Open Stacks Podcast

This week on Open Stacks, we're taking a look at poemthings that point to truths beyond the given names of things contained within them. First, a performance from Cecilia Vicuña, the artist behind PALABRArmas, an exhibition at Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society free and open to the public until...

This month on Open Stacks, all things poetry. We feature this art, which Emily Dickinson said she recognized when she felt “physically as if the top of [her] head were taken off,” and we’ve organized the episodes around the four categories of common and proper nouns: ideas, people, things, and places. This week, ideas. Daniel Borzutzky's dystopian vision of a prison camp at Lake Michigan's shore, and Robert Darnton on poetry as covert communication system and revolutionary tool in 18th century France.

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This week on Open Stacks,  discussions about two of the most fervently debated and scrutinized institutions: prisons and public schools.

First, Touissant Losier sits down with Michael C. Dawson, to discuss the book Losier and Dan Berger co-authored, Rethinking the American Prison Movement. Then, Bill Ayers and Crystal Laura talk about their book, "You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!": And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education, co-authored with Rick Ayers.

This week on Open Stacks, the history from below tradition and social movements in the moment. William Pelz talks about historiography, political movements, views on the history from below tradition within academia. Then Lisa Lee, David Stovall, and Bill Ayers discuss, among other things, young people in social movements, the nature of the office of the presidency, and what Stovall calls “the commitment of folks to demand joy in such severe hate.” Finally...