Tidings podcast Archives - Hazel Kahan

Rhodes Scholar Suchintan Das talks to Hazel Kahan on Tidings about mass detention, the subject of his D.Phil thesis at Oxford University: Empire, War, and Mass-Detention: A History of Encampment and Internment in India (1937-1967). Through case studies, Das shows how encampment and internment in wartime and post-war India illuminate mass detention policies and practices […] The post Suchintan Das, Oxford Rhodes Scholar: Empire, War and Mass Detention in Imperial India appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024 and WPKN podcast) More about Nick and boarding […] The post Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Dr. Urvi Khaitan, historian and Prize Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for History and Economy, tells us how learning about Indian women and food policies and practices during India’s severe World War II food insecurity, can equip us to better survive threats to the world’s food systems from climate collapse and global human migration. (WPKN, […] The post Dr. Urvi Khaitan: Lessons for climate collapse from WWII-era Indian women appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

This month Hazel Kahan’s guest on Tidings is her 18-year-old granddaughter Maggie Keating who lives in Long Beach, on Long Island. NY.  Maggie and her friend Issy spoke to Tidings five years ago when they were 8th graders in the middle of Covid-era lockdown, a significant marker for their generation. However,  today, Maggie reflects on […] The post Maggie Keating at 18: reflections on this threshold moment appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

 Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, is this month’s guest on Tidings. Not only was he present at what he calls “the trailing edge of the hippies” of the Internet’s birth, but his participation continues deep within the ethos shaping the Creative Commons, Public Domain, open source technology and Wikipedia […] The post Brewster Kahle: The Internet in Transition appeared first on Hazel Kahan.