 | IDEAS airs Monday to Friday on CBC Radio One
at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) and 4 a.m. (4:30 a.m. NT) | |  | Monday, October 07, 2024 | |  | What’s a university for? It’s an ancient question demanding a new answer in an era of polarization and deep division. Writer Randy Boyagoda offers his vision. (Submitted by the Humanities Research Group/University of Windsor) | | | MONDAY, OCTOBER 7 | | | Thinking Out Loud Together: Randy Boyagoda | | After the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, encampments popped up across university campuses, followed by intense scrutiny and several resignations of several presidents at prominent universities. Underlying the controversies was a simple question that has no simple answer: what is a university for? That question has been around for centuries, and it's come back, full force. Writer Randy Boyagoda makes the case for universities being a place where we can think out loud together. | | | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 | | | Manifesto: October Crisis | | In the fall of 1970, Quebec Separatist group Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) escalated their campaign by kidnapping British diplomat James Cross, and murdering government official Pierre Laporte, sparking the October Crisis. One of the group's demands was the reading of the FLQ manifesto on all media outlets in Quebec — and CBC/Radio-Canada complied. In this documentary, Geoff Turner, host of the CBC Podcast Recall: How To Start A Revolution examines the impact and legacy of the manifesto, and how it still has relevance today. *This episode originally aired on October 13, 2020. | | | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 | | | Elements Series: Earth and Water with Robert Macfarlane | Life depends on four elements — earth, water, air, and fire. Renowned author Robert Macfarlane has described his work as being about the relationship between landscape and the human heart. As part of a series on the elements in the Anthropocene, Macfarlane talks about how that relationship with earth and water has changed. Humanity has become a transformative force of planetary proportions to the point where we are altering the very nature of the elements, with grave implications for the planet and us. | | | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 | | | Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step One) | | Choose your country. It's the first step towards finding the healthy variety of patriotic love. But what sort of 'choice' is it? IDEAS producer Tom Howell speaks with exiles, nationalists, dual citizens, and people whose 'country' doesn't officially exist, in a quest for peace on fraught terrain: modern patriotism. | | | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11 | | | The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp | In 2015, the poet-musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski made a strange discovery at the site of the former Stutthof concentration camp in Poland — something he calls "a carpet of abandoned shoes." But these were more than shoes: they're both artifacts and symbols of the Holocaust — as well as a flashpoint of nationalist denialism and historical amnesia — especially in the current climate of authoritarianism, and the rising ghosts of neo-fascism. *This episode originally aired on May 2, 2019. | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
Get the latest or catch up on past episodes of Ideas, CBC Radio's program of contemporary thought. Subscribe to the podcast | | | |  | Prussian philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt created the world's first education system. He believed a better world starts with a society of self-aware, independent thinkers. (Royal Collection Trust/Wikipedia) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, OCTOBER 7 at 2 p.m. | | | | | Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the education system as we know it today. At the heart of his philosophy of education was the concept of Bildung — reaching one's inner potential. Yet over the years, as his public education system was adopted, Bildung may well have been the critical piece left out. *This is part one of a two-part series. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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