The ThinkND Podcast

Episode Topic: Understanding Culture

To understand culture is really to understand ourselves. We have commonly used this term to describe all that people have, think, and do as members of their societ…

Episode Topic: Applying What We Know About Culture

Every culture we are a part of, whether national, trans-national or, perhaps organizational, has values and beliefs that drive expectations and set b…

Episode Topic:  Campus Viewpoint

At a time when the lives of many have been dramatically disrupted and work, education, and society’s functions are in a state of constant transition, this new series f…

Episode Topic:  Global Viewpoint

At a time when the lives of many have been dramatically disrupted and work, education, and society’s functions are in a state of constant transition, this new series f…

Episode Topic:  National Viewpoint

At a time when the lives of many have been dramatically disrupted and work, education, and society’s functions are in a state of constant transition, this new series…

Episode Topic: Joseph Conrad’s "The Secret Agent"

Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" follows a group of anarchists in London near the end of the 19th century as they plot to destroy symbols of V…

Episode Topic: The Film of "The Lodger" 

In week 2 of our book club, we will discuss Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel "The Lodger." "The Lodger" was the first film Hit…

Episode Topic: "The Lodger"

We begin by reading Marie Belloc Lowndes’ novel "The Lodger," which was published in 1913 and became an immediate, worldwide hit, selling more than one million copies in t…

Episode Topic: Alfred Hitchcock’s "Sabotage"

In the last week of our Hitchcock in London book club, we examine "Sabotage," (1936) the film he adapted from Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" (190…

Episode Topic: Camus, "The Plague"

Albert Camus’s novel "The Plague" (La peste), published in 1947, tells the story of a group of characters living through an outbreak of contagious disease in the 194…

Episode Topic:  Hitchcock, "Rear Window" (film)

Although Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" (1954) does not take place in the context of a plague, it is a film about being in lockdown. Its preoccupation…

Episode Topic: Boccaccio, "The Decameron" (Introduction & First Story)

The bubonic plague (“Black Death”), which arrived in Italy from China in 1347, killed between a third and half of the Eurasian po…

Episode Topic: Introduction, Literature and Plague

This week Professor Barry McCrea introduces the topic of the course by taking a long historical perspective on pandemics in society. Mass outbreaks o…