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Learning for Life @ Gustavus

Gustavus Adolphus College

History professor Greg Kaster explores the intersections of liberal arts learning, current events, and real-world problem solving from the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minn. From conversations with cancer and climate change researchers to behind-the-scenes glimpses into higher ed decision-making, Kaster"s short, engaging interviews introduce listeners to the people behind the ideas.

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01:11:13

Unions Are “an Instrument of Civil Society”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/08/16

Dave Kamper ’96 on his path to Gustavus and the College Republicans, the lasting importance of his education in critical thinking there, his PhD research in history, becoming a professional labor organizer and writer on labor issues, collective actions by Amazon and Starbucks workers, why unions must do better in communicating and collaborating with one another, New Brookwood Labor College in St. Paul, and the case for worker power in a democratic society.

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01:10:30

From Finance Major to NBA Podcaster

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/08/02

Dane Moore '12 talks about why he attended Gustavus and how it prepared him for "who and what I would be," his path to creating and hosting The Dane Moore NBA Podcast on Blue Wire about pro basketball and the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Timberwolves' 2021-22 season, the hiring of Tim Connelly as new general manager, and the team's prospects going forward into next season and beyond. Note: Recorded prior to the 2022 NBA draft.

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01:07:36

Monstrosity, Freakery, and Print Culture in Early...

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/07/26

Dr. Whitney Dirks, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Gustavus Department of History, talks about her young “gender bending” acting in Shakespeare plays, her self-designed interdisciplinary major in Renaissance and Theater Studies at Beloit College in Wisconsin, her research on the production, circulation, consumption, and meanings of print materials in early modern England about “monsters” like hermaphrodites, conjoined twins, and an alleged porcine-faced lady, teaching and learning the early

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00:58:21

“Spatial Relationships,” Colonialism, and Debt

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/07/19

Professor Joaquin Villanueva of the Gustavus Department of Geography talks about growing up in Puerto Rico and his “political awakening” in college there, his path from business major to languages and geography, the transformative experience of studying abroad in France, the diversity and interdisciplinarity of his discipline, turning a “geographic lens” on the French state’s treatment of African immigrant populations in suburban neighborhoods of Paris, the origins of the ongoing Puerto Rican debt

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01:00:20

Editing The Gustavian Weekly

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/07/05

Editor-in-Chief Emily VanGorder ’22 and Assistant Editor-in-Chief Cadence Paramore ‘22, talk about their paths to Gustavus, student journalism, and their current positions with the student paper, the work their positions involve, pressing issues and activism among Gustavus students beyond the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, “objectivity” and journalism, their post-graduation plans, their pitches for Gustavus and advice for incoming students, and their pets (a cat, a dog, and snails).

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01:04:13

“Playing for the Crowns on the Front of Your Jersey”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/06/28

In this 50th anniversary year of Title IX’s passage, Gustavus Head Women’s Hockey Coach Michael Carroll, the winningest coach in the program’s history, and senior All-American team member Kayla Vrieze ’22 speak about their paths to hockey (along with baseball in Coach’s case) and Gustavus, the challenges COVID-19 posed for the program, what they enjoy about hockey, what it takes to be a successful student-athlete on and off the ice, the ingredients of effective coaching, the team’s outstanding

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01:12:46

Serving the Community and Justice

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/06/21

The Honorable Judge Tanya Bransford ’80 of Hennepin County District Court, on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on court proceedings, her path to and experiences at Gustavus (including her formative experience in the political science department’s Washington., DC, semester program), her path to law school influenced by a Gustavus January Term, working in private practice, becoming and serving as a judge, approaching sentencing decisions, her current specialization in juvenile court and effecting

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01:02:01

Charlotte Delbo and Writing and Reading the Holocaust

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/06/14

Dr. Sharon Marquart of the Gustavus Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) program converses about her background and path from initial biology major to BA and PhD in French and eventually Gustavus professor, studying abroad in the French Alps, the life, “value system,” and significance of French Auschwitz survivor and author Charlotte Delbo, about whom she has written extensively, the provocative argument of her book On the

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01:00:54

“Gustavus Gave Me the Ability to Reason”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/06/07

Jeff Sorenson ’90 on growing up with a passion for hubcaps or wheel covers, his path to Gustavus and the history major, post-graduation days pondering what next on Santa Monica beach, launching, growing, and selling a successful wheel cover business that ultimately supplied most of Sam’s Club’s hubcaps, working subsequently in vendor management, launching a brokerage business of phone and internet providers, successful entrepreneurship, writing and recording music, and the impact of his Gustavus

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01:01:53

“Basketball to Me Has Been a Vehicle”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/05/24

On the occasion of his retirement as the winningest Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Gustavus, Mark Hanson ’83 speaks about his path to and experiences at the College as a student and basketball player, his subsequent unanticipated return as an assistant and ultimately head coach, the impact of COVID-19 on the program, Gustavus’s success in combining athletic and academic excellence, his approach to coaching and the game, mentoring student-athletes, playing basketball in Sweden, the recruiting process

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01:08:14

“Farewell to Leningrad”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/05/17

For this special episode, Greg speaks with his extraordinary and much-revered high-school history teacher, Mr. D. Stanley Moore, about Stan’s Minneapolis background and education at Beloit College, his study of the Russian language in the US Army and eventually Russian Area Studies at the University of Minnesota and Dostoevsky at Yale, his path to and career at Rich East High School in the postwar town of Park Forest, IL, traveling, teaching, learning, and camping in the USSR and Europe (including

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00:51:01

From Pentecostalism to Liberation Theology

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/05/10

Professor Thia Cooper of the Department of Religion at Gustavus on growing up poor andPentecostal as the daughter of a single mom in New Hampshire, traveling to the Soviet Union at age 16 as it was breaking up, her study of international relations at Brown University, the questions that led her from there to graduate work in development studies and then liberation theology, her understanding of theology and its feminist and liberationist iterations, her books Queer and Indecent about the theology of

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01:01:12

Bringing a Play to Life on Stage

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/05/03

Professors Kimberly Braun ’11 and Matthew Rightmire converse about their backgrounds and paths to theater directing and scenic design, respectively, the work of and their approaches to acting, directing, and designing (including all the tech elements), how a director and the production team interact in the process of staging a play, the differences between acting and directing, the subversive possibilities of theater, how a liberal arts theater education prepares one for success in the workplace and

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01:05:41

Becoming and Being a Vet (DVM)

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/04/26

Dr. Joanne (Biederman) Kamper ’96 talks about growing up on a hobby farm, her path to and experiences at Gustavus, pursuing veterinary medicine at the University of Minnesota, the nature and financial expense of veterinary training as well as the implications of that cost, her decision to focus on small animals, the Andover Animal Hospital in Andover, Minn., and her work there, the mission and operation of the Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minn., and her work with its big cats, the question of

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01:24:39

“Nothing Occurs in a Vacuum”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/04/19

Professor David Tobaru Obermiller of the Gustavus Department of History , winner of the College’s Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching, on COVID-19’s impact on teaching and learning, the response of East Asian countries to the pandemic, his bicultural Okinawan and American background and how it has shaped him, his mother’s challenging life in Japan, Okinawa, and the U.S., his bumpy first-generation path to a college degree, studying abroad in Japan and deciding to pursue graduate study

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01:22:58

“Embrace the Unknown”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/04/12

Dr. Sean Cobb of the Gustavus English department and Film and Media Studies program on his Arizona background and path from kicked-out college student to English and film professor in Minnesota, creating (with colleagues) the College’s Film and Media Studies minor, visual literacy, his research on the concept of “border” in postwar US literature and film, his love of film noir, films that are effective with students and films for our present historical moment, trends in movie-making and marketing,

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01:03:19

Media, Memory, and Epidemics

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/04/05

Dr. Katherine (Katie) Foss ’02, professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Strategic Media at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on her path to Gustavus and the profound impact biology professor John Lammert’s first-term seminar had on her present research interest, how media affect pubic understanding and memory of epidemic disease past and present (the focus of her recent book Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory), media’s

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01:21:39

“It’s a Place Where You’re Present”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/03/29

Emily Ford ‘15 talks about her background, path to, and experience at Gustavus, her love of and place in the outdoors, becoming head gardener at the Glensheen Mansion in Duluth, Minn., and, in the off season, an epic winter trekker inspiring thousands, gardening at Glensheen without any formal horticultural or landscape training, solo winter thru-hiking Wisconsin’s 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail—the first woman and openly LGBTQ person of color to do so—and then the Boundary Waters the following year in

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01:10:48

"It's Always Been About Stories"

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/03/22

Professor Kjerstin Moody ’98, Chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Gustavus, on becoming an English and Scandinavian Studies double major, pursuing a doctorate in the latter field, joining the faculty of her alma mater and undergraduate department, the history, role, and importance of Scandinavian Studies at Gustavus, what she seeks to help students see and understand, and some of the less well-known aspects of Scandinavia past and present.

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01:19:49

“Communication Is the Intermediator of Everything We Do”

Learning for Life @ Gustavus ·

2022/03/15

Professor Martin Lang ’95 of the Department of Communication Studies at Gustavus, on his background, paths to Gustavus both as student and faculty member, a not-so-wonderful year as an M.A. student in English at Michigan State University, how media shapes our understanding of ourselves and one another, his award-winning incorporation of civic engagement into his teaching, two documentaries he has coproduced titled (Mid)West of Somalia and Farming Forward, a project linked to one of his courses on

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