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Geographical Imaginations
Radio Expeditions into the Geographies of Everything and Nothing The Geographical Imagination Expedition & Institute is a growing multi-media public geography initiative. We believe everybody is a geographer and a co-maker of spaces. As an inquiry-based project, we ask questions and explore themes through dialogues with different texts and voices. Inevitably, our explorations return to simple, yet complex, questions. How does ________ inform the way I picture the world in my head? How does that picture, in turn, limit or expand my place in the world?<span style="vertic
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EPISODE SIXTY Going Back To An Empty House
Spanish scholar Javier Cardeña Contreras does all the heavy lifting in this inaugural 13-theme speed round exploration of Quijote, Shawshank Redemption, Antonio Machado’s Caminante, La Casa de Papel, Bulls, Eddie Davies, El Madroño, Wild West films, La Zapatilla, Translation, Duncan Williamson,...
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EPISODE FIFTY NINE Climate Thinking Change
In Climate Thinking Change we speak with Dr. Lawrence Hamilton of the University of New Hampshire about the survey work he has done to get closer to American perceptions of the Arctic. This radio expedition is most interested in exploring to what extent our geographical knowledge of the Arctic...
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EPISODE FIFTY EIGHT Poster Bear
Poster Bear is the second part of a two-episode exploration of two polar bears—the one that travels along the ice and the other one that circulates in the media. Joining us is Dorothea Born, a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar from Mitteleuropa. Born’s work examines the polar bear as…
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EPISODE FIFTY SIX Writing the Arctic
On expedition in Svalbard we encountered the circa 1930s cabin that pioneer female big game hunter and writer Wanny Wolstad lived in during five overwinters. Literature scholar Dr. Ingrid Urberg contextualizes Wolstad and her writings within the works of other „Svalbard Daughters“ whose…
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EPISODE FIFTY FIVE Asking Svalbard
In Asking Svalbard we begin to move beyond generalization about the Arctic. By digging deeper we interrogate a place that might only exist on the fringes of our imaginations-Svalbard, Norway. Located in the Arctic Circle, this archipelago is home to over 2,500 people. Guiding us in this radio...
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EPISODE FIFTY FOUR Don’t Feed the Bears
How does one prepare for an expedition to the Arctic North? In Don’t Feed the Bears we speak with Ann Christin Auestad, project manager at the Arctic Safety Centre to learn more about the different training available for risk management and planning for expeditions within the polar north. We also...
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EPISODE FIFTY THREE Arctic Fever
In Arctic Fever we embark on our multi-episode explorations of “The Arctic.” Joining us is historian Michael Robinson—creator, host and producer of Time to Eat the Dogs, a weekly podcast about science, history, and exploration. We discuss his book, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and...
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EPISODE FIFTY TWO Amateur/Donkey/Expedition
In EPISODE FIFTY TWO we track down Andy Merrifield, a well-published UK-based geographer who left academia in 2003 to do what he loves. We discuss his writings on William Bunge, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre and John Berger and engage in a wide-ranging conversation that explores the expedition, the...
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EPISODE FIFTY ONE Imagine Energy
Who is imagining the energy landscapes of the future? How are they doing it? Where? In what spaces? Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, Founding Co-Directors of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), discuss the global project that is giving artists, architects, landscape architects, and other...
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EPISODE FIFTY 50
Celebrating Geographical Imaginations: Radio Expeditions into the Geographies of Everything and Nothing’s 50th episode we revisit the concept for the show and take a look back at all of the different questions, themes and collaborators that brought us here to this point over four years later. If...
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EPISODE FORTY NINE Pilgrim’s Mood
For the opener of Season Five, we are joined by Phil Cousineau, the award-winning author of The Art of Pilgrimage. In a wide-ranging “long conversation” we discuss how to make travel meaningful and sacred. Along the way we unpack the tourist gaze and consider how mentors and words can open…
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EPISODE FORTY EIGHT Notes from the Crocodile
In EPISODE FORTY EIGHT we are joined again by geographer Johnny Finn (from EPISODE THIRTY TWO). Rounding out our three-episode on-the-ground fieldwork series on the crocodile-shaped island of Cuba, we discuss health care, Fidel, José Martí, memorialization, béisbol and literacy.
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EPISODE FORTY SEVEN Hacedora de Canciones
In our second episode from fieldwork in Cuba we sit down with “Song Maker” Enid Rosales and discuss her two albums (Brisa Pasajera and Dentro de Mí), her listeners in Cuba and beyond, the Nueva Trova genre, the Buena Vista Social Club effect, Celia Cruz and what it means to be an “hacedora de...
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EPISODE FORTY SIX Puentes
With EPISODE FORTY SIX we start a series of episodes made while conducting fieldwork in Cuba in Spring 2018. In Puentes we sit down with don Jose Poveda–poet, philosopher, man of letters and of faith–in this wide ranging discussion of his poetry, travel from Cuba to Russia, and his work as...
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EPISODE FORTY FIVE Geographies of Nothing
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EPISODE FORTY FOUR Geographies of Everything
In Geographies of Everything we have the great pleasure of sitting down with world renowned academic geographer Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan. In the first part of this two-episode series we explore space, place, offices, Madison (Wisconsin), film, deserts and much more with this intellectual pioneer of…
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EPISODE FORTY THREE Terrae Incognitae II
In EPISODE FORTY THREE we continue with our two-part Summer Reading Series and finish our review of John Kirtland Wright’s 1946 Presidential Address Association of American Geographers. In this canonical text, Wright outlines his ideas for geosophy . How was this address received by his…
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EPISODE FORTY TWO Terrae Incognitae I
In EPISODE FORTY TWO we start our two-episode Summer Reading Series with a reading and discussion of John Kirtland Wright’s 1946 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Presidential Address where he outlines his ideas for geosophy. The word is a compound of ‘geo’ (Greek for earth) and ‘sophia’...
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EPISODE FORTY ONE DARchitecture
In DARchitecture we discuss architectural heritage in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Joining us for an episode-long conversation is Aida Mulokozi, CEO of the Dar es Salaam Centre for Architectural Heritage (DARCH). We walk through the process of urban heritage preservation in the context of rapid urban...
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EPISODE FORTY Safari Njema
In EPISODE FORTY we are on field assignment exploring the multi-species geographies of, perhaps, the most iconic safari game drive in the world. We report on site from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, learning some basic Swahili (Safari means “trip”) and seeing a range of animals we had never...
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EPISODE THIRTY NINE Dar City Geographies
In EPISODE THIRTY-NINE we set out and explore “Dar City Geographies” with urban geographer Dr. Sarah Smiley from Kent State University. This “urban safari” provokes discussions of the legacy of historical segregation policies on the urban landscape; the improvements made to the transport...
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EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT Piece by Piece
In “Piece by Piece,” we sit down with Rukia Hatibu, aka The Annoyin’ Artist, to discuss the importance of making public our ideas, stories and “pieces.” It is not enough to ask questions about who we are. What is vital is having an actual place to do it. Her evening forum helps showcase different...
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EPISODE THIRTY SEVEN Zanzibar, or the Last Reason
“Zanzibar, or the Last Reason,” translated from the German, “Sansibar oder der letzte Grund,” is a novel by Alfred Andersch where one of the protagonists (a boy) daydreams the far away Zanzibar from his small hometown in Germany. Maybe a bad case of fernweh, this island in his mind is actually...
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EPISODE THIRTY SIX La Arquitecta
In “La Arquitecta” we explore the resonance of spaces and the social aspects of urban design with German-born architect Chris Heidrich. The show returns to Havana, Cuba (see EPISODE 32) to raise questions about who designs and shapes the city. Heidrich is planning to bring an exhibition about…
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EPISODE THIRTY FIVE Summer Reading Vol. 3
We finish our summer reading of C.C. Long’s “Home Geography” in EPISODE THIRTY FIVE. Lessons 33 through 45 round out this primer for developing our own geographical imaginations. Long reminds us, “All around are illustrations of lake and river, upland and lowland, slope and valley. These forms…
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EPISODE THIRTY FOUR Summer Reading Vol. 2
In EPISODE THIRTY FOUR we pick up from where we left off in C.C. Long’s classic text, “Home Geography for Primary Grades.” Starting with Lesson 18, “How Rivers Are Made,” and finishing with Lesson 32, “Useful Plants,” Long continues to impress upon us the need “to study that small part of the...
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EPISODE THIRTY THREE Summer Reading Vol. 1
Welcome to our inaugural summer reading series. Listen to EPISODE THIRTY THREE as we explore C.C. Long’s 1894 classic primary school text. In “Home Geography,” Dr. Long tells us, “A knowledge of the home must be obtained by direct observation; of the rest of the world, through the imagination...
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EPISODE THIRTY TWO Hasta La Habana Siempre
What comes to mind when someone says, “CUBA?” Classic automobiles, Buena Vista, Che? Maybe you envision a socialist utopia? Or a maybe a communist dystopia? In EPISODE THIRTY TWO we invite geographer Johnny Finn to discuss US American geographical imaginations of this large Caribbean island and...
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EPISODE THIRTY ONE The World as Village: 100 People
In EPISODE THIRTY ONE we use statistics to bring the world closer to home and to inform how we think about our place within the milieu. Forget about trying to understand 7.5 billion people. What if the world was a village of 100–each member of that community representing 1% of the world…
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EPISODE THIRTY Dances with Bees
In Dances with Bees we venture to the shores of Wolfgangsee to visit the apiary of Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch to see first-hand and explore how honeybees communicate their geographical (i.e. spatial) knowledge through dance. Joining us are Professors Jürgen Tautz and Randolf Menzel of...
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EPISODE TWENTY NINE A Great American Pilgrimage
In A Great American Pilgrimage we walk 3500 kilometers from Maine to Georgia in the Eastern woods of the United States traversing the ridge-line of the oldest mountains in the world, the Appalachians. Join Sonia “Chulapa” Ibáñez and Kevin “Cow’s Head” Fox as they meet America face-to-face. We…
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EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT Auf Deutsch Bitte
In Auf Deutsch Bitte we explore linguistic borrowings from German. Joining the show in conversation are Salzburg locals and Sprachgefüle Marie Damisch and Daniel Url. We discuss the word-concepts Weltanshauung, Heimat, Weltansichten and Welträtsel amongst others. Inevitably we come back to the...
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EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN Unconventional Worldmaps, Unconventional Worldviews
In EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN we explore alternatives to the conventional world map and question how much this standard image of the world frames and limits our own imaginations of the globe. We speak with Julia Mia Stirnemann about her World Map Generator, an online tool designed to help de-center the...
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EPISODE TWENTY SIX BLUE. For Points.
In EPISODE TWENTY SIX we set up a pub-style quiz game for you to play at home with your friends and family. Many of us have had our geographical imaginations informed by geographical information that comes from atlases and encyclopedias. Have you ever watched Jeopardy! or played Trivial Pursuit?…
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EPISODE TWENTY FIVE Psychogeography 101
In Psychogeography 101 we discuss contemporary urban exploration practices with cultural theorist and psychogeographer Tina Richardson. After tracing back to the mid-twentieth century work of the Situationist International, we outline what doing psychogeography looks like today and how it…
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EPISODE TWENTY FOUR Countries & Capitals
In EPISODE TWENTY FOUR, Countries & Capitals, we seek to increase our geographic literacy by reviewing country names (in the order of most to least populated) while locating each within its region and naming its capital city. At the same time we also critique the very same geographical…
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EPISODE TWENTY THREE Deconstructing the Map w/ Denis Wood
Maps are ubiquitous in today’s world. Our geographical imaginations are both expanded and limited by their form. But, what is a map? Roughly 25 years ago academic geographers began to seriously question their taken-for-granted history. Rogue map deconstructionist Denis Wood explores with us…
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EPISODE TWENTY TWO Everyday Symphony Vol.1
Does a city have its own song? A hum and beat that makes it unique? Join us on this short expedition to record the soundscape produced by the everyday interactions of people and place in Old Town Salzburg. With microphone in hand we drift through the narrow streets and lanes capturing a different...
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EPISODE TWENTY ONE Seeing Heimat Through a Lens
In EPISODE TWENTY ONE, Seeing Heimat Through a Lens, we discuss the power of photography to shape and frame sentiments and ideas about place-based national and regional identities in 1930s Austria. Art historian Dr. Elizabeth Cronin of the New York Public Library guides us back to this key moment...
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EPISODE TWENTY Sitting Near Borges
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...
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EPISODE NINETEEN It’s a Jopará World
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…
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EPISODE EIGHTEEN Pedagogy of the Compressed
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…
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EPISODE SEVENTEEN Navigating Terra Incognita
In EPISODE SEVENTEEN we start here in Salzburg with the statue of St. Vergil, an 8th century Irish monk who believed the world was round and then travel out to terra incognita in a leather boat with another Irish saint, Brendan the Navigator. It is the Voyage of St. Brendan, a popular medieval...
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EPISODE SIXTEEN Making Heritage
In Making Heritage we venture out to explore 3 Austrian cultural heritage sites: the historic city center of Salzburg, the Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape, and the Viennese Coffee House. Listen as we dialogue with scholars Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Marilena Vecco…
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EPISODE FIFTEEN WANTED: Rhythmanalysts
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...
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EPISODE FOURTEEN Krampus Goes to Hollywood
In EPISODE FOURTEEN we look at how Alpine folk culture has made it into global popular culture on the back of the Krampus. In a conversation with local cultural historian Christoph Schwaiger we look at both the Krampus of yesteryear and the one you might catch “running” the streets now during St....
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EPISODE THIRTEEN Framing—City—Walking
In EPISODE THIRTEEN we join Bärbel Hartje of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts to investigate the connections between theoretical framing, the cityscape and walking. We discuss the evolution of the Summer Academy’s Exploring Salzburgprogram and how the ever-popular City Walks…
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EPISODE TWELVE A Year in Studio B
Celebrating a year of radio-making from inside the incubator of Studio B at Radio Fabrik, in EPISODE TWELVE we discuss with Program Coordinator Eva Schmidhuber the historical geography of this collectively-owned community radio station in Salzburg. We review the first season of episodes and plan...
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EPISODE ELEVEN Up and Around the Untersberg
The Untersberg Mountain dominates the landscape visible to the south of the City of Salzburg and captures the popular geographical imagination through the legends and myths surrounding it. Come walk up and around this sacred mountain and explore its cultural geographies with Dr. Veronica della...
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EPISODE TEN A Canal Runs Through It
The Almkanal is an extensive canal system that runs through the City of Salzburg. In EPISODE TEN we speak with the Almmeister Wolfgang Peter and the Alm Gatekeeper Kurt Klappacher to learn more about the social, political and economic geographies of this nearly 1000 year old institution. And we...
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Radio Expeditions into the Geographies of Everything and Nothing The Geographical Imagination Expedition & Institute is a growing multi-media public geography initiative. We believe everybody is a geographer and a co-maker of spaces. As an inquiry-based project, we ask questions and explore themes through dialogues with different texts and voices. Inevitably, our explorations return to simple, yet complex, questions. How does ________ inform the way I picture the world in my head? How does that picture, in turn, limit or expand my place in the world?<span style="vertic
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