Perspectives

Students with Washington University’s Climate Change Program recently launched a new podcast, “It’s Getting Hot in Here.” The series explores how climate change influences our lives and future. Lara Briggs, Julian McCall and Sejal Rajamani host the first episode, focusing on climate and information literacy.

Ian Bogost writes about what he learned from a steer named Chico.

The university’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE²) podcast delves into the WashU & Slavery Project. Arts & Sciences’ Geoff Ward, project director, and postdoctoral fellow Kelly Schmidt discuss research goals, student engagement and how the project will contribute to a greater understanding of the legacies of enslavement in St. Louis and the region.

The latest “Show Me the Science” podcast episode delves into how health-care professionals might spend more quality time addressing the concerns of patients unsure whether they want to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

In the post-Cold War era, the gradual emergence of an independent Ukrainian identity has threatened Kremlin ambitions for a unified Slavic whole, writes Krister Knapp.

Paige McGinley of Arts & Sciences, a faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities, discusses her book project, “Rehearsing Civil Rights,” exploring the culture of rehearsal in the Black freedom struggle of the mid-20th century.

The latest episode of the “Show Me the Science” podcast focuses on the pandemic’s role in anxiety, depression and other issues for health-care workers, as well as how to train future workers to get help before burnout begins.

Having inherited the narrative of victimhood at foreign hands and the need for a strongman leader to realise Russia’s destined greatness, Putin is only putting it into practice, writes James V. Wertsch.

Renowned linguist John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, discusses speech patterns, accents and how they can help or harm us for the BBC podcast “Deeply Human.”

Gicela Medina and Rodrigo Viqueira, graduate students in Arts & Sciences, explore the ways public space has been politically used by marginalized groups across the Americas. They share findings in a podcast funded by The Divided City, an urban humanities initiative at WashU.