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In this episode Jesse Zixi Sun discusses his new book, Salvation and Revolution: A Twentieth Century Odyssey of the Chinese Protestant Mind, with Chloë Starr. They discuss the relationship between national modernization and religious salvation in China, and the disproportionate civic and social engagement of Christian intellectuals in national life in the early twentieth century.
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In this episode Naomi Thurston discusses her new book, Moltmann in China: Reception and Dialogue, with Chloë Starr. They discuss the reception of Moltmann’s theology—from despair and hope to eco-theology—among Chinese scholars, and Moltmann’s own forays into comparative work with his studies of the Daodejing.
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In this episode Alex Chow discusses his new edited book, Chinese Heritage in British Christianity: more than foreigners, with Chloë Starr. They talk about the history of the Chinese church in the UK, Chinese heritage in British Christianity, and the diversity of Chinese-speaking congregations today.
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In this episode Peng Yin discusses his new book, Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and early Chinese Ethics, with Chloë Starr. They talk about moral development and what it means to be good in the thinking Mencius, Xunzi and Laozi—and how these interact with Aquinas’ thought, as well as historic European readings of Chinese philosophy.
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In this episode, Stephanie Wong discusses her new book, Making Catholicism Chinese: The Catholic Church in a Modernizing China, with Chloë Starr. The conversation focuses on the life and work of the Lazarist priest-turned-Chinese citizen, Vincent Lebbe, and his work for church indigenization in the early twentieth century.
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In this week’s episode of the YJBM Science News podcast, co-hosts Hanna and Roxanna explore papers that take us all around different organs in the body! Can we 3D print functional blood vessels? How does the brain spy on our organs? Find out the answers to these questions and more as we discuss recent Yale-affiliated research in biology and medicine.
Papers featured in this episode:
“Development and deployment of a functional 3D-bioprinted blood vessel”: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93276-y
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/scientists-successfully-implant-bioprinted-aorta-in-rats/
“Typhoid toxin causes neuropathology by disrupting the blood–brain barrier”:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-025-02000-z
https://news.yale.edu/2025/05/09/how-typhoid-fever-triggers-severe-neurological-symptoms
“Adaptation to Volumetric Compression Drives an Apoptosis-Resistant and Invasive Phenotype in Liver Cancer”:
https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0859
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/new-study-finds-that-physical-pressure-escalates-liver-cancer-aggression/
“The subfornical organ is a nucleus for gut-derived T cells that regulate behaviour”:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09050-7
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01655-2
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/t-cells-take-up-residence-in-the-healthy-brain-via-a-gut-fat-brain-axis/
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You’ve embarked on an Ivy Plus Exchange program to do archival research in Portland, Oregon in your fifth year as a Sociology PhD Candidate. Covid hits, the archives close, what are you going to do? In this episode, we hear Dana’s story about finding a place within university life after more than a decade of trials, tribulations, and ultimately, successes with her “pivoted” dissertation project. We learn that time wasn’t wasted time, but instead a pause that allowed Dana to reflect on what about universities she loved and wanted to keep, and what she wanted to let go. If you’re curious about what I like to call “academic-adjacent” roles within the university, or roles that directly connect to and work with university scholars and teachers, this episode is for you.
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When asked to give a presentation in your master’s program, Mario’s story shows that it could lead you to a doctoral program at Yale by way of a watershed connection and eventual mentorship with an interested professor. In this episode, Mario Soriano Jr. describes his educational pathway from his undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering at the University of the Philippines, to his master’s degree in Sustainability at the United Nations University and University of Tokyo, and to his PhD in Environmental Studies at Yale University’s School of the Environment. Through these programs, Mario both enhanced and leveraged his skillsets in the study of agricultural water systems. Mario also demystifies how STEM students often find their labs. Along the way, we’ll talk about why it’s important to attend workshops tailored to grad writing in earlier stages of the degree program, like prospectus panels, especially to manage feelings of imposter stress.
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Ryan Darr, YDS Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment and an expert on multispecies justice, discusses rapidly accelerating species extinctions, why they matter from an ethical and theological perspective, and why responses to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss requires less individual action and more new kinds of communities.
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/species-extinctions-and-why-they-matter-quadcast-interview-ryan-darr
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Are you an “Architect” or a “Scrounger” in your writing process, or maybe a little bit of both? Join Chihiro and me to talk about designing a holistic writing practice that meets your style and deadlines, especially for interdisciplinary research methods. Chihiro also talks about her efforts to promote wellness resources for graduate students and healing patients in hospital settings through music therapy. While your research doesn’t have to tie directly into real-world applications, Chihiro’s study of ancient medical notions of holistic health emphasizes the importance of weaving architectural and musical beauty into places of care.