SORAPOD
With growing criticism of the academy from within and outside, we dig into what the future of the institution looks like, and what knowledge production is in today's context. SORA asks academics and ex-academics to discuss their experiences in the ivory tower, and what led them to stay or leave, what they’d change, and their forecasts for the future of academia.
Episodes
Jessica Turner and Cassie Rosita Patterson, Executive Director and Special Projects Consultant for the American Folklore Society (AFS), join us to explore how AFS fosters community through play, color, and active support of members within, outside, and in between academic institutions. They highlight the careful and joyful work of collaboration and accountability within an organization and show how organizations can reinvent themse...
The Society of Reluctant Anthropologists talks to Gregory Halbe about collective decision making, navigating group dynamics, and the wild side of academic conferences!
Gregory Halbe’s academic career has been largely shaped by fortuitous accidents and moments of sudden inspiration. Only lately, in what David Brooks calls the Second Mountain phase of his life, has Gregory found and started to seize a guiding sense of purpose. It s...
The SORAsians have a fun and deeply insightful conversation with Aimee Joyce, Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews.
We talk curses, ethics, traces, the academy (duh), and so much more.
For a transcript of the episode, check out sorapod.com
Links:
Tracts Network: https://tractsnetwork.online/
Aimee’s Website: https://aimee-joyce.com/
Terminology:
Praxis: Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or ...
We're joined by Daniel Sokol, a former university lecturer, medical ethicist, magician, and lead advisor for Alpha Academic Appeals. We discuss the issues students face, the creation of Alpha Academic Appeals, the lengthy and frustrating appeals process, and the improvements needed in university appeals processes.
For a transcript, please visit www.sorapod.com
Find Daniel on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/DanielSokol9
Barbie, Boat Brawls, and The Color of Resilience! The tripod is back to talk about the aesthetics of resistance. You can also follow Sahil's B-plot blanket gymnastics at our website
This is an expansion of a conversation that was originally had for the American Anthropological Association, the abstract for which is below:
For many marginalized and minority students, the Ph.D. can be a site of violence, mirroring and leveraging ...
Maureen and Sahil talk to Leyla Jagiella about, well, a grand theory of everything (which they totally figured out)!
Leyla Jagiella is a cultural anthropologist and scholar of religion who has worked on orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Islam and gender and sexuality in Muslim societies. As a Muslim trans woman, she has been a community activist for more than two decades and has held workshops on trans Muslim intersectionality and empow...
The first ever episode of the Society of Reluctant Anthropologists (SORA) Podcast - introducing who we are, why we’re on the mic, and a bit of our origin story.
For a transcript of the podcast, check out sorapod.com/podcast/episode001
And visit our website at sorapod.com
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