Épisodes

  • Finance, debt, and artistic entrepreneurship
    Oct 27 2025

    Lalita du Perron talks to Shanthi Senthe of the University of Windsor Law School about her former life as a corporate lawyer, her current life as a scholar of law and business, and her experiences doing fieldwork in Sri Lanka.

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    42 min
  • Technological transformations and job losses in the textile mills of Mumbai
    Oct 13 2025

    Lalita du Perron welcomes Sumeet Mhaskar to discuss his Fulbright Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford and his book project on the changing job landscape in the textile mills of Mumbai.

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    40 min
  • Dance, consent, and nostalgia as method
    Sep 3 2025

    Lalita du Perron welcomes scholar and dancer Preethi Ramaprasad to talk about their joint work on consent and dance, and Ramaprasad’s upcoming performed and curated art shows.

    As You Are - Sept, 12-14, BAMHouse, Oakland, tickets here

    When Eyes Speak Oct 11-12, Joe Goode Annex, tickets here

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    38 min
  • Identity, Empire, and the Revolution
    May 19 2025

    Lalita du Perron talks to Amrit Deol of Fresno State University about her project on the Ghaddar party and Sikh diasporic history, and her future work on life in the borderlands.

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    36 min
  • Part 2 - Wisdom, kindness, and designing your life
    May 5 2025

    Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford Life Design Fellow Deepak Ramola in this 2-part episode, about what it means to be a wisdom historian, an artist, and a writer, while we try to figure out why grandmothers are always so wise!

    Over the last 15 years, Deepak has worked at the intersection of wisdom and lifelong learning through his organization Project FUEL, collecting life lessons from 195 countries.

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    29 min
  • Part 1 - Wisdom, kindness, and designing your life
    Apr 10 2025

    Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford Life Design Fellow Deepak Ramola in this 2-part episode, about what it means to be a wisdom historian, an artist, and a writer, while we try to figure out why grandmothers are always so wise!

    Over the last 15 years, Deepak has worked at the intersection of wisdom and lifelong learning through his organization Project FUEL, collecting life lessons from 195 countries.

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    33 min
  • Dance and Healthy Aging
    Mar 24 2025

    Lalita du Perron talks to Vidyani Suryadevara of the Stanford School of Medicine on her work on healthy aging, the benefits of dance, and the Stanford Heritage Dance Series.

    Read the Stanford Report article on the transformative power of dance in health.

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    28 min
  • Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan
    Feb 24 2025

    Guest host Anuradha Bhasin talks to Halima Kazem about her work on gender apartheid in Afghanistan and her role in the Stanford Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Follow Halima on X at @halimakazem.

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    35 min