Season 2

Season 2 of Genealogies of Modernity is a narrative podcast released as a limited series of Ministry of Ideas and supported by a Media Production Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future.

Episode 1

CLIMBING THE MOUNTAINS OF MODERNITY

Episode 2

WHAT IS MODERNITY?

Episode 3

WHAT IS GENEALOGY?

Episode 4

JAMESTOWN AND THE MYTH OF THE SOVEREIGN FAMILY

Episode 5

PICTURING RACE IN COLONIAL MEXICO

Episode 6

A MEDIEVAL ANTI-RACIST

Episode 7

A GENEALOGY OF GUN VIOLENCE

Episode 8

THE ENEMY OF MORALITY IS NOT MODERNITY, IT’S ME

Credits

Series Production Team

Ryan McDermott, Producer and Genealogies of Modernity Project Director

Maria Devlin McNair, Senior Producer and Script Editor

Jack Pombriant, Sound Designer

Dimitrios Salonikios, Art Direction and Animation

Zachary Davis, Executive Producer (Ministry of Ideas)

Special Thanks

Dan Cheely, James DeMasi, Peter Fristedt, Max Glider, Jake Grefenstette, Darrah McDermott, Jess Sweeney, University of Pittsburgh Department of English and Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

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