After asking to go outside my dogs decided to try to wait out the oppressive heat (fat chance), and while mostly sheltering indoors I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was a great session on re-mapping Patuxet through a Wampanoag lens with Brad Lopes, Kimberly Toney, Allyson LaForge, and Christine Delucia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNw8om4fbo

Next was an excellent talk by Hazel Markus on cultural defaults at CASBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5X5Y7ekZk

Next was an important talk by Lise Vesterlund on the gendered nature of "non-promotable" tasks at work at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z35AF-TE8Y

Last was "We the Corporations" by Adam Winkler. This is an absolute can't miss historical and legal analysis of the ascendant rise of corporate rights in US law and legal precedent, culminating in the already infamous Citizens United decision. Winkler demonstrates how far these interpretations strayed from original conceptions of corporate rights, the shaky legal foundations (including straight up lies by Supreme Court justices in their opinions) the building blocks of the current state of affairs are based upon, and the gradual imposition of new laws supporting these novel rights. It was also fascinating/horrifying to learn how much more companies have brought 14th amendment claims to the Supreme Court compared to Black people, with it becoming quite clear that most corporate rights have been gained through co-opting laws that were never intended to apply to companies. For people interested in law, corporate law, politics, management, and US history more broadly, this book is a must read. Highly recommend https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871407122