The Listening Post: Podcasts and More

The bubble that is an academic conference

What's a conference for, anyway?

Jul 26 • 

Usha Raman

8

5

July 2024

It slips away, and we can do nothing but go with it

Can we really keep time?

Jul 7, 2024 • 

Usha Raman

3

April 2024

Listening in the shadow of the eclipse

In one of the first audio production courses I took, way back when we were still cutting and splicing 8-tracks, I chose to do a short feature that I…

Apr 9, 2024 • 

Usha Raman

4

December 2023

My listening year

Audio picks for 2023

Dec 31, 2023 • 

Usha Raman

5

July 2023

Why I’m paying attention to the Women’s [Football] World Cup

I’m no sports fan—anyone who knows me will tell you I have a hard time telling a silly point from a mid-on or a drop shot from a forehand slice, though…

Jul 26, 2023 • 

Usha Raman

2

Some fiction, some fact

What I've been listening to this week

Jul 6, 2023 • 

Usha Raman

1

June 2023

May 2023

Memories of stolen lives

Sometimes, all you need is a well told story to perceive, with sudden clarity, a whole landscape of interconnected streams that run through the past and…

May 22, 2023 • 

Usha Raman

3

2

March 2023

Worlds of her making

Ursula K Le Guin and the Naming of Things

Mar 29, 2023 • 

Usha Raman

2

August 2022

Stitchery and witchery

Books in the ear and mending on my hands

Aug 22, 2022 • 

Usha Raman

8

2

Writing (and listening) prompt: Salman Rushdie

Pre-Independence Day Thoughts

Aug 13, 2022 • 

Usha Raman

6

July 2022

Fifty years on, Martha was indeed right

Trading in Watergate memories

Jul 9, 2022 • 

Usha Raman

1