17.05.2018 - What comes to mind when someone says, “CUBA?” Classic automobiles, Buena Vista, Che? Maybe you envision a socialist utopia? Or a maybe a communist dystopia? In EPISODE THIRTY TWO we invite geographer Johnny Finn to discuss US...
17.05.2018 - In EPISODE THIRTY ONE we use statistics to bring the world closer to home and to inform how we think about our place within the milieu. Forget about trying to understand 7.5 billion people. What if the world was a village of 100–each member...
17.05.2018 - In Dances with Bees we venture to the shores of Wolfgangsee to visit the apiary of Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch to see first-hand and explore how honeybees communicate their geographical (i.e. spatial) knowledge through dance. Joining us...
17.05.2018 - In A Great American Pilgrimage we walk 3500 kilometers from Maine to Georgia in the Eastern woods of the United States traversing the ridge-line of the oldest mountains in the world, the Appalachians. Join Sonia “Chulapa” Ibáñez and...
17.05.2018 - In Auf Deutsch Bitte we explore linguistic borrowings from German. Joining the show in conversation are Salzburg locals and Sprachgefüle Marie Damisch and Daniel Url. We discuss the...
17.05.2018 - In EPISODE TWENTY SEVEN we explore alternatives to the conventional world map and question how much this standard image of the world frames and limits our own imaginations of the globe. We speak with Julia Mia Stirnemann about her World Map...
17.05.2018 - In EPISODE TWENTY SIX we set up a pub-style quiz game for you to play at home with your friends and family. Many of us have had our geographical imaginations informed by geographical information that comes from atlases and encyclopedias. Have...
17.05.2018 - In Psychogeography 101 we discuss contemporary urban exploration practices with cultural theorist and psychogeographer Tina Richardson. After tracing back to the mid-twentieth century work of the Situationist International, we outline what...
17.05.2018 - In EPISODE TWENTY FOUR, Countries & Capitals, we seek to increase our geographic literacy by reviewing country names (in the order of most to least populated) while locating each within its region and naming its capital city. At the same...
17.05.2018 - Maps are ubiquitous in today’s world. Our geographical imaginations are both expanded and limited by their form. But, what is a map? Roughly 25 years ago academic geographers began to seriously question their taken-for-granted history....
17.05.2018 - Does a city have its own song? A hum and beat that makes it unique? Join us on this short expedition to record the soundscape produced by the everyday interactions of people and place in Old Town Salzburg. With microphone in hand we drift...
17.05.2018 - In EPISODE TWENTY ONE, Seeing Heimat Through a Lens, we discuss the power of photography to shape and frame sentiments and ideas about place-based national and regional identities in 1930s Austria. Art historian Dr. Elizabeth Cronin of the...
17.05.2018 - In EPISODE TWENTY, Sitting Near Borges, we look at the geographical imagination of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. We visit a park bench in Cambridge, Massachusetts in order to conjure up the spirit of his writings and discuss...
17.05.2018 - In the show’s 19th episode we test locals on their knowledge of the country of Paraguay while locating their own geographical imaginations along the way. We also invite two of the three Paraguayans living in Salzburg, the musicians Francisco...
