New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Literature

Darkness at Noon

A Novel

Arthur Koestler

Hosted by Ian Drake
Philip Boehm, who has translated over thirty books from German and Polish into English, has translated a recently discovered German manuscript Darkness at Noon (Scribner, 2019) by the late Arthur Koestler. Originally published in 1940, Koestler’s book eventually became an international bestseller. He told in fictional form the realistic story of a former Soviet Communist Party leader who became a victim of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. The story is loosely …
Historical Fiction

The Sky Worshipers

F. M. Deemyad

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
There have been more than a few contenders for the title of “World Conqueror,” but eight hundred years after the fact, Genghis Khan’s claim to the title remains unmatched. Over …
Critical Theory

Warped

Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism

Peter Drucker

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The last several decades have seen tremendous political and cultural strides forward for the LGBTQ+ community with both the legislative and cultural recognition helping many secure a more safe and …
Popular Culture

Millennials Killed the Video Star

MTV's Transition to Reality Programming

Amanda Ann Klein

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In Millennials Killed the Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming (Duke University Press, 2021), Dr. Amanda Ann Klein examines the historical, cultural, and industrial factors leading to MTV's shift away from music videos …
Science, Technology, and Society

Break on Through

Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

Lucas Richert

Hosted by Chad Valasek
"Antipsychiatry," Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. The upheavals of the 1960s gave way to a decade …
Indian Ocean World

Fleeting Agencies

A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya

Arunima Datta

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South …
Science, Technology, and Society

The Value of Science in Space Exploration

James S. J. Schwartz

Hosted by John Traphagan
The Value of Science in Space Exploration (Oxford UP, 2020) provides a rigorous assessment of the value of scientific knowledge and understanding in the context of contemporary space exploration. It …
South Asian Studies

Outcaste Bombay

City Making and the Politics of the Poor

Juned Shaikh

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
What is the history of caste in a city? Indian modernizers assumed that the various processes of modernity, including industrial capitalism, would attenuate caste and create the possibility of new …
Psychology

Managing Microaggressions

Addressing Everyday Racism in Therapeutic Spaces

Monnica T. Williams

Hosted by Debbie Sorensen
Microaggressions have been identified as a common and troubling cause of low retention and poor psychotherapy outcomes for people of color. All therapists want and intend to be helpful to …
Sports

Pro Sports in 1993

A Signature Season in Football, Basketball, Hockey and Baseball

David Ostrowsky

Hosted by Paul Knepper
America and Canada both saw historic sports milestones in 1993. While the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bulls reigned supreme, the Toronto Blue Jays won a second consecutive World Series on …
Architecture

The Bird-Friendly City

Creating Safe Urban Habitats

Timothy Beatley

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary …
The Future of Higher Education

An Introduction to "The Future of Higher Education" Podcast

David Finegold

Hosted by David Finegold
Dr. David Finegold, the President of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA and international expert on education and training systems and how they relate to changes underway in the global economy …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Florian Faes

Entrepreneur and Managing Director

Hosted by Richard Lucas
In this episode Florian Feas describes his route into setting up Slator: to solve problems he became aware of, as a result of working in the translation industry in senior …
The Future of Higher Education

Free College is Bad Public Policy

David Finegold

Hosted by David Finegold
One of the major debates surrounding higher education is whether to make college – whether 2- or 4-year public colleges and universities – free for all qualified applicants. Dr. David …
Book of the Day/ Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast

Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work

Alison Clancey, Kelly Go, Lily Wong, and Yuri Doolan

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode features three interviews with organizers and scholars concerned with Asian migrant sex work: SWAN Vancouver (Alison Clancey and Kelly Go), Dr. Lily Wong, and Dr. Yuri Doolan. On March 16, 2021, Robert Aaron Long targeted three Atlanta-area spas and massage parlors and killed eight people: Delania Ashley Yuan González, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Paul Andre Michels, Hyun Jung Grant, Soon Chung Park, Suncha Kim, and Yong Ae Yue …
Anthropology

Anthropology and Radical Humanism

Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race

Jack Glazier

Hosted by Alex Golub
Paul Radin was one of the founding generation of American cultural anthropologists: A student of Franz Boas,  and famed ethnographer of the Winnebago. Yet little is known about Radin's life. A leftist who was …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

Suicide

The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

Jason Manning

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide’s social causes …
Psychology

MeaningFULL

23 Life-Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, and Body Image Issues

Alli Spotts-de Lazzer

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
MeaningFULL: 23 Life Changing Stories of Conquering Dieting, Weight, & Body Image Issues (Unsolicited Press, 2021) is a blend of motivational self-help, memoir, psychology, and health and wellness. Alli Spotts-De Lazzer …
Literary Studies

The Shortest Way with Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel

Michael B. Prince

Hosted by Akash Ondaatje
A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel (University of Virginia Press …
Anthropology

Cartographies of Youth Resistance

Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico

Maurice Rafael Magaña

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico (U California Press, 2020), based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant …
Art

The Making of the American Creative Class

New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism

Shannan Clark

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the United States …
Science

Extraterrestrial

The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Avi Loeb

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi …
History

Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine

Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers

Dina Porat

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Vengeance and Retribution Are Mine: Community, the Holocaust, and Abba Kovner's Avengers (Pardes, 2019) is a book by Israeli historian Dina Porat on Nakam, a small group of Holocaust survivors …
Animal Studies

Enter the Animal

Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality

Teya Brooks Pribac

Hosted by Lauren Moreau
For centuries, science has largely dismissed the idea that animals experience complex emotions, despite the fact the most humans who’ve spent time in the company of animals would argue …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with John Sexton (1 of 4)

President Emeritus of New York University

Hosted by David Finegold
New York University (NYU) President Emeritus and consummate story-teller John Sexton describes how his childhood experiences as a young entrepreneur growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn prepared him …
East Asian Studies

Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance

Essays on the Shishuo xinyu

Jack W. Chen

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu (Harvard UP, 2021) is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China—and arguably of the …
Book of the Day/ Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Operation White Rabbit

LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King

Dennis McDougal

Hosted by Emily Dufton
Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King (Simon and Schuster, 2020) traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King”: William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a scientific prodigy, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, a man who believed LSD would save lives, and one of the first …
Italian Studies

Old Schools

Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress

Ramsey McGlazer

Hosted by Ellen Nerenberg
Ramsey McGlazer's Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), traces the ways in which a group of modernist cultural practitioners (thinkers, politicians, artists, poets, novelists …
Literature

Road Out of Winter

Alison Stine

Hosted by Ellee Achten
Sometimes you come across a book that pulls you in from every angle. It offers you the space to explore your own fears and hopes all while taking you on …
Interpretive Political and Social Science

Interviewing in Social Science Research

A Relational Approach

Lee Ann Fujii

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
In this very special episode of New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science we feature Lee Ann Fujii’s Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 2018), which …
History

Embodying Geopolitics

Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

Nicola Pratt

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK) about Pratt’s …
Gender and Sexuality

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm

Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe

Sasha Roseneil and Isabel Crowhurst

Hosted by Jana Byars
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Studies at University College London joins today to …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Policing Prostitution

Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia

Siobhán Hearne

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Siobhán Hearne's Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford UP, 2021) examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until …
African Studies

Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Aesthetics of Power

Duane Jethro

Hosted by Susan Thomson
Duane Jethro’s Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a terrific book. In it, Jethro develops a novel analytical framework to understand …
European Studies

The Road to Monetary Union

Richard Pomfret

Hosted by Tim Jones
“Economics is the long-run driver” in the history of Europe’s monetary union, writes Richard Pomfret in the first of a new Cambridge Elements series on the Economics of European Integration: The …
African Studies

Street Archives and City Life

Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania

Emily Callaci

Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Emily Callaci's book Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2017) tells the histories of the young migrants who shaped the city of Dar es …
History

State Formation and Shared Sovereignty

The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1690

Christopher W. Close

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on the New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network, we’re here today with Christopher Close, Associate Professor of History at St. Joseph’s University in the …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with John Sexton (2 of 4)

President Emeritus of New York University

Hosted by David Finegold
We continue the discussion with NYU President Emeritus John Sexton who shares how it took an intervention from his close friends to get him to give up his career as …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex

Criminalizing Sex

A Unified Liberal Theory

Stuart P. Green

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law …
Animal Studies

The Doggie in the Window

How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come From

Rory Kress

Hosted by Mark Molloy
When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn’t think twice before bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and was handed paperwork showing Izzie …
Middle Eastern Studies

Stories My Father Told Me

Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib

Hosted by Valerie Saint-Rossy
Family stories are the texture of the human fabric. From every land, from every time, they bring the past to life for young ears. In the beginning of the twentieth …
Book of the Day/ Literary Studies

Laughing to Keep from Dying

African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century

Danielle Fuentes Morgan

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
The election of Barack Obama propelled the idea of a post-racial United States, or that the country had moved beyond race as a defining feature of social difference and beyond racism as an everyday reality. Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan examines the ways in which African American comedians and cultural producers took aim at such claims through the lens of satire. In her book, Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with John Sexton (3 of 4)

President Emeritus of New York University

Hosted by David Finegold
NYU President Emeritus John Sexton provides a detailed history of the evolution of NYU into the world’s first, global network university. This began with the recognition that New York itself …
History

A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations

Colonial Era to the Present

Christopher R. Dietrich

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
The field of US foreign-relations history is not what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Earlier historians narrowly defined the field as diplomatic history­­ and kept vast …
Food

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook

Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Consumption and the Literary Cookbook, edited by Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius (published 2021 by Routledge) examines the ways in which recipe authors and readers engage with one another through …
Academic Life

A Field Guide to Grad School

A Conversation with Jessica McCrory Calarco

Jessica McCrory Calarco

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Science Fiction

The Rain Heron

A Novel

Robbie Arnott

Hosted by Rob Wolf
At the end of its life, the phoenix bursts into flames and a younger bird rises from the ashes. The roc is large enough to carry an elephant in its …
Christian Studies

Singing the Congregation

How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community

Monique M. Ingalls

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
The choices that churches make about their musical style do more than simply change the sounds one hears in their gatherings, but actually form certain kinds of community. So Monique …
Asian Review of Books

Tokyo Before Tokyo

Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

Timon Screech

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1800, the Shogun’s chief minister wrote the following about the city of Edo: "Someone said that if Edo did not have frequent fires, then people would be more showy …
Indian Ocean World

Empire of Convicts

Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia

Anand A. Yang

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021) (University of California Press, 2021) focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia …
Ethnographic Marginalia

New Ethnographies of the Global South

In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido

Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the University of …
SSEAC Stories

The Subject and the Partner in Malaysia

Research Partnerships in Southeast Asia Series

Fiona Lee

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID-19, it has become clear that …
Political Science

America's Peacemakers

The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights

Bertram Levine and Grande Lum

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The Community Relations Service (CRS) came into being alongside the Voting Rights Act—as part of the Act itself. And this organization was integrated into the Voting Rights Act in 196 …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

The CEO Test

Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders

Adam Bryant and Kevin Sharer

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Adam Bryant about his new book (co-authored with Kevin Sharer), The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders (Harvard Business Press, 2021). Adam …
Book of the Day/ American West

Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion

Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo

Elyssa Ford

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Imagine a rodeo rider atop a bucking bronco, hat in hand, straining to remain astride. Is the rider in your mind's eye white? Is the person male? Popular imaginings and high level, televised, professional rodeo circuits have created a stereotyped image of who rodeo is by and for, but it is far too limited an image, and one that does not reflect reality. In Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and …
Music

Ballet in the Cold War

A Soviet-American Exchange

Anne Searcy

Hosted by Kristen Turner
During the Cold War, cultural diplomacy was one way that the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union tried to cultivate goodwill towards their countries. As Anne Searcy …
Geography

The Death of Asylum

Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago

Alison Mountz

Hosted by D. Kadich
The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) arrives at an extraordinarily consequential moment for the future of asylum protections. Even as more and …
Education

Forms of Education

Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy

Emile Bojesen

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
Emile Bojesen's book Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy (Routledge, 2019) analyses the tenets of the humanist legacy in terms of its educational ethos, examining …
Islamic Studies

Transformations of Tradition

Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity

Junaid Quadri

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In his much anticipated and equally brilliant book Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity (Oxford UP, 2021), Junaid Quadri explores the productive tensions, fissures, and creative interpretive projects …
Jewish Studies

Don Issac Abravanel

An Intellectual Biography

Cedric Cohen-Skalli

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437–1508) was an important forerunner of Jewish modernity. A merchant, banker, and court financier; a scholar versed in both Jewish and Christian writings; a preacher and exegete …
Japanese Studies

Transpacific Correspondence

Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies

Yuichiro Onishi and Fumiko Sakashita

Hosted by Felicity Stone-Richards
Transpacific Correspondences: Dispatches from Japan’s Black Studies, an essay collection edited by Dr. Yuichiro Onishi and Dr Fumiko Sakashita, introduces a little-known, but critical history of Black Studies in Japan …
Christian Studies

Glimpses of the New Creation

Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts

W. David O. Taylor and Jeremy Begbie

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Churches have long sought the arts as a vehicle to communicate divine transcendence and to form worshipers. In Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts (Eerdmans, 2019) …
Military History

The Last Platoon

A Novel of the Afghanistan War

Bing West

Hosted by Jeffrey Bristol
The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War (Bombardier Books, 2020) is a riveting book of infantry ground combat. As a work of fiction it is superb, showing the …
Popular Culture

My Private Lennon

Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed

Sibbie O'Sullivan

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In My Private Lennon: Explorations From a Fan Who Never Screamed (Mad Creek Press, 2020), Sibbie O'Sullivan offers a new point of view from which to consider the Beatles’ impact on society and on …
Philosophy

Marcus Aurelius

John Sellars

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations is one of the most popular philosophical works by sales to the public, while in academic philosophy he is considered somewhat of a philosophical lightweight. In Marcus …
Politics & Society

Debating the Drug War

Race, Politics, and Media in the War on Drugs Debate

Michael Rosino

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practices and drug laws. The term evokes …
History

Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Mark A Waddell

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, Mark A. Waddell, Associate professor of History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science in the Department of History at Michigan State University in beautiful East …
History

Resisting Independence

Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic

Brad A. Jones

Hosted by Mark Klobas
The American Revolution has traditionally been presented as one of the thirteen colonies standing up to a tyrannical empire. Not only does this gloss over the involvement of the thousands …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with John Sexton (4 of 4)

President Emeritus of New York University

Hosted by David Finegold
We conclude the discussion with NYU President Emeritus John Sexton by discussing key points from his book, “Standing for Reason: Universities in a Dogmatic Age,” where he describes the pivotal role of …
Literature

A Fourteen-Hour Lesson in Theosophy

Edgar Garbelotto

Hosted by Emily Everett
Writer and translator Edgar Garbelotto speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his short story “A Fourteen-Hour Lesson in Theosophy,” which appears in Issue 20 of The Common magazine. The story …
Book of the Day/ World Affairs

Lie Machines

How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Philip N. Howard

Hosted by Medha Prasanna
Technology is breaking politics - what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political conversations, and jeopardize our democracies. With massive amounts of social media and public …
European Studies

The Legal History of the European Banking Union

How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market

Pedro Gustavo Teixeira

Hosted by Tim Jones
Today I talked to Pedro Gustavo Teixeira about his new book The Legal History of the European Banking Union: How European Law Led to the Supranational Integration of the Single Financial Market …
LGBTQ+ Studies

Welcome to Fairyland

Queer Miami before 1940

Julio Capó Jr.

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)highlights how transnational forces—including (im)migration, trade, and tourism—to and from the Caribbean shaped Miami’s queer past. The book …
History

Ireland's New Traditionalists

Fianna Fáil Republicanism and Gender, 1926-1938

Kenneth Shonk

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network we are joined by Kenneth L. Shonk, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to talk about …
Jewish Studies

Salvage Poetics

Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

Sheila E. Jelen

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies (Wayne State University Press, 2020), Sheila Jelen explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish …
History

Mobilizing Black Germany

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

Tiffany N. Florvil

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
In this globe-spanning work, Florvil uncovers the manifold activities Black German women undertook in the 1980s and 1990s to resist and challenge racism, sexism, and homophobia at home and abroad …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with Richard K. Miller (1 of 3)

Founding President of Olin College of Engineering

Hosted by David Finegold
This is the first of three episodes featuring Richard K. Miller, the Founding President of Olin College of Engineering, in Needham, MA. Olin was created in 1997, by at the …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Mungo Keulemans

CEO and Entrepreneur

Hosted by Richard Lucas
Mungo Keulemans talks about growing up in South Africa, working in the family business, his army experiences, his move to Europe, Japan and back to Europe. We hear about his …
Academic Life

Pandemic Perspectives from a Recent College Graduate

A Discussion with Amy Sumerfield

Amy Sumerfield

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Critical Theory

Abolishing Freedom

A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism

Frank Ruda

Hosted by Dominik Finkelde
Frank Ruda's book Abolishing Freedom. A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism (University of Nebraska Press 2016) presents a compelling reading of authors diverse as Martin Luther, Descartes, Kant …
History

Monumental

Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana

Brian K. Mitchell, Barrington S. Edwards and Nick Weldon

Hosted by Michael Vann
Dr. Brian K. Mitchell describes Reconstruction as the most misunderstood period in American history. In the Jim Crow era, there was a concerted effort to reverse the achievements of African …
Law

Human Dignity in Context

Dieter Grimm, Alexandra Kemmerer, and Christoph Möllers

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Human dignity is the key term that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights placed at the center of legal discourse on a global level. In 1949, Germany incorporated the concept …