In the Classroom: Raymond Baker, Global Financial Integrity
Topics: Operating businesses in Lagos, Nigeria; Biafra War; Coups in Nigeria; illicit financial flows; Global Financial Integrity
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Animal Kingdom by Craig Allen Fravel
Episode Art: © 2019 | Kristina Sherk Photography
Raymond Baker's Books
Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System (2023) Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (2005) Wiley
Links
Raymond Baker: https://gfintegrity.org/staff-member/raymond-baker/
Global Financial Integrity: https://gfintegrity.org/
Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/American_in_Lagos
Third Age: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285
Craig Allen Fravel: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/462
Episode Art: www.Kristinasherk.com
Invisible Trillions: https://amzn.to/3tFx5ZM Capitalism's Achilles Heel: https://amzn.to/3Q3mzD3
In the Classroom: Professor Steven Schwinn, UIC School of Law
Topics: SCOTUS; 2023 affirmative action cases; Equal Protection Clause; reinterpreting Brown v. Board (1954); achieving diversity without considering race; legacy admissions
Intro & Outro music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition music: Hello, Good Morning by Liberty
Photo description: White man with black glasses smiles at the camera while wearing a light blue checked dress shirt and navy blue blazer
The Politics Classroom website
The Politics Classroom YouTube Channel
The Bookshelf: under construction
Web Links
Professor Steven Schwinn: https://law.uic.edu/profiles/schwinn-steven/
UIC School of Law: https://law.uic.edu/
Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/TPC_2023-14_transcript
Third Age: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285
Liberty: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/262
The Politics Classroom website: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/
The Politics Classroom YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@ProfessorFloros?si=RGS1YraHeU8b7RtF
The Bookshelf: under construction
In the Classroom: Professor Sharan Grewal, Department of Government, College of William and Mary
Topics: Tunisian revolution; democratic backsliding; self-coup; hyper-presidential political system; constitutional referendum; boycotting elections; secular/Islamist divide
Intro and Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Let Rivers Flow by Cast of Characters
The Politics Classroom website
Episode Links
Professor Sharan Grewal: https://sharangrewal.com/
Department of Government, College of William and Mary: https://www.wm.edu/as/government/index.php
Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/TunisiaDemocracyCollapse
"Three Goddesses": https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/13263 Third Age: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285 "Let Rivers Flow": https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/12465 Cast of Characters: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/280 The Politics Classroom website: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/
The Bookshelf: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/post/2023-13-the-collapse-of-tunisia-s-democracy
Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1QmNAJ2Kf2A
In the Classroom: Evan McKenzie, UIC Political Science
Topics: US Supreme Court; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson; writ of certiorari; Rule 10; rule of four; Voting Rights Act, Sec. 2; Independent State Legislature "Theory"; Affirmative action
Episode art: Photo by Rochelle Nicole on Unsplash
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age Transition Music: Swampy Lands by Adam Saban Transition sound effects: Electrical Guitar Clean Muted Melody Light 01 on Soundstripe
The Politics Classroom website
In the Classroom: Evan McKenzie: https://www.evancmckenzie.com/ UIC Political Science: https://pols.uic.edu/
Episode transcript: https://bit.ly/RacismOverSCOTUS
Photo: Rochelle Nicole: https://unsplash.com/@rchllwlsn?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/E9uJ65vwGmE?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/13263 Third Age: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285
Transition Music: Swampy Lands: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/15115 Adam Saban: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/642
Transition sound effects: Electrical Guitar Clean Muted Melody Light 01: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/40655 Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/
The Politics Classroom website: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/
In the Classroom: Semih Patan & Petia Kostadinova, UIC Political Science
Topics: Tunisia clarification and update; regimes, political systems, and voting rules 101; political party ideology; 2016 failed coup in Turkey; 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey
Photo by Peter Kostov on Unsplash
Image description: View of the Palace of Westminster, the Parliament of the UK, from the River Thames at sunset with the building reflected in the river.
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Ticky Tacky by Rhythm Scott
Transition sound effect: Ball Shot at the Shield 01 from Soundstripe
Links Semih Patan: https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/patan-semih/
Petia Kostadinova: https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/kostadinova-petia
Photo: https://unsplash.com/photos/lWLjqGxFPX4
Photo artist: https://unsplash.com/@strippedlight
Three Goddesses: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/13263
Third Age:https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285
Ticky Tacky: https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/8433
Rhythm Scott: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/211
Transition sound effect: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/53697
Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/
Episode Transcript: https://8f1774c7-307a-4f6c-9af9-721b2a20c996.filesusr.com/ugd/478ee5_9bf3c85b4d7e469c915ce67ddb8d49e9.pdf
In the Classroom: Semih Patan, PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago: https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/patan-semih/; https://pols.uic.edu/
Topics: Competitive authoritarianism; Turkish politics; Turkish 2023 presidential election; Justice and Development Party (AKP); AKP over time; secularism in Turkish politics; military as guardian of Turkish democracy (previously); detour into Tunisian politics
Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/CompetitiveAuthoritarianismTurkey
Intro and Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/285
Transition Music: Bosporus by Federico Ferrandina: https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/404
Transition Sound Effects: Simple Incoming 01 from Soundstripe: https://app.soundstripe.com/sfx/21205
The Politics Classroom website: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/
For further information: The Bookshelf: https://www.thepoliticsclassroom.org/post/2023-10-competitive-authoritarianism-in-turkey
Photo description: Turkish man with short, dark brown hair, parted on his left with a lighter brown beard and brown glasses looks directly at the camera. He is wearing a blue button-down shirt with a brown blazer.
In the Classroom: Professor Nicole Nguyen, UIC (Criminology, Law, and Justice; Educational Policy Studies)
Topics: Homeland Security curriculum in US schools; Countering Violent Extremism; role of teachers and therapists in policing extremism; gendered aspect of policing extremism; Zero Tolerance in schools; abolition; arguments that don't make sense; who becomes a terrorist
Intro and Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
The Politics Classroom website
For further information: The Bookshelf
Photo description: Young Vietnamese-American woman with shoulder-length black hair and brown eyes looks straight at the camera. She is smiling, and her teeth are very white. She's wearing a black shirt and a silver chain.
In the Classroom: Max, Sam, and Meghna
Topics: 23 events in 23 years (2000-2023) to celebrate 23 years of UIC Radio.
For more information about each event, check out The Bookshelf! (Under construction)
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Happy Birthday by Birds of Norway
Photo created by Professor Floros (she really needs a production team!)
The Politics Classroom website
In the Classroom: Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green
Topics: Chicago elections (in February!); E.P.I.C. agenda; activism arrests and bans; experience over age; creating a public bank; investing in neighborhoods; Progressive bona fides
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Miss U So by Midnight Daydream
The Politics Classroom website
The Bookshelf for further reading
Photo description: Ja'Mal is a young Black Man with a wide smile and short, black, curly hair. He is wearing a dark blue suit with a Chicago flag pin on his lapel, a white shirt and a lighter blue patterned tie. Ja'Mal's hands are clasped in front of his waist. The background is a city skyline colored green.
In the Classroom: Dr. Margaret Fink, Director, UIC Disability Cultural Center
Topics: Disability vocabulary, reclaiming "crip", disability justice, disability cultural centers, non-apparent disabilities, ADHD, improving accessibility in the classroom
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Gotcha! by Avocado Junkie
Photo description: Margaret, a white woman with brown hair and brown tortoise shell glasses, smiles at the camera while taking a selfie. Margaret is wearing a blue and white patterned blouse and a navy blue cardigan. Behind her are the bright green leaves of the trees outside the BSB building on UIC's campus.
The Politics Classroom website
For further reading: The Bookshelf
This is a re-release of an episode of The International Classroom, a live studio precursor of this podcast. The episode originally aired on UIC Radio in 2019.
In the Classroom: 2019 UICUF President Janet Smith & Executive Vice President Aaron Krall
Topics: Union contracts; bargaining units; tenure-track v. non-tenure track; university budgeting
Photo credit: UIC United Faculty
Intro & Outro music: "Three Goddesses" by Third Age
Transition music: "Truffle Shuffle" and "Hotpants" by Tiger Gang
The Politics Classroom website
For further reading: The Bookshelf
In the Classroom: UICUF organizers Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney and Jeff Edwards; UICUF President and bargaining co-chair Aaron Krall
Topics: Union organizing; strike planning; forming a bargaining team; working with management; demonstrating power through mobilization; short tribute to Janet Smith
Transcript coming soon
Photo credit: Charitianne Williams
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Happy Claps and Whistle by Amir Madani Rascado via Soundstripe
The Politics Classroom website
The Bookshelf for further reading
In The Classroom: Professor Nicole A. Perez, Bridge to Faculty Scholar, Department of Medical Education, UIC
Topics: Medical education; medical racism; winding career paths; social and cultural capital; community cultural wealth; first generation student success
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: The Sheriff is in Town by Adam Saban
For further reading: The Bookshelf
In the Classroom: UIC History Professor Robert D. Johnston
Topics: Professors with teacher parents; union stewards; teaching aspiring teachers; the Omaha Platform of the People's Party (1892); not populism but populisms; conspiracy theories; nativism; US Founders
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Strikken by Tiger Gang
The Bookshelf for further reading
In The Classroom: I have the joy and privilege of speaking with many UIC faculty and students about what makes UIC special, and why they've chosen to make it home. Thank you to all who participated in the episode. I look forward to many more episodes in 2023!
Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: You Cool! by Ends of the Earth
In the Classroom: Ryan Hurley, Regional Director for the Illinois Senate Democratic Fund
Topics: Nov. 8 election; election day for a campaign staffer; paying campaign staff; post-Covid campaigning; the power of texting
Photo by Andrew Adams on Unsplash
Intro & Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition Music: Viral by Sweet Sammy
In the Classroom: Professor emeritus Chris Mooney, UIC Political Science
Topics: November 8 election; election judging; ranked choice voting; ballot initiatives around the country; effects of redistricting overreach; billionaires playing politics in Illinois
Photo by Niranjan _ Photographs on Unsplash
Intro & Outro music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transition music: Truffle Shuffle by Tiger Gang
Podcast website: www.thepoliticsclassroom.org
Brief explanation for why there is no full episode this week.
Photo by Aleksandar Cvetanovic on Unsplash
Bits and pieces of previously unaired interview fragments, strangely stitched together with spooky results.
In the Classroom: Professors Cedric Johnson & Juan Albarracín and student panelists Hiba, Olivia, Meghna, and Sam
Intro and Outro Music: Three Goddesses by Third Age
Transitions by Soundstripe
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash
Full episode with Professor Johnson
Full episode with Professor Albarracín
Full episode with student panel