Kevin Lewis O'Neill

Between, Across, and Through

Hosted by Professor Kevin Lewis O’Neill and produced by Ianeke Romero, Between, Across, and Through presents a series of conversations with scholars from across the humanities and the social sciences. This podcast discusses their research, and how seemingly innocuous practices or events (like fashion or reality TV), can ripple into the complex dynamics of politics, culture and society.

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“War, Destruction, and Reconstruction”

Prof. Nada Moumtaz, from the University of Toronto.

Date: February 1, 2021
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“Can Jazz Build a Nation”

Ted Sammons, Professor at the University of Toronto.

Date: January 1, 2021
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“Crisis in the Mediterranean”

with Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Professor at the Columbia University.

Date: December 1, 2020
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“The Double Edge of Amelioration”

Padraic Scanlan, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, cross appointed to the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies.

Date: November 1, 2020
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“Yiddish Glory”

Anna Shternshis, Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Date: October 1, 2020
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“Dancing Dissent”

VK Preston, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.

Date: September 1, 2020
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“Fashion and Power in Manila”

Guest: Denise Cruz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Date: July 1, 2020
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“The Tugboat”

Guest: Austin Zeiderman, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics.


Date: June 1, 2020

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“Sex, Love, and Passion in Brazil”

Guest: Andrea Allen, Assistant Professor of Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Date: May 1, 2020

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“Life is Gouda”

Guest: Ken MacDonald, Associate Professor and Acting Director of the Culinaria Research Centre at UTSC.

Date: April 1, 2020
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“What’s Proper Anyway?”

Guest: Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Date: March 1, 2020
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View the working paper on which the conversation was based: Beyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man by James Ferguson and Tania Li

“The End of Diversity”

Guest: Rinaldo Walcott, Associate Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.

Date: February 1, 2020
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“Secrets from 17th Century Vietnam”

Guest: Nhung Tuyet Tran, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto.

Date: January 1, 2020
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“Voice and Revolution”

Guest: Farzaneh Hemmasi, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto.

Date: December 1, 2019
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“The Language of Freud”

Guest: Professor Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts at the University of Toronto.

Date: November 1, 2019
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“Lessons in Space”

Guest: Professor Ato Quayson, founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and current professor of English at Stanford University.

Date: October 1, 2019
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