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New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Physics and Chemistry

An Infinity of Worlds

Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

Will Kinney

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent universe--the Big Bang--was one of the most consequential developments in twentieth-century science. And yet it leaves many questions unanswered: Why is the universe so big? Why is it so old? What is the origin of structure in the cosmos? In …
On Religion

On Women of Color in American Islam

A Discussion with Sylvia Chan-Malik

Sylvia Chan-Malik

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sylvia Chan-Malik is Associate Professor in the Departments of American and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She talks, teaches, and writes about the intersections of race …
Asian American Studies

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …
Science, Technology, and Society

Four Shades of Gray

The Amazon Kindle Platform

Simon Peter Rowberry

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform (MIT Press, 2022) is the first book-length analysis of Amazon's Kindle explores the platform's technological, bibliographical, and social impact on publishing. Dr …
Geography

Pipeline Populism

Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century

Kai Bosworth

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also …
High Theory

Witnessing

A Discussion with Ulrich Baer

Ulrich Baer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Ulrich Baer talks to Kim about the process and phenomenon of witnessing, which creates collective acknowledgement, understanding, and responsibility for trauma. Among other works, he talks about Shoshana Felman and …
General History

High Minds

The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain

Simon Heffer

Hosted by Albert Zambone
Britain in the 1840s should have been, observes Simon Heffer, a time of great social improvement. Instead it was a country that was beset by poverty, unrest, assassination attempts on …
Art

Actional Poetics-Ash She He

The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020

Sandra Johnston, Chérie Driver, and Paula Blair

Hosted by Brandon Sward
A retrospective monograph of Alastair MacLennan’s performance art practice, its influence on the Belfast art scene, and its relationships with wider art histories. Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations …
European Politics

The Political Philosophy of the European City

From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?

Ferenc Hörcher

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
To many the city might seem simply a large urban area to live within, but it actually forms an important political concept and community that has been influential throughout European …
Political Science

When There Was No Aid

War and Peace in Somaliland

Sarah G. Phillips

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by …
Think About It

Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"

Book Talk 52

Linda Patterson Miller

Hosted by Uli Baer
When first published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose relationships unravel …
East-West Psychology Podcast

A Deep History of the California Institute of Integral Studies

A Discussion with Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
This installment of the EWP podcast will conclude our double episode feature on Haridas Chaudhuri and the roots of the California Institute of Integral Studies. This episode features a talk …
Economic and Business History

A Brief History of Equality

Thomas Piketty

Hosted by Javier Mejia
It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to …
Scholarly Communication

Better Posters

Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster

Zen Faulkes

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Zen Faulkes, instructor at the School of Interdisciplinary Science, McMaster University, Canada. We talk about his book Better Posters: Plan, Design and Present an Academic Poster …
The Future of Higher Education

A Conversation with Mark Nordenberg

Chancellor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh (Part 2 of 2)

Mark Nordenberg

Hosted by David Finegold
We continue our discussion with Mark Nordenberg, who shares lessons from his successful 19 year tenure as Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and his subsequent career as Director of …
Book of the Day/ Media

Disinformation

The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

Donald A. Barclay

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces–historical, psychological, economic, and culture–to create the post-truth …
Literature

Geographies of the Heart

Caitlin Hamilton Summie

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Three members of a loving Minnesota family have a voice in Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s new thought-provoking novel-in-stories, Geographies of the Heart (Fomite 2022). Sarah, the eldest daughter, Al, Sarah’s husband …
Public Policy

Wicked Problems

The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, and Ernesto Verdeja

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone …
African Studies

My Fourth Time, We Drowned

Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Late one night, journalist Sally Hayden received an urgent message on Facebook: “Sally, we need your help.” It was from a group of Eritrean refugees who had been held in …
On Religion

On Covering Religion as a Journalist

A Discussion with Sam Kestenbaum

Sam Kestenbaum

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sam Kestenbaum is an independent religion journalist. He writes for The New York Times and is a contributing editor and former staff writer for The Forward. …
East Asian Studies

Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Lessons from East Asia

Christopher Carothers

Hosted by Keith Krueger
Political corruption remains … one of the most intriguing and challenging issues in social science research and public policy, perhaps because although it occurs in virtually all polities, its causes …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

When Animals Dream

The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness

David M. Peña-Guzmán

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (Princeton UP, 2022) …
High Theory

Love as Critique

A Discussion with Manasvin Rajagopalan

Manasvin Rajagopalan

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Saronik talks to Manasvin Rajagopalan about critical possibilities in varied literary ideations of love. Manasvin mentions Hannah Arendt’s concept of love as destruction, the concepts of Puram …
Medicine

Conquer Your Diabetes

Prevention . Control . Remission

Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu
The global epidemic of diabetes and prediabetes afflicts more than 1 billion people. And sadly, more than 50% of people with the disease do not achieve their desired glucose control …
Critical Theory

Diminished Faculties

A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

Jonathan Sterne

Hosted by Gummo Clare
Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment (Duke UP, 2022) begins by calling into question a fundamental principle of orthodox phenomenology (and, for that matter, a great deal of humanities …
General History

Blood and Bronze

The British Empire and the Sack of Benin

Paddy Docherty

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museum’s most prized possessions. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once …
Poetry

Synaptic

Alison Calder

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu
This intricate, yearning work from award-winning poet Alison Calder asks us to think about the way we perceive and the ways in which we seek to know ourselves and others …
General History

Globalizing Automobilism

Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980

Gijs Mom

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Why has "car society" proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 (Berghahn Books …
South Asian Studies

Television in Bangladesh

News and Audiences

Ratan Kumar Roy

Hosted by Sharonee Dasgupta
Ratan Kumar Roy's book Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences (Routledge, 2020) examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multi-sited ethnography of television news media …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

The Future of Human Fertility

A Conversation with R. John Aitken

R. John Aitken

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
Human fertility rates are declining fast and in twenty years or so the global population will go down fast – not just in affluent countries but in the world as …
How to Be Wrong

Higher Education and the Humble Brag

A Discussion with Adrian Lenardic

Adrian Lenardic

Hosted by John Traphagan
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Adrian Lenardic, who is a professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University and an …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists

Collecting Lives

Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures

Elizabeth Rodrigues

Hosted by Marshall Poe
On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting …
Book of the Day/ Economics

Streets of Gold

America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth, not facts. Using the tools of modern data analysis and ten years of pioneering research, Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (Public Affairs, 2022) provides new evidence about the past and present of the American Dream, debunking …
Gender Studies

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

Hosted by Ann Choi
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era …
French Studies

The Paris Commune

A Brief History

Carolyn J. Eichner

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Carolyn Eichner's new book, The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Rutgers University Press, 2022) was published on March 18th, the anniversary of the eruption of Paris Commune of 1871. In this accessible …
Mobilities and Methods

Refuge

How the State Shapes Human Potential

Heba Gowayed

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption that this …
High Theory

Alienation

A Discussion with Mustafa Yavas

Mustafa Yavas

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Kim talks with Mustafa Yavas about Alienation. Mustafa quotes Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. He also references Albert Camus’ books The Stranger and The …
Scholarly Communication

Literature Review and Research Design

A Guide to Effective Research Practice

Dave Harris

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Dave Harris, a writing coach who uses principles from design to help authors develop writing practices. We talk about his book, Literature Review and Research Design …
Latin American Studies

Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America

A Tribute to Berta Cáceres

Irune del Rio Gabiola

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed …
Technology

Artificial Communication

How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence

Elena Esposito

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what …
Art

The Memeing of Mark Fisher

How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It

Mike Watson

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher’s insights, widely taken up by the …
Environmental Studies

In Whose Ruins

Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire

Alicia Puglionesi

Hosted by Laura Stark
The important new book by Alicia Puglionesi, In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession and the Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner, 2022), is a fat sampler of episodes that show how origin …
Anthropology

Waste Worlds

Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

Jacob Doherty

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability (U California Press …
On Religion

On Hiking as Pilgrimage

A Discussion with Chris Ives

Chris Ives

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Christopher Ives teaches in the area of Asian Religions at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. In his scholarship, he focuses on modern Zen ethics. In 2009 he published Imperial-Way Zen …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

The Moderate Bolshevik

Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936

Charters Wynn

Hosted by Samantha Lomb
Charters Wynn's book The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936 (Brill, 2022) is an English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky. It reveals Tomsky's central role in all …
Critical Theory

Held in Contempt

What's Wrong with the House of Commons?

Hannah White

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the future for the House of Commons? In Held in Contempt: What’s Wrong with the House of Commons? (Manchester UP, 2022), Hannah White, Deputy Director of the Institute for Government …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning

Pandemic Perspectives 11

Stephen Kosslyn

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced, or didn't influence, our understanding …
Book of the Day/ American West

Frontier Religion

The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907

Konden Smith Hansen

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907 (U Utah Press, 2019) Konden Smith Hansen examines the dramatic influence these perceptions of the frontier had on Mormonism and other religions in America. Endeavoring to better understand the sway of the frontier on religion in the United States, this book follows several Mormon-American conflicts, from the Utah War and the antipolygamy crusades to the Reed Smoot hearings …
Sports

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Watch Whiteness Workout

Shannon L. Walsh

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Dr. Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor of Theatre History, and author of Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout (Palgrave MacMillan …
Chinese Studies

Fixing Landscape

A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges

Corey Byrnes

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
Corey Byrnes’ Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2019) is a work of considerable historical and disciplinary depth. Byrnes brings together the Tang dynasty …
Intellectual History

The Belief in Intuition

Individuality and Authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano

Hosted by August Baker
Within the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of "intuition" at work in human beings that plays …
Academic Life

Setbacks and Missteps

A Conversation about Failing Comps

Heather Wagoner

Hosted by Dana Malone
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Dr. Heather Wagoner’s experience failing her doctoral qualifying examHow she responded as the shame set inWhat she did to …
Critical Theory

Universality and Identity Politics

Todd McGowan

Hosted by Reuben Niewenhuis
The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of …
Christian Studies

Mental Health Journal for Christians

Faith-Based Prompts to Improve Your Mind, Body & Spirit

Cathleen Bearse

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
Focusing on your mental health can feel overwhelming, but with this supportive mindfulness journal, you’ll learn how your faith can guide you to a happier, healthier life. Inside you’ll find …
Political Science

The Big No

Kennan Ferguson

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The Big No (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is an edited volume, assembled and overseen by political theorist Kennan Ferguson, who also provides the Introduction. This group of essays came out …
Ancient History

The Crown Games of Ancient Greece

Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes

David Lunt

Hosted by Reyes Bertolin
The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at …
Recall This Book

The Underworld

A Conversation with David Ferry and Roger Reeves

David Ferry and Roger Reeves

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Since the original airing of this episode in June 2021, Roger Reeves' second book Best Barbarian was published by W. W. Norton, and the paperback edition of David Ferry's translation …
On Religion

On Teaching Religion in High School

A Discussion with George Coe

George Coe

Hosted by Gregory Soden
George Coe is a religious studies, current events, and world history teacher in Fairfax County, Virginia. He runs a popular blog with teaching resources here.  This conversation talks about constitutionality …
High Theory

Recall This Book Crossover

A Discussion with John Plotz

John Plotz

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
This is our first crossover episode! Saronik and Kim talk to John Plotz from the wonderful Recall This Book podcast. Our conversation is rather wide ranging, but we focus on …
Indian Religions

Constructing Kanchi

City of Infinite Temples

Emma Natalya Stein

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Emma Natalya Stein's book Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples (Amsterdam UP, 2021) traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination …
Science

The Joy of Science

Jim Al-Khalili

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Today’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science (Princeton UP, 2022) …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance

Morris Altman

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Morris Altman about his book Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance (Routledge, 2021). What sometimes gets overlooked is that Adam Smith not only became the “father of capitalism” by …
Asian Review of Books

Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden"

Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest

Glynne Walley

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Hakkenden is a classic work of Japanese literature: the story of the eight warriors, born from Princess Fuse and the dog Yatsufusa, has been adapted to manga, movies and anime …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

Doubt

Part 3

Matthew O'Connell

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
In the third part of this series on Doubt, we head off to the Great Feast. Come along and dine with the Buddha, your favourite philosophers, and any other great …
Book of the Day/ Literary Studies

How to Do Things with Dead People

History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

Alice Dailey

Hosted by John Yargo
Alice Dailey’s How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol (Cornell University Press, 2022) is an exploration of Shakespeare’s chronicle plays through the theoretical rubric of modern technology. Dailey is Professor of English at Villanova University and is the author of the monograph The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (from Notre Dame Press). How to Do Things with Dead People is a …
Architecture

Sixteenth Street NW

Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions

John DeFerrari and Douglas Peter Sefton

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, DC, has been called the Avenue of the Presidents, Executive Avenue, and the Avenue of Churches. From the front door of the White House, this …
Buddhist Studies

Renunciation and Longing

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

Annabella Pitkin

Hosted by Jue Liang
In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this elusive …
East Asian Studies

Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989

The Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors

Andrew D. Morris

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories …
Environmental Studies

Environmental Justice in Postwar America

A Documentary Reader

Christopher W. Wells

Hosted by Brady McCartney
In the decades after World War II, the American economy entered a period of prolonged growth that created unprecedented affluence—but these developments came at the cost of a host of …
Eastern European Studies

In the Labyrinth of the KGB

Ukraine's Intelligentsia in the 1960s–1970s

Olga Bertelsen

Hosted by Anna Bisikalo
Olga Bertelsen’s timely book, In the Labyrinth of the KGB: Ukraine’s Intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s (Lexington Books, 2022), focuses on the generation of the sixties and seventies in Kharkiv, Soviet …
Japanese Studies

Cultural Imprints

War and Memory in the Samurai Age

Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li's book Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (Cornell UP, 2022) draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by …
On Religion

On Gyotaku

A Discussion with Dwight Hwang and Michael Vanhartingsveldt

Dwight Hwang and Michael Vanhartingsveldt

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dwight Hwang is a California-based Gyotaku artist. His notable artistic achievements include a 2018 solo showcase by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Japan Foundation, as well as …
Children's Literature

Alycat and the Cattywampus Wednesday

Alysson Foti Bourque

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Alysson Foti Bourque began her career as a teacher and subsequently an attorney. After practicing law for six years, she traded in writing trial briefs for writing children’s books. Her …
Jewish Studies

Three Philosophies of Life

Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

Peter Kreeft

Hosted by Phil Cohen
"I've been a philosopher for all my adult life and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs." This …
High Theory

Military Industrial Complex

A Discussion with Patrick Deer

Patrick Deer

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Kim talks to Patrick Deer about the Military Industrial Complex, a term used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a 1961 speech to describe a permanent war economy, and …
Scholarly Communication

How Writing Works

A Field Guide to Effective Writing

Roslyn Petelin

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. We talk about her book How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing (Routledge …
Media

Race, Culture and Media

Anamik Saha

Hosted by Gummo Clare
In Race, Culture and Media (Sage, 2021), Anamik Saha provides an account of the role that media plays in both circulating and shaping ideas about race and racism in the …
Biography

You'll Never Find Us

A Memoir

Jeanne Baker Guy

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha

A Conversation with Peter Salmon

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Today I talk with Peter Salmon, author of An Event, Perhaps; an intellectual biography of Jacques Derrida. Our conversation was rich: We tackle Derrida and Buddhism, Derrida and the culture …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Ethnographic Perspectives on Change and Continuity in China

A Discussion with Suvi Rautio

Suvi Rautio

Hosted by Ari-Joonas Pitkänen
The People’s Republic of China has undergone tumultuous and varied sociocultural developments over the course of its history. In this episode, Dr. Suvi Rautio talks about some of the ways …
Book of the Day/ Human Rights

China and the International Human Rights Regime

1982–2017

Rana Siu Inboden

Hosted by Nicholas Bequelin
In China and the International Human Rights Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rana Siu Inboden examines the evolution of China’s posture towards the U.N. human rights system since the early 1980s. The book examines in unprecedented details China’s role and impact on the complex negotiations between U.N. members over the International Covenant Against Torture and its optional protocol; the establishment of the U.N. Human Rights Council; and the monitoring powers …
Geography

Underflows

Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice

Cleo Wölfle Hazard

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wölfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice …
General History

The Lost Promise

American Universities in the 1960s

Ellen Schrecker

Hosted by Catriona Gold
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the …
Genocide Studies

Global Burning

Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

Eve Darian-Smith

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation …
Environmental Studies

Lives of Weeds

Opportunism, Resistance, Folly

John Cardina

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly (Comstock Publishing, 2021) explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective …
General History

Oceans of Grain

How American Wheat Remade the World

Scott Reynolds Nelson

Hosted by Albert Zambone
Grain traders wandering across the steppe; the Russian conquest of Ukraine (in the 18th century, that is); boulevard barons and wheat futures; railroads; the first fast food breakfast; and war …
On Religion

On the Tao Te Ching

A Discussion with Sean Michael Wilson

Sean Michael Wilson

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sean Michael Wilson is an award-winning Scottish graphic novel/comic book writer. He has written more than 30 books, published by a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers and translated …
Military History

Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence …
Asian American Studies

Archipelago of Resettlement

Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Hosted by Ann Choi
“Nước Việt Nam: a home, a cradle, a point of departure” (Gandhi, 1). The Vietnamese word nước embraces the duality of land and water with an idea of “home.” Through …
South Asian Studies

Vernacular English

Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

Akshya Saxena

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton UP, 2022) argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import …
High Theory

Autotheory

A Discussion with Lauren Fournier

Lauren Fournier

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode Kim speaks with Lauren Fournier about autotheory. Lauren has recently published a book on the subject, titled Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (MIT …
Food

Healing Grounds

Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

Liz Carlisle

Hosted by Susan Grelock-Yusem
A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that’s meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back …
Art

Women in the Picture

What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Catherine McCormack

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by …
Science, Technology, and Society

Unmasked

COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji

Emily Mendenhall

Hosted by Austin Clyde
Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the …
Irish Studies

Fierce Appetites

Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past

Elizabeth Boyle

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
In Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past (Sandy Cove, 2022), Dr. Elizabeth Boyle weaves together the past and …
East-West Psychology Podcast

Integral Education: Spiritual, Whole Person and Transdisciplinary Approaches

A Discussion with Heidi Fraser Hageman

Heidi Fraser Hageman

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today Stephen and I talk with EWP Phd grad and adjunct faculty, Heidi Fraser. She is also the Director of the CIIS Center for Writing and Scholarship, and was a …
Nordic Asia Podcast

The “Post-Abe” era, Japan under Fumio Kishida

Paul Midford

Hosted by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Does Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida´s new administration represent the true beginning of the “Post-Abe” era for Japan? After the one-year transitional administration of Yoshihide Suga, Kishida was able to …
On Religion

Neuromatic

Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain

John Lardas Modern

Hosted by Alison Renna
In Neuromatic: Or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain (U Chicago Press, 2021), religious studies scholar John Lardas Modern offers a sprawling examination of the history of the …
Book of the Day/ The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

The Future of Neoliberalism

A Conversation with Gary Gerstle

Gary Gerstle

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
The word neoliberalism is often used more as an insult than a description of a set of beliefs. And people can be rather hazy about the beliefs it refers to – although the mix generally includes free markets, privatisation and globalisation and high levels of inequality.  In his book The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era (Oxford UP, 2022), Professor Gary Gerstle …
General History

The Next Apocalypse

The Art and Science of Survival

Chris Begley

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of dreadful, abandoned cities and …
American Studies

A People's Guide to New York City

Carolina Bank Muñoz and Penny Lewis

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among …
On Religion

On Gurdjieff

A Discussion with Roger Lipsey

Roger Lipsey

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Roger Lipsey is a biographer, art historian, translator, and, for many decades, a participant in the Gurdjieff teaching. Among his recent books is Hammarskjöld: A Life, which has been hailed as …
Anthropology

Chinese Environmental Ethics

Religions, Ontologies, and Practices

Mayfair Yang

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious …
Art

Takedown

Art and Power in the Digital Age

Farah Nayeri

Hosted by Allison Leigh
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or politically deviant in art. Today, censorship can also happen from …
Caribbean Studies

Daylight Come

Diana McCaulay

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling trial. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day and …
Environmental Studies

Whole Earth

The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

John Markoff

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Stewart Brand has long been famous if you know who he is, but for many people outside the counterculture, early computing, or the environmental movement, he is perhaps best known …
High Theory

The Right to Maim

A Discussion with Bassam Sidiki

Bassam Sidiki

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Bassam Sidiki talks about the right to maim, the titular concept in Jasbir K. Puar’s book, and the related concept of debility. He explains how these concepts have changed how …
Jewish Studies

Becoming Elijah

Prophet of Transformation

Daniel C. Matt

Hosted by Michael Morales
Elijah is a zealous prophet, attacking idolatry and injustice, championing God. He performs miracles, restoring life and calling down fire. When his earthly life ends, he vanishes in a whirlwind …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Marijuana on My Mind

The Science and Mystique of Cannabis

Timmen Cermak

Hosted by Steve Beitler
Few substances have been researched as extensively, and debated as fiercely, as cannabis. In Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis (Cambridge University Press, 2022), psychiatrist Timmen …
Literature

The House of Marvellous Books

Fiona Vigo Marshall

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
The House of Marvellous Books by Fiona Vigo Marshall (Fairlight Books 2022) describes a publishing house called The House of Marvelous Books that houses an old library in the center …
Scholarly Communication

The American Historical Association

Scholarly Societies Series

Jim Grossman and James Sweet

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the American Historical Association provides leadership for the discipline and promotes the critical role of …
Irish Studies

Irish Writers and the Thirties

Art, Exile and War

Katrina Goldstone

Hosted by Bridget English
The theme of exile in Irish writing often calls to mind Joyce or Beckett, but rarely does it conjure up other writers or literary networks, particularly those of the often-overlooked …
Arguing History

Putin's War on Ukraine in Historical Perpective

Jeremy Black, Thomas Otte, David R. Stone, and Alex Watson

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
With the war in Ukraine showing no signs of stopping anytime soon, it was thought a worthwhile idea to have an informed discussion with four expert historians of 19th and …
Burned by Books

Either/Or

Elif Batuman

Hosted by Chris Holmes
An interview with novelist Elif Batuman. The international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Idiot now has a sequel. In Either/Or (Penguin, 2022), Batuman picks up the story as her …
Political Science

Out of Joint

Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time

Nomi Claire Lazar

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Today I talked to Nomi Claire Lazar about Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time (Yale University Press, 2019). Drawing on stories of leaders and thinkers across a …
Scholarly Communication

How to Start a Successful Academic Podcast

A Discussion with Sean Guillory

Sean Guillory

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked to Sean Guillory. Sean did something pretty remarkable (and hard): He started a successful academic podcast. It's called the SRB Podcast and deals with Russian and Eurasian affairs. In …