New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Food

Avocado

A Global History

Jeff Miller

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hundred years. This is an astounding trajectory for a fruit that isn’t sweet, becomes bitter when it is cooked and has perhaps the oddest texture of any fruit or vegetable. But the idea that this rich and delicious fruit is also healthy despite …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Astrophysical Wonders

Scott Tremaine

Hosted by Howard Burton
Astrophysical Wonders is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study and an internationally renowned expert …
Film

Below the Stars

How the Labor of Working Actors and Extras Shapes Media Production

Kate Fortmueller

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Despite their considerable presence in Hollywood, extras and working actors have received scant attention within film and media studies as significant contributors to the history of the industry. Looking not …
Literature

Catch Us When We Fall

A Novel

Juliette Fay

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy, convinced he was the smartest person she'd ever known. They partied their way through their …
Japanese Studies

Invisibility by Design

Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy

Gabriella Lukács

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to …
Jewish Studies

Judah Magnes

The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist

David Barak-Gorodetsky

Hosted by Bar Guzi
In this episode, I interview David Barak-Gorodetzky about his new book, Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist (U Nebraska Press, 2021). This comprehensive intellectual biography of Judah …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Flux

8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change

April Rinne

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to April Rinne about her new book Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2021) What’s your relationship to change? Do you embrace it, filled with …
Academic Life

About Maternal Health Studies

A Conversation with Bethany Johnson

Bethany Johnson

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Bethany Johnson’s simultaneous journey through graduate school and motherhood, her struggles with infertility, the history of birth-care access, why …
Anthropology

Worlds of Care

The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities

Aaron J. Jackson

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday …
Women's History

Tunisia's Modern Woman

Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s

Amy Aisen Kallander

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
Following Tunisian independence in 1956, President Habib Bourguiba centered women’s liberation as part of the identity of the new nation. In Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the …
Political Science

Fears of a Setting Sun

The Disillusionment of America's Founders

Dennis C. Rasmussen

Hosted by Lilly Goren
When Americans conjure the image of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, they often think about the various paintings that depict the Founders looking to George Washington …
Asian Review of Books

The Lettuce Diaries

How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China

Xavier Naville

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Many Western entrepreneurs and businesses have foundered in trying to set up shop in China. Different expectations, different ways of doing business, different institutions and platforms—all come together to remove …
Indian Religions

Sanskrit Tools on the Web

A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)

Martin Gluckman

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
This interview continues the conversation with Martin Gluckman, Researcher at University of Capetown and Director at Sanskrit Research Institute. We discuss his Panini Research Tool, Sanskrit Writer, Text to Speech …
Recall This Book

Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon

A Conversation with Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Book Industry Month continues with a memory-lane voyage back to a beloved early RtB episode. This conversation with Martin Puchner about the very origins of writing struck us as perfect …
Israel Studies

EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019

Anders Persson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Nearly 50 years since the European Foreign Ministers issued their first declaration on the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1971, the European Union continues to have close political and economic …
Buddhist Studies

The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje

Master of Mahamudra

Ruth Gamble

Hosted by Cuilan Liu
A scholarly yet accessible biography of the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, one of the great historical figures of Tibetan Buddhism.  Known for his mastery of teachings across sectarian lines, his …
Book of the Day/ Economics

Causal Inference

The Mixtape

Scott Cunningham

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Just about everyone knows correlation does not equal causation, and probably that a randomized controlled experiment is the best way to solve that problem, if you can do one. If you’ve been following the economics discipline you will have heard about the Nobel Prize given to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for their work applying the experimental method to test real-world policy interventions out in the field. But …
Systems and Cybernetics

Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking

The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation

Josep M. Coll

Hosted by Kevin Lindsay
I recently sat down with Josep M. Coll to discuss his new book Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation (Routledge, 2021). This book is the latest …
Christian Studies

Syncretism and Christian Tradition

Race and Revelation in the Study of Religious Mixture

Ross Kane

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Syncretism, even though, is an unavoidable phenomenon of religion, has a range of connotations. In Christian theology, the use of syncretism shifted from a compliment during the Reformation to an …
Science

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher

A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul

Brandy Schillace

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Today I talked to Brandy Schillace about her book Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul (Simon and Schuster, 2021).In the …
Philosophy

Reconsidering the Life of Power

Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy

James Garrison

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy by James Garrison (SUNY Press 2021), argues that the tradition of Confucian philosophy can provide …
Women's History

Her Cold War

Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980

Tanya L. Roth

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Tanya L. Roth's Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explains that while Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

On Atheists and Bonobos

Frans de Waal

Hosted by Howard Burton
On Atheists and Bonobos is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and primatologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, who is renowned for his work on the behaviour …
Biblical Studies

Engaging the Doctrine of Israel

A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism

Matthew Levering

Hosted by Michael Morales
What does it mean to be the people of God? Is it possible for Jewish and Christian people to engage in fruitful dialogue about their faiths, with integrity and mutual …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

To Break Russia's Chains

Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks

Vladimir Alexandrov

Hosted by Lynne Hartnett
The latest book by Vladimir Alexandrov is a brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary, Boris Savinkov. Although now largely forgotten outside Russia, Boris Savinkov was famous, and notorious, both …
Speaking of . . . with Uli Baer

Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke

Charlie Louth

Hosted by Uli Baer
Charlie Louth’s illuminating recent book, Rilke: The Life of the Work (Oxford University Press, 2021) examines why Rilke’s poems have exercised such preternatural attraction for now several generations of readers …
Medieval History

Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250

Medicine, Power and Religion

Claire Weeda

Hosted by Evan Zarkadas
Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On Crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other’s …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking

A Conversation with Qian Huang

Joanne Kuai

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
What is digital vigilantism? How do Chinese citizens seek justice online? How does digital vigilantism reflect contemporary Chinese technological and socio-political development? In a conversation with Joanne Kuai, a visiting …
Scholarly Communication

Joining the Conversation

A Guide and Handbook for Writers With 2020 APA Update

Mike Palmquist and Barbara Wallraff

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Mike Palmquist, Professor of English (with a focus on rhetoric and composition) and also University Distinguished Teaching Scholar. We have a conversation. Mike Palmquist …
Islamic Studies

Mosques of Colonial South Asia

A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship

Sana Haroon

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In her multilayered and thoroughly researched new book The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship (I. B. Tauris, 2021), Sana Haroon examines the interaction …
Caribbean Studies

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970

Nicole C. Bourbonnais

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized …
The Common Magazine

Ghosts of the Southern Ocean

Carin Clevidence

Hosted by Emily Everett
Carin Clevidence speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Ghosts of the Southern Ocean,” which appears in The Common’s fall issue. In this conversation, Carin talks about how …
Book of the Day/ Education

Ableism

The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice

Michelle R. Nario-Redmond

Hosted by Christina Bosch
Of the dozens of juicy questions for future inquiry that Dr. Michelle Nario-Redmond provides at the end of Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice (Published by Wiley in 2019), the following stands out the most to me, in my various group-membership roles: How do we build common ground between disadvantaged groups for effective cross-impairment coalitions? Though it seemed impossible for this question to feel any more urgent after …
Environmental Studies

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set

Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer

Hosted by Brady McCartney
From The Center for Humans and Nature, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a five-volume collection of essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity that highlight the interdependence …
Historical Fiction

All Things That Deserve to Perish

A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany

Dana Mack

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Despite all the attention paid to the two world wars of the twentieth century, not a great deal of historical fiction focuses on the period that preceded them. Dana Mack’s …
Food

Feeding Iran

Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic

Rose Wellman

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in …
Middle Eastern Studies

The Rise of the Arabic Book

Beatrice Gruendler

Hosted by Miguel Monteiro
How did it happen that, in the 13th century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes while Baghdad alone boasted of several libraries holding from 200,000 to 1,000,000 books …
African American Studies

Imagining the Mulatta

Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media

Jasmine Mitchell

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural …
General History

State Surveillance, Political Policing and Counter-Terrorism in Britain, 1880-1914

Vlad Solomon

Hosted by Mark Klobas
In 1850 Charles Dickens wrote that Great Britain had “no political police,” adding that “the most rabid demagogue” could speak out “without the terror of an organised spy system.” In …
General History

England in the Age of Dickens, 1812-70

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black, who recently retired as professor of history of Exeter University, has just published the two latest installments of his series of works on writers of literary fiction. England in the …
Critical Theory

Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Gila Ashtor, a practicing psychoanalyst and critical theorist, about her new book, Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham University Press, 2021). This book …
National Security

Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons

Herbert Lin

Hosted by John Sakellariadis
What does America’s growing dependence on modern information technology systems mean for the management of its nuclear weapons? In his new book, Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons (Stanford University Press …
Environmental Studies

Asphalt

A History

Kenneth O'Reilly

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
In Asphalt: A History (U Nebraska Press, 2021), Kenneth O’Reilly provides a history of this everyday substance. By tracing the history of asphalt—in both its natural and processed forms—from ancient times …
Postscript

Postscript

The Supreme Court, Concealed Carry, and How Your Laws Might Change

Joseph Blocher, Jacob B. Charles, and Eric Ruben

Hosted by Susan Liebell
An earlier Postscript explained what was at stake for concealed carry laws in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court – and guessed at what the oral arguments might reveal …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership

Marcus Whitney

Entrepreneur, Author, Healthcare Venture Fund Founder

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
In this episode Marcus shares the story of his highly programmed upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, with significant sporting achievements somewhat hiding his challenges in conventional learning environment because he …
The Future of Higher Education

A Discussion with Bill Carroll

President of Benedictine University from 1995-2015 and founder and CEO of Hunter Global Education

Bill Carroll

Hosted by David Finegold
Under Bill Carroll’s leadership, Benedictine University, in Lisle Illinois became the fastest growing university in the U.S. from 2000-12. Carroll describes how Benedictine was able to expand from 1400 to …
How to Be Wrong

Marshall Poe on Getting Post-Soviet Russia Wrong

Marshall Poe

Hosted by John Kaag
In this episode of How To Be Wrong we talk with Marshall Poe, founder and head of the New Books Network, about his work as an historian of Russia and …
Burned by Books

Mona

Pola Oloixarac

Hosted by Chris Holmes
An interview with Pola Oloixarac, Mona (2021). Pola and I get to talking about the failure of the US university to live up to its massive influence, especially when it …
Book of the Day/ General History

The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland

Crawford Gribben

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today Crawford Gribben joins us to talk about his new book, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford UP, 2021). Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of saints and scholars'. Yet the Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way …
General History

Hinge Points

A Podcast about Historical Contingency

Matt Christman and Daniel Bessner

Hosted by Michael Vann
How do we balance the importance of individual human agency with our understanding of larger socio-economic structures? How do we explore crucial “what ifs” in history? How do we make …
South Asian Studies

Police Matters

The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975

Radha Kumar

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell UP, 2021) moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the …
Food

Food Justice Now!

Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle

Joshua Sbicca

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Food Justice Now: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. In an engrossing, historically …
General History

The Rise of the Civilizational State

Christopher Coker

Hosted by Stephen Satkiewicz
In recent years the resurgence of great power competition has gripped the headlines, with new emerging powers (such as Russia and China) seeking to challenge the American and Western hegemony …
German Studies

Nazis of Copley Square

The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front

Charles Gallagher

Hosted by Eric Grube
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front (Harvard UP, 2021) by Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., traces the machinations of far-right Catholic thinkers and activists in the US …
East Asian Studies

Indigenous Cultural Translation

A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

Darryl Sterk

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale (Routledge, 2020) is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous …
Psychoanalysis

Discourse Ontology

Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan

Christos Tombras

Hosted by August Baker
We interview Dr. Christos Tombras, a supervising psychoanalyst with a Lacanian orientation, practicing in London. Dr. Tombras is a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK, and …
Literature

Just River

Sara B. Fraser

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Sara B. Fraser about her new novel Just River (Black Rose Writing, 2021).The Otis River flows through the once bustling city of Wattsville, a few hours north of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies

Snapshots of the Soul

Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture

Molly Thomasy Blasing

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Cornell UP, 2021) considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Drawing …
General History

Confederates and Comancheros

Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands

James Bailey Blackshear and Glen Sample Ely

Hosted by Mark Klobas
A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than in the lawless early days of cattle …
Psychology

Mental Health in Academia

A Conversation with Roy Richard Grinker

Roy Richard Grinker

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

Alabama Justice

The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation

Steven P. Brown

Hosted by Ian Drake
Steven P. Brown, professor of political science at Auburn University, has written a history of notable U.S. Supreme Cases and justices that hailed from Alabama. In Alabama Justice: The Cases and Faces …
Performing Arts

Love Like Light

Plays and Performance Texts by Daniel Alexander Jones

Daniel Alexander Jones

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Daniel Alexander Jones' Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts (53rd State Press, 2021) collects seven plays and performance texts from the past twenty-five years. Together, they provide a panoramic view …
Science

The Importance of Being Interested

Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

Robin Ince

Hosted by John Weston
Multi-award-winning comedian and author Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later …
Book of the Day/ Diplomatic History

Unconditional

The Japanese Surrender in World War II

Marc Gallicchio

Hosted by Grant Golub
Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender formally ended the war in the Pacific and brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in history, one that had cost the lives of millions. VJ―Victory over Japan―Day had taken place two weeks or so earlier, in the wake of the dropping of the …
Sociology

Agents of God

Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools

Jeffrey Guhin

Hosted by Nafeesa Andrabi
Jeff Guhin joins us today to talk about his book Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools (Oxford University Press, 2020). Jeff, an Assistant Professor of …
Asian Review of Books

Distant Shores

Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier

Melissa Macauley

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“The Europeans raise all the cattle, but the Chinese get all the milk.” This joke, told in colonial Singapore, was indicative of the importance of the Chinese diaspora throughout Southeast …
East Asian Studies

Sound of the Border

Music and Identity of Korean Minority Nationality in China

Sunhee Koo

Hosted by Ed Pulford
When faced with some of the complex identity questions which often arise in borderlands, Koreans in China – known as Chosonjok in Korean, Chaoxianzu in Chinese – have long seemed …
Gender Studies

The Work of Rape

Rana M. Jaleel

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In The Work of Rape (Duke UP, 2021), Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime against humanity, and genocide …
Intellectual History

The Right of Sovereignty

Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations

Daniel Lee

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. Daniel Lee's book The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations (Oxford UP, 2021) …
LGBTQ+ Studies

Queer As All Get Out

10 People Who've Inspired Me

Shelby Criswell

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On this episode of Queer Voices of the South, I talk with Shelby Criswell, whose book Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me (Street Noise Books, 2021) …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

The Drug Expert

A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings

Craig W. Stevens

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Craig W. Stevens' book The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings (Academic Press, 2021) targets academic and industry pharmacologists, pharmacology graduate students, and professionals and …
American West

Shakespeare in Montana

Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer

Gretchen E. Minton

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Writer (University of New Mexico Press, 2020) uncovers a vast array of …
Latin American Studies

The Dark Side of Memory

Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching

Tessa Bridal

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
I sat down with award winning author Tessa Bridal to talk about her latest book, The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching, published by Invisible Ink (October …
Psychology

Emotional Inheritance

A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Galit Atlas

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Loss and trauma are ubiquitous, yet we are often unaware of their presence in our individual and family histories, much less how they affect us present-day. We carry them in …
Australian and New Zealand Studies

Too Much Money

How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand

Max Rashbrooke

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander …
Music

Why You Like It

The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

Nolan Gasser

Hosted by David Golland
Why do we love the music we love? In Why You Like IT: The Science & Culture of Musical Taste (Flatiron Books, 2019) musicologist Nolan Gasser, architect of Pandora Radio’s Music …
Life Wisdom

Song of Your Soul

A New Translation of Bhagavad Gita

Atmadarshan Laura Santoro

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Raj Balkaran interviews Atmadarshan Laura Santoro co-owner of Dharma Kshetra Yoga and author of forthcoming book The Song of Your Soul (an original new translation of the Bhagavad Gita) on …
Eastern European Studies

The Struggle for Redress

Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jessie Barton-Hronešová

Hosted by Christian Nielsen
In Jessie Barton Hronešová’s new book, The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), she explores pathways to redress for main groups of victims/survivors of …
Book of the Day/ African American Studies

How the Word Is Passed

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relationship to enslavement in his first nonfiction book, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company, 2021). From Monticello plantation to Angola Prison to Galveston Island, Smith guides the reader on a journey as he visits …
Irish Studies

Estranging the Novel

Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature

Katarzyna Bartoszyńska

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Katarzyna (Kasia) Bartoszyńska is an assistant professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Ithaca College. Her research and teaching focuses on the novel form and the theories connected …
Architecture

Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes

How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction

Barbara White Bryson

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes: How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction (Routledge, 2020) demonstrates the importance of creating cultures in the design and construction industries grounded in …
Science, Technology, and Society

Conviction

The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain

Oliver Rollins

Hosted by Chad Valasek
Exposing ethical dilemmas of neuroscientific research on violence, this book warns against a dystopian future in which behavior is narrowly defined in relation to our biological makeup. Biological explanations for …
Science

Of Sound Mind

How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

Nina Kraus

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press …
Popular Culture

Chick TV

Antiheroines and Time Unbound

Yael Levy

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Yael Levy examines the underexplored antiheroine of early twenty-first century television in Chick-TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound (Syracuse UP, 2022). Levy advances antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and subtle …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur

An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sensitive & Wildly Ambitious

Christine Kane

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Christine Kane about her book The Soul Sourced Entrepreneur: An Unconventional Success Plan for the Highly Creative, Secretly Sensitive & Wildly Ambitious (BenBella, 2020). Sick of the …
Eastern European Studies

Romania's Holy War

Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust

Grant T. Harward

Hosted by Roland Clark
What motivated conscripted soldiers to fight in the Romanian Army during the Second World War? Why did they obey orders, take risks, and sometimes deliberately sacrifice their lives for the …
Business, Management, and Marketing

Can We Talk?

Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work

Roberta Chinsky Matuson

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
The key to successful dialogue starts and ends with changing the conversation. Recognizing that it takes two people to engage in meaningful outcomes, Can We Talk?: Seven Principles for Managing …
Science Fiction

2034

A Novel of the Next World War

Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis

Hosted by Rob Wolf
The next world war is 13 years away—that is, if you live in the world envisioned by Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis, 2034: A Novel of the Next World War (Penguin, 2021) …
German Studies

The Knight Without Boundaries

Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations

Annegret Oehme

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy …
Art

A History of Arab Graphic Design

Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar

Hosted by Holiday Powers
Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place …
African American Studies

Love for Liberation

African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground

Robin J. Hayes

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the …
SSEAC Stories

Shaking the World

How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century

Sabin Zahirovic

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Southeast Asia is the most tectonically and geologically active region on Earth. These processes have enriched the mountains and basins with world-famous mineral and energy resources, fresh water, and highly …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Network Monarchy’ and Its Challengers

Making Sense of Thai Politics with Duncan McCargo

Duncan McCargo

Hosted by Petra Desatova
What does a cup of coffee tell us about Thailand’s intricate power relations? Where does the country’s monarchy come into this? And why does it matter? Prominent political scientist and …