In EPISODE TWENTY, Sitting Near Borges, we look at the geographical imagination of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. We visit a park bench in Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to conjure up the spirit of his writings and discuss Borgesian “thought experiments” with literature scholar Bill Richardson of the National University of Ireland, Galway. Photo taken along the Rhône River in Geneva, Switzerland.
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In the show’s 19th episode we test locals on their knowledge of the country of Paraguay while locating their own geographical imaginations along the way. We also invite two of the three Paraguayans living in Salzburg, the musicians Francisco González and Raúl Rolón, to share traditional Paraguayan music and discuss–in English, Spanish and Jopará–cultural geographical mixing between Paraguay and Austria. (Photo by Sonia Ibáñez)
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In Pedagogy of the Compressed we venture through different spaces of teaching and learning with Dr. Rich Heyman of the University of Texas and ride upcycled bicycles through northern California with Seth Dow, Andy Knox, Hannah Halvorsen and Brandon Herhusky of Sugar Bowl Academy. In this time-space compressed world what does it mean to be “doing” geography and how can our methodology, or the how, be more important than the what? (Photo by Seth Dow)
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Busy working on EPISODE SEVENTEEN, Navigating Terra Incognita. We start here in Salzburg with a statue of St. Vergilius, an 8th century Irish saint who believed the world was round and then travel out to terra incognita in a leather boat with another Irish saint, St. Brendan the Navigator. It is the Voyage of St. Brendan, a popular medieval religious narrative, that we focus on and explore how different readings of this text produce different geographical imaginations. Contributors include Dr. Paul Pearson of the The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University, Dr. Clara Strijbosch of Utrecht University and Jon Mackley from the University of Northampton.
The episode first broadcasts Saturday, March 26th on Radio Fabrik at 7:06 PM Salzburg, Austria time and 2:06 PM New York. As always, you can find the podcast posted later on the website at https://www.geographicalimaginations.org/episodes/.
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In EPISODE SIXTEEN, Making Heritage, we bring in two voices to help us analyze three sites with something in common: the historic city center of Salzburg, the Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape, and the Viennese Coffee Houses. All three iconic Austrian places are recognized as cultural heritage sites–the first two on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list and the last on the Austrian Inventory of Intangible Heritage.
Listen as we dialogue with scholars Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Marilena Vecco and explore the nature of making heritage and the developments surrounding the recognition of “intangible” cultural sites.
The episode first broadcasts this Saturday, February 27th on Radio Fabrik at 7:06 PM Salzburg, Austria time and 1:06 PM New York. As always, you can find the podcast after original airing here just under the Episodes tab.
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Does the City of Salzburg have rhythm? Or rhythms, plural? How do we access it? Or them? In EPISODE FIFTEEN we explore the concept of rhythmanalysis with Dr. Reena Tiwari and examine how communities can better imagine the geographies in which they live by unpacking the rhythms that make up those spaces. We also kick-off the Salzburg Rhythmanalysis Project and make a call for citizen-rhythmanalysts to participate by submitting their ideas about the rhythms of Salzburg.
This Saturday, January 23rd on Radio Fabrik. As always, 7:06 PM Salzburg, Austria time and 1:06 PM New York
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