For a Living

Daniel Lazar

Committed to empathic engagement, For a Living explores working lives. I am humbled by the support of my listeners and grateful to my guests, who have been vulnerable, reflective, and insightful. read less
Society & CultureSociety & Culture

Episodes

Black German History Matters! with Dr. Tiffany Florvil
Jul 11 2023
Black German History Matters! with Dr. Tiffany Florvil
Dr. Tiffany Florvil is an historian focusing on histories of post-1945 Europe, the African diaspora, social movements, Black internationalism, gender and sexuality. It's intersectional, international, transnational work.  Check out Tiffany's website where you can check out her robust CV. perhaps follow her on Twitter @tnflorvil. We discussed Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement and Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories and alluded to various projects in process. Tiffany mentioned many important intellectuals, "quotidian" and otherwise, including: May Ayim, Claudia Jones, Audre Lorde, and Shirley Graham Dubois. We also discussed Die Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland Bund e.V (The Initiative Black People in Germany). Tiffany urges you to read Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out.  Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon.Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design. Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Found in Translation with Patrick Baker
Mar 21 2023
Found in Translation with Patrick Baker
Dr. Patrick Baker is a translator, subtitler, and language consultant. Learn more about Patrick on his website. Perhaps peruse his robust academic CV. Per our conversation, Patrick invites you to explore:J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue. The compelling art of his brilliant wife, Katrin Grote-Baker. The translation work of his distinguished neighbors, Heather Kimber and Nathan Fritz. William Weaver, who is Patrick's North Star for translation. If you're reading Humberto Eco in English, you're also reading Weaver. Hobbes' translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Der Morgen der Welt: Geschichte der Renaissance by Bernd Roeck. Or, maybe better yet, wait for the forthcoming English translation!All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski, who died on the same day and at the same hospital where Patrick's daughter was born. One day Patrick might translate this. Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon.Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your peopleSpecial thanks to Liv Hunt for our logo design.  Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★