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
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