Nadia Ellis's guest appearances

Nadia Ellis

Chapter & Verse

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Berkeley Talks

SWITCH Aotearoa

Life, Deconstructed

Mark Bittman

Tina Sharkey

Adam Hochschild

Hua Hsu

Jeff Chang

Jenna Wortham

Brooke Goldstein

Alexandra Waldman

Namwali Serpell

Michelle Morgan

Jane Ferguson

Adeena Sussman

Rosh Mahtani

Katrina Dodson

Brigid Kaelin

OwlTail

Adriana Green, a Ph.D. student in the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley, and Nadia Ellis, an associate professor in the Department of English, discuss Sarah Broom's The Yellow House, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The memoir, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East, tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home."I am a diaspora scholar and I've had to explain what my field is to many people," says Ellis, who specializes in Black diasporic, Caribbean and postcolonial literatures and cultures. "Sometimes people seem to not understand what the word 'diaspora' means. And I think this is such a wonderful book that one can offer as an example of what it means to feel as if one is both from one place and also displaced from that place — to feel as if the place that claims you maybe most closely is also the place where you can't live, which is an extraordinary and painful and very, very idiosyncratic feeling to have. That's very characteristic actually of Black life and Black life in America."Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adriana Green, a Ph.D. student in the <a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies</a> at UC Berkeley, and Nadia Ellis, an associate professor in the <a href="https://english.berkeley.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Department of English</a>, discuss Sarah Broom's The Yellow House, winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The memoir, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East, tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home."I am a diaspora scholar and I've had to explain what my field is to many people," says Ellis, who specializes in Black diasporic, Caribbean and postcolonial literatures and cultures. "Sometimes people seem to not understand what the word 'diaspora' means. And I think this is such a wonderful book that one can offer as an example of what it means to feel as if one is both from one place and also displaced from that place — to feel as if the place that claims you maybe most closely is also the place where you can't live, which is an extraordinary and painful and very, very idiosyncratic feeling to have. That's very characteristic actually of Black life and Black life in America."<a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/01/13/berkeley-talks-the-yellow-house" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.</a><a href="https://app.sessions.blue/browse/track/5f5d744d-4965-474e-be7c-099b32d8876d" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Music by Blue Dot Sessions.</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Adriana Green and Nadia Ellis discuss 'The Yellow House'

Nadia Ellis grew up in a religious, tight-knit community in Milan, at once under a microscope, and also an outsider. Several times she picked up, packed up, and started her life anew. Her path? Going from a PhD in discourse analysis - learning the art of persuasion - to hosting her own vegan cooking show shot across Italy. We chat about having the courage to always try new things, keeping your eyes open to unexpected opportunities, and learning that our identity doesn't need to be one thing - or something other people understand. 

Nadia Ellis grew up in a religious, tight-knit community in Milan, at once under a microscope, and also an outsider. Several times she picked up, packed up, and started her life anew. Her path? Going from a PhD in discourse analysis - learning the art of persuasion - to hosting her own vegan cooking show shot across Italy. We chat about having the courage to always try new things, keeping your eyes open to unexpected opportunities, and learning that our identity doesn't need to be one thing - or something other people understand.

Cooking Show Host Nadia Ellis on Leaving Religion, Taking Big Risks & Finding Her Lane

The New York Times Magazine's Jenna Wortham -- one of the most stimulating writers on technology, media, race, sexuality, and anything else she puts her mind to -- in conversation with Nadia Ellis, a professor of English at UC Berkeley. Wortham recounts her own development as a journalist; reflects on the challenges — psychological and even physical — of reporting on our often toxic political scene; and sketches some of the blindspots of the high tech industry.

C&V #8: Jenna Wortham with Nadia Ellis on race, gender and social media in the age of Trump