Now that September has come around and the new academic year is starting, I will pay some extra attention to those university lecture series you can follow through podcast. My first mention must of course be my favorite history podcast lecture series of all time Berkeley's History 5. The version of Fall 2008, A survey of Europe from the Renaissance to the present, has another professor than before: Carla Hesse. In previous semesters I have come to know History 5 by professor Anderson and by professor Laqueur alternately, but professor Hesse, apart from a guest lecture, if I recall correctly, is new to me. She is not new to History 5 though; she returns from a couple of years' absence.
After one lecture I can conclude we are in for History 5 as good as we are used to. Hesse adds her personal touch, an excellent one at that, but other than that: the regular superb quality of the podcast is maintained. As far as content is concerned, not much is to be said yet. I found it an interesting touch, Hesse made, by referring to the Great Plague and its consecutive changes as being relevant for the changes Europe undergoes starting with the renaissance. It was also very instructive to make some thoughts about European unity, or lack thereof, which is as relevant before the renaissance as it is throughout the past centuries till today and the foreseeable future.
Following history 5, will always present a couple of technical difficulties, most of which can be overcome. In the past, both Professor Anderson as well as Professor Laqueur found ways of making the visuals available for me and probably more interested podcast listeners. I have not yet found out whether the same can be said of Hesse, but i will find out and let you know. Enhancing the audio level of the lectures has always been a necessity and I used MP3gain for that in the past. This semester, the lectures are no longer presented as MP3, so I will convert to MP3 or find a way to enhance M4a's.
More History 5:
Anderson,
Laqueur.
Monday, September 1, 2008
177 podcasts reviewed
UPDATE: we now have 268 podcasts reviewed. (click this link for the latest list)
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It is the first of the month again and so I post in alphabetical order all podcasts I reviewed, linked to the last post:
- 12 Byzantine Rulers
- 7th Son
- Africa (Stanford Travel)
- Africa Past and Present
- All Things Medieval
- American Environmental and Cultural History (Berkeley ESPM 160AC)
- American History before 1870
- Ancient and Medieval Podcast
- Ancient History - Alternative Theories
- Are we alone?
- Backstory
- Behind the Black Mask
- BBC History Magazine
- Big Ideas (TVO)
- Bike Radar
- Binge Thinking History
- Bioethics podcast
- the Biography Show (TPN)
- Biota Podcast
- Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University)
- Bommel Hoorspel
- British History 101
- Car Talk
- CATS 2 Culture and Technology Studies (UCSD)
- Celtic Myth Podshow
- CFR Podcast
- Chronicles Radio Dispatches
- Church History
- Dan Carlin's Common Sense
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- David Kalivas' World History
- Distillations
- the Economist
- Engines of our Ingenuity
- English 117S (Berkeley)
- Entitled opinions
- Everything Lincoln
- Existentialism in Literature and Film (Phil 7 - Berkeley)
- Exploring Environmental History
- F1Cast
- Fact or Fiction
- Forgotten Classics
- Fresh Air (NPR)
- From our own Correspondent (BBC)
- Geography 130 (Berkeley)
- Geography of World Cultures (Stanford)
- German Cultural History
- Geschiedewistjedatjes
- Global Geopolitics (Stanford)
- Hank's History Hour
- Hannibal (Stanford)
- Haring Podcast
- Historical Jesus (Stanford)
- Historicast
- History 106B (Berkeley)
- History 167B (Berkeley)
- History 181B (Berkeley)
- History 2311 (Temple College)
- History 2312 (Temple College)
- History 4A (Berkeley)
- History 5 (Anderson - Berkeley)
- History 5 (Laqueur - Berkeley)
- History 7B (Berkeley)
- History according to Bob
- History Compass Blog
- History Network
- History of Holland (Librivox)
- History of Rome
- History of the International System (Stanford)
- History Podcast
- Historypod
- Historyzine
- ICT Update
- In Our Time (BBC)
- In the Media (WNYC)
- Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)
- Interview Vrijdag (VPRO)
- Introduction to German Politics (Oxford)
- Introduction to Language (Arizona State University)
- Iran Podcast
- Irving Poetry podcast
- ITV
- Jung Podcast
- KMTT
- KQED Forum
- Language (UCSD)
- LSE Podcast
- Marathon Interview (VPRO)
- Matt's Today In History
- Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events (Virginia Tech)
- Medieval Podcast
- Midwest Writer
- Military History Podcast
- Missing Link
- MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain - UCSD)
- MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst - UCSD)
- Muscular Judaism
- My Three Shrinks
- Namaste Stories
- Napoleon 1O1 (TPN)
- National Archives Podcast
- Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast
- New World Orders
- Night's Knights
- Nonviolence (Berkeley PACS 164A)
- Nonviolence today (Berkeley PACS 164B)
- NRC FM
- Only in America
- Open Source
- Out of the past
- OVT (VPRO)
- Oxford Biographies
- Oy Mendele!
- Parnell's History Podcast
- Peopletalk's Podcast
- Physics for future Presidents (Berkeley)
- Philosophy 103
- Philosophy 7 (Berkeley)
- Philosophy Bites
- the Philosophy Podcast
- Podcast history of cooking
- Podcasts on Medieval Texts (Virginia Tech)
- Podwatch
- Politics and Warfare (UCSD)
- Pope Podcast
- Prosperity show
- Radiolab (WNYC)
- Rav Dovid's
- Red Panda
- Redborne History
- Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155A)
- Religion and Law in the US (UCSD HIUS 155B)
- Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean
- Replaceable You (Stanford)
- Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley)
- Rpgmp3
- Schlaflos in München
- Science Fiction and Politics
- Science Friday (NPR)
- Sex History Podcast
- Shrink Rap Radio
- Šimek 's Nachts (RVU)
- the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
- Social Innovation Conversations
- Sonic Society
- Speaking of Faith (APM)
- Stanford U History
- Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford)
- Sterke Geschiedenis
- Straight talk about stem cells (Stanford)
- Sunday Sundown
- Talking Robots
- TdF London
- Teaching American History
- TED Talks
- That Podcast Show
- Theories of Law and Society (Berkeley)
- the Things We Forgot To Remember
- Time Out for Truth
- Times Talks
- Tudorcast
- UCLA Israel Studies
- University Channel Podcast (aka UChannel Podcast)
- Veertien Achttien
- Volkskrant Podcasts
- We the People Stories
- Welcome to Mars
- What is Judaism?
- Wise Counsel
- the Word Nerds
- the Writing Show
- Wynyfryd's meditation room
- the Your History Podcast
- Your Purpose Centered Life
- zencast
- zoem
- האוניברסיטה המשודרת
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