Justifying Violent Protest

Law and Morality in Democratic States

James Greenwood-Reeves

Hosted by Jane Richards

Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil campaigners? Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States (Routledge, 2023) addresses these issues head on, to make a radical, but compelling argument in favour of the legitimate use of violence in protest in liberal democracies. Grounded in theories of constitutional morality, the book makes …

Game Studies

Time and Space in Video Games

A Cognitive-Formalist Approach

Federico Alvarez Igarzábal

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst

Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In Time and Space in Video Games: A Cognitive-Formalist Approach (Transcript …

French Studies

Queering the Enlightenment

Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Tracy Rutler

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi

Tracy Rutler's Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool UP, 2021) explores the imaginaries of novels and plays from the "liminal" period …

Media

The New True Crime

How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence

Diana Rickard

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Diana Rickard examines how serialized crime shows became an American obsession. TV …

Gender Studies

The Other #MeToos

Iqra Shagufta Cheema

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova

From Asia to Africa to the Middle East, #MeToo has inspired local movements and hashtag trends like #AnaKaman and transnational collective hashtags like #MosqueMeToo. Yet, most Western scholarly and popular …

Russian and Eurasian Studies

Monuments for Posterity

Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time

Antony Kalashnikov

Hosted by Aaron Weinacht

Antony Kalashnikov's Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time (Cornell UP, 2023) analyzes Stalinist monument-building. From the 1930's through the Great Patriotic War, architectural monuments such as …

Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

The Engaged Scholar

Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

Andrew J. Hoffman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information …

Children's Literature

How to Speak in Spanglish

Mónica Mancillas

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

Mónica Mancillas authors books for children of all ages, as well as adult fiction. In our lively interview, Mónica discusses two of her picture books that launched during the summer …

General History

The Middle Kingdoms

A New History of Central Europe

Martyn C. Rady

Hosted by Charles Coutinho

Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central …

Sports

Baseball

The Turbulent Midcentury Years

Steven P. Gietschier

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Baseball: The Turbulent Midcentury Years (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) explores the history of organized baseball during the middle of the twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the …

Book of the Day/ The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

The Future of Ukraine

A Discussion with Christopher Miller

Christopher Miller

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has already changed the world. Why did it happen? Who is winning? How will it end? Christopher Miller is the author of The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine (Bloomsbury, 2023). Hear him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva …

Anthropology

Blackness As a Universal Claim

Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin

Damani Partridge

Hosted by Reighan Gillam

In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University of California Press, 2023), Damani Partridge examines the possibilities …

Japanese Studies

Inglorious, Illegal Bastards

Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War

Aaron Skabelund

Hosted by Ran Zwigenberg

In Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2022), Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)—the post–World War II Japanese military—and specifically the …

Library Science

Archives of War

Technology, Emotion and History

Debra Ramsay

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Archives of War: Technology, Emotion and History (Routledge, 2023) offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed …

Sociology

The Golden Passport

Global Mobility for Millionaires

Kristin Surak

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country we belong to affects our rights, our travel possibilities, and ultimately our chances in life. Obtaining a new …

Sociology

Good Soldiers Don't Rape

The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence

Megan MacKenzie

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp movements highlighting the impact of sexual violence, rates of …

World Affairs

Defectors

How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Erik R. Scott

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Defectors fleeing the Soviet Union seized the world's attention during the Cold War. Their stories were told in sensational news coverage and dramatized in spy novels and films. In contrast …

Nomads, Past and Present

The Secret History of the Mongols

An interview with Chris Atwood

Chris Atwood

Hosted by Maggie Freeman

The Secret History of the Mongols is one of the literary wonders of the world. Writing in the thirteenth century, the Secret Historian - whose identity remains unknown - combines …

Book of the Day/ Biography

Walter Lippmann

American Skeptic, American Pastor

Mark Thomas Edwards

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

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Walter Lippmann was arguably the most recognized and respected political journalist of the twentieth century. His "Today and Tomorrow" columns attracted a global readership of well over ten million. Lippmann was the author of numerous books, including the best-selling A Preface to Morals (1929) and U.S. Foreign Policy (1943). His Public Opinion (1922) remains a classic text within American political philosophy and media studies. Lippmann coined or popularized several keywords …

Literature

Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief

A Memoir

Jessica Hendry Nelson

Hosted by Jana Byars

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Jessica Hendry Nelson, Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief (University of Georgia Press, 2023) is a compelling memoir in essays. When Nelson's father died from an accident caused by complications …

Political Science

The People and Their Peace

Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-revolutionary South

Laura F. Edwards

Hosted by Susan Liebell

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Do individuals have the right to “keep and bear” arms? Do “the people” have any collective rights to public safety? Now that the United States Supreme Court requires each side …

General History

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Nigel Biggar

Hosted by Charles Coutinho

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In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the 'End of History' - that the global dominance of liberal …

Environmental Studies

Thoreau's Religion

Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism

Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Hosted by Ilana Maymind

Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge UP, 2021) presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's most famous book, Walden. Rather than treating …

Shakespeare For All

Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story

A Discussion with Simon Palfrey

Simon Palfrey

Hosted by Zachary Davis

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Children of families who are locked in a fatal feud, Romeo and Juliet risk community, identity, and life to pursue an all-consuming love. Today, Romeo and Juliet is one of …

Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics

Rope

A Film by Alfred Hitchcock

Hosted by Fifteen Minute Film Fanatics

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Rope (1948) may not be top-shelf Hitchcock, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting and worth repeated viewings. After arguing back at those who find Jimmy Stewart miscast, Mike and …

CEU Press Podcast Series

Meet the Press

An Introduction to CEU Press and the Podcast

Frances Pinter and Emily Poznanski

Hosted by CEU Press

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Welcome to the first episode of the CEU Press podcast series! To start us off, Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, CEU Press) and Emily Poznanski (Director, CEU Press) sit down with …

Indian Religions

Jain Studies and the Arihanta Institute

A Conversation with Christopher Jain Miller

Christopher Jain Miller

Hosted by Raj Balkaran

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Today I talked to Christopher Jain Miller about practicing and studying Jainism, the founding of Jain Studies professorships and the Arihanta Institute, an online learning platform. Also see:MA in Engaged Jain Studies Program …

Book of the Day/ African American Studies

Before the Movement

The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

Dylan C. Penningroth

Hosted by Katrina Anderson

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A prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement. The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if they …

Biblical Studies

Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God

Michael Kochenash

Hosted by Rob Heaton

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Michael Kochenash published his revised dissertation from Claremont School of Theology as Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic) in 2020. A student of Dennis R …

American West

Cow Talk

Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West

Michelle K. Berry

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

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How did ranching become an identity? University of Arizona historian Michelle Berry explains in Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Western Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West (U Oklahoma Press, 2023). During the …

Russian and Eurasian Studies

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

Gary Saul Morson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom. Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov …

Anthropology

In Quest of a Shared Planet

Negotiating Climate from the Global South

Naveeda Khan

Hosted by Alize Arıcan

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Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South (Fordham UP …

Geography

Rendered Obsolete

Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling

Jamie L. Jones

Hosted by Stentor Danielson

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Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought …

Sociology

Selling the American People

Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

Lee Mcguigan

Hosted by Blyss Cleveland

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How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs" …

CEU Press Podcast Series

Open Access at CEU Press

The "Opening the Future" Initiative

Frances Pinter

Hosted by CEU Press

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In the second Meet the Press episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series, Frances Pinter (Executive Chair, CEU Press) sits down with host Andrea Talabér (Managing Editor, CEU Review of …

Disability Studies

Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art

Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar

Hosted by Shu Wan

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Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar's Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art (Vernon Press, 2023) boldly reasserts the importance of the Madwoman more than four decades after the publication …

Music

Harlem World

How Hip Hop's Super Showdown Changed Music Forever

Jonathan Mael

Hosted by Alex Kuchma

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July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America's newest art form: hip hop. In New York's Harlem World Club, the Fantastic Romantic Five and the Cold …

Madison's Notes

Bargaining for Democracy

A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns

Josiah Ober

Hosted by Annika Nordquist

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Amidst increasing acrimony and political strain, many worry that democratic governance has an expiration date. To answer these concerns, Josiah Ober looks to the ancients. Here, he discusses his recent …

Book of the Day/ Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Pregnancy Test

Karen Weingarten

Hosted by Jana Byars

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In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the privacy of their own homes that gave them a yes or no answer. That answer had the power to change the course of their reproductive lives, and it chipped away at a paternalistic culture that gave gynecologists-the majority of whom were men-control …

Middle Eastern Studies

Placing Islam

Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul

Timur Warner Hammond

Hosted by Reuben Silverman

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For centuries, the Mosque of Eyüp Sultan has been one of Istanbul’s most important pilgrimage destinations, in large part because of the figure buried in the tomb at its center …

Korean Studies

Celluloid Democracy

Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea

Hieyoon Kim

Hosted by Anthony Kao

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Before South Korea became the democracy and media powerhouse that it is today, it underwent several decades of authoritarian rule during the Cold War from the late 1940s to late …

Indian Ocean World

The Medieval Persian Gulf

Brian Ulrich

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

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The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. The Medieval Persian Gulf (ARC Humanities Press, 2023) …

History of Science

Pseudoscience

A Very Short Introduction

Michael D. Gordin

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

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Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on …

CEU Press Podcast Series

Getting Published at CEU Press

The Book Proposal

Laura Portwood-Stacer

Hosted by CEU Press

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The third episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series is all about the book proposal. Our guests, Laura Portwood-Stacer, publishing consultant and developmental editor, and Jen McCall, CEU Press’s acquisitions …

British Studies

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845

Michael Wheeler

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

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What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 (Cambridge UP, 2022), one …

South Asian Studies

Platformization and Informality

Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation

Aditi Surie and Ursula Huws

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan

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In Platformization and Informality: Pathways of Change, Alteration, and Transformation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), scholars from Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jakarta, Cape Town, Sao Paulo and other cities of the global South explore …

Children's Literature

Song After Song

The Musical Life of Julie Andrews

Julie Hedlund

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg

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Julie Hedlund is back as our guest on New Books Network to talk about her brand new picture book, Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Andrews published on …

African American Studies

An Abolitionist Abroad

Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe

Sirpa Salenius

Hosted by Katrina Anderson

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Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel on extensive lecture tours across …

Book of the Day/ Australian and New Zealand Studies

Blood and Dirt

Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

Jared Davidson

Hosted by Ed Amon

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Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. The unfree work of prisoners has shaped …

Science, Technology, and Society

Your Face Belongs to Us

A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

Kashmir Hill

Hosted by Jake Chanenson

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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify …

African American Studies

Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America

Revolution, Race and Popular Performance

Peter Reed

Hosted by Katrina Anderson

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American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance (Cambridge UP, 2022), Peter P. Reed …

Political Science

Monitors and Meddlers

How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections

Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty

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Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, and whether they are even legal-they all have enormous potential …

European Politics

Warmonger

Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars

Alex J. Bellamy

Hosted by Tim Jones

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"War was always central to Putin's project," writes Alex J. Bellamy in Warmonger: Vladimir Putin's Imperial Wars (Agenda, 2023). Not just the second Chechen war that made him but the …

Indian Religions

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

Sumit Chakrabarti

Hosted by Raj Balkaran

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Sumit Chakrabarti's book Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as …

Canadian Studies

Gifts from Amin

Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada

Shezan Muhammedi

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

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In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to "Ugandan citizens." Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans …

CEU Press Podcast Series

Perpetrators of Organized Violence

Series Spotlight

Waitman Wade Beorn, Weronika Grzebalska, and Iva Vukušić

Hosted by CEU Press

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Episode 4 of the CEU Press Podcast Series introduces one of the Press’s new series, entitled Perpetrators of Organized Violence: Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe. The series editors, Waitman Wade …

Asian Review of Books

Sovereigns of the Sea

Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire

Seema Alavi

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

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It’s one of the strange artifacts of history that Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, was once controlled by the Sultanate of Oman. In 1832, then Sultan Sayyid Saïd bin …

Academic Life

Becoming the Writer You Already Are

A Conversation with Michelle R. Boyd

Michelle R. Boyd

Hosted by Christina Gessler

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Procrastination. Writer’s block. Feeling stuck. Are you struggling with the blank page? Today’s guest shares her methods that help writers move past these blocks by turning inward to discover their …

Almost Good Catholics

Hammertime and Hanukkah (with Matthew and Leeanne Thomas)

The Books of the Maccabees

Matthew Thomas and Leeanne Thomas

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec

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Between 167 and 160 BC, Judas Maccabeus and his brothers led a revolt against the Greek tyrant who desecrated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Miraculously victorious, the Jews rededicated the …

Book of the Day/ Higher Education

The Abundant University

Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World

Michael D. Smith

Hosted by John Emrich

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For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In The Abundant University, Michael D. Smith argues that the only way to create a financially and morally sustainable higher education system is by embracing digital technologies for enrolling …

Psychology

The Thriving Lawyer

A Multidimensional Model of Well-being for a Sustainable Legal Profession

Traci Cipriano

Hosted by Karyne Messina

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Traci Cipriano's book The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession (Routledge, 2023) is based on an innovative model, grounded in science. This book serves as …

European Politics

Russia's War Against Ukraine

Gwendolyn Sasse

Hosted by Tim Jones

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Nineteen months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the books are coming thick and fast. Fortunately, each tells a different and compelling story. Like other recent books, Gwendolyn Sasse’s …

Jewish Studies

The Unknown History of Jewish Women Through the Ages

On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty

Rachel Elior

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

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Rachel Elior's book The Unknown History of Jewish Women: On Learning and Illiteracy, On Slavery and Liberty (de Gruyter, 2023) is a comprehensive study on the history of Jewish women, which discusses their …

Anthropology

Jobless Growth in the Dominican Republic

Disorganization, Precarity, and Livelihoods

Christian Krohn-Hansen

Hosted by Alexander Diamond

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The Dominican Republic has posted impressive economic growth rates over the past thirty years. Despite this, the generation of new, good jobs has been remarkably weak. How have ordinary and …

Psychology

Setting Boundaries

100 Ways to Protect Yourself, Strengthen Your Relationships, and Build the Life You Want...Starting Now!

Krystal Mazzola Wood

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin

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Build healthy boundaries, manage difficult relationships, and live a happy life in accordance with your personal values with this unique, activity-based supplement to start or support your therapy practice.Setting boundaries …

Christian Studies

Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God

A Modern Defense of Classical Immutability

Craig A. Hefner

Hosted by Jackson Reinhardt

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Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was not afraid to express his opinions. Living amid what he perceived to be a culturally lukewarm Christianity, he was often critical of his …

CEU Press Podcast Series

Central European Medieval Texts

Series Spotlight

Gábor Klaniczay

Hosted by CEU Press

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In episode 5 of the CEU Press Podcast Series we sat down with Professor Gábor Klaniczay from the CEU’s Department of Medieval Studies to discuss one of CEU Press’s longest …

The Common Magazine

Graces Folly

A Conversation with Jake Lancaster

Jake Lancaster

Hosted by Emily Everett

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Jake Lancaster speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Grace’s Folly,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Jake talks about writing stories that lean into the …

Burned by Books

Terrace Story

Hilary Leichter

Hosted by Chris Holmes

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Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and …

Nordic Asia Podcast

Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea

A Discussion with Stella Zhang

Stella Zhang

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen

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Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, boba or tapioca milk tea is a popular drink in Asia. Wherever there is Asian diaspora, such as in the USA, one …

Book of the Day/ Law

Supreme Hubris

How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It

Aaron Tang

Hosted by William Domnarski

Today I talked to Aaron Tang about his new book Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Yale UP, 2023). The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices' partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court's root problem …

African American Studies

Ode to Hip-Hop

50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music

Kiana Fitzgerald

Hosted by Katrina Anderson

From underground roots to mainstream popularity, hip-hop's influence on music and entertainment around the world has been nothing short of extraordinary. Ode to Hip-Hop chronicles the journey with profiles of …

Jewish Studies

Living Under the Evil Pope

The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th Cent.)

Martina Mampieri

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

In Living under the Evil Pope (Brill, 2019), Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Italian …

General History

Political Disappointment

A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis

Sara Marcus

Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Moving from the aftermath of Reconstruction through the AIDS crisis, a new cultural history of the United States shows how artists, intellectuals, and activists turned political disappointment--the unfulfilled desire for …

CEU Press Podcast Series

Getting Published

About Peer Review

Rabea Rittgerodt and Jen McCall

Hosted by CEU Press

The sixth episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series is all about the peer review process. Our guests are Rabea Rittgerodt, senior acquisitions editor for social/cultural history (19th-20th century) at …

Medieval History

Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World

Michelle Karnes

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period’s philosophical writing. Rather …

Literary Studies

Possible Knowledge

The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science

Debapriya Sarkar

Hosted by John Yargo

Debapriya Sarkar’s new book, titled Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) is a study of how poets and philosophers took up the “the possible” as …

Anthropology

Progress in the Balance

Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil

Daniel R. Reichman

Hosted by Yadong Li

Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil …

South Asian Studies

Court on Trial

A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India

Aparna Chandra

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan

The Indian Supreme Court was established nearly seventy-five years ago as a core part of India's constitutional project. Does the Court live up to the ideals of justice imagined by …

Food

Holy Food

How Cults, Communes and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat

Christina Ward

Hosted by Laura Goldberg

Independent food historian and author Christina Ward joins New Books Network to discuss her highly anticipated book Holy Food: How Cults, Communes and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat (Process …

Book of the Day/ Russian and Eurasian Studies

Moscow's Heavy Shadow

The Violent Collapse of the USSR

Isaac McKean Scarborough

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Isaac Mckean Scarborough tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective of the many millions of Soviet citizens who experienced it as a period of abjection and violence. Mikhail Gorbachev and the leaders of the USSR saw the years of reform preceding the collapse as opportunities for rebuilding (perestroika), rejuvenation, and …

Southeast Asian Studies

The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia

Lynette J. Chua

Hosted by Erron Medina

The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in the region. Instead of deriving definitions of rights from …

African American Studies

Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America

Born to Bloom Unseen?

Rebecca J. Fraser

Hosted by Katrina Anderson

Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women’s contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America …

Critical Theory

A Taste of Honey

Melanie Williams

Hosted by Dave O'Brien

What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor of Film and Television Studies …

Public Policy

When We Walk By

Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America

Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare

Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or …

CEU Press Podcast Series

CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine

Series Spotlight

Marius Turda and Mark A. Brandon

Hosted by CEU Press

Welcome to episode 7 of the CEU Press Podcast Series. In this episode, we sit down with Professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes, UK), the series editor of CEU Press Studies …

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

Free Agents

How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

Kevin J. Mitchell

Hosted by Mark Klobas

Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of …

Literary Studies

Workshops of Empire

Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War

Eric Bennett

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh

During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and …

Genocide Studies

Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation

Derk Venema

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Derk Venema's edited volume Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation (Amsterdam UP, 2022) is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic …

Philosophy

On Taking Offence

Emily McTernan

Hosted by Robert Talisse

A lot of work in moral, political, and legal theory aims to define the offensive. Surprisingly, relatively little attention has been paid to the affectively intoned practice of taking offense …