With a Side of Knowledge
With a Side of Knowledge is a podcast that allows you to get to know a fascinating scholar or professional through an informal conversation about their work. Each episode is about 30 minutes long and recorded over brunch at the Morris Inn.
On Heroes and Humanity’s Greatest Invention
The author of some two dozen novels under both his own name and an alliterative pseudonym, John Banville is best known for his book The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize....
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On Evolution and Defining Creativity
Agustín Fuentes is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Notre Dame. He has published more than 150...
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On Hercules, Healthcare, and Our Common Finitude
Dan Hinshaw is a professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Michigan and a consultant in palliative medicine at the University of Michigan Geriatrics Center. The author or...
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On Social Media and One in a Trillion Success
Vamsi Kanuri is an assistant professor of marketing in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. His areas of expertise include marketing analytics, digital marketing, and...
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On Protests, Abraham Lincoln, and Tupac
Lisa Mueller is an assistant professor of political science at Macalester College who is spending the 2018–19 academic year as a residential fellow at Notre Dame’s Institute...
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On Shakespeare and Your Magical Self
Madeleine Hyland is an actress, singer, and writer who has appeared in numerous theatre productions across the UK. She visited campus with Actors From The London Stage, one of the...
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On Photography and When Lightning Strikes
At Notre Dame, the name “Matt Cashore” is synonymous with photography. His 20-plus years visually chronicling the University, its faculty, and its students have produced...
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On Good Stories and Coming Along for the Science
A New York Times bestselling author, Sam Kean has written four books on science—books with titles like The Disappearing Spoon and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons. So...
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On Writing and Saying Something True
For our season two premiere, host Ted Fox sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, a professor emerita at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Their...
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On Henry David Thoreau of Concord, Mass.
Here in the show’s season one finale, Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at Notre Dame, discusses her book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, which...
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On (TV) Comedies and Not Messing With the Magic
Except this time, host Ted Fox and his guest do something a little different: a live show during the University’s annual Reunion weekend. An Emmy award-winning movie producer,...
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On Big Data and Our Technological Future
An IBM Master Inventor, Hendrik Hamann holds approximately 100 patents and is currently helping to lead IBM’s worldwide activities in Internet of Things research. He and host...
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