Botany’s Colonial Present and Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Banu Subramaniam
Laleh Ahmad speaks with Banu Subramaniam about her recent book Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism. Th...
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20 of 141 episodesThinking with Maíz: A Conversation with Vick Quezada and Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Artist Vick Quezada and evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra both center maíz in their work despite their very different approaches. T...
The Worlding Work of Plants: A Conversation with Michael Marder
M. Hamilton and Ellie Kincaid talk plants with Michael Marder. Their conversation invites readers to consider plants as active participants...
Botanical Imaginations: Jim Endersby on Biotopia, American Imperialism, and Science
Rebecca Laurent talks with Jim Endersby about his new book: The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935. They discuss...
The “Big Pig Pyramid” and the Undoing of Rural America: A Conversation with Sonja Trom Eayrs
Trish Fisher talks with Sonja Trom Eayrs about her new book: Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America. They discu...
Mothering in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Kayleigh Lobdell speaks with authors Jennifer Case and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder about each of their recent books about human and beyond-hum...
Trans Joy and Indigenous Resistance on the River: A Conversation with Cleo Wölfle Hazard
Ellie Kincaid and M Hamilton Wilson talk with Cleo Wölfle Hazard about his recent book, Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice....
Cosmo-Visions of Truth After Violence: A Conversation with Abby Reyes and Carolina Sarmiento
Nicolás Felipe Rueda speaks with Abby Reyes and Carolina Sarmiento about Indigenous cosmologies, environmental justice, and Abby's new memoi...
The Colonial Politics of Arctic Landscapes: A Conversation with Jen Rose Smith
Jen Rose Smith speaks with Hi'ilei Julia Hobart about her new book, Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Ar...
American Ecofascism: A Conversation with Alexander Menrisky
Alexander Menrisky speaks with Sarah Jaquette Ray about his recent book on the role of nonpartisan, everyday ecofascism in the U.S., from th...
Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette
In this bilingual podcast, Brenda Becette talks with Bri Meyer about the role of fiction in our dystopic reality. Becette's short stories av...
Knowledge Politics and the Making of Indian Environmental History: A Conversation with Ramachandra Guha
Laleh Ahmad speaks with Ramachandra Guha on his new book, Speaking with Nature (2024). They discuss the history of environmentalism in India...
What Comes After Earth Day?
In this special episode, Edge Effects and the SustainUW Podcast team collaborate to discuss the history of Earth Day in the United States, b...
Podcasting for the Climate: A Conversation with Nathaniel Otjen, Juan Manuel Rubio, & Bethany Wiggin
Bethany Wiggin speaks with Nathaniel Otjen and Juan Rubio on the significance of public-facing environmental humanities via their podcast MI...
Of Supermarkets, Shipwrecks, and Seasons: A Conversation with Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley
In this first-of-its-kind special episode, environmental humanities authors Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their newly publ...
Cafeteria Care around the World: A Conversation with Jennifer Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert
Prerna Rana speaks with Sarah Robert and Jennifer Gaddis about their new book, Transforming School Food Politics Around the World. They disc...
THE RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY, 25 Years Later: A Conversation with Jeff Spitz
CHE Director Will Brockliss sits down with documentary filmmaker Jeff Spitz to reflect on the twenty fifth anniversary of his film THE RETUR...
Crip Intimacy and Aquifer Entanglements: a Conversation with Sunaura Taylor
Kate Phelps speaks with Sunaura Taylor on her book Disabled Ecologies. They discuss the contamination of the Tucson aquifer as an origin for...
Living Deserts and Colonial Afterlives: A Conversation with Jill Jarvis
Angeline Peterson interviews Jill Jarvis on her forthcoming book project Signs in the Desert through her journey into studying the Sahara. D...
Translation, Rage, and What Is-Was-Willbe: A Conversation with Khairani Barokka
Jagravi Dave speaks with Khairani Barokka on her poetry collection amuk. They use the book to connect tenselessness, the violence of colonia...