or won't—keep?
Philosophers David Velleman and David Finkelstein join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Velleman is author of The Possibility of Practical Reasoning. Finkelstein is author of Expression and the Inner. |
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Odyssey—January 3, 2005 |
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Slavery, Memory, and the Underground Railroad
Originally broadcast September 20, 2004
David Blight—Professor of African American Studies and History, Yale University
Eddie Glaude—Associate Professor, Program in African American Studies, Princeton University
The story of the Underground Railroad holds an honored place in America's collective memory. Blacks and whites alike can lay claim to this history. But as we remember the Underground Railroad, what kind of story are we telling with it?
Religious studies scholar Eddie Glaude and historian David Blight join Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich for the discussion. Glaude is author of Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. Blight is editor of Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory. |
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