129 Podcasts Reviewed - Anne is a Man!

UPDATE: we now have 217 podcasts reviewed. (link)



It is the first of the month again and so I post in alphabetical order all podcasts I reviewed linked to the last post and relevant labels:

1. 12 Byzantine Rulers, history podcast


2. Africa (Stanford Travel), geography
   
   


3. Africa Past and Present, geography


4. Ancient and Medieval Podcast, history podcast


5. Are we alone?, science,


6. Arizona, University of: Introduction to Language, language
   
   


7. BBC History Magazine, BBC history podcast


8. Bike Radar, tour



9. Binge Thinking History, history podcast


10. Bioethics podcast, science, law and society


11. the Biography Show, history podcast


12. Biota Podcast, science


13. Bommel Hoorspel, NL radio


14. British History 101, history podcast


15. Car Talk,
    
    


16. Celtic Myth Podshow
    
    


17. CFR Podcast, law and society


18. Chronicles Radio Dispatches


19. Dan Carlin's Common Sense,
    
    


20. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, history podcast


21. David Kalivas' World History, history podcast


22. Distillations, history podcast science


23. the Economist,


24. Engines of our Ingenuity, science


25. English 117S, language


26. Everything Lincoln, history podcast


27. Exploring Environmental History, science, history podcast


28. F1Cast
    
    


29. Fresh Air (NPR)
    
    


30. From our own Correspondent, BBC geography


31. Geography 130, geography


32. Geography of World Cultures (Stanford), geography history podcast


33. Global Geopolitics, geography


34. Hank's History Hour, history podcast


35. Hannibal (Stanford), history podcast
    
    


36. Haring Podcast, NL radio


37. Historical Jesus (Stanford), history podcast יהדות


38. History 106B, Berkeley history podcast


39. History 167B, Berkeley history podcast


40. History 181B, Berkeley history podcast


41. History 2311, history podcast


42. History 2312, history podcast


43. History 4A, Berkeley history podcast


44. History 5 (Anderson), Berkeley history podcast


45. History 5 (Laqueur), Berkeley history podcast


46. History 7B, Berkeley history podcast


47. History according to Bob, history podcast


48. History Network, history podcast


49. History of Rome, history podcast


50. History of the International System (Stanford), history podcast


51. History Podcast, history podcast


52. Historypod, history podcast


53. Historyzine, history podcast


54. ICT Update,
    
    


55. In Our Time, In Our Time BBC (science) history podcast


56. In the Media (WNYC)


57. Inspired Minds (Deutsche Welle)
    
    


58. Interview Vrijdag, NL radio


59. Irving Poetry podcast
    
    


60. ITV, tour


61. Jung Podcast, psychology


62. KMTT, יהדות


63. KQED Forum


64. Language (UCSD), language


65. Librivox: History of Holland, history podcast


66. Marathon Interview, NL radio


67. Matt's Today In History, history podcast


68. Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events, history podcast


69. Medieval Podcast, history podcast


70. Midwest Writer, language
    
    


71. Military History Podcast, history podcast


72. Missing Link, history podcast science


73. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain), history podcast


74. MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst), history podcast


75. My Three Shrinks, psychiatry
    
    


76. Napoleon 1O1, history podcast


77. National Archives Podcast, history podcast


78. NRC FM,
    
    


79. Only in America, history podcast יהדות


80. Open Source
    
    


81. OVT, history podcast NL radio


82. Oy Mendele!, יהדות


83. PACS 164A, Berkeley
    
    


84. Parnell's History Podcast, history podcast


85. Peopletalk's Podcast, history podcast


86. Physics for future Presidents, Berkeley science


87. Phil 7 (Berkeley), Berkeley philosophy


88. Philosophy 103, philosophy


89. Philosophy 7 (Berkeley), Berkeley philosophy


90. Philosophy Bites, philosophy
    
    


91. the Philosophy Podcast, philosophy


92. Prosperity show


93. Podcasts on Medieval Texts, history podcast


94. Podwatch
    
    


95. Radiolab (WNYC), science


96. Rav Dovid's, יהדות


97. Redborne History, history podcast


98. Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley), Berkeley language


99. Rpgmp3


100. Sex History Podcast, history podcast


101. the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, SGU science


102. Šimek 's Nachts, simek NL radio


103. Social Innovation Conversations,
     
     


104. Sonic Society, creative writing


105. Speaking of Faith, יהדות


106. Shrink Rap Radio, shrinkrapradio psychology


107. Stanford U History, history podcast


108. Sunday Sundown
     
     


109. Talking Robots, science
     
     


110. TdF London, tour


111. Teaching American History, history podcast


112. TED Talks, vodcast
     
     


113. That Podcast Show
     
     


114. Times Talks,


115. Tudorcast, history podcast


116. The Word Nerds, TWN language


117. UCLA Israel Studies, Israel
     
     


118. University Channel Podcast, science


119. Volkskrant Podcasts, tour


120. We the People Stories, history podcast


121. What is Judaism?, יהדות


122. Wise Counsel, Wise Counsel psychology


123. the Writing Show, Writing Show language


124. Wynyfryd's meditation room


125. the Your History Podcast, history podcast


126. Your Purpose Centered Life
     
     


127. zencast


128. zoem, psychology
     
     


129. האוניברסיטה המשודרת, גלי צה"ל

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Tomorrow on Anne is a Man!

Tomorrow is the first of the month and this when I give my full list of podcasts that were ever reviewed on this blog. By now we have reached 129 podcasts reviewed. The list becomes a bit unmanageably long and so I am on the look out of improving the formula. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear about them.

New additions this month are the following:

Are we alone?. A new science podcast tackling the issue of exterrestrial life. I have found this podcast thanks to the recommendation of a reader.
Global Geopolitics. A new geography and geopolitics and a bit history podcast from Stanford. As usual, this new gem was noted on Open Culture, one of my favorite sources of good quality podcasts.
Speaking of favorites. My all time favorite is History 5. This lecture series from Berkeley I have separated into two entries in my list. Giving credit to the spring lecturer Margaret Lavinia Anderson, and to autumn lecturer Thomas Laqueur, each in their own right.
Language (UCSD). A course in reasoning which I found thanks to a reader's comment. The comment was actually about another podcast, but from one search came another and so the whole list of San Diego podcasts popped up - which incidentally gave more entries than just this one.
MMW 3 (Chamberlain). A history lecture series explaining the middle ages mostly from the perspective of religions.
MMW 3 (Herbst). A parallel series choosing a more traditional perspective, but exceptionally good no less.
Thanks to yet another reader, I started listening to an old Berkeley series about existentialism. This one is a tad different from the new one that runs as we speak and which I have begun to follow.
Philosophy 7 is the current series on existentialism. Berkeley professor Huber Dreyfuss takes you in with a very personalized, almost vulnerable style.
Rhetoric 10 a reader comment on the Word Nerds review suggested looking at this course. A good one, although I have had a bit too much (legal) arguing in my life to fill my free time extensively with it again.
Your History Podcast was actually already reviewed in march, but somehow omitted from the previous list.

Some time tomorrow, or over the weekend, the blog will switch to its new style. I have a couple of tiny picture adjustments and coloring issues I want to take care of. Then the tricky part of the migration will happen. In theory this will be no more than a minute of down time for the blog, but that is a best case theory. In any case, do not despair if you cannot connect for a couple of hours. It'll all be OK. If worst comes to worst I will revert to the old style.

Language - podcast lectures reviewed

Here is short review of two university lecture series on language.

Berkeley: Rhetoric
Daniel Coffeen tries a provocative approach to get you to know rhetoric, not just by learning it, but also by experience. Coffeen is not a regular university professor and the style and form of the course this is tangible and make a refreshing impact. This is not classical rhetoric; he is not going to rely on logic. Coffeen is more of a relativistic persuasion, where the rhetoric is not intended to persuade people to truth, or at least an agreement, but rather one that rhetoric is the goal, which in a way is a celebration of argument, rather than agreement.



UC San Diego: Language
An unfortunate start to this series is that the first 7 lectures were not podcast. So we enter the course right in the middle of studying syllogisms. By now we have reached the thirteenth lecture and we are still with reasoning. In comparison to the previous is much more classical. I am not sure whether this course should be identified more as logic than as rhetoric.

Other language and writing reviews:
Getting Published,
King Lear in podcast,
A Rhetorics Series by The Word Nerds,
A funny thing with letters,
What main stream language use won't show.

Descriptive and prescriptive mapping

In Stanford's Global Geopolitics course (feed) professor Martin Lewis makes a remark which reminded me of a very similar one in a language podcast. I wrote about it; one can approach grammar prescriptively and descriptively. The same thing Lewis states about maps. Maps can be made to carefully describe the situation on the ground, also geopolitically, but maybe more often they are prescriptive and represent the area as it ought to be. One may safely assume that any map that attempts to merely describe a geopolitical situation has prescriptive implications.

What we are seldom aware of is that even the simplest standard maps are prescriptive and Lewis tries to bring the point home by giving descriptive maps for example of Somalia (divided up in separately ruled area and just as many unruly, clan-controlled regions) or of the Western Sahara, or of Kashmir (divided up between India, Pakistan and China).



The course will successively address the various global regions and thus, by means of maps, give some insight in the major, sometimes even hardly known or forgotten geopolitical contests. A very fascinating course, especially for map lovers and a great successor to the previous Geography of World Cultures (feed). So far we have had three lectures; an introduction and exposes about East-Asia and South-Asia and thus far, we can see it has considerable overlap with the previous course. In many ways that should not surprise us as naturally the geopolitical tensions are rooted in much of the cultural, religious and linguistic divisions in the world.

Relevant other reviews:
Global Geopolitics - Martin Lewis,
A listener's guide to Geography of World Cultures,
Geography of World Cultures by Martin W. Lewis,
The End of Hegemony,
Prescriptive and descriptive grammar.

Hoererij met beleid en politie onder bezetting

Op 27 april heb ik weer eens naar OVT geluisterd. Nadat de serie In Europa zijn mid-eeuwse onderbreking is ingegaan, was ik de draad even kwijt, maar die heb ik nu weer even opgepakt, omdat de onderwerpen me bijzonder aanspraken. In het bijzonder een Amsterdams en een Rotterdams onderwerp - beide met een universeel karakter.

Het Amsterdams onderwerp is een historische beschouwing op het beleid van de gemeente Amsterdam inzake de prostitutie in het algemeen en op de Wallen in het bijzonder. Wat de aanwezige gasten daar over zeggen (Parool-journalist Paul Arnoldussen en conservator van het Amsterdams Historisch Museum Annemarie de Wildt, auteurs van het boek ‘Liefde te koop: vier eeuwen prostitutie in Amsterdam: zes wandelingen’) komt hierop neer dat de autoriteiten een soort cycliek doorlopen van strengere en mildere aanpak. De verwijdering en het verbod schoof de prostitutie in de loop der eeuwen alleen maar naar andere uithoeken en sloot verdere regulering uit, terwijl een gedoogbeleid weliswaar de regulering mogelijk maakte maar de problemen leek aan te trekken (misschien alleen meer zichtbaar makend). Het huidige meer strikte beleid lijkt daarom in alle opzichten in die op en neer gang (sic) te passen en je zou er alleen al daarom geen grote veranderingen van verwachten. Amsterdam raakt haar hoeren niet kwijt.

Het Rotterdamse onderwerp is naar aanleiding van het proefschrift dat de agent Frank van Riet schreef over de Rotterdams politie in bezettingstijd. Hoewel de man geen begenadigd spreker is, komt toch heel pregnant het beeld naar voren van een halfhartig collaborerend apparaat. In een poging de collaboratie wat in te perken, worden de NSB agenten en andere sympathisanten in een aparte afdeling gestopt. Het effect was averechts, deze ploeg werd er alleen maar effectiever van. Ze is waarschijnlijk zelfs betrokken geweest bij het fusilleren van collega's die verzet hadden gepleegd.

Eerder van OVT op dit blog (in het kader van In Europa):
1943 - Polen,
1943 - Stalingrad,
1941 - Handlangers,
1940 - Heesters, Petain, Leopold achteraf,
1939 - Patriotten tot landverraders.

A century of geopolitics - podcast review

Stanford's podcast The History of the International System (feed) is an excellent podcast in contemporary history, but the title may be misleading in a way. As explained in the first lecture and recounted in the first review I posted, it is claimed that among states there is some kind of cohesion and dynamic, hence a system.

When thinking of a system of such sort, one may immediately think of institutions, no matter how weak - at least so did I. I thought of the League of Nations, the United Nations and the EU, but these hardly figure. NATO does slightly more so, but not at all do other international organizations that, it cannot be denied, each in their own field and fashion attempt to order the international world. I am thinking of the OECD, the WTO, the IMF and such. This course however is not so much into legal or economic order. Yet is much more a traditional history lesson in geopolitics, paying attention to the major conflicts and its surrounding phenomena. We go from the origins of the First World War, to the Great War itself, to Versailles, to the interbellum, to the Second World War, to Yalta, Potsdam and the new strategic reality within the Cold War and nuclear arms race, decolonization, the end of the cold war and what came after that.

As a matter of fact, no matter how interesting, up to the end of the cold war the course holds hardly any surprises. Much more compelling, innovative (if tentative) is the lecturer, Professor James Sheehan's attempt to analyze the system of the new order with one superpower and the rise of Islamist fundamentalism. I would urge everybody to go through the whole course, but if you want to jump ahead to these cherries on the cake, do not enter too late, as the roots of the new reality are pointed out early on, especially explicit from 1979 on. 1979 the year when Iran became an Islamist republic, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq.

Previous review:
History of the International System.

More geopolitics:
Global Geopolitics - Martin Lewis,
A listener's guide to Geography of World Cultures,
Geography of World Cultures by Martin W. Lewis,
The End of Hegemony.