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The TPPI Podcast

Episode 3:
Democracy in India: Mark Kelly Speaks with Salvatore Babones

Mark G. E. Kelly, organizer of the 2024 Telos conference on "Democracy Today?," speaks with Salvator Babones of the University of Sydney about democracy in India, asking him in particular about his sympathetic reading of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Also available in audio-only format here.

Episode 2:
Frantz Fanon and October 7: A Conversation with Abe Silberstein

Gabriel Brahm talks with Abe Silberstein, a writer and critic based in New York, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha’aretz, The Forward, Times Literary Supplement (UK), and Dissent, among other publications. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the topic of the response to October 7 within universities, with Silberstein, Cary Nelson, and Manuela Consonni. Also available in audio-only format here.

Episode 1:
“A Range of Theories Engaged with and Challenging Each Other”: A Conversation with Cary Nelson

As part of its Israel initiative, Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Prof. Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Nelson, Abe Silberstein, and Manuela Consonni. Also available in audio-only format here.