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#43 The Arabian Nights & Christmas Creeps

We had technical difficulty at the beginning..mainly because I pulled the headphone jack out and we didn't notice. In this episode there is so much Disney talk Jana is going to lose her mind....and we discover her childhood (and adult) crush. Jack gives us the origins of the 1,001 Arabian Nights an…

Episode 2311: Martin Puchner looks forward to 2045 when the whole world will have access to high quality education

Amidst all the doom and gloom of the current zeitgeist, Harvard University literature professor & DLD 2025 speaker Martin Puchner remains cautiously optimistic about our high tech future. Reflecting on cultural and technological changes over the past 20 years. Puchner explains how digital technolog…

From Cave Walls to Chatbots – Gen AI and Culture

Gen AI is nothing new; it’s just a natural continuation of the historical practices of cultural mixing and preservation. This is the argument from Martin Puchner, Harvard professor and award-winning author. In this episode, Carla Buzasi, WGSN’s CEO, and Martin discuss the evolution of culture in th…

The crisis of the new | Stanley Fish, Claire Hynes, and Martin Puchner

Is genuine originality a realistic goal for artists? From fashion to fantasy, entertainment to enterprise, we seek the 'new' as the means to originality, change, and creativity. And for the most part, we imagine the new is always identifiable as a radical break from the past. But the nature of the …

Wednesday, January 17th: Bryan Lee, Matt Bailey, Martin Puchner, Ron Faucheux

Senior Trooper Bryan Lee of Louisiana State Police on road conditions after a night of ice and historically low temperatures. Matt Bailey, founder of Fair Districts Louisiana on a redistricting summit slated at LSU’s Manship School this Friday. Author Martin Puchner on his book, “The Written World…

Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he also serves as the founding director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research. Puchner completed his BA at the Universität Konstanz; MA at the University of Cal…

Ep. 148 Writing: How the Written Word Quietly Shaped Civilization

Here it is! My first ever live History Fix episode! This live show was recorded at College of the Albemarle in Manteo, North Carolina on January 28th. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to each person who braved freezing temperatures to see this show live. For all the rest, here is the recording…

The Case for Cultural Appropriation: Martin Puchner on how culture is simultaneously owned by nobody and by all of us

EPISODE 1372: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the Harvard professor and author of CULTURE Martin Puchner about how culture - from cave art to K-Pop - is the syncretic story of all of us. Nobody has the "right" to it, he says. And we all "own" it. ​Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Prof…

Martin Puchner: How to Fix the Environment? A Four-Thousand-Year-Old Reading List for Confronting Our Climate Emergency

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Martin Puchner, author of Literature for a Changing Planet…

The Epic of Gilgamesh – World's oldest literature is surprisingly “modern” | Jaipur Bytes 2026

The oldest known work of literature is far from a dusty relic. Beyond antiquity, the significance of the Epic of Gilgamesh lies in the perenniality of its themes.   From humanity's relationship with nature to environmental destruction, mortality, and civilization, Martin Puchner explains why this M…