New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Medicine

Sickening

Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States

Anne Pollock

Hosted by Claire Clark
An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans.  Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States (U Minnesota Press, 2021) examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care …
Italian Studies

Court and Its Critics

Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy

Paola Ugolini

Hosted by Gerry Milligan
The fashionable and decorous men whom we recognize in portraits and letters from the Italian Renaissance penned some of the most scathing critiques of the courts in which they served …
Food

Feeding the People

The Politics of the Potato

Rebecca Earle

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Rebecca Earle, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato (Cambridge …
Historical Fiction

God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen

Rhys Bowen

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Back in the days when brick-and-mortar bookstores were common in suburban America, I was browsing the shelves at my local Borders when a title caught my eye: Her Royal Spyness …
Fantasy

Capture the Crown

Jennifer Estep

Hosted by Gabrielle Mathieu
Today I talked to Jennifer Estep about her new book Capture the Crown (HarperCollins, 2021). Princess Gemma Ripley is famous for her glittering outfits, in which she flounces through countless parties and balls …
African Studies

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Kalle Kananoja

Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
In Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021), Kalle Kananoja tells the story of how pre-colonial communities throughout the west coast of Africa employed a wide range of medical …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Harnessing the Sun

Jenny Nelson

Hosted by Howard Burton
Harnessing the Sun is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jenny Nelson, Professor of Physics and Head of the Climate Change mitigation team at the Grantham …
Film

Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men

Phil Rosenzweig

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Phil Rosenzweig's Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men (Fordham Press, 2021) is the first biography of a great television writer, and the story of his magnum opus …
Central Asian Studies

Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space

Rano Turaeva and Rustamjon Urinboyev

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
In Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2021), Dr. Turaeva and Dr. Urinboyev have brought together a number of studies which explore the daily survival …
Sports

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

Dilemmas of the Modern Fan

Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Jessica Luther, a freelance investigative journalist, and Kavitha Davidson, a sport and culture writer with the Athletic, who together are the authors of Loving Sports …
Latin American Studies

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans

Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940

Nathaniel Morris

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the Díaz dictatorship in support of agrarian reform, in defense …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

A Conversation with Smith Yewell

Founder and CEO of Welocalize, One of the World’s Largest Translation Businesses

Smith Yewell

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
In this episode Smith Yewell share’s his route into translation and we hear how Smith’s personal life intertwined with his need to communicate in other languages. We learn how his …
Scholarly Communication

Teaching College Students to Communicate

A Discussion with Elena Cotos

Elena Cotos

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Elena Cotos, Director of the Center for Communication Excellence at the Graduate College (Iowa State University) and also Associate Professor in the English Department (Iowa …
Intellectual History

The State of Nature

Histories of an Idea

Mark Somos and Anne Peters

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
The phrase, “state of nature”, has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hell, interstate relations, and the locus of …
Philosophy

Artful Truths

The Philosophy of Memoir

Helena de Bres

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
What is a memoir? What makes a memoir both nonfictional and literary? What are the memoirist’s moral obligations to the people they write about besides themselves, and to their potential …
The Future of Higher Education

A Conversation with Michael Horowitz

Founder and President of TCS Education System

Michael Horowitz

Hosted by David Finegold
Michael Horowitz discusses the origins and evolution of The Cooperative Solution (TCS) Education System, which was created in 2009 as a spinout from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. TCS …
Book of the Day/ Russian and Eurasian Studies

Navalny

Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?

Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Everyone has heard of Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia's opposition to Putin's rule. But what do we really know of him? Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Oxford, 2021) provides the first detailed description of Navalny's history and trajectory.  Most importantly, Ben Noble, Morvan Lallouet, and Jan Matti Dollbaum turn the one-dimensional, cartoon-like image of Navalny in the West into a nuanced portrait, properly situated in the context of modern Russia. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President …
Politics & Polemics

The Rights of Women

Reclaiming a Lost Vision

Erika Bachiochi

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most important moral philosophers and political theorists ever. Her writings on liberty and equality have been embraced by thinkers both in her own …
General History

Imaginaries of Connectivity

The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance

Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Suvi Alt and Maarten Meijer

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) addresses the problem of how the creation of novel spaces of governance relates to imaginaries of …
Genocide Studies

Denial

The Final Stage of Genocide?

John Cox, Amal Khoury and Sarah Minslow

Hosted by Jeff Bachman
Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities. Yet few, if any, books have offered a comparative overview and analysis of …
South Asian Studies

Theosophy across Boundaries

Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement

Hans Martin Krämer and Julian Strube

Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
Theosophy across Boundaries: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Modern Esoteric Movement (SUNY Press, 2020) brings a global history approach to the study of esotericism, highlighting the important role of …
Popular Culture

The Punk Reader

Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global

Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair “Gords” Gordon, and Paula Guerra

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Intellect’s Global Punk Series (2019-present) has produced edited collections of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work into local, national, global, and trans-global punk scenes. Series editors, Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair “Gords” …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Exploring the Sikh Tradition

Eleanor Nesbitt

Hosted by Howard Burton
Exploring the Sikh Tradition is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Eleanor Nesbitt who is Professor Emeritus of Education Studies at University of Warwick and a …
Middle Eastern Studies

Dangerous Gifts

Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864

Ozan Ozavci

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
From Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya today, global empires or the so-called Great Powers …
Psychoanalysis

The Talking Cure

Normal People, their Hidden Struggles and the Life-Changing Power of Therapy

Gillian Straker and Jacqui Winship

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Gillian Straker’s name has long been on my radar, particularly for the ways in which she has used psychoanalytic thought to contend with the vicissitudes of apartheid and its aftermath …
Literature

Migrations

J. L. Torres

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Migrations (LA Review of Books, 2021) is a collection of short stories by the Puerto Rican born writer and now retired university professor J. L. Torres. Each story condenses a bit of …
Eastern European Studies

In the Midst of Civilized Europe

The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Hosted by Leslie Waters
Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In …
Intellectual History

Marxism and America

New Appraisals

Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome

Hosted by Catriona Gold
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New Appraisals (Manchester University Press, 2021) sheds new light …
Folklore

Alabama Quilts

Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950

M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King

Hosted by Stephanie Khattak
Stephanie Khattak speaks with Carole Ann King, who, along with Mary Elizabeth “Sunshine” Johnson Huff, wrote Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950 (UP of Mississippi, 2020). Alabama Quilts …
Eastern European Studies

Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust

OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944

John-Paul Himka

Hosted by Steven Seegel
One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. John-Paul Himka's Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust …
Jewish Studies

The Soul of the Mishna

Yakov Nagen

Hosted by Michael Morales
As the foundational text of the Oral Torah in Judaism, the Mishnah is generally analyzed to understand Jewish law and the workings of the halakhic system. But Yakov Nagen, in …
Book of the Day/ Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Smokescreen

What the Marijuana Industry Doesn't Want You to Know

Kevin A. Sabet

Hosted by Emily Dufton
Called the “quarterback of the new anti-drug movement,” Kevin Sabet received his Ph.D. in social policy from the University of Oxford and has worked in drug policy for over two decades. He’s served as an advisor for three presidential administrations, Pope Francis and the United Nations, and in 2013 he founded the group he still leads, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, better known as SAM, which opposes cannabis legalization and commercialization …
Art

Between Discipline and a Hard Place

The Value of Contemporary Art

Alana Jelinek

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Some fields have an easier time describing themselves than others. "History is the study of past events." "Biology is the study of living organisms." But art? Is art a discipline …
General History

The Last Muslim Conquest

The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe

Gábor Ágoston

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
The image of the Ottoman Turks and their interaction with the Christian West, has undergone many changes in the past: from William Gladstone's famous comment that: “[The Turks] one and …
Psychoanalysis

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

The Path from Impasse to Development

Heinz Weiss

Hosted by Philip Lance
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development (Routledge, 2019) identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of …
Mobilities and Methods

Capital Development

Mandate Era Amman and the Construction of the Hashemite State (1921-1946)

Harrison Guthorn

Hosted by Josephine Chaet
Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for the Anglo-Hashemite government first, and a city second. As …
Finance

The Myth of Private Equity

An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments

Jeffrey C. Hooke

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathing indictment of the high-flying world of private equity. Piece by …
Australian and New Zealand Studies

A Queer Existence

The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mark Beehre

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Mark Beehre about his new book, A Queer Existence, published by Massey University Press New Zealand 2021. A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that …
European Studies

New Lefts

The Making of a Radical Tradition

Terence Renaud

Hosted by Mathias Fuelling
In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe’s New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents’ antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time …
General History

Urgent Archives

Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

Michelle Caswell

Hosted by Ann Choi
Today I talked to Michelle Caswell about her new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021).What is the place of archives in our society? In archival studies, an answer to …
Irish Studies

History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland

Elizabeth Boyle

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
In History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland, Dr. Elizabeth Boyle closely examines medieval Irish ideas regarding salvation history from 700 to 1200 CE through both Latin and vernacular texts for both …
Film

Engineering Hollywood

Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System

Luci Marzola

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Luci Marzola's book Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building Studio System (Oxford University Press, 2021) tells the story of the formation of the Hollywood studio system not as the …
Film

Ends of Cinema

Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
At the dawn of the digital era in the final decades of the twentieth century, film and media studies scholars grappled with the prospective end of what was deemed cinema …
Christian Studies

Covenant Theology

Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives

Guy Prentiss Waters

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Crossway Books, 2020) explores the biblical covenants and how they form the structure of the Bible and inform the Christian life. Featuring contributions …
Politics & Polemics

The Dawn of Redemption

Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power

Mikhael Manekin

Hosted by Yakir Englander
In The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power (Evrit, 2021), Mikhael Manekin argues that modern Jewish nationalism--widespread today among secular as well as religious Israeli-Jews--is …
Animal Studies

Beast Without Purpose

On Post-Domestication and Other Monstrous Rules

Oren Ben Yosef

Hosted by Yakir Englander
The book Beast Without Purpose: On Post-Domestication and Other Monstrous Rules (Resling, 2019) emerges from the idea of an end to human sovereignty over non human animals. From this A-humanistic …
Book of the Day/ Psychoanalysis

The Distance Cure

A History of Teletherapy

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by J. J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews author Hannah Zeavin about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Among Zeavin’s central interventions in the book is to reframe what is normally understood as the “therapeutic dyad” as always already a triad: therapist, patient, and mediating communication technology. Across the book’s chapters, she traces teletherapy’s history from Freud’s epistolary treatments to contemporary algorithmic therapies. Her account …
Interpretive Political and Social Science

Interpreting International Politics

Cecelia Lynch

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Interpreting International Politics (Routledge, 2014) is a short and lively account of how international relations was founded and developed as an interpretivist discipline, and why it matters that it was …
Political Science

How the Tea Party Captured the GOP

Insurgent Factions in American Politics

Rachel M. Blum

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The discussion of factions in American politics is as old as the republic itself. But there is more to consider, particularly in terms of the way that contemporary factions operate …
Science Fiction

Light From Uncommon Stars

Ryka Aoki

Hosted by Rob Wolf
Ryka Aoki’s new novel, Light from Uncommon Stars (Tor Books, 2021), is packed with as much variety as a box of lovingly prepared assorted donuts from your favorite, funky-but-long-standing neighborhood donut …
Academic Life

A Conversation About Reproductive Health and Abortion Studies

An Interview with Diane Greene Foster

Diane Greene Foster

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: The field of reproductive health studiesThe data on contraceptive access and effectiveness [even when used correctly]Why we need to …
Jewish Studies

Survival on the Margins

Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union

Eliyana R. Adler

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Between 1940 and 1946, thousands of Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of …
African American Studies

The Other Side of Terror

Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

Erica R. Edwards

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
Dr. Erica R. Edwards's The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York University, 2021) reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US …
American West

Imperial Metropolis

Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941

Jessica M. Kim

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Between 1865 and 1900, the population of Los Angeles grew from around 5,000 people to over 100,000. With population growth that explosive came the opportunity for vast riches to be …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Democratic Lessons

What the Greeks Can Teach Us

Josiah Ober

Hosted by Howard Burton
Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Josiah Ober, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of …
Asian Review of Books

Dwelling in the World

Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960

Elizabeth Lacouture

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
To call the hundred years that straddle the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries as a radical period of change for China is an understatement, moving from the Imperial period, through the Republican …
Central Asian Studies

Slow Anti-Americanism

Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia

Edward Schatz

Hosted by Luca Anceschi
I could not think of a better way to start my tenure as host of New Books in Central Asian Studies than discussing Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements & Symbolic Politics in Central …
General History

Imperial Nostalgia

How the British Conquered Themselves

Peter Mitchell

Hosted by Michael Vann
With Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves (Manchester UP, 2020) Peter Mitchell offers a “history of the present”. That is to say, it is not a narrative of how we got …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Rule Breaker

Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work

Jackie Fast

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Jackie Fast about her new book Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work (Kogan Page, 2021). Imagine finding yourself in a career sector, sponsorship, because …
Southeast Asian Studies

From Animal Rights to Human Rights: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices to Improve Livelihoods

Human Rights and Research in Southeast Asia Series

Peter Windsor

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocating for human rights in Southeast Asia. For the …
Indian Religions

An Introductory Sanskrit Reader

Improving Reading Fluency

Antonia M. Ruppel

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency (Brill, 2021) aims to help students start reading original Sanskrit literature. When we study ancient languages, there often is quite a gap between …
Scholarly Communication

An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry"

The Scholarly Journal Series

Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz, Editors-in-Chief of Soil Biology and Biochemistry. We talk about the people who all scientists are, and we demonstrate why all …
Book of the Day/ Princeton UP Ideas Podcast

Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

Claudia Goldin

Hosted by Marshall Poe
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as …
Southeast Asian Studies

Moments of Silence

The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok

Thongchai Winichakul

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
The massacre of student protestors at Thammasat University on 6 October 1976 is one of the most infamous incidents in modern Thai political history. It is also among the most …
Journalism

The American Newsroom

A History, 1920-1960

Will Mari

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 (University of Missouri Press, 2021), Will Mari documents a time of great change …
Geography

Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned with a new …
General History

The Cinema of Rithy Panh

Everything Has a Soul

Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai

Hosted by Michael Vann
In this episode I chatted with Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, two scholars of film, about their new anthology The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul out with …
Jewish Studies

A Fortress in Brooklyn

Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less …
Latin American Studies

Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs

Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835-1946

Rocio Gomez

Hosted by Rachel Newman
In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European mining interests have come into open conflict with rural …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Kant, Applied

Onora O’Neill

Hosted by Howard Burton
Kant, Applied is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a crossbench member of the …
Islamic Studies

Elusive Lives

Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, University of Sheffield, highlights …
East Asian Studies

Green with Milk and Sugar

When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups

Robert Hellyer

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Robert Hellyer’s Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups (Columbia UP, 2021) is a tale of American and Japanese teaways, skillfully weaving together stories of Midwesterners …
Environmental Studies

Deep Time Reckoning

How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

Vincent Ialenti

Hosted by Matthew Brown
Based on twelve years of anthropological exploration, Vincent Ialenti's Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now (MIT Press, 2020) is an engaging guide on deep time learning …
Japanese Studies

The Blood of Gutoku

A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan

J. W. Traphagan

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Today I talked to anthropologist J. W. Traphagan's novel The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan (Balestier Press, 2021). Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire – …
Jewish Studies

The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince

Dov Zakheim

Hosted by Michael Morales
Rabbi Judah the Prince transformed the Mishnah into a text, and now Dov Zakheim, culling from a fascinating array of sources, has brought to life the story and historical times …
Gender Studies

The Political Economy of Stigma

HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities

Allyson Day

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In The Political Economy of Stigma: HIV, Memoir, Medicine, and Crip Positionalities (Ohio State UP, 2021), Ally Day offers a compelling critique of neoliberal medical practices in the US by coupling …
Eastern European Studies

International Courts and Mass Atrocity

Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia

Ivor Sokolić

Hosted by Christian Nielsen
In his new book International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Ivor Sokolić explores the effects of international and national transitional justice …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Beyond a Shadow

Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries

Joseph Liow Chin Yong

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
Why do Southeast Asia specialists get tired of explaining that the politics of the region cannot be reduced to a zero-sum game of Chinese-US great power rivalries? How do relatively …
Book of the Day/ Politics & Polemics

Outgrowing Capitalism

Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose

Marco Dondi

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
In Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose (Fast Company Press, 2021), Marco Dondi sheds light on the fact that most people do not have the economic security to focus on purpose and life fulfillment. He proposes that this is not the way things have to be; there is an alternative.  In a quest to change our economic system to cater for everyone, he identifies deep issues in how money …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

Troubled Water

What's Wrong with What We Drink

Seth M. Siegel

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
There’s nothing more vital to survival than water. “Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink!”, said the Ancient Mariner, in the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Besides widespread …
Gender Studies

Queer Nightlife

Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera

Hosted by Isabel Machado
The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence, and negation …
LGBTQ+ Studies

A Lesbian Belle Tells

OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love

Elizabeth McCain

Hosted by John Marszalek
Settle back for a wild ride through a Southern lesbian's life of soul-searching, rule-breaking, and truth-telling. This belle's kind of coming out was not what her traditional Mississippi family expected …
East Asian Studies

Knotting the Banner

Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice

David J. Mozina

Hosted by Noelle Guiffrida
Mozina’s Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice (U Hawaii Press, 2021) weaves together ethnography, textual analysis, photography, and film, inviting readers into the religious world of Daoist …
African American Studies

The Colored Conventions Movement

Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey

Hosted by Adam McNeil
P. Gabrielle Foreman and Jim Casey's edited volume The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century (UNC Press, 2021) is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement …
Music

A Punkhouse in the Deep South

The Oral History Of 309

Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Told in personal interviews, A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 (University Press of Florida, 2021) is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Sign Language Linguistics

Carol Padden

Hosted by Howard Burton
Sign Language Linguistics is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and renowned researcher of sign languages Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human …
General History

Rebirth of the English Comic Strip

A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870

David Kunzle

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 (UP of Mississippi, 2021) enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entirely neglected. This buried cache of mid-Victorian …
Politics & Polemics

Skirmishes

With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals

Graham Harman

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
One of the fifty most influential living philosophers, a “self-promoting charlatan” (Brian Leiter), and the orchestrator of an “online orgy of stupidity” (Ray Brassier). In Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

A Conversation with David Hieatt

Co-Founder Hiut Denim Co & The Do Lectures

David Hieatt

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
David Hieatt explains the importance of telling stories in brand building and how he applied the skills he learned in advertising to build globally recognised brands. His life is so …
Military History

How the Few Became the Proud

Crafting the Marine Corps Mystique 1874-1918

Heather P. Venable

Hosted by Alex Beckstrand
For more than half of its existence, members of the Marine Corps largely self-identified as soldiers. It did not yet mean something distinct to be a Marine, either to themselves …
Film

Lucasfilm

Filmmaking, Philosophy, and the Star Wars Universe

Cyrus R.K. Patell

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
From A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe. Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophy, and …
Critical Theory

Digital Black Feminism

Catherine Knight Steele

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How have Black women lead a digital revolution? In Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press, 2021), Catherine Knight Steele, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Maryland, places digital Black …
Political Science

How to Write a Better Book

The Minority-Serving Institution Virtual Book Workshop Project

Heath Brown and Niambi Carter

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Book workshops produce great books, but too few scholars have access to the resources needed to organize and execute one, especially scholars at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving …
The Future of Higher Education

The Economics of Higher Education

A Discussion with David Finegold

David Finegold

Hosted by Daniel Peris
In this episode, Daniel Peris, the host of the “Keep Calm and Carry On Investing” podcast, and David Finegold have a wide-ranging discussion of economics and governance questions inherent in …
Book of the Day/ General History

The Darker Angels of Our Nature

Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence

Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis? In Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale's book The Darker Angels …
Architecture

Echo's Chambers

Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space

Joseph L. Clarke

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and control the …
Film

Reclaiming Popular Documentary

Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades, thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this fact, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to …
Art

Investigative Aesthetics

Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth

Matthew Fuller

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of truth. They probe corruption, human rights violations, environmental crimes, and technological …
African Studies

Global Nomads

An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics

Susanna Fioratta

Hosted by Sara Katz
Countering the traditional narrative of "migration as crisis," Global Nomads tells the story of a group of people for whom migration is not a symptom of a disordered world, but …
Science

Unmanning

How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare

Katherine Chandler

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Katherine Chandler's Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers UP, 2020) studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental, pilotless …
Australian and New Zealand Studies

Upheaval

The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath

Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson

Hosted by Bede Haines
Matthew Ricketson joins to discuss how newsrooms, the engine rooms of reporting, have shrunk. A generation of journalists has borne witness to seismic changes in the media and this book …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

The Cyclic Universe

Roger Penrose

Hosted by Howard Burton
In the last twenty years, cosmology has unexpectedly emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic fields of modern science. From astoundingly precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background …
Irish Studies

The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland

A Social Revolution Begins

Sonja Tiernan

Hosted by Averill Earls
In 2015, the world witnessed an Irish social revolution. In a historic referendum vote, the Republic of Ireland voted to extend the constitutional right to marriage to same-sex couples. Thirty …
Chinese Studies

Newborn Socialist Things

Materiality in Maoist China

Laurence Coderre

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China (Duke UP, 2021) is an exciting book that considers Chinese socialist culture seriously in terms of materiality and theory by tracing the contours …
American West

History of Montana in 101 Objects

Artifacts & Essays from the Montana Historical Society

Montana Historical Society

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts & Essays from the Montana Historical Society (Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2021) showcases the remarkable collection of artifacts preserved at the Montana …
Japanese Studies

Counting Dreams

The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō

Roger K. Thomas

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō (Cornell UP, 2021) tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the …
Military History

On Contested Shores

The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare

Timothy Heck and B. A. Friedman

Hosted by Boris Karpa
Perhaps no prediction has been as consistently made—and as consistently wrong—as the imminent death of amphibious operations. Whatever the changes in warfare and technology, the necessity of amphibious force projection …
Performing Arts

Chartist Drama

Gregory Vargo

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Greg Vargo's Chartist Drama (Manchester UP, 2021) opens a window into a fascinating aspect of working-class radical drama. This book includes scripts of four dramas performed or published by members …
Literature

Beneficence

Meredith Hall

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Meredith Hall about her new novel Beneficence (Godine, 2020). A beautiful family is torn apart by a shocking loss, and three of its members blame themselves. It’s …