Iain McGilchrist is the author of The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World and The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. He has said that "‘Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance – second only to our capacity to transcend it, in ord…

Mai Wang is an assistant professor of literature at UT Dallas, where she teaches Asian American and Chinese diasporic literature. Her first book project, The Asian American Renaissance, examines the imaginative alliances formed between diasporic Asian American authors and their nineteenth-century American predecessors. In this conversation: How Asi…

Michael Thomas is curator of The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, as well as From Texas to the World: Common Ground at UT Dallas and the Dallas Museum of Art. In this conversation: What the Bourbons discovered in 18th-century excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum; the effect of the Grand T…

Gerytades: An Aristophanes Play... sort of, by poet and translator A.M. Juster, is out now from Contubernales Publishing. In this conversation: How Gerytades was lost and found; what makes for great comedy; timeliness and timelessness in human nature; how to approach a play that survives in fragments; the fate of light verse; literature, humor, and…

"Dragon Eye," Thomas Riccio's immersive video installation documenting the culture of the Miao people of China, was recently on view at the SP/N Gallery at UT Dallas. In this conversation: The process of visiting and doing research with the Miao people in remote mountain villages; cultural preservation in the face of modernity; "Form Fatigue"; an e…

Thomas Locke Hobbs is a photographer whose books include L.A. Vedute, which was shortlisted for Aperture Photobook of the Year, and Rampitas. In this conversation: Cities in the U.S., Peru and Colombia; domestic architecture, density and class division; negative space in the built environment; Eugène Atget and photo history; season, climate, and mo…

Franklin Einspruch is the editor of Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art, by Walter Darby Bannard, and the proprietor of Dissident Muse Journal. In this conversation: Why the aphorism?; the significance of abstract art and of Clement Greenberg; the place of commitment in art; how to teach art; the relationship between creativity, intui…

Erika Doss is the author of Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (University of Chicago Press). In this conversation: why art historians have often neglected the intersection of art and faith in modernism; the fluidity of religion in modernity; modern artists vs. religious artists; comparing Christian Science, Bahá’í, …

Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at Duke University, with a secondary appointment on the Duke Divinity School faculty, is the author of Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Notre Dame, 2022). The journal Modern Theology recently devoted a forum to this book, with contribu…

Gary Saul Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. He is the author of Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University Press). In this episode: How Russian literature differs fr…

Maryann Corbett's translations of three ballades by Christine de Pizan appear in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review. In this conversation: The poet's life and times amidst the Hundred Years' War, the Western Schism and the execution of Joan of Arc; the literary debate on the rights of women; the poet's representation of courtly love; the bal…

Brian Allen, a senior fellow at National Review Institute and National Review’s art critic, is an art historian living in Arlington, Vermont and a frequent contributor to Athenaeum Review. In this conversation: the transition from museum director to full-time art critic; the state of art criticism and the value of diverse points of view; how to cul…

Bill Kristol is director of ⁠Defending Democracy Together⁠, editor at large of ⁠The Bulwark⁠, and the host of ⁠Conversations with Bill Kristol⁠. In this conversation: moving from academia to Washington, D.C.; changing perspectives over the course of a career in politics; the successes and failures of American conservatism; the most insightful polit…

Micah Mattix is Professor of English at Regent University and the editor of the Prufrock newsletter on Substack. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Review, and The New Criterion, and was appointed poetry editor at First Things in 2021. In this conversation: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, ten years of Prufrock; the state…

"A Brief History of Emergence," by Frederick Turner, Robert Stern, and Roger F. Malina, appears in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review. In this podcast: Why is emergence important in complex systems? How is emergence important for physics, for geophysics and for the arts? What is an emergent university? How is emergent research conducted? Dis…

Jason Andrew is the founding partner at Artist Estate Studio, LLC, the entity that manages the estates of Jack Tworkov and Elizabeth Murray among others. Over the past 20 years, he has organized historic exhibitions and published extensively on the life and work of Jack Tworkov. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Midori Yamamura, Ph.D., is the Alcaly/…

Frederick Turner's collection of poems, LATTER DAYS, is available from Franciscan University Press: https://www.cuapress.org/9781736656136/latter-days/

Daniel Asia has been an eclectic and unique composer from the start. He has enjoyed the usual grants from Meet the Composer, a UK Fulbright award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Tanglewood fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. He was recently honored with a Music Academy Award from the American Academy o…

Zohar Atkins is is the Founder of Etz Hasadeh, a Center for Existential Torah. He is a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He holds a DPhil in Theology from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and semikha from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. He received both an MA and BA from Brown Uni…

Peter Chametzky is Professor of Art History, and has been on the SVAD faculty since 2012. His research focuses on 20th and 21st century German art and culture. From 1998 to 2012 he taught at Southern Illinois University, first as Associate Professor and then as Professor, and served as Director of the School of Art and Design on the Carbondale camp…

Andrew Amstutz studies modern South Asian history in global contexts. His work explores the intertwined histories of science, technology, and Muslim politics in South Asia as well as museums and public history debates. He currently is a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. At UA Little Rock, he teaches courses on Asian history, …

Turner’s Modern World at the Kimbell Art Museum: https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/turners-modern-world Turner’s Modern World catalog: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847869343/ What made Turner modern? (1:00) — Stylistic transition in the 1830s; “painting with tinted steam”; The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (4:30) — The sublime and the …

More about Czesław Miłosz: A California Life https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/czeslaw-milosz-a-california-life/ https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/czeslaw-milosz/ How the book originated (0:45) — The vatic tradition in Polish poetry (4:30) — Warsaw 1945 and “Dedication” (6:45) — Introducing Polish literature to California students (11:00) — Imme…

Engaging skeptical audiences in a polarized age (1:30) — Two cheers for the Enlightenment, and the Stephen King-Lovecraftian vibes of New England (7:30) — Self-experimentation, and moderate deference to scientific consensus (12:15) — Giving science the right amount of authority (17:00) — When, and when not, to write from personal experience (19:30)…

Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler speak about Flora, their exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, on view from September 5, 2021 to January 16, 2022. https://www.themodern.org/exhibition/teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler-flora https://hubbardbirchler.net/works/flora/ https://hubbardbirchler.net/works/bust/…

A conversation about the new film, John Wilcox: The Relinquishment of Time, with filmmakers Exploredinary (Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky) and Dr. David Wilcox, the artist's brother. About the film: https://www.exploredinary.com/johnwilcox About the artist John Wilcox: https://johnwilcoxart.com/ Winner of "Best Texas Film" at the 2021 Hill Country…

An interview with artist and gallerist David Quadrini, on the occasion of the exhibition "An Artists' Homage to the Dynamic Influence of Rick Brettell," curated by Greg Metz at SP/N Gallery, UT Dallas, Sept. 10 to Oct. 9, 2021. https://calendar.utdallas.edu/event/art_exhibition_brettell_an_artistshomageto_the_dynamic_influence_of_rick_brettell http…

Lauren Brazeal, Matthew Baker and Rebecca Cai interview poet Roy G. Guzmán. http://athenaeumreview.org/podcasts/

Our guest on this episode of the podcast is Nils Roemer, interim dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities, director of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Stan and Barbara Rabin Professor in Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Our guest on this episode is the poet, translator, and critic A. M. Juster, whose next book, Wonder and Wrath, will be published by Paul Dry Books in early 2021.

Our guest on this episode is Sean Valles, the author of Philosophy of Population Health.

Our guest on this podcast is Jacob Stegenga, the author of Care and Cure and Medical Nihilism. We discuss the effectiveness of medical interventions, the relationship between philosophers and practitioners, how to deal with complexity, the nature of sexual desire, and much more.

A conversation with Michele Hanlon, Associate Dean of the Arts at UT Dallas, about the transition to producing virtual events in spring 2020: https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/virtual-events.html