16.05.2018 - The Almkanal is an extensive canal system that runs through the City of Salzburg. In EPISODE TEN we speak with the Almmeister Wolfgang Peter and the Alm Gatekeeper Kurt Klappacher to learn more about the social, political and economic...
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 EPISODE FOURTEEN we look at how Alpine folk culture has made it into global popular culture on the back of the Krampus. In a conversation with local cultural historian Christoph Schwaiger we look at both the Krampus of yesteryear and the one...
31.01.2022 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. November 2020:Jesmyn Ward, ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ (2017) Maria, Sandra and Andrew discuss an extraordinary novel: an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. This road novel...
17.05.2018 - We finish our summer reading of C.C. Long’s “Home Geography” in EPISODE THIRTY FIVE. Lessons 33 through 45 round out this primer for developing our own geographical imaginations. Long reminds us, “All around are illustrations of lake...
17.05.2018 - In Pedagogy of the Compressed we venture through different spaces of teaching and learning with Dr. Rich Heyman of the University of Texas and ride upcycled bicycles through northern California with Seth Dow, Andy Knox, Hannah Halvorsen...
16.05.2018 - The Untersberg Mountain dominates the landscape visible to the south of the City of Salzburg and captures the popular geographical imagination through the legends and myths surrounding it. Come walk up and around this sacred mountain and explore...
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...
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 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...