The Academic Life

The Academic Life

A podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! Created and produced by Dr. Christina Gessler, the Academic Life podcast is inspired by today’s knowledge-producers around the world, working inside and outside the academy. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

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Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass

Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass

In Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of A Former Badass (Street Noise Books, 2025), Professor Cara Gormally draws us into the familiar academic world of chronic busyness. In pan...

15 Jan 39min

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend

Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe. Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a constant state of flux — adapting, reconfiguring, finding new p...

8 Jan 44min

How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences

How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences

How to Organize Inclusive Events and Conferences is the ultimate guide to creating welcoming, safe, and accessible gatherings for everyone. With detailed strategies and illustrative examples, How to O...

1 Jan 56min

Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers

Sustainability, Identity, Artisans and Designers

Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” a husband-and-wife design duo were working to create handcrafted leather-goods and fun...

25 Des 202555min

Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life

Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life

Among the most common challenges on college campuses today is figuring out how to navigate our politically charged culture and engage productively with opposing viewpoints. In Try to Love the Question...

18 Des 20251h 1min

Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark

Living Night: On the Secret Wonders of Wildlife After Dark

When the sun sets, things start to get interesting among wild animals. Wherever we live, whether in the city or suburbs or country, darkness conjures a hidden world of wildlife that most of us rarely ...

11 Des 20251h 4min

Black Girls and How We Fail Them

Black Girls and How We Fail Them

From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don’t matter and their girlhood is not safe. Alarming statistics on phy...

4 Des 202547min

The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress

The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress

At the heart of University College London lies a long-forgotten map library packed with thousands of maps and atlases. Professor James Cheshire stumbled upon it, and spent three years sifting through ...

28 Nov 202557min

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