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Summary: Research Radio is a podcast series that tells stories of academic enquiry at The New School. Our faculty and students have been asking questions for years--it's about time we shared the answers they're finding.

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  • Artist: Kasia Broussalian
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 Popsicle Stick | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

World-renowned jazz musician Jane Ira Bloom is known for incorporating movement into her playing, which creates a singular sound. Photo by John Dolan. Jane Ira Bloom plays music differently. Picking up her soprano saxophone, she begins to sway and dance, varying the distance of her instrument from the microphone. The result is an intense sensory […]

 Checking In | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

With its lush gardens, extravagant restaurants, and impeccable décor, the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles is the most fantastical hotel in the world. At least according to David Brody, and he would know. Brody is the director of Parsons’ MA in History of Decorative Arts and Design program and author of the forthcoming book Do Not Disturb: Design, […]

 Game Changer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

  Colleen Macklin, Parsons AMT professor and founder of the research group PETLab (Prototyping, Evaluation, Teaching, and Learning Lab) pioneers social engagement and new ways of learning by bringing together traditional games with advanced technology. Macklin spends most of her days, well, playing. She believes that play is an essential part of learning and that […]

 A West Side Takeover | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Beloved since its 1957 debut, West Side Story is not just a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; it’s also a story of New York. In a city where nothing is more coveted than real estate, this is a story about turf, politics, and power. The choreographed “rumbles” depicted between the Polish Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks […]

 Not My Native Tongue | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

New School co-founder and progressive philosopher John Dewey is known for his notion of the ideal school as a “little democracy,” a place where children learn not only to read and write but to behave as active citizens in a republic. More than 70 years after Dewey’s death, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is updating his ideas […]

 “Behind the Shrooms—Part 2” The Future of LSD | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Ready for round two?  Last week, Research Radio released “Behind the Shrooms,” a first installment in a two-part series that details the last half-century of psychedelic research. In this second episode, we sit down once again with New School for Social Research anthropologist Nick Langlitz to talk about how 1960’s counterculture colored popular perception of […]

 A Return Trip: LSD Gets a Second Look | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” The author of this mid-1960s catchphrase, Timothy Leary—a Harvard professor-turned-enthusiast of psychedelic drugs—had high hopes for a world with hallucinogens. Leary even imagined that psychedelics like LSD and MDMA might help bring peace to a Vietnam War–weary world. The era was the heyday for hallucinogenic drug research conducted in […]

 Tree Huggers of the Enlightenment | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

  Although the term “tree hugger” first appeared in 1965, environmentalists—particularly those with arboreal leanings—have been around for centuries. Just ask New School art historian and Parsons associate professor Laura Auricchio. Trees of the 18th century are her latest academic focus—and the topic of this week’s Research Radio podcast, “Tree Hugger.” Click on the player above […]

 With an Eye to the Past: A Research Radio Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Click on the player above to listen to the podcast Download Episode- Nidhi Srinivas looks at history differently. As an associate professor of nonprofit management at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, he focuses on methods of organizing and management from a historical perspective. Srinivas sees the past as up for […]

 A Facelift for the GOP? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

  Download Episode: With President Obama staying in the White House, will the still-divided Congress finally find a way to work together? Assistant professor of politics Jeff Smith is back for Research Radio’s latest episode, “A Facelift for the GOP?”  In last week’s edition, Smith was skeptical of Congress’s ability to overcome legislative gridlock. Smith […]

 Interpreting the Life of an Unsung Composer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

      Download Episode: Bach, Vivaldi and Handel may be the Baroque music period’s heavyweights, but mediocrity still has an important place in history. Even in the music world, there are not many who are familiar with Teodorico Pedrini.  An obscure 17th and 18th century Italian priest, missionary, and mediocre composer, he never makes […]

 Why Blue and Red No Longer Make Purple | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Download Episode: This is a tale of why Republicans and Democrats can no longer see eye to eye. Before the election Research Radio host Kasia Broussalian sat down with Jeff Smith, assistant professor of politics at the Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, to discuss the country’s growing political divide, and its [...]

 The City’s Jungles; Not Quite Concrete | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Download Episode: Images of New York City are more likely to include towering skyscrapers than old-growth trees. But there are people out there looking to even the playing field. This episode of Research Radio takes listeners out into the field…literally. Timon McPhearson, assistant professor of environmental studies at The New School for Public Engagement, spends [...]

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