Center for Global Humanities
by University of New England
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Description
The UNE Global Humanities Seminar is a two-semester, year-long program designed to introduce advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, as well as members of the public, to the exploration of the great issues facing humanity today.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoNabil Matar: Europe Through Arab Eyes: Encounters in the Early Modern Period | This seminar examines various forms of interactions between Arabs and Europeans in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources from Aleppo, Paris, Meknes, and Moscow, Professor Matar focuses on a number of case studies relating to political history, | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoEmily Martin: Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture | In this illustrated lecture, Professor Martin explores psychiatric categories involving emotion through ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary US. She asks how these categories are culturally created, measured and applied in relation to gender and rac | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | ExplicitVideoCraig McEwen: Solving Problems, Resolving Disputes and Finding Justice | Historian Jerold Auerbach argued in 1983 that "where community ends, law begins" and critiqued "misguided enthusiasm for alternative dispute resolution" while remaining skeptical about whether law produces justice. In this seminar, we affirm and challeng | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoPeter Swirski: Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Of Democracy and Its Deficits | With Ars Americana, Ars Politica as our guidebook, this seminar tries to peel American democracy out of the candy wrapper to see if it tastes as good as advertised. After puncturing a few myths surrounding the birth of democracy, we highlight some of the | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoBill McKibben: Local And Global: Notes from the Frontlines of the Climate Fight | This seminar discusses how, facing the greatest problem humans have ever come across, we need to be able to work effectively both in our local communities to find new ways to power our lives, and in the largest national and global arenas to make sure that | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoNoam Chomsky: Arab Spring, American Winter | This seminar reflects on the irony that while the peoples of the Middle East are demanding the right to good education, health, and employment, Americans, battered by an economic systems that eludes most people's grasp, seem to be resigned to a future wit | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoDan Cohen: How To Lose an Argument--And Why: Exit Strategies for Political (and Academic) Warfare | This seminar discusses that polarization and vitriolic debate are nothing new in American political discourse. In recent elections, however, they have become so extreme that it is no longer merely alarmist to worry about the viability of democracy. We arg | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoPatricia Limerick: The Uncertain Fate of the Great American Desert: The American West, Water, and the World | This seminar discusses that while the American West has its own distinctive history, that history connects to world-wide issues in many ways. Flummoxed by the seeming scarcity of water in the interior West, the first Anglo-American visitors created a char | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoDaniel M. Varisco: What's Happening in Yemen? | This seminar focuses on the impact of the "Arab Spring" political protests that started in Yemen, located at the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, in February. These led to unrest that brought the country to the brink of civil war and economi | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoAli Abdullatif Ahmida: Libya After Qaddafi | This seminar focuses on the history of Libya and its future beyond Qaddafi. | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoPauline Maier: Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 | This seminar focuses on the subject of Pauline Maier's book, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, which was published by Simon and Schuster in October 2010 and is the first narrative history of the process by which the Constitutio | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | ExplicitVideoAdrian Johns: The Crisis of Intellectual Property | A crisis of intellectual property looms in several key areas of today’s information economy. In pharmaceuticals and agriculture conflicts over patenting rage, while in the realm of digital media intellectual property rights and their policing provoke fe | 4/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoTed Gup: How The Great Depression Changed America | The author shares letters and stories from his book A Secret Gift (Penguin Press, 2010), which is an inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoElizabeth A. De Wolfe: "Desperate for Some Kindness": A History of Asking for Help in Hard Times | This seminar explores how individuals in hard times asked for help in public venues. Particular attention is paid to how tales of desperation found a home in print culture and the inevitable scams and schemes that followed. From sensational 19th century s | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoJerome P. Kassirer: How Financial Conflicts of Interest Endanger our Profession | In recent years, physicians have been receiving gifts, food, honoraria, consulting fees, free continuing medical education and research funds from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. In many instances, including clinical prac | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoCollins O. Airhihenbuwa: Global Health and You: Why Culture Matters | The quest for equity in global health remains a major challenge as new diseases threaten to erase gains in lives saved over the last few decades. Culture is a critical aspect of how we address global health. Understanding the relationship between health a | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoJennifer Clarke Kosak: Balance: The Narrative of Health and Disease in Ancient Greece | Disease has many stories, some told by individual sufferers, others by health care practitioners and researchers, and yet others by historians of medicine. This seminar examines disease stories found in ancient Greek literature and discusses how specific | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoDavid Lenson: Psychotropic Drugs: The Future | In the years since the publication of On Drugs, there has been a renaissance of studies on the subject in both the humanities and social sciences. This has coincided with the ongoing collapse of the marijuana prohibition, and increasing competition betwee | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoRobert J. Allison: Boston and New England: Culture and Economy | This lecture discusses the role of Boston, historically, in the culture and economy of New England, with particular reference to the development of New England from 1630 to 1815, with some discussion of why Boston continues to be the leading metropolis of | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoRobert H. Zieger: Does America (Still) Need Unions? | This lecture examines connections between the turbulent history of American labor and the present-day circumstances of American workers. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoDana D. Nelson: The President, Democracy and Permanent War | This seminar focuses on how post-Reagan US Presidentialism promulgates war as a structure of democratic feeling. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoGordon Wood: The American Revolutionary Tradition and the World, or Why America Has Wanted to Spread Democracy Everywhere | This seminar discusses why America has wanted to spread democracy everywhere. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoGeorge Young: The Russian Soul in the Twenty-First Century | This seminar will examine current efforts to reassert "Russianness" in Russia. Topics include the Eurasian, Nationalist, and Cosmist movements, and the nostalgia for Stalinism. | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoPaul T. Burlin: Republic or Empire: The US and the 21st century | The seminar will explore how Americans have thought of themselves as a people and nation in terms of their role in the world both past and present. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoDavid P. Barash: The Hare and the Tortoise: A General Biocultural Theory of Why People Have So Many Problems. | Biologists and social scientists generally differ substantially in their perception of what it means to be human: the former typically emphasize the role of biology (not surprisingly), whereas the latter concentrate on culture; sometimes the disparity is | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoEric G. E. Zuelow: Lessons from the Emerald Isle: The Implications of Mass Tourism | This lecture uses the Irish example to illustrate what is involved in creating a tourist product that benefits the host culture, in sharp contrast with places such as Cancún where tourism resulted in "socioeconomic apartheid" and the creation of what som | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoRichard Sims: The Future of American Education: An Economic Perspective | Dr. Sims will discuss some of the underlying trends that will be driving the economy for the next few years. Given the vital role of education in the economies of nations as well as regional and community economies, there will be a special focus on how t | 3/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoDavid L. Smith: War and Human Nature | War has existed since the beginnings of civilization, and probably long before. What is it about human nature that explains this tendency? Why is it that we both pursue war and abhor it? This seminar will integrate strands from philosophy, psychology and | 2/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoChris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle | A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now. We will either wake from our state of induced childishness, one where trivia and gossip pass for news and information, one where our goal is not justice but an elus | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoMarilyn R. Gugliucci: The Art, Social Construction, and Globalization of Aging | As societies face unprecedented demographic shifts, the fields of geriatrics and gerontology will assist in creating the highest quality of life across the lifespan. | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoStephen Rose: Unnatural Causes: Inequity in the Distribution of Wealth & Health | Chronic diseases now comprise 75% of medical care contacts and costs. | 11/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoTim Ford: Water, Health and Society | Water shapes our culture, grows our food, frames our religions, sickens us, heals us and causes our conflicts. | 10/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoReuben P. Bell: You Are What You Read | The seminar will draw from resources in linguistics, neuroscience, sociology, and literature to consider future trends in human communication. | 9/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoSusan McHugh: Narrating Companion Species | The discoveries of bacterial insertions in the human genome, escapes of modified plant genes into corn's wild relatives, and mutations of Avian Flu into potential pandemics raise concerns about how bioethics remains largely (and inaccurately) premised on | 1/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 34 Episodes |
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