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Book of the Day/ South Asian Studies

A Part Apart

The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar

Ashok Gopal

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to be human. How and why did Ambedkar, who revered and cited the Gita till the 1930s, turn against Hinduism? What were his quarrels with Gandhi and Savarkar? Why did he come to see himself as Moses? How did the lessons …
MIT Press Podcast

X-Risk

How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction

Thomas Moynihan

Hosted by MIT Press
Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate …
British Studies

Friends of Israel

The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity

Hilary Frances Aked

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Is there such a thing as “the Israel lobby,” and how powerful is it really? Hilary Frances Aked's book Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity (Verso, 2023) provides a forensically researched …
Madison's Notes

Educating for Solitude

A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
What kind of person is our education system designed to create? Best-selling author and award-winning essayist William Deresiewicz discusses the failures of our higher education system, how it mis-conditions our …
Caribbean Studies

Channeling Knowledges

Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón

Hosted by Elena Igartuburu
Water is often tasked with upholding division through the imposition of geopolitical borders. We see this in the construction of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo on the US-Mexico border, as well …
Higher Education

Unequal Choices

How Social Class Shapes Where High-Achieving Students Apply to College

Yang Va Lor

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
High-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their socioeconomically advantaged peers with similar academic qualifications. A key reason for …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

Night Vision

Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods

Mariana Alessandri

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can even look …
Children's Literature

Dream Big, Laugh Often

And More Great Advice from the Bible

Hanoch Piven and Shira Hecht-Koller

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Hanoch Piven is an Israeli collage artist whose colorful and witty portraits have appeared over the last 30 years on both sides of the Atlantic: in most major American magazines …
Jewish Studies

The White Terror

Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921

Béla Bodó

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down, tortured, and murdered members of the Jewish community, as well as former supporters …
Business, Management, and Marketing

Get Your Startup Story Straight

The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs

David Riemer

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
Everyone loves a good story, but more than that, we as humans are programmed on a genetic level to share and learn all kinds of information through stories. When you …
Literature

Our Lying Kin

Claudia Hagadus Long

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
The story of middle-aged sisters Zara and Lilly begins in Long’s fast-paced, first novel in this witty series, Nine Tenths of the Law, when Zara recognizes a family menorah in …
Scholarly Communication

What Is a Human?

Language, Mind, and Culture

James Paul Gee

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of James Gee, Regents' Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. We talk about too much communication, about too …
International Horizons

Negotiating Decolonization

The Limits of a Fairy Tale

Valerie Rosoux

Hosted by International Horizons
In this episode of International Horizons, Valerie Rosoux, Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) discusses the disagreements in the historiography of Belgium's human rights violations during …
Book of the Day/ Critical Theory

Anarchism

A Very Short Introduction

Alex Prichard

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What exactly is anarchism? Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2022) provides a new point of departure for our understanding of anarchism. Prichard describes anarchism as a lived set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how anarchists …
MIT Press Podcast

Neighbor George

Victoria Nelson

Hosted by MIT Press
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Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her book Neighbor George. Do you know the language of the birds? Summer, 1979: A lonely …
Economic and Business History

International Business in Australia before World War One

Shaping a Multinational Economy

Simon Ville and David Merrett

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
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This episode features Professor Simon Ville talking about his latest book with David Merrett International Business in Australia Before World War One: Shaping a Multinational Economy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022). This …
Anthropology

Friendship

Michael Jackson

Hosted by Latoya Johnson
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In Friendship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023), renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant …
Madison's Notes

Defining Man and Woman

A Conversation with Abigail Favale

Abigail Favale

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
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Amidst fraught debates about what gender is, and how it fits into feminism, Annika sits down with Dr. Abigail Favale, an English professor specializing in gender studies and feminist literary …
Technology

The Equality Machine

Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

Orly Lobel

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
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The fear of algorithmic decision-making and surveillance capitalism dominate today's tech policy discussions. But instead of simply criticizing big data and automation, we can harness technology to correct discrimination, historical …
Political Science

The "Third" United Nations

How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think

Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss

Hosted by Sally Sharif
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Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss' book The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the Third UN: the ecology of supportive …
South Asian Studies

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics

J. Daniel Elam

Hosted by Gargi Binju
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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics (Fordham UP, 2020) recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial …
Scholarly Communication

Efficient Academic Writing

A Discussion with Mushtaq Bilal

Mushtaq Bilal

Hosted by Avi Staiman
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Mushtaq Bilal is an academic, content creator, thought leader, and public intellectual. Mushtaq discusses how he built an audience of more than 185,000 followers on Twitter and more than 30,00 …
Children's Literature

The Miracle Seed

Martin Lemelman

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
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In our animated discussion, Martin Lemelman and I discuss his latest graphic novel, The Miracle Seed (Eerdmans Young Readers, 2023), which was published only two months ago. It is the …
Book of the Day/ Disability Studies

Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller

Hosted by Shu Wan
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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps would-be parents make better family planning choices. Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice (Oxford UP, 2023) challenges that assessment by exploring how NIPT can actually constrain pregnant women's options. Prospective parents must balance a complicated array of factors, including …
Academic Life

My What If Year

A Discussion with Alisha Fernandez Miranda

Alisha Fernandez Miranda

Hosted by Christina Gessler
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Did we miss a fork in the road somewhere? What if our lives are going just fine, but we still want to hunt for the pieces of ourselves we’ve dropped …
Indian Religions

Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue

Anantanand Rambachan

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
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Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent. Since the latter half of the twentieth century, with the increased possibilities for immigration, Hindus and Christians …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Sparking Success

Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset

Adam Kingl

Hosted by Dan Hill
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Today I talked to Adam Kingl about his new book Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset (Kogan Page, 2023). Most or, indeed, basically all of us start …
MIT Press Podcast

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski

The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century

Dhanveer Singh Brar

Hosted by MIT Press
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Joy White, author of Terraformed, speaks with Dhanveer Singh Brar about his forthcoming book Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski, Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski argues that Black electronic dance music produces sonic ecologies of …
Madison's Notes

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty

A Conversation with Margarita Mooney Clayton

Margarita Mooney Clayton

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
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Is beauty objective, or merely a personal experience? Do we need beauty in our daily lives, or is it just icing on the cake? Is the sole purpose of art …
Sociology

The Delusions of Crowds

Why People Go Mad in Groups

William J. Bernstein

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
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What do financial bubbles and religious millenarianism have in common? They both involve collective delusion. When Charles Mackey wrote a book on the Madness of Crowds in the 19th century …
Almost Good Catholics

You Set a Table Before Me

The Teenage Witch Who Became a Dominican Sister

Sr. Maria Catherine, OP

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
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Sr Maria Catherine was looking for Truth in the wrong places when she started practicing witchcraft as girl. But she found her way out of the darkness and into the …
Scholarly Communication

Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications

Nick Enfield

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Nick Enfield, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney for Language Research and the Sydney Initiative for Truth. We talk about communication as you …
Novel Dialogue

They’re Not Metaphorical Demons

A Discussion with Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

Hosted by Chris Holmes
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Booker Prize shortlister Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, joins Penn State professor Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and host Chris Holmes …
Science Fiction

The Archive Undying

Emma Mieko Candon

Hosted by Brenda Noiseux
The Archive Undying (Tordotcom, 2023) is Emma Mieko Candon’s ambitious epic science fiction novel about intertwined human survivors following the violent fall of cities run by AI entities so massive, they …
Asian Review of Books

Black Girl from Pyongyang

In Search of My Identity

Monica Macias

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
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Monica Macias, the youngest daughter of Equatorial Guinea’s first president at just seven years old, lands in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1979. Her father had sent her to the country …
Recall This Book

Musical Collaboration

A Chat with Composer Francisco del Pino

Francisco del Pino

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
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Francisco del Pino is a widely celebrated composer from Buenos Aires, and currently a Ph.D. candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University. John fell in love with Francisco's music (during …
Book of the Day/ Southeast Asian Studies

A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand

Patrick Jory

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
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If you’ve visited Thailand even for a short time you’ve probably been given, or have come across, some basic instructions on dos and don’ts — where to put, or not to put, your hands and feet, what to wear or not to wear to a temple, why not to get angry in public, that sort of thing. Perhaps you’ve wondered about the pedagogies that give these social practices their durability …
Military History

I Saw Death Coming

A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

Kidada E. Williams

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
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The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and journalists whose accounts claim an outsized place in collective memory. But this pivotal era looked …
MIT Press Podcast

You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

Hosted by MIT Press
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Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here. Our media environment is …
Biography

Money and Empire

Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System

Perry Mehrling

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' …
Madison's Notes

Mapping the American Right

A Conversation with the American Enterprise Institute’s Robert Doar

Robert Doar

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
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Annika sits down with Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, one of Washington D.C.'s most prominent think-tanks, to discuss the state of the American Right: what are the …
Anthropology

¡Alerta!

Engineering on Shaky Ground

Elizabeth Reddy

Hosted by Liliana Gil
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The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the technology was designed to give the people of Mexico …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Recentering Pacific Asia

Regional China and World Order

Brantly Womack

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
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The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. In this conversation, Julie …
Sociology

The Narrow Corridor

States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
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Does a strong state mean a weak market? This is a common misconception amongst economists. Many view the state as either taxing and regulating the market too much or too …
East-West Psychology Podcast

Contemplative Psychotherapy

Intersections of Science, Spirituality and Buddhism

Joseph Loizzo

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
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In this episode we meet Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, who is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices …
High Theory

Jeans

High Theory "Sillies" Series

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Warning: this episode of High Theory is very silly. In our new summer series of “Sillies,” Saronik and Kim ask each other how simple things will achieve the grandiose task …
Taiwan on Air

The Suspended Island

Taiwan and the Balance of the World

Stefano Pelaggi

Hosted by Taiwan on Air
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In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews Dr Stefano Pelaggi, Adjunct Professor at Sapienza University in Rome. The two discuss Dr Pelaggi’s most recent book, L’Isola Sospesa. Taiwan e …
Book of the Day/ The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

The Future of Big Finance

A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova

Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
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How common is financial malpractice in big, well known financial companies? Is it so common that it should really be seen as a business model more than an occasional aberration by rogue traders? These are questions posed by Ronen Palan and Anastasia Nesvetailova in their book Sabotage: The Business of Finance (PublicAffairs, 2020). Listen to Owen Bennett-Jones discuss the future of big finance with Anastasia Nesvetailova. Owen Bennett-Jones is a …
Disability Studies

Dyslexia

A History

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling

Hosted by Shu Wan
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In 1896 the British physician William Pringle Morgan published an account of “Percy,” a “bright and intelligent boy, quick at games, and in no way inferior to others of his …
African American Studies

Workers of All Colors Unite

Race and the Origins of American Socialism

Lorenzo Costaguta

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips
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As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the …
Early Modern History

We, the King

Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World

Adrian Masters

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. Adrian Masters challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and …
Intellectual History

The Evolution of Pragmatism in India

Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction

Scott R. Stroud

Hosted by Kalyani Kalyani
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Scott R. Stroud's The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a philosophical engagement with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s life and …
Business, Management, and Marketing

Both/And Thinking

Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
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In a world of either/or tradeoffs, it sometimes pays to explore the possibility of and/or. By changing our perspective and embracing paradox, we can see possibilities that were obscured by …
Psychoanalysis

The Queerness of Childhood

Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass

Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
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In this interview, Anna Fishzon, co editor with Emma Lieber on The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), discusses her thinking …
Middle Eastern Studies

Red Star over the Black Sea

Nazim Hikmet and His Generation

James H. Meyer

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
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Nâzım Hikmet (1902-1963) is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951. One of the …
MIT Press Podcast

Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration

A Discussion with Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Hosted by MIT Press
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Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue …
Asian American Studies

The Allure of Empire

American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion

Chris Suh

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
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The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made …
Anthropology

Health in Ruins

The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero

Hosted by María Camila Núñez Gómez
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In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and …
Book of the Day/ Anthropology

The Politics of Survival

Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
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Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media renders them invisible or casts them as racialized and undeserving "welfare queens" who exploit social safety nets. Even when Black women voters are celebrated, the voices of the poorest too often go unheard. How do Afro-descendant women in former slave-holding societies survive amid multifaceted oppression?  In …
African American Studies

Dark Agoras

Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

J.T. Roane

Hosted by Adam McNeil
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In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent …
Film

Abbas Kiarostami

Interviews

Monika Raesch

Hosted by Kaveh Rafie
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The cinephile community knows Abbas Kiarostami (1940–2016) as one of the most important filmmakers of the previous decades. This volume illustrates why the Iranian filmmaker achieved critical acclaim around the …
MIT Press Podcast

Art Auctions and Data Science

A Discussion with Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Dan Cameron, and Jason Bailey

Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Dan Cameron, and Jason Bailey

Hosted by MIT Press
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What does data science tell us about art auctions? This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review …
Science, Technology, and Society

The Smartness Mandate

Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Over the last half century, "smartness"—the drive for ubiquitous computing—has become a mandate: a new mode of managing and governing politics, economics, and the environment. Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart …
Architecture

The Story of Follies

Architectures of Eccentricity

Celia Fisher

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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In The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity (Reaktion, 2023), Celia Fisher presents an amusing, informative guide to a fanciful and charming building, the folly. Are they frivolous or practical …
Jewish Studies

Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Eliyana R. Adler and Katerina Capková

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions …
Military History

Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

Jonathan Abel

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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"'The God of War' is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet." So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert …
Scholarly Communication

Life at the London Review of Books

A Conversation with Anthony Wilks

Anthony Wilks

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Anthony Wilks discusses his career heading up audio-visual projects for the London Review of Books. He tells the story of his winding career, in addition to some great musings about the …
Critical Theory

Digital Futures for Learning

Speculative Methods and Pedagogies

Jen Ross

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
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What is the future of education? In Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies (Routledge, 2022), Jen Ross, a senior lecturer in digital education at the University of Edinburgh, analyses …
Book of the Day/ Performing Arts

Performing the Socialist State

Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture

Xiaomei Chen

Hosted by Andy Boyd
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Xiaomei Chen's book Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture (Columbia UP, 2023) looks at three "founding fathers" of Chinese spoken drama: Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian. Dr. Chen argues that these three theatre artists laid the groundwork for Mao-era Chinese drama during the earlier Republic period, and that there is more continuity between the two periods than has typically been supposed. She also argues that these …
Critical Theory

What's the Use of Philosophy?

Philip Kitcher

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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In What's the Use of Philosophy? (Oxford UP, 2023), Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be. Kitcher's …
Historical Fiction

Killingly

Katharine Beutner

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
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In 1897, a Mount Holyoke College junior named Bertha Mellish disappears from campus overnight, leaving no word for her family. It’s a time when female college students are still considered …
Biblical Studies

Jesus the Purifier

John's Gospel and the Fourth Quest for the Historical Jesus

Craig L. Blomberg

Hosted by Jackson Reinhardt
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The third quest for the historical Jesus has reached an impasse. But a fourth quest is underway--one that draws from a heretofore largely neglected source: John's Gospel. In Jesus the …
Shakespeare For All

Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language

A Discussion with Michael Dobson

Michael Dobson

Hosted by Zachary Davis
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In Part 3, Professor Michael Dobson offers close-readings of some of the play’s most important speeches, including Brutus’s deliberation over Caesar’s assassination and the rival speeches given by Brutus and …
Iberian Studies

The Melancholy Void

Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora

Felipe Valencia

Hosted by Julia Gossard
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On today’s episode on New Books Network, we're joined by Dr. Felipe Valencia, Associate Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department at Utah State University to discuss …
MIT Press Podcast

Can Data Science Help Us Combat Disinformation?

Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Scott Tranter, and Hany Farid

Hosted by MIT Press
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In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss fake news, disinformation, and misinformation with Scott Tranter, CEO and founder of Optimus Analytics …
Business, Management, and Marketing

Ideaflow

The Only Business Metric That Matters

Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
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When we think about the greatest innovators of our time (Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, Frank Lloyd Wright) we often hear about their work ethic. But one thing that all of …
Digital Humanities

Scholarly Podcasting

Why, What, How

Ian M. Cook

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Exploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, Ian Cook's Scholarly Podcasting (Routledge, 2023) is the first to consider the why, what, and how academics engage with this insurgent, curious craft …
Peoples & Things

The History of 19th Century Quarantine Politics

A Conversation with David S. Barnes

David S. Barnes

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
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David S. Barnes, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his book, Lazaretto: How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed …
Buddhist Studies

Embodied and Trauma-Aware Pedagogy

A Discussion with Frances Garrett

Frances Garrett

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
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In this episode I sit down with Frances Garrett, a scholar of Tibetan culture, history, and language. We talk about Frances’s interests in embodiment and movement, and how her experiences …
Children's Literature

Dark Cloud

Anna Lazowski

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
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This is my second interview with the wonderful children's author Anna Lazowski, this time celebrating the launch of her new picture book Dark Cloud, published last month by Kids Can …
Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics

Elephant Man

A Film by David Lynch

David Lynch

Hosted by Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics
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George Orwell said, "By fifty, every man has the face he deserves." To what degree does David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) respond to the idea that our appearances define …
Book of the Day/ National Security

The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure

Why Warning Was Not Enough

Erik J. Dahl

Hosted by Beth Windisch
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Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but in the end global surveillance and warning systems were not enough to avert the COVID-19 disaster. In The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough (Georgetown UP, 2023), Erik J. Dahl demonstrates that understanding how intelligence warnings work--and how they fail--shows why the years of predictions were not enough. In the first in-depth …
Psychology

The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius

Science Transforms Our Comprehension of Reeva Steenkamp's Shocking Death

Brent Willock

Hosted by Karyne Messina
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Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius’ meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Willock’s scientific perspective reopens this gripping narrative for an …
Indian Ocean World

East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions

Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future

Rob Marchant

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
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East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is an ambitious integration of ecological, archaeological, anthropological land use sciences, drawing on human geography, demography and economics …
MIT Press Podcast

How are Sports Teams Using Data Science?

Liberty Vittert, Xiao-Li Meng, Brian Macdonald, and Kirk Goldsberry

Hosted by MIT Press
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In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale …
Environmental Studies

Ice

From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Amy Brady

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
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Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off …
Poetry

Naming the Ghost

Emily Hockaday

Hosted by Megan Wildhood
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Emily Hockaday is a poet from Queens who writes about ecology, astronomy, and the city landscape, alongside more personal subjects. Her first collection Naming the Ghost (Cornerstone Press, 2022) tackles the …
Disability Studies

The Disabled Child

Memoirs of a Normal Future

Amanda Apgar

Hosted by Shu Wan
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When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives …
Literature

Dreaming in Spanish

An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta

Sara Alvarado

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
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In Dreaming in Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story In Puerto Vallarta (Little Creek Press, 2023), Sara Alvarado tells the story of growing up in Madison, studying Spanish, and escaping alcoholism, substance …
Middle Eastern Studies

Bedouin Bureaucrats

Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire

Nora Barakat

Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
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In the late nineteenth century, Ottoman statesmen sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law.  Nora …
Israel Studies

A Train to Palestine

The Tehran Children, Anders' Army and Their Escape from Stalin's Siberia, 1939-1943

Randy Grigsby

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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In October 1938, eight-year-old Josef Rosenbaum, his mother, and his younger sister set out from Germany on a cruel odyssey, fleeing into eastern Europe along with thousands of other refugees …
Business, Management, and Marketing

The Elements of Choice

Why the Way We Decide Matters

Eric J. Johnson

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
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Every time we make a choice, our minds go through an elaborate process most of us never even notice. We’re influenced by subtle aspects of the way the choice is …
Islamic Studies

Nur Baba

A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul (Translated by Brett Wilson)

Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
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This conversation is with Brett Wilson, who has composed the first English translation of the classic and controversial novel from late Ottoman Turkey Nur Baba--a classic of modern Turkish literature …
Madison's Notes

Feminism against Progress

A Conversation with Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
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Is feminism compatible with progress? Reactionary feminist Mary Harrington thinks not. In this interview, she discusses the history of feminism, her own journey from proponent to radical opponent of progress …
Book of the Day/ Music

The Future of Rock and Roll

97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence

Robin James

Hosted by Bradley Morgan
In 1983, an Ohio radio station called WOXY launched a sonic disruption to both corporate rock and to its conservative home region, programming an omnivorous range of genres and artists while being staunchly committed to local independent art and media. In the 1990s, as alternative rock went mainstream and radio grew increasingly homogeneous, WOXY gained international renown as one of Rolling Stone's "Last Great Independent Radio" stations. The station projected …
Education

Willful Defiance

The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Mark R. Warren

Hosted by Laura Kelly
The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement …
Disability Studies

Activist Affordances

How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

Arseli Dokumaci

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be …
MIT Press Podcast

Drone

Remote Control Warfare

Hugh Gusterson

Hosted by MIT Press
Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing--and most secretive--fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than …
World Affairs

Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints

How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts

Tobias Ide

Hosted by Sidney Michelini
Armed conflict and natural disasters have plagued the twenty-first century. Not since the end of World War II has the number of armed conflicts been higher. At the same time …
Chinese Studies

World History and National Identity in China

The Twentieth Century

Xin Fan

Hosted by Shu Wan
Nationalism is pervasive in China today. Yet nationalism is not entrenched in China's intellectual tradition. Over the course of the twentieth century, the combined forces of cultural, social, and political …
Sports

Mallparks

Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption

Michael T. Friedman

Hosted by Emilio Weber
In Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption (Cornell UP, 2023), Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within …
Business, Management, and Marketing

Sit Write Share

Practical Writing Strategies to Transform Your Experience Into Content that Matters

Kathryn Britton

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
Do you keep promising yourself to write but never quite get around to it? Do you delete almost as many words as you write? Do you write things that never …
Science

Not Just for the Boys

Why We Need More Women in Science

Athene Donald

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the scientific workforce? Not Just …
Business, Management, and Marketing

Hosted by Gregory LaBlanc
Should we separate decisions related to love and money, approaching finance and career-related decisions solely in a rational way while relying more on our emotions in the personal domain? Perhaps …
Scholarly Communication

Reading, Writing, Research

A Discussion with Cybersecurity Scholar Mathias Payer

Mathias Payer

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Mathias Payer, a security researcher and associate professor at the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Science, leading the HexHive group. We talk about research …
Nomads, Past and Present

Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage

An Discussion with Ben Hoffler

Ben Hoffler

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin Trail …