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Catholic Studies
Catholics on the Barricades
Poland, France, and "Revolution," 1891-1956
Piotr H. Kosicki
Hosted by
Brenna Moore
In Poland in the 1940s and '50s, a new kind of Catholic intended to remake European social and political life--not with guns, but French philosophy. Piotr H. Kosicki's book Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and 'Revolution,' 1891-1956 (Yale UP, 2018) examines generations of deeply religious thinkers whose faith drove them into public life, including Karol Wojtyla, future Pope John Paul II, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the future prime minister who would …
Anthropology
The Sound of Salvation
Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China
Guangtian Ha
Hosted by
Irene Promodh
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in …
Economics
Negotiating Our Economic Future
Trade, Technology, and Diplomacy
Geoff Pigman
Hosted by
Leo Nasskau
Trade and diplomacy are instrumental to how the modern world works, but trade and diplomatic wars and broader tensions threaten global peace and prosperity. At the root of this crisis …
On Religion
On Impermanence, Embodiment, and Conscious Intention
A Discussion with Deborah Eden Tull
Deborah Eden Tull
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Deborah Eden Tull is the founder of Mindful Living Revolution. She is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, public speaker, author, activist, and sustainability educator. She trained for seven years …
Journalism
I Never Thought of It That Way
How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Mónica Guzmán
Hosted by
Jenna Spinelle
Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
Deep Deception
The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth
Helen Steel et al.
Hosted by
Catriona Gold
In Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth (Ebury, 2022), five women discuss their experiences of being manipulated into serious long-term …
High Theory
Eugenics
A Discussion with Mercedes Trigos
Mercedes Trigos
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Mercedes Trigos about eugenics. Mercedes references Francis Galton, who coined the term, preimplantation genetic profiling, and the failures of our ordinary progress narratives. If you are interested …
Anthropology
Collaborative Damage
An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization
Mikkel Bunkenborg, Morten Nielsen, and Morten Axel Pedersen
Hosted by
Adam Bobeck
Collaborative Damage: An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (Cornell UP, 2022) is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention—sub-Saharan Africa and …
East-West Psychology Podcast
Haridas Chaudhuri and The Roots of Integral Psychology at CIIS
A Discussion with Bahman Shirazi
Bahman Shirazi
Hosted by
Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
This is the first part in a series of episodes exploring the historical roots of California Institute of Integral Studies and its foundations in Integral Yoga as brought to California …
Environmental Studies
Unsettling Nature
Ecology, Phenomenology, and the Settler Colonial Imagination
Taylor Eggan
Hosted by
Matthew Brown
In today's NBN Environmental Studies interview, dancer, performer, and literary scholar Dr. Taylor Eggan joins us to speak about his new book Unsettling Nature: Ecology, Phenomenology, and Settler Colonial Imagination …
General History
Athens
City of Wisdom
Bruce Clark
Hosted by
Albert Zambone
In 510 BC, an obscure Greek city located literally on a backwater revolted against its tyrant. This was not extraordinary; such things happened regularly in the many Greek city-states. What …
Psychology
So-Called Normal
A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience
Mark Henick
Hosted by
Galina Limorenko
When Mark Henick was a teenager in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was overwhelmed by depression and anxiety that led to a series of increasingly dangerous suicide attempts. One night …
Science, Technology, and Society
Buy Now
How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
Emily West
Hosted by
Noopur Raval
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy. Amazon is ubiquitous in our daily lives—we stream movies …
Nordic Asia Podcast
Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic
A Conversation with Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider
Hosted by
Joanne Kuai
How has digital nationalism manifested amid the Covid-19 pandemic in China? How does anti-American sentiment in China feed into the disinformation campaigns in regard to the war on Ukraine? What …
Latin American Studies
Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022)tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States …
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Middle Eastern Studies
Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914
Claiming the Homeland
Louis Fishman
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) the book by Louis Fishman looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This work presents an innovative analysis of the struggle in its first years, when Palestine was still an integral part of the Ottoman Empire. Fishman argues that in the late Ottoman era, Jews and Palestinians were already …
Mathematics
Teaching Mathematics Through Games
Mindy Capaldi
Hosted by
Cory Brunson
Games are an established aide in pre-college mathematics education. Meanwhile, innumerable popular books have investigated the mathematics of games. In a new edited volume for the AMS/MAA Classroom Resource Materials …
Catholic Studies
Millennial Missionaries
How a Group of Young Catholics Is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool
Katherine Dugan
Hosted by
Allison Isidore
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the …
Politics & Polemics
An Inconvenient Minority
The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy
Kenny Xu
Hosted by
Shu Cao Mo
Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery …
Anthropology
Suspicion
Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados
Nicole Charles
Hosted by
Reighan Gillam
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of …
Native American Studies
The Apache Diaspora
Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
Paul Conrad
Hosted by
Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
In The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Paul Conrad brings to life the stories of displaced Apaches and the kin from whom they were …
Latin American Studies
Fictions of Migration
Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia
Lorena Cuya Gavilano
Hosted by
Kenneth Sanchez
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Lorena Cuya Gavilano about her interesting new book Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in …
On Religion
On Teaching Religion on YouTube
A Discussion with Andrew M. Henry
Andrew M. Henry
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Andrew M. Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religion at Boston University and founder of the educational YouTube channel, Religion for Breakfast. Andrew has produced over 5 …
Sociology
The Digital Frontier
Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
Sangeet Kumar
Hosted by
Rituparna Patgiri
In The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web (Indiana University Press, 2021), Sangeet Kumar interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem has spawned to reveal how …
Art
The Problem with Museums
A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
Hosted by
Pierre d'Alancaisez
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Space or the oxycontin scandal have …
Literature
Lea
Ariela Freedman
Hosted by
G. P. Gottlieb
Lea Roback was a feminist and labor activist who was raised in a large Jewish family in Quebec, Canada. In the novel Lea (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022), Ariela Freedman describes a …
High Theory
Deterritorialization
A Discussion with Shweta Krishnan
Shweta Krishnan
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik talks to Shweta Krishnan, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at George Washington University. She speaks about how she uses Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of deterritorialization in her work …
African American Studies
Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination
An Artist's Reckoning with the South
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Hosted by
Amanda Joyce Hall
In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents and interprets the artistic life of Romare Bearden …
Environmental Studies
Partial Hegemony
Oil Politics and International Order
Jeff D. Colgan
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
When and why does international order change? The largest peaceful transfer of wealth across borders in all of human history began with the oil crisis of 1973. OPEC countries turned …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
The Future of Opinion Polls
A Conversation with Mark Pack
Mark Pack
Hosted by
Owen Bennett-Jones
As the culture wars intensify, it seems that all sources of neutral authority get challenged and that includes opinion polls. Accusations about bias and unreliability fly around and yet everyone …
Ethnographic Marginalia
Studying Borderlands
Talking Ethnography with Dr. Sahana Ghosh
Sahana Ghosh
Hosted by
Sneha Annavarapu
How do border policing and violence intersect with gender and sexuality to affect border communities? Today’s guest, Dr. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore …
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Critical Theory
Cancel Culture
A Critical Analysis
Eve Ng
Hosted by
Louisa Hann
Eve Ng’s new book Cancel Culture: A Critical Analysis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines the phenomenon of "cancel culture" from a critical media studies perspective, as both cancel practices (what people and institutional actors do) and cancel discourses (commentary about cancelling). Ng traces multiple lines of origins for cancel practices and discourses, in the domains of Black communicative practices (e.g. cancelling relationship to "dissing"), celebrity and fan cultures, consumer culture (especially …
Anthropology
Prophets and Ghosts
The Story of Salvage Anthropology
Samuel J. Redman
Hosted by
Lukas Rieppel
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through …
Music
From Servant to Savant
Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution
Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden
Hosted by
Kristen Turner
Today’s copyright laws are predicated on the idea that music is intellectual property; a commodity that has value to its creator and to its publisher. But, how did that concept …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Evolutionary Ideas
Unlocking Ancient Innovation to Solve Tomorrow's Challenges
Sam Tatam
Hosted by
John Emrich
When faced with new challenges, it’s easy to feel our solutions need to be equally unprecedented. We think we need a revolution. But what if this is a big mistake …
Sociology
The Sociology of Bullying
Power, Status, and Aggression Among Adolescents
Christopher Donoghue
Hosted by
Rituparna Patgiri
School shootings and suicides by young victims of bullying have spurred a proliferation of anti-bullying programs, yet most of the research done on school bullying has been from psychologists. The …
Indian Ocean World
Dockside Reading
Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr
Hosted by
Kelvin Ng
In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British …
On Religion
On Buddhism for Children
A Discussion with Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Andrea Miller is the deputy editor of Lion's Roar magazine (formerly the Shambhala Sun), a publication force within Buddhism that so many of you will already know, and the author …
High Theory
Dissensus
A Discussion with Gina Dominick
Gina Dominick
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks with Gina about Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus. Gina refers to several major works of philosophy including: Jacques Rancière’s Dissensus Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement Jacques Derrida’s The …
General History
Class Struggle and the Color Line
American Socialism and the Race Question 1900-1930
Paul M. Heideman
Hosted by
Zalman Newfield
In Class Struggle and the Color Line: American Socialism and the Race Question, 1900-1930 (Haymarket Books, 2018), Paul Heideman collects, for the first time, source materials from a diverse array …
Education
A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying
Morteza Mahmoudi
Hosted by
Galina Limorenko
Targets of bullying are often the most vulnerable members of the scientific workforce-they may be low-paid graduate students or postdocs, living in a foreign country, navigating a foreign language and …
Children's Literature
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
Salma Hussain
Hosted by
Mel Rosenberg
In this interview we talk to Salma Hussain about her surprisingly candid and revealing middle grade book, The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan (Tundra Books, 2022). Mona Hasan is a …
Law
The Hughes Court
From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941
Mark V. Tushnet
Hosted by
William Domnarski
Mark V. Tushnet's book The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 (Cambridge UP, 2022) describes the closing of one era in constitutional jurisprudence and the opening of another …
African Studies
Africa’s Joola Shipwreck
Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster
Karen Samantha Barton
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left 64 survivors …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
Covid and the Art of Science Communication
Pandemic Perspectives 10
John Tregoning
Hosted by
Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory infections researcher and author of the acclaimed book Infectious: Pathogens and …
Education
A Guide to Academic Podcasting
Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor
Hosted by
Shu Cao Mo
A Guide to Academic Podcasting is a practical guidebook introducing scholars to the multiverse of podcasting. It’s an open-source publication made by Amplify Podcast Network, written by Stacey Copeland and …
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Medicine
The Cage of Days
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral
Hosted by
Rachel Pagones
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Columbia UP, 2022) combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience. Drawing from Carceral’s field notes, his interviews with fellow inmates, and convict memoirs, this book …
Academic Life
Facing Failure and the Museum Dedicated to It
A Discussion with Samuel West, Founder of "The Museum of Failure"
Samuel West
Hosted by
Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Why failure is part of the hidden curriculum Why you can’t be creative or innovative without failing [sometimes a …
Critical Theory
The Politics of Immunity
Security and the Policing of Bodies
Mark Neocleous
Hosted by
Catriona Gold
Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The …
Critical Theory
Proxies
The Cultural Work of Standing In
Dylan Mulvin
Hosted by
Dave O'Brien
What are the hidden histories of how the modern world functions? In Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In (MIT Press, 2021), Dylan Mulvin, Assistant Professor in the Department of …
General History
Pandemic Re-Awakenings
The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919
Guy Beiner and Professor of Modern History Guy Beiner
Hosted by
Deidre Tyler
Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919 (Oxford UP, 2021), edited by Guy Beiner, offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering …
Indian Religions
Holy Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Banu Subramaniam
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
In Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), Banu Subramaniam examines how science and religion have come together to propel a vision of the modern Indian nation …
On Religion
On Addiction and Spirituality
A Discussion with Chris Grosso
Chris Grosso
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Chris Grosso is a youth mental health group facilitator with Newport Academy, public speaker, writer, and author of Indie Spiritualist (Beyond Words/Simon & Schuster, 2014), Everything Mind (Sounds True, 2105) …
High Theory
9/11 Family Novel
A Discussion with Jay Shelat
Jay Shelat
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik chats with Jay Shelat about the 9/11 family novel. They discuss how the attacks (re)dynamized constructions and perceptions of family. Jay refers to a few 9/11 family novels, including …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
Building Behavioral Science in an Organization
Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman
Hosted by
Dan Hill
Today I talked to Zarak Khan and Laurel Newman about their book Building Behavioral Science in an Organization (Action Design Press, 2021). As an academic discipline, behavioral science is as the book’s …
Indian Ocean World
Islamic Law in Circulation
Shafi'i Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Mahmood Kooria
Hosted by
Kelvin Ng
Analyzing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean …
American West
Beneath the Backbone of the World
Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877
Ryan Hall
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
No matter what people call them today the northwestern Great Plains have been and continue to be Blackfoot country, argues Colgate University assistant professor Ryan Hall in Beneath the Backbone of …
Asian Review of Books
Troubling the Water
A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia
Abby Seiff
Hosted by
Nicholas Gordon
Tonlé Sap is one of Southeast Asia’s, if not one of the world’s, natural wonders. Between the dry and wet seasons, the lake expands almost six times in size to …
Scholarly Communication
The American Association of Geographers
Scholarly Societies Series
Emily Yeh
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at advancing the understanding, study, and importance of geography and related fields. Its headquarters is located …
Geopolitics in the Mekong Region
The Role of Chinese Energy Politics in Laos and Cambodia
Andrea Haefner
Hosted by
Natali Pearson
Energy, and who controls it, has emerged as a major issue in Southeast Asia in recent years. Nowhere is this issue more evident than in the Mekong region, where China’s …
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Animal Studies
Elephant Trails
A History of Animals and Cultures
Nigel Rothfels
Hosted by
Marcela Hernandez
When looking at historic records of all kinds—from prehistoric cave drawings and ancient rock art in Africa and India, from poetic narrations of travelers to hunter memoirs and press stories about zoos, from reports of mystical graveyards to museum warehouses collecting bones—notions about elephants in the West have come a long way. These ideas (their transformation; their persistence) tell perhaps more about how Western cultures have understood themselves than about …
On Religion
On the Religious Freedom Center and the First Amendment
A Discussion with Charles C. Haynes
Charles C. Haynes
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Freedom Forum Institute / Religious Freedom Center and a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. Haynes is best known for his …
General History
The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials
A Solemn Tale of Horror
Sofia Stolk
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
Dr. Sofia Stolk’s The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021) addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution’s opening statement before …
Medicine
Difference and Disease
Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Suman Seth
Hosted by
Rachel Pagones
Before the nineteenth century, travelers who left Britain for the Americas, West Africa, India and elsewhere encountered a medical conundrum: why did they fall ill when they arrived, and why …
Business, Management, and Marketing
Boundless Leadership
The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others, and Ignite Positive Change
Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan
Hosted by
Leo Nasskau
Realize your fullest leadership potential, claim your boldest vision, and prioritize the well-being of your team and world with this new science-based approach to leadership. In Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method …
Law
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World
What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere
Mark L. Clifford
Hosted by
Jane Richards
In this account of the rapid erosion of liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil and political rights in Hong Kong, Mark L. Clifford's latest book provides …
On Religion
Awkward Rituals
Sensations of Governance in Protestant America
Dana W. Logan
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed …
Middle Eastern Studies
A Liminal Church
Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956
Maria Chiara Rioli
Hosted by
Roberto Mazza
The history of the Palestine War does not only concern military history. It also involves social, humanitarian and religious history, as in the case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991
Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith
Hosted by
Diana Dukhanova
The collapse of the Soviet Union forced Russia to engage in a process of nation building. This involved a reassessment of the past, both historical and cultural, and how it …
Islamic Studies
Innocent Until Proven Muslim
Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11
Maha Hilal
Hosted by
Shehnaz Haqqani
In Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 published in 2022 with Broadleaf Books, Maha Hilal describes how narratives of 9/11 and …
Postscript
Postscript
Post-Roe Politics
Lilly J. Goren, Rebecca Kreitzer, Andrew R. Lewis, Candis Watts Smith, and Joshua C. Wilson
Hosted by
Susan Liebell
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of minority voting, obstacles to women registering their positions politically), inconsistencies in Justice Samuel Alito’s …
Nordic Asia Podcast
The New Political Cry in South Korea?
The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea
Ju Hui Judy Han
Hosted by
Myunghee Lee
The anti-feminist movement in South Korea is gaining global attention. The story has been covered by many western mainstream news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and BBC. Is …
Poetry
Daughters of Harriet
Poems
Cynthia Parker-Ohene
Hosted by
Deidre Tyler
Drawing inspiration from the life of Harriet Tubman, Cynthia Parker-Ohene's poetic narratives follow a historical arc of consciousness of Black folks: mislaid in potters' fields and catalogued with other misbegotten …
High Theory
Heterotopia
A Discussion with Amanda Caleb
Amanda Caleb
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim speaks with Amanda Caleb about Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. Amanda says that the classic definition of “heterotopia” is found in Foucault’s article “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” …
Ukrainian Studies
The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide
The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s
Victoria A. Malko
Hosted by
Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Victoria A. Malko's book The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930s (Lexington Books, 2021) focuses on the first group targeted in …
African American Studies
Black Dragon
Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Zachary F. Price
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination (Ohio State UP, 2022), Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian …
Philosophy
Entropic Philosophy
Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation
Shannon M. Mussett
Hosted by
Sarah Tyson
Everything is breaking down. Chaos is increasing. Entropy is not just a metaphor, although it also that. In Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), Shannon M …
The Common Magazine
Idlewild
The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Nathan Jordan Poole
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Emily Everett
Nathan Jordan Poole speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Idlewild,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. In this conversation, Nathan talks about doing seasonal work …