New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Critical Theory

Praxis and Revolution

A Theory of Social Transformation

Eva von Redecker

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thought, “revolution” often perpetuates entrenched philosophical problems: a teleological philosophy of history, economic reductionism, and normative paternalism. At a time of resurgent uprisings, how can revolution be re-conceptualized to grasp the dynamics of social transformation and disentangle revolutionary practice from authoritarian usurpation?Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Sleep Insights

Matthew Walker

Hosted by Howard Burton
Sleep Insights is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Matthew Walker, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep …
Historical Fiction

Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens

A Riveting New Regency Historical Mystery

Andrea Penrose

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Great Britain’s Regency Era (1811–1820) has long been wildly popular as a subject of historical fiction yet overly focused on the romance genre. The towering figures of Jane Austen and …
Environmental Studies

After One Hundred Winters

In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs

Hosted by Brady McCartney
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton UP, 2021) confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of …
Native American Studies

Settler Memory

The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States

Kevin Bruyneel

Hosted by John Cable
Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined …
Political Science

Following the Leader

Alliance Design, Security Strategies, and Institutional Emulation

Raymond C. Kuo

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Nations have powerful incentives to ensure that their military alliances are well-structured. Successful military alliances set long-lasting foundations for global and regional order, while unsuccessful ones can perpetuate and widen …
Ethnographic Marginalia

An Ethnography of Tourism and Globalization

In Conversation with Dr. Annie Hikido

Annie Hikido

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
How do Black women entrepreneurs in South Africa play off westerners’ fear and desire for impoverished townships through home-based tourist accommodations? This episode’s guest is Dr. Annie Hikido, Assistant Professor …
Law

Dangerous Ideas

A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

Eric Berkowitz

Hosted by Ian Drake
Eric Berkowitz has written a short history of a censorship, a large topic that has been a phenomenon since the advent of recorded history. In Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History …
The Future of Higher Education

A Conversation with Elizabeth Kiss

Warden of the Rhodes Trust and former President of Agnes Scott College

Elizabeth Kiss

Hosted by David Finegold
We speak with Elizabeth Kiss about the design and launch of the very successful SUMMIT initiative that led Agnes Scott College to be recognized as “the most innovative liberal arts …
Japanese Studies

Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2

Borderline Interrogations

John Maraldo

Hosted by Jingyi Li
The second of three volumes of essays that engage Japanese philosophers as intercultural thinkers, this collection critically probes seminal works for their historical significance and contemporary relevance. Japanese Philosophy in …
Jewish Studies

Hadassah

An American Story

Hadassah Lieberman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

David Troy

Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, TED Speaker, and TEDx Organizer

David Troy

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
David Troy is a serial entrepreneur and community activist in Baltimore, Maryland. This podcast was recorded in 2019 for Project Kazimierz. Dave is CEO and product architect at 410 Labs …
Book of the Day/ Public Policy

The Future of Capitalism

Facing the New Anxieties

Paul Collier

Hosted by Leo Nasskau
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces; the high-skilled elite versus the less educated. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical, reciprocal obligations to others that were crucial to the rise of post-war prosperity — and are inherently aligned with how humans are meant to live: in a friendly, collaborative community. So far these …
Gender Studies

Pink Revolutions

Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India

Nishant Shahani

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Northwestern UP, 2021) describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on …
Chinese Studies

The Way of the Barbarians

Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China

Shao-yun Yang

Hosted by Lance Pursey
Shao-yun Yang's The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (University of Washington Press, 2019) challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition …
Environmental Studies

Performing Environmentalisms

Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, and Sue Tuohy

Hosted by Matthew Brown
The volume, Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change, edited by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirksen, and Sue Tuohy (University of Illinois Press, 2021), illustrates the power of …
Food

Mustard

A Global History

Demet Güzey

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Whether grainy or smooth, spicy or sweet, Dijon, American, or English, mustard accompanies our food and flavors our life around the globe. It has been a source of pleasure, health …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Herculaneum Uncovered

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Hosted by Howard Burton
Herculaneum Uncovered is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of Research and Honorary Professor of Roman Studies in the Faculty of Classics at …
Geography

The Sixteen-Dollar Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigrants and people of color. What does a …
Art

Sociopolitical Aesthetics

Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism

Kim Charnley

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between …
Indian Religions

Elusive Nonviolence

The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa

Jyotirmaya Sharma

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In Elusive Nonviolence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa (Westland, 2021), Jyotirmaya Sharma argues that Gandhi acknowledged the absence of any serious tradition of non-violence in India …
African American Studies

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

African American Children in the Antebellum North

Crystal Webster

Hosted by Adam McNeil
For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by …
Latin American Studies

Lula and His Politics of Cunning

From Metalworker to President of Brazil

John D. French

Hosted by Candela Marini
Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing São Paulo. He learned to read at …
African American Studies

Ben Fletcher

The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly

Peter Cole

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with …
Literature

Nermina's Chance

Dina Greenberg

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Dina Greenberg about her new novel Nermina's Chance (Atmosphere Press, 2021).Nermina is a medical student in Sarajevo. She’s been raised in an educated family of Westernized, secular …
Book of the Day/ Southeast Asian Studies

The First Vietnam War

Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956

Shawn F. McHale

Hosted by Patrick Jory
When people think of the “Vietnam War” they usually think of the hugely devastating and divisive conflict between North Vietnam and a United States-backed South Vietnam that finally ended in 1975. We know much less about the earlier conflict, often referred to as the “First Indochina War”, from 1946 to 1954, which ended almost a century of French colonial rule and brought about the division of the country into North …
General History

The Last King of America

The Misunderstood Reign of George III

Andrew Roberts

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Following upon the success of his magisterial account of Winston Churchill, Andrew Roberts returns with an outstanding biography of George III: The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III …
Sociology

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson

Race, Class, and Food in the American South

Joseph C. Ewoodzie

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the …
Catholic Studies

The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together

The Life of Rev. Fabian Flynn, CP

Sean Brennan

Hosted by Carlos Ruiz Martinez
Philp Fabian Flynn led a remarkable life, bearing witness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. Flynn took part in the invasions of Sicily and Normandy …
Fantasy

Wicked As You Wish

Rin Chupeco

Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
Rin Chupeco's Wicked As You Wish (Sourcebooks Fire, 2020) begins with our Filipina narrator, Tala, and her best friend, Alexei, who both attend high school in the small Arizona town …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

Billy Wilder on Assignment

Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Noah Isenberg and Shelley Frisch

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then …
Politics & Polemics

Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic:

The Deep State and the Unitary Executive

Stephen Skowronek et al

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary Executive (Oxford University Press, 2021) powerfully dissects one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between …
General History

Indian Soldiers in World War I

Race and Representation in an Imperial War

Andrew T. Jarboe

Hosted by Christopher Rose
More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These men fought in France and …
Eastern European Studies

The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe

James A. Kapalo and Kinga Povedák

Hosted by Roland Clark
This new book by James Kapaló and Kinga Povedák explores the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. In sixteen …
Jewish Studies

Abraham the Hebrew Believer

Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky

Rani Jaeger

Hosted by Yakir Englander
How can it be that deeply religious poetry is being written by a committed socialist, literary revolutionary and modernist? How sacredness appears in working in the field? How one can …
Philosophy

Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States

Should Citizens Pay for Their States' Wrongdoings?

Avia Pasternak

Hosted by Robert Talisse
We tend to think that states can act wrongfully, even criminally. Thus, we also tend to think that states can be held responsible for their acts. They can be made …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists

A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College

"Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Anne F. Harris

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Anne F. Harris. Anne wears two hats: she's a medieval art historian and president of Grinnell College. We talked about her new book Medieval Art 250-1450: Matter, Making, and Meaning …
Book of the Day/ Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Meaningfulness

Susan Wolf

Hosted by Howard Burton
Meaningfulness is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Susan Wolf, the Edna J. Koury Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This fascinating conversation explores what it is to live an ethical, meaningful life in keeping with her book, Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, the role that love, fulfillment, self-interest and happiness play in giving meaning to one’s life …
Education

Pain and Shock in America

Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities

Jan Nisbet and Nancy Weiss

Hosted by Christina Bosch
Amid a string of fall 2021 news reports about past-due exonerations and (white) self-defense that document the limits of racial justice within the U.S. legal system, Pain and Shock in …
Food

Research Methods in Digital Food Studies

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food and media studies and explores …
Literature

Both Are True

Reyna Marder Gentin

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Today I talked to Reyna Marder Gentin about her novel Both Are True (Moonshine Cove, 2021). Judge Jackie Martin's job is to impose order on the most chaotic families in New York …
Academic Life

Underrepresented Groups in Archives

A Conversation About Ethics, Inclusion, and Acquisitions

Megan Hahn Fraser

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Megan Fraser’s job collecting and curating a Punk Rock archive, her current work at the Research Institute for Contemporary …
Asian Review of Books

Klimat

Russia in the Age of Climate Change

Thane Gustafson

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
With COP26 and high fossil fuel prices, energy is back in the headlines. And Russia, as one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbons, is part of the conversation--most recently …
Geography

Transecting Securityscapes

Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique

Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway

Hosted by Catriona Gold
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (University of Georgia Press, 2021) …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Why Customers Leave (And How to Win Them Back)

David Avrin

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to David Avrin about his new book Why Customers Leave (And How to Win Them Back) (Career Press, 2019). There are three central themes to this book: immediacy …
Intellectual History

The Color of Equality

Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought

Devin J. Vartija

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color …
Indian Religions

Devotional Hindu Dance

A Return to the Sacred

Sabrina D. MisirHiralall

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Devotional Hindu Dance: A Return to the Sacred (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) sheds light on the purpose of Hindu dance as devotional. Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall explains the history of Hindu …
Political Science

At War with Government

How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump

Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientists Amy Fried (University of Maine) and Douglas B. Harris (Loyola University Maryland) have a new book, At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump …
Scholarly Communication

On Revision

The Only Writing That Counts

William Germano

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of William Germano, Professor of English at Cooper Union, New York, We talk about his new book On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (U Chicago Press, 2021), about …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism

Stephen Batchelor

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Today I speak to Stephen Batchelor, figurehead for Secular Buddhism, well known author, and Scot. I present the lovely man some of the critique aimed at his work in the …
Recall This Book

Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)

Recall this Buck 4

Daniel Souleles

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist …
Novel Dialogue

Dreaming or Thinking

Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas

Cristina Rivera Garza, Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
ND stages a trialogue this week with MacArthur "Genius" Cristina Rivera Garza and Notre Dame critics Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas. Professor Rivera Garza recalls roadtripping through Mexico in a …
Book of the Day/ Genocide Studies

Cultural Genocide

Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations

Jeffrey S. Bachman

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Jeffrey Bachman's edited volume Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations (Routledge, 2019) asks where the boundaries between genocide and other kinds of mass atrocity violence rest and what the stakes are in locating them here rather than there. Bachman, Senior Professorial Lecturer at the American University and a co-host of this podcast, has assembled a wide-ranging set of scholars to consider how and why the label 'cultural genocide' has been so …
Genocide Studies

Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia

Imagined Evil

Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Several months ago, Saskia Wieringa joined her co-authors Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman on the show to talk about their edited volume The International People's Tribunal for 1965 and the …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Critical Situations

Philip Zambardo

Hosted by Howard Burton
Critical Situations is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. During this extensive conversation Philip Zimbardo relates his …
Economic and Business History

Economic Thought in Modern China

Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937

Margherita Zanasi

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
In Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500–1937 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier …
Latin American Studies

Ascent to Glory

How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic

Álvaro Santana-Acuña

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a revered classic today fifty five years after it was first published in 1967. Today I talked to Alvaro Santana Acuña a sociologist and …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

From De-Stalinization to Perestroika

Barbara Martin

Hosted by Iva Glisic
In Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika (Bloomsbury,, 2019), Barbara Martin traces the careers of four prominent figures: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Aleksandr Nekrich and Anton Antonov-Ovseenko. Based …
Indian Religions

Hindutva as Political Monotheism

Anustup Basu

Hosted by Shruti Dixit
In Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke University Press, 2020), Professor Anustup Basu provides a genealogical study of Hindutva. The interview is a discussion upon the connection drawn by the author …
Literary Studies

Humanist Reason

A History, an Argument, a Plan

Eric Hayot

Hosted by Bryant Scott
In Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan (Columbia UP, 2021), Eric Hayot develops the concept of “humanist reason” to understand the nature and purpose of humanist intellectual work …
General History

When France Fell

The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance

Michael S. Neiberg

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the "most shocking single event" of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of …
The Common Magazine

Oman is Mars

An Alien All Along

Priyanka Sacheti

Hosted by Emily Everett
Priyanka Sacheti speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Oman is Mars: An Alien All Along,” which appears in a portfolio of writing from the Arabian Gulf, in …
Psychology

Mental Health in Academia 2

Hacks for Cultivating and Sustaining Wellbeing

Rebecca Lester

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All talks …
Islamic Studies

Suspect Communities

Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror

Nicole Nguyen

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) program that has …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Rethinking China's Humanitarian Diplomacy before and during Covid-19

Lauri Paltemaa and Hermann Aubié

Lauri Paltemaa and Hermann Aubié

Hosted by Satoko Naito
As the Covid-19 pandemic spread to Europe and other parts of the globe in spring of 2020, the Chinese government started reporting donations of Personal Protective Equipment as well as …