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Confused About How to Stay Safe in a Pandemic? Emily Oster is Here to Help
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06/21/20 • 23 min
In the last 5 months we have learned a lot about coronavirus and Covid-19. But sometimes it feels like we’re just as confused as we were back in February. What’s safe to do? What activities should we be avoiding? When will things go back to 'normal'? On this episode Sarah talks Watson economist Emily Oster about her newest project, which seeks to provide some much needed clarity to these questions and more. They discuss her new website 'Covid Explained,' and look at some of the most popular questions people are asking. They also explore why health recommendations can be so hard to navigate, and how average people can learn to start thinking a little more like economists.
You can visit 'Covid-Explained' here.
You can learn more about Watson’s other podcasts here.
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The Fight Against Covid-19 in RI’s Latinx Communities
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05/09/20 • 28 min
Coronavirus has been called an ‘equal opportunity' virus. But of course... it's not. Communities of color are being disproportionately affected; instead of equalizing anything, this pandemic has thrown into relief the stark inequalities along lines of race and class that are built into American society. And unfortunately, one of the clearest examples of this can be found quite close to Watson's campus.
On this episode, the third in a series we're co-producing this semester with Watson’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Sarah talks with three medical experts who are on the front lines of this pandemic in some of Rhode Island’s hardest hit communities. It’s a conversation about community health, local politics, and social justice, and while it’s focused on Rhode Island, it speaks to struggles playing out around the world.
You can learn more about the Blackstone Valley Community Health Care here.
You can read a Spanish translation here.
You can learn more about Watson’s other podcasts here.
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What Stories Are Missing From Black History – and How Should We Tell Them?
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02/15/23 • 34 min
February is Black History Month, and in this episode of “Trending Globally,” you’ll hear from two scholars at Brown who are bringing to light overlooked aspects of the Black experience in America.
In the first half of the episode, Mack Scott, a visiting professor at Brown’s Center for Slavery and Justice, talks with Dan Richards about the complex relationship between Rhode Island’s Narragansett Nation and the state’s Black communities in the 18th and 19th centuries. It’s a vivid example of how America’s history of anti-Black racism is deeply intertwined with the history of America’s indigenous communities.
In the second half, Watson Senior Fellow Geri Augusto talks about a project she’s working on to uncover, preserve, and transmit the history of one of the Civil Rights movement’s most important and unique organizations – the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Geri is working with scholars and activists to bring this history to life and to find new, more inclusive ways to help people share their stories on their own terms.
- Explore the SNCC Legacy Project, and the SNCC Digital Gateway.
- Learn more about the theory and practice of Critical Oral History.
- Read Mack Scott's recent article in the Providence Journal.
- Photo by Danny Lyon. Learn more about the image.
- Learn more about the Watson Institute’s other podcasts.
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Community Resilience, International Aid, and National Security
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05/04/20 • 21 min
The spread of the coronavirus has highlighted how international development affects the well-being of us all. On this episode Sarah talks with someone who has been a leader for decades in rethinking how we do international development: Watson Senior Fellow Brian Atwood. Brian’s worked with multiple US Presidents, including as the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Clinton Administration. They discuss how international development has transformed in the last few decades, the reason that some humanitarian goals were surprisingly easy to meet in the beginning of this century, and why free-flowing information is essential to global health and security.
You can read a transcript of this episode here.
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Humanitarian Aid in a Changing World
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03/25/20 • 23 min
Peter Maurer is the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. In early March he came to Watson, and Sarah talked with him about the challenges of humanitarian aid in the 21st century. Shortly after they spoke, Coronavirus travelled the globe, and everything seemed to change. But surprisingly, for all that's different now, so much of what Peter had to say still resonates -- maybe now more than ever.
It's not a light conversation, but but Peter's wisdom, kindness, and clarity of purpose might actually leave you feeling a little more hopeful about this scary, uncertain time.
You can learn more about Maurer's recent talk at Watson here.
You can learn more about Watson’s other podcasts here.
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'All-American Nativism' with Dan Denvir, Part I
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07/12/20 • 28 min
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Living Abroad in a Pandemic, and Other Stories from Brown Students
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04/20/20 • 27 min
This will be the first in an ongoing series of conversations with Brown students about life during the coronavirus pandemic. On this episode Dan and Sarah talk with Alina Kulman, a junior, and Babette Thomas, a senior; two friends who are experiencing this crisis in very different ways. They discuss what it’s like quarantining with classmates, studying abroad while the government wants to ban travel, and the weird feeling of worrying that your parents aren’t properly washing their hands.
You can learn more about Watson’s other podcasts here.
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The Four Pillars of Outbreak Preparedness (and How to Rebuild Them)
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04/01/20 • 21 min
Adam Levine is the director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Watson and associate professor of emergency medicine at Brown. Much of his work has grown out of an essential fact about epidemics that many of us are just now learning: as Adam explains on this episode, “our global public health system for detecting outbreaks is only as good as the remote nurse working in a rural village in Africa or Indonesia or anywhere else in the world.” To address this interconnectedness, Adam and health care professionals at Brown have partnered with the healthcare NGO Project HOPE to remotely train health care workers on how to safely identify and combat COVID-19 and the coronavirus.
On this episode Adam talks with Sarah about this partnership and the role high-quality training plays at all levels in stopping the spread of a pandemic. They also discuss what Adam’s learned from treating Ebola in active war zones, and why this likely won’t be the last pandemic we see.
You can learn more about Watson's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies here.
You can learn more about Project HOPE here.
You can learn more about Watson’s other podcasts here.
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How States are Taking the Lead in the Coronavirus Crisis
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04/27/20 • 25 min
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Job Opportunity Cost of War
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05/25/17 • 12 min
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Trending Globally: Politics and Policy currently has 297 episodes available.
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The episode title 'Confused About How to Stay Safe in a Pandemic? Emily Oster is Here to Help' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Trending Globally: Politics and Policy is 26 minutes.
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Episodes of Trending Globally: Politics and Policy are typically released every 9 days.
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The first episode of Trending Globally: Politics and Policy was released on Oct 25, 2016.
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