Wagner, Colonialism, and K-Pop: How Language Learning Connects Us to Culture and History

ACTA's Academic Affairs Fellow Veronica Bryant is joined by Dr. Marie Kawthar Daouda , stipendiary lecturer in French at the University of Oxford's Oriel College. Dr. Daouda teaches both literature and language, and her research focuses on the reception of antiquity in modern times and artistic representations of good and evil in periods of political and religious crisis. She is the author of Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us . In their wide-ranging conversation, Drs. Bryant and Daouda discuss the role of language in shaping national, cultural, and individual identity.

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Wagner, Colonialism, and K-Pop: How Language Learning Connects Us to Culture and History is an episode from Higher Ed Now by American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

This episode is 47:51 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2026.

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