The Approach
The Approach is Carleton University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) podcast. Listen in as host Dr. Phillip Primeau interviews members of the FASS community about Indigenous art curation, digital archaeology, collapsing ice shelves, Jack the Ripper, improvised music, and more. Different people. Different approaches. One big academic community.
Episodes
Episodes
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 9 — Stuart Murray
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode nine of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Stuart Murray (Professor, Department of English Language and Literature) about how society talks—or doesn't talk enough—about taboo subjects like mortality and sex, the ethical questions raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, and being a “bad” English professor.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 8 — Shawn Graham
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode eight of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Shawn Graham (Professor, Department of History) about his research project on the illicit buying and selling of human remains over social media.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 7 — Manjeet Birk
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode seven of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Manjeet Birk (Assistant Professor, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation) about how to distinguish truth from bias, and the radical power of being able to author your own experience through social media.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 6 — Kirk Luther
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode six of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Kirk Luther (Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology) about his work training police officers to be better communicators, the pop culture phenomenon of true crime documentaries, and how false confessions happen more often than you’d think.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 5 — Gabriele Contessa
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode five of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Gabriele Contessa (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy) about what it means to be a philosopher in the 21st century and how social media can challenge our relationships to trust and critical thinking.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 4 — Ellen Waterman
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode four of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Ellen Waterman (Professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture and Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada) about pre-concert power naps and the importance of improvisation.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 3 — Derek Mueller
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode three of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Derek Mueller (Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies) about his work as the designated “ice guy” at the Water and Ice Research Lab, how climate is not the same as weather, and the critical difference that seven degrees in temperature can make.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Episode 2 — Danielle Kinsey
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On episode two of The Approach, host Phillip Primeau interviews Danielle Kinsey (Assistant Professor, Department of History) about her research on Victorian London, the legacy of Jack the Ripper, and how the lives of the women he killed are the real stories worth talking about.
About Carleton's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada offers 38 areas of study at the undergraduate and graduate level. Our researchers work across a wide range of disciplines, and engage with scholarly, community, and public audiences to address the world's most pressing and complex questions.
Visit us online at carleton.ca/fass