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Book of the Day/ Film

The Godfather, Part II

Jon Lewis

Hosted by Daniel Moran
Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather, Part II" (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. This despite the fact that it consists largely of meetings between aspiring 'Godfather' Michael Corleone and fellow gangsters, politicians and family members. The meetings remind us that the modern gangster's success is built upon inside information and …
Middle Eastern Studies

Nomads in the Middle East

Beatrice Forbes Manz

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from …
Writ Large

On Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"

A Discussion with Jo Ann Cavallo

Jo Ann Cavallo

Hosted by Zachary Davis
The Italian Renaissance was an era of rebirth in the arts, sciences, engineering, anatomy, and architecture. But also for literature. One of the most influential works from this period was …
Historical Fiction

The Winter Garden

Nicola Cornick

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
In her novels, Nicola Cornick blends a modern perspective with a historical mystery and a paranormal connection between the two. The Winter Garden (Graydon House Books, 2022) revolves around the …
Public Policy

Eating While Black

Food Shaming and Race in America

Psyche A. Williams-Forson

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
In Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America (UNC Press, 2022), Psyche A. Williams-Forson offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice …
Middle Eastern Studies

Assyrians in Modern Iraq

Negotiating Political and Cultural Space

Alda Benjamen

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Today I talked to Alda Benjamen about his book Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space (Cambridge UP, 2021) Examining the relationship between a strengthened Iraqi state under the Baʿth …
Philosophy

The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita

Selected Metaphysical Chapters

Charles Goodman

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
The Tattvasaṃgraha of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters (Oxford University Press, 2022) collects excerpts from a massive encyclopedic work of the late period of Buddhism in India. Translator Charles Goodman has …
Irish Studies

Northern Ireland, the BBC, and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990

Robert J. Savage

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Robert J. Savage is a professor in the Boston College History Department and served as one of the directors of the University’s Irish Studies program for close to twenty years …
Burned by Books

The Means

A Novel

Amy Fusselman

Hosted by Chris Holmes
Amy Fusselman is the author of five books. Her latest, The Means (Mariner Books, 2022), is her first novel. Fusselman’s previous four books, all nonfiction, have been translated into several languages …
On Religion

The Magi

Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate

Eric Vanden Eykel

Hosted by Gregory Soden
George Tyrrell insisted that the quest for the historical Jesus was no more than scholars staring into a well to see their own reflections staring back. Jesus is the mirror …
Performing Arts

Sounds from the Other Side

Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music

Elliott H. Powell

Hosted by Andy Boyd
From Beyoncé's South Asian music-inspired Super Bowl Halftime performance, to jazz artists like John and Alice Coltrane's use of Indian song structures and spirituality in their work, to Jay-Z and …
Australian and New Zealand Studies

More Zeros and Ones

Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast

Hosted by Ed Amon
Many of today’s digital technologies inadvertently amplify the power structures and prejudices of wider society. By examining the way digital tools and platforms are designed, built, and maintained, this BWB …
General History

Escaping Slavery

A Documentary History of Native American Runaways in British North America

Antonio T. Bly

Hosted by Michael Vann
Antonio T. Bly had collected and edited hundreds of advertisements offering a reward for enslaved Native Americans who run away from their masters. Escaping Slavery: A Documentary History of Native …
Food

Chocolate

How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature

Erin Alice Cowling

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez Flores
In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity …
African Studies

Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn

African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation

Dawne Y. Curry

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Dawne Y. Curry’s Social Justice at Apartheid’s Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), which examines the role of African women in the conversation …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

From Translator to Linguistics Entrepreneur

A Conversation with Krzysztof Zdanowski

Krzysztof Zdanowski

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis speak with Krzysztof Zdanowski, language and technology entrepreneur. Krzysztof argues that entrepreneurship is about emotional and social intelligence. He discusses the ups and downs on …
International Horizons

What is the Future of Populism?

A Discussion with Umut Korkut

Umut Korkut

Hosted by International Horizons
The world's wealthier countries have in recent years faced challenges from right-wing populist parties and movements that may rejuvenate origins from relatively far in the past, such as in the …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists

All the Comfort Sin Can Provide

Grant Faulkner

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Grant Faulkner. We discuss National Novel Writing Month, of which Grant is the executive director, 100 Word Story, of which Grant is …
Book of the Day/ Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

Seek and Hide

The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy

Amy Gajda

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Should everyone have privacy in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is there a right to be left alone, even in the United States? The battle between an individual’s right to privacy and the public’s right to know has been fought for centuries. You may be surprised to realize that the original framers were sensitive to the importance of privacy interests relating to sexuality and intimate …
Environmental Studies

Hurricane Jim Crow

How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South

Caroline Grego

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of …
Literature

Hysterical

A Memoir

Elissa Bassist

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Elissa Bassist about her memoir Hysterical: A Memoir (Hachette, 2022) For two years author Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical specialists for pain that none of them …
African Studies

African Ecomedia

Network Forms, Planetary Politics

Cajetan Iheka

Hosted by Sara Katz
In African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP, 2021), Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka …
Genocide Studies

Genocide

Key Themes

Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Donald Bloxham and Dirk Moses have offered us a unique opportunity--a chance to see authors and editors in conversation with each other and themselves about the state and nature of …
Writ Large

On Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"

A Discussion with Camille Robcis

Camille Robcis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
We moderns often tell ourselves a story that goes something like this: The past was barbaric, especially when it came to punishing criminals or persecuting minorities. Legal punishment used to …
Medicine

Accidental Kindness

A Doctor's Notes on Empathy

Michael Stein

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we're hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often …
American Studies

Tree Thieves

Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

Lyndsie Bourgon

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
There's a strong chance that chair you are sitting on was made from stolen lumber. In Tree Thieves: Crime And Survival In North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022), Lyndsie …
Academic Life

Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet

A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel

Susan Kusel

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What’s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode explores: The most commonly assigned …
Popular Culture

Fandom, the Next Generation

Bridget Kies and Megan Connor

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Fandom, the Next Generation (University of Iowa Press, 2022), Bridget Kies and Megan Connor have edited the first collection  to offer a close study of fan generations, which are defined …
Intellectual History

Pray for Brother Alexander

Translated by Octavian Gabor

Constantin Noica

Hosted by Adrian Guiu
Constantin Noica's (1909-1987) Pray for Brother Alexander (Punctum Books, 2018; translated by Octavian Gabor) is a meditation on responsibility, freedom, and forgiveness. On the surface, the book describes events and people from …
Neuroscience

Minding the Climate

How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis

Ann-Christine Duhaime

Hosted by Victor Monnin
Why is it so difficult to adopt a more sustainable way of life, even when convinced of the urgency of the environmental crisis? If adopting new behaviors beneficial for the …
American West

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Paul Barba

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Most of what people think they know about Texas history is wrong, argues Bucknell University history professor Paul Barba in Country of the Cursed and the Driven: Slavery in the Texas …
Economics

Trafficking Data

How China Is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty

Aynne Kokas

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
On August 6, 2020, the Trump Administration issued a ban on TikTok in the United States, requiring that the owner, Beijing-based Bytedance, sell the company to American investors or shut …
Political Science

The Modern Presidency

Six Debates That Define the Institution

Michael Genovese

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The Modern Presidency: Six Debates That Define the Institution (Columbia University Press, 2022) is a concisely written book that helps makes sense of the most powerful office in America. Michael frames …
High Theory

Probability

A Discussion with Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins

Justin Joque and Júlia Irion Martins

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Justin Joque talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Probability. This conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which tackles topics in …
Book of the Day/ Intellectual History

The Books that Made the European Enlightenment

A History in 12 Case Studies

Gary Kates

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies (‎Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Gary Kates looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. Kates explores a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a significant portion of the society. Gary Kates is H. Russell Smith Foundation …
Intellectual History

Liberal Freedom

Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics

Eric MacGilvray

Hosted by Keith Krueger
The liberalism that is defended here is therefore itself an object of political contestation, and not just the background against which such contestation takes place. If we can look to …
Military History

Understanding Urban Warfare

John Spencer and Liam Collins

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
With the growing urbanization of the world's population, it also follows that much of contemporary military operations would also be conducted within such urban centers. The challenges faced by military …
Popular Culture

Lawrence Tierney

Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy

Burt Kearns

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In his latest book, Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy (The University of Kentucky Press, 2022) Burt Kearns explores the life of actor Lawrence Tierney (1919-2002) whose natural swagger and gruff disposition …
Medieval History

Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe

Legal Practice and Communication in the Law Courts of Utrecht, York and Paris

Frans Camphuijsen

Hosted by Jana Byars
Frans Camphuijsen explored records from the law courts of York, Paris, and Utrecht and used them as a base for Scripting Justice in Late Medieval Europe: Legal Practice and Communication in …
American Studies

A Great and Rising Nation

Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic

Michael A. Verney

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Dr. Michael A. Verney illuminates the unexplored early decades …
Writ Large

On "The Mahābhārata"

A Discussion with Nell Shapiro Hawley

Nell Shapiro Hawley

Hosted by Zachary Davis
When it comes to epic poetry, there’s a strong case to be made that the Ancient Indian story the Mahābhārata is the most epic. Clocking in at around 100,000 verses …
Politics & Polemics

Chokepoint Capitalism

How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold …
Sociology

When Race Meets Class

African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City

Rhonda F. Levine

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In When Race Meets Class: African Americans Coming of Age in a Small City (Routledge, 2019), Rhonda Levine provides a 15-year ethnography that follows the lives of individual, low-income African …
Film

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Beacon Press, 2015) is the definitive political biography of Rosa Parks and the basis for a 2022 documentary, Theoharis's book examines Park's six decades …
Mathematics

The Secret Lives of Numbers

Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond

Alfred S. Posamentier

Hosted by Jim Stein
Alfred S. Posamentier's The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond (Prometheus Books, 2022) is the first book I’ve ever seen written by a mathematician that …
Sociology

The End of Love

A Sociology of Negative Relations

Eva Illouz

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting …
African American Studies

Black Bodies, White Gold

Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World

Anna Arabindan-Kesson

Hosted by Adam McNeil
In Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Duke UP, 2021), Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as …
Jewish Studies

A Ukrainian Chapter

A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow

Eli Gumener (trans. Michael Eli Nutkiewicz)

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Today I talked to Michael Eli Nutkiewicz about his translation A Ukrainian Chapter: A Jewish Aid Worker’s Memoir Of Sorrow (Slavica, 2022).  Eli Gumener’s 1921 Yiddish memoir, A Ukrainian Chapter, is …
Religion

The Secular Imaginary

Gandhi, Nehru and the Idea(s) of India

Sushmita Nath

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Given the popularity and success of the Hindu-Right in India’s electoral politics today, how may one study ostensibly ‘Western’ concepts and ideas, such as the secular and its family of …
Book of the Day/ Sports

The NBA in Black and White

The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach

Ray Scott with Charley Rosen

Hosted by Paul Knepper
“There’s a basic insecurity with Black guys my size,” Scott writes. “We can’t hide and everybody turns to stare when we walk down the street. … Whites believe that their culture is superior to African-American culture. ... We don’t accept many of [their] answers, but we have to live with them.” Ray Scott was part of the early wave of Black NBA players like Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and later …
Film

Billy Wilder

Dancing on the Edge

Joseph McBride

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films―including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment―Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest …
Disability Studies

Queer Silence

On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

J. Logan Smilges

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minnesota Press, 2022) insists, however, that silence can be …
Medicine

Masters of Health

Racial Science and Slavery in US Medical Schools

Christopher Willoughby

Hosted by Claire Clark
Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as …
Indian Religions

Wonders and Rarities

The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos

Travis Zadeh

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
During the thirteenth century, the Persian naturalist and judge Zakariyyāʾ Qazwīnī authored what became one of the most influential works of natural history in the world: Wonders and Rarities. Exploring …
Literature

Bottled Lightning

L. M. Weeks

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Today I talked to L. M. Weeks about his new book Bottled Lightning (South Fork Publishers, 2022) Top global technology lawyer Tornait "Torn" Sagara knows he shouldn't get involved with his …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Russia and the Dutch Republic, 1566–1725

A Forgotten Friendship

Kees Boterbloem

Hosted by Erika Monahan
Once upon a time, it was said that Russia was isolated and ignorant until Peter the Great opened Russia to the West and ushered in modernization. While Tsar Peter I …
Gender Studies

Cistem Failure

Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

Marquis Bey

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have …
Gender Studies

Gendering the GOP

Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress

Catherine N. Wineinger

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress (Oxford UP, 2022), Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women's congressional representation, it …
Literary Studies

All Men Must Die

Power and Passion in Game of Thrones

Carolyne Larrington

Hosted by Carrie Lynn Evans
“All men must die” or “Valar Morghulis,” as the traditional Essos greeting is rendered in High Valyrian. And die they do – in prodigious numbers; in imaginatively varied and gruesome …
Asian Review of Books

Himalaya

Exploring the Roof of the World

John Keay

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“History has not been kind to Himalaya,” writes historian and travel writer John Keay in his latest book Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). The region …
Japanese Studies

Outcasts of Empire

Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border," 1874-1945

Paul D. Barclay

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945 (University of California Press, 2018) by Paul D. Barclay unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down …
Irish Studies

Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don

Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Aidan Enright

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Aidan Enright holds a PhD in History from Queen’s University Belfast and is an Associate Researcher and Part-Time Lecturer in History at Leeds Beckett University, where he teaches Modern British …
Literature

The Cage

Fida Jiryis

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Ha-Kluv (The Cage) is a Hebrew anthology of selected short stories by Fida Jiryis, which she originally published in Arabic. The stories speak of the life of Palestinians in Israel …
South Asian Studies

Threatening Dystopias

The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

Kasia Paprocki

Hosted by Archit Guha
In Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (Cornell UP, 2021), Kasia Paprocki challenges two well-worn assumptions about climate change and its relationship with the political …
SSEAC Stories

Public Participation and Contested Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin

Ming Li Yong

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Regional demand for renewable hydropower from the Mekong River and its tributaries in Laos is on the rise. In June 2022, Laos exported one hundred megawatts of hydropower to Singapore …
Book of the Day/ Genocide Studies

Anthropological Witness

Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

Alexander Laban Hinton

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton's encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton's attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. In March 2016, Hinton served as an expert witness at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, an international tribunal established to try senior Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes committed …
Christian Studies

Ringleaders of Redemption

How Medieval Dance Became Sacred

Kathryn Dickason

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Historical sources, however, suggest that medieval dance was a …
Military History

The Military and the Market

Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson

Hosted by Alex Beckstrand
Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms …
Film

Truly, Madly

Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

Stephen Galloway

Hosted by Daniel Moran
A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see Theatre …
Law

Foreign Judges in the Pacific

Anna Dziedzic

Hosted by Jane Richards
While it might ordinarily be assumed that judges who sit on constitutional courts will be local citizens, in the islands of the Pacific, more than three-quarters of judges are foreign. This is …
Jewish Studies

Judaism Straight Up

Why Real Religion Endures

Moshe Koppel

Hosted by Matthew Miller
In Judaism Straight Up: Why Real Religion Endures (Maggid, 2020), Moshe Koppel explores the central differences between traditional societies - including traditional Judaism - and contemporary cosmopolitan ones. He explains …
African American Studies

Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Tara T. Green

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until …
European Politics

Governing the EU in an Age of Division

Dalibor Roháč

Hosted by Tim Jones
"An important distinction exists between the politics of rules at which the EU is quite adept and the politics driven by events - which requires improvisation, risk-taking and alertness to …
African American Studies

The Education of Betsey Stockton

An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom

Gregory Nobles

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
The life of Betsey Stockton (ca. 1798–1865) is a remarkable story of a Black woman’s journey from slavery to emancipation, from antebellum New Jersey to the Hawai‘ian Islands, and from …
Writ Large

On George Eliot's "Middlemarch"

A Discussion with Nicholas Dames

Nicholas Dames

Hosted by Zachary Davis
By the time we reach middle age, our lives have taken certain paths. Sometimes these paths are close to what we imagined in our youth. But more often, they’re dramatically …
Literary Studies

Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture

How We Hate to Love Them

Kate Christine Moore Koppy

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them (Lexington Books …
British Studies

Under Fire

Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45

Stephen Bourne

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 (The History Press, 2020), Stephen Bourne tells the whole story of Britain's black community during World War II. On the home front, civilians …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

Being Buddhist and Some Thoughts on "Identity"

Matthew O'Connell

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
The Think Pieces continue. This month, it is a look back at a piece on being Buddhist and identity. The text version can be found below. Themes picked up on …
Nordic Asia Podcast

The Assassination and Legacy of Shinzo Abe

A Discussion with Paul Midford

Paul Midford

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
The brutal assassination of Prime Minister Abe in July this year shocked Japan and has produced large and unexpected consequences for the nation´s politics. In this episode, we examine the …
Islamic Studies

Once in a Lifetime

Amina Wadud

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In this interview, we speak with Dr. amina wadud about her latest book Once in a Lifetime (Kantara Press, 2022), a book that started out as a blog for her …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

The Future of Multiculturalism

A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint

Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
What is the best way to achieve societal harmony in a place in which groups of people with different identities are living together. Should minority groups be given exemptions from …
African American Studies

New Growth

The Art and Texture of Black Hair

Jasmine Nichole Cobb

Hosted by Mickell Carter
From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair (Duke UP, 2022), Jasmine …