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Performing Arts
The Lost Conversation
Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde
Sara Farrington
Hosted by
Andy Boyd
Sara Farrington's The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde (53rd State Press, 2021) is a collection of interviews with a host of influential artists in experimental theatre, including Richard Foreman, Lee Breuer, Adrienne Kennedy, Maude Mitchell, and Jessica Hagedorn. They discuss process, making a living as an artist, the changes that have rocked the New York theatre scene since the 1970s, AIDS, COVID, and so much more in wide-ranging and …
Jewish Studies
The Crowns on the Letters
Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages
Ari D. Kahn
Hosted by
Matthew Miller
Rabbi Ari Kahn’s The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages (OU Press, 2020) represents a major achievement in the study of the lives …
British Studies
Built on the Ruins of Empire
British Military Assistance and African Independence
Blake Whitaker
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national …
On Religion
On the Hungry Ghost
An Discussion with Dalena Storm
Dalena Storm
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dalena Storm is a writer and educator. Her undergraduate training at Williams College was in Asian Studies with a Religious Studies Concentration, and her experiences in the study and practice …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery
Heroin
An Illustrated History
Susan C. Boyd
Hosted by
Jay Shifman
Dr. Susan Boyd is a scholar/activist and Distinguished Professor emerita at the University of Victoria. Her research examines a variety of topics related to the history of drug prohibition and …
Film
Competing with Idiots
Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait
Nick Davis
Hosted by
Daniel Moran
A fascinating, complex dual biography of Hollywood's most dazzling—and famous—brothers, and a dark, riveting portrait of competition, love, and enmity that ultimately undid them both. One most famous for having …
General History
Feminism's Empire
Carolyn J. Eichner
Hosted by
Michael Vann
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions …
American West
Visions of Nature
How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism
Jarrod Hore
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
During the early years of photography, settlers around the Pacific World were fascinated with the landscapes of the places they conquered. According to Dr. Jarrod Hore, a postdoctoral researcher and …
Writ Large
On Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion"
A Discussion with Heidi Tworek
Heidi Tworek
Hosted by
Zachary Davis
What is the role of the press in a democracy? For nearly a century, scholars, media critics, and politicians have debated this question—in a large part thanks to Walter Lippmann …
Politics & Polemics
Paths of Dissent
Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Forever Wars
Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
Compiled by New York Times bestselling author Andrew Bacevich and retired army officer Danny A. Sjursen, Paths of Dissent: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars (Metropolitan Books, 2022) collects provocative …
Law
Who Decides?
States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation
Jeffrey S. Sutton
Hosted by
William Domnarski
Everything in law and politics, including individual rights, comes back to divisions of power and the evergreen question: Who decides? Who wins the disputes of the day often turns on …
Environmental Studies
The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke
Hosted by
Brady McCartney
The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas …
Mobilities and Methods
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property
Minh-Ha T. Pham
Hosted by
Lakshita Malik
In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the …
Music
Have a Little Faith
The John Hiatt Story
Michael Elliott
Hosted by
Daniel Moran
A journey through an artist's quest for success, deep dive into substance abuse, family tragedy, and ultimate triumph. By the mid-1980s, singer-songwriter John Hiatt had been dropped from three record …
Finance
How to Pay for College
A Complete Financial Plan for Funding Your Child's Education
Ann Garcia
Hosted by
John Emrich
Providing your children with a good education is one of the best gifts you can give. But it’s not straightforward. Education costs and student loan debt are skyrocketing. In some cases …
How to Be Wrong
Twitter, Intellectual Discourse, and Humility
A Conversation with Biochemist and Social Media Influencer George Styles
George Styles
Hosted by
John Traphagan
For this episode of How To Be Wrong, I speak with George Styles, a biochemist and author of the book Contemplation. George is also what we describe these days as …
Philosophy
The Art of Abduction
Igor Douven
Hosted by
Carrie Figdor
How should we form new beliefs? In particular, what inferential strategies are epistemically justified for forming new beliefs? Nowadays the dominant theory is Bayesianism, whereby we ought to reason in …
Darts & Letters
The Colonial Lens
Analyzing Decolonization, Reconciliation, and Colonialism in Academia
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Scholars want to decolonize everything, and universities say they are doing the hard work of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. But is anything really being done, or is it all for …
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Psychology
Hatred of Sex
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean
Hosted by
Eugenio Duarte
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we tend to overlook the “unpleasurable pleasures” that are integral to sex. Sex undoes us, destabilizes us, takes us out of ourselves. Many of our 21st century cultural products—Queer Theory, traumatology, intersectional studies—secretly “hate” sex for these very reasons and build …
Academic Life
Writing Beyond a Limited Narrative
A Conversation with Hari Ziyad
Hari Ziyad
Hosted by
Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Hari Ziyad’s journey through higher education.Why they became editor of RaceBaitr after finishing film school at NYU.The necessary disruption …
Science Fiction
The Women Could Fly
Megan Giddings
Hosted by
Rob Wolf and Brenda Noiseux
The Women Could Fly (Amistad, 2022) is set in our contemporary world with one big difference. A belief in witches gives rise to laws and a culture that encourages women …
On Religion
On Mormon Fundamentalism
A Discussion with Cristina Rosetti
Cristina Rosetti
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Cristina Rosetti completed her Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of California Riverside. She writes about Mormon fundamentalism. …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
Women Painting Women
Andrea Karnes
Hosted by
Dan Hill
Andrea Karnes' book Women Painting Women (Delmonico Books, 2022) documents a wide-ranging exhibit inclusive of women as both the makers and subjects of paintings. The artists hail from around the …
Genocide Studies
Sites of Genocide
Adam Jones
Hosted by
Kelly McFall
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's been influential in drawing attention …
African American Studies
Or, on Being the Other Woman
Simone White
Hosted by
Brittney Edmonds
In or, on being the other woman (Duke UP, 2022), Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of …
Political Science
Stars and Shadows
The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
Saladin Ambar
Hosted by
Lilly Goren
Slavery and its lingering remnants remain a plague on the United States, continuing to foster animosity between races that hinders the understanding and connection conducive to dismantling the remains of …
Indian Religions
Sadhus in Indian Politics
Dynamics of Hindutva
Koushiki Dasgupta
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics …
Writ Large
On "The Great Learning"
A Discussion with Peter Bol
Peter Bol
Hosted by
Zachary Davis
Sometimes the oldest texts are the most influential. The Great Learning likely first appeared in the Confucian Book of Rites around 2,000 years ago, and its impact can still be …
Gender Studies
Millennial Feminism at Work
Bridging Theory and Practice
Jane Juffer
Hosted by
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
In Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2021), volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of …
Indian Religions
Letters from the Yoga Masters
Teachings Revealed through Correspondence from Paramhansa Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda, and Others
Marion (Mugs) McConnell
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
This intimate and insightful account of the life of Dr. Harry (Hari) Dickman, referred to by Swami Sivananda as “the yogi of the West,” features more than fifty years of …
Sociology
Generally Speaking
An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology
Eviatar Zerubavel
Hosted by
Rituparna Patgiri
Defying the conventional split between “theory” and “methodology,” Eviatar Zerubavel's Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology (Oxford UP, 2020) introduces a yet unarticulated and thus far never systematised method of …
Jewish Studies
Power and Progress
Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History
Alexander Green
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress …
Public Health
Big Vape
The Incendiary Rise of Juul
Jamie Ducharme
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they dreamed of a way to …
Children's Literature
The Light of the Midnight Stars
Rena Rossner
Hosted by
Mel Rosenberg
Rena Rossner is a literary agent at The Deborah Harris Agency, based in Jerusalem, Israel, which represents Israeli, Palestinian and other Internationally-based authors. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins …
British Studies
British Rail
A New History
Christian Wolmar
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation …
On Religion
Islamophobia
What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination
Jordan Denari Duffner
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Jordan Denari Duffner is an author and scholar of Muslim-Christian relations, interreligious dialogue, and Islamophobia. Jordan is currently pursuing a PhD in Theological and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. A …
Asian Review of Books
Empire of Salons
Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Helen Pfeifer
Hosted by
Nicholas Gordon
It’s the sixteenth century, and the Ottoman Empire has just defeated the Mamluk Sultanate, conquering Damascus and Cairo, important centers of Arab learning and culture. But how did these two …
Darts & Letters
Modifying Maize
How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
This is part 1 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino …
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Economics
Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism
Roselyn Hsueh
Hosted by
Peter Lorentzen
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries integrate into the global economy. Examining the labor-intensive textile sector and the capital-intensive telecommunications sector in China, India, and Russia, Hsueh shows how differences in the way elites perceive the strategic value of a sector can lead to dramatically different patterns of governance. Author Roselyn Hsueh is an Associate Professor of Political Science …
Music
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Christopher M. Reali
Hosted by
Emily Ruth Allen
The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul …
Early Modern History
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Adam Sundberg
Hosted by
Douglas Bell
By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an …
African Studies
When Soldiers Rebel
Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa
Kristen A. Harkness
Hosted by
Andrew Miller
Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains understudied, especially over the last decade …
General History
Disgrace
Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Joanna Bourke
Hosted by
Jana Byars
Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence--what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (Reaktion, 2022) is the first …
Middle Eastern Studies
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey
State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic
Sevgi Adak
Hosted by
Reuben Silverman
The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s …
Public Policy
Single Payer Healthcare Reform
Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement
Lindy S. F. Hern
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
In Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Lindy Hern provides a comprehensive history of the grassroots Movement …
General History
Political Enthusiasm
Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments
Andrew Poe
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrationalism. Such views can make enthusiasm appear as …
Film
History by HBO
Televising the American Past
Rebecca Weeks
Hosted by
Joel Tscherne
The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American history. Founded in 1972, HBO has been at …
Writ Large
On Sholem Aleichem’s "The Tevye Stories"
A Discussion with Saul Noam Zaritt
Saul Noam Zaritt
Hosted by
Zachary Davis
The original production of Fiddler on the Roof won nine Tony awards, held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical, and was adapted into a hit movie. But the musical …
Psychoanalysis
The Hidden Spring
A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Mark Solms
Hosted by
Philip Lance
If you have ever been skeptical about whether neuroscience has anything to teach psychoanalysis, or vice-versa, you will be stimulated by this book which engages the two disciplines in a …
Christian Studies
Beyond Missio Dei
Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness
Sarosh Koshy
Hosted by
Tiatemsu Longkumer
In Beyond Missio Dei: Contesting Mission, Rethinking Witness (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Sarosh Koshy strives to go beyond the mission model of Christianity that emerged alongside and within the colonial enterprise and …
Military History
The Lion of Round Top
The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War
Hans G. Myers
Hosted by
Boris Karpa
Hans G. Myers' book The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War (Casemate, 2022) presents the story of the true …
General History
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy Black
Hosted by
Charles Coutinho
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In A Brief History of the Atlantic (Robinson, 2022), Jeremy …
Darts & Letters
Made of Corn
How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
This is part 2 of a 2-part series from Cited - the predecessor of Darts and Letters. For the final episode of our “Activism & Academia”-themed week of programming, we’re …
Nordic Asia Podcast
Podcasting Academic Research
A Chat about the Nordic Asia Podcast
Hosted by
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
What is the potential of podcasts to disseminate research based insights? How can a podcast function as a networking and pedagogical tool? And what is so intriguing about a Nordic …
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Psychoanalysis
Circumcision on the Couch
The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
Jordan Osserman
Hosted by
Tracy Morgan
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether one thinks of it manifesting as a looming, retributive threat for incestuous longings or as a struggle to face one’s shortcomings, contending with what we are at risk of losing or what has already gone missing animates both the field and the consulting room. Imagine the profession …
LGBTQ+ Studies
Viral Cultures
Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS
Marika Cifor
Hosted by
Sohini Chatterjee
Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) …
Southeast Asian Studies
Deliberative Democracy in Asia
Baogang He, Michael Breen, and James Fishkin
Hosted by
Nicole Curato
Southeast Asia is a region often associated with authoritarian resilience and democratic decline. In this podcast, Professor Baogang He examines the various ways in which Southeast Asian countries have institutionalised …
Indian Religions
Amma’s Daughters
A Memoir
Meenal Shrivastava
Hosted by
Raj Balkaran
Today I talked to about Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir (Athabasca UP, 2018). This book is available open access here. As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of …
Political Science
The Revenge of Power
How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century
Moisés Naím
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
Moisés Naím's The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats Are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century (St. Martin's Press, 2022) is an urgent, thrilling, and original look at the future of democracy. It …
Political Science
Hijacking the Agenda
Economic Power and Political Influence
Christopher Witko, Jana Morgan, Nathan J. Kelly, and Peter K. Enns
Hosted by
Susan Liebell
How do competing interests shape public policy? Why are the economic interests and priorities of lower-, working-, and middle-class Americans often neglected while the interests and priorities of wealthier Americans …
East-West Psychology Podcast
“Living One’s Own Experiment”
Heretical Individuation, Alchemical Hermeneutics, and Cross-Cultural Mytho-Poetics
David Odorisio
Hosted by
Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
Today we speak with David Odorisio, East-West Psychology PhD, about Eastern and Western wisdom traditions, searching for wholeness, and the integration of monasticism and contemplative spirituality with relationship and partnership …
East Asian Studies
Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
William Matthews
Hosted by
Suvi Rautio
Today I spoke to anthropologist William Matthews about his new book, Cosmic Coherence: A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination (Berghahn Books, 2021). This book explores how humans are unique in their …
On Religion
On Modern Witchcraft
A Discussion with Danielle Dulsky
Danielle Dulsky
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Danielle Dulsky is a heathen visionary, painter, and word-witch. The author of Woman Most Wild and The Holy Wild. She teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, embodiment trainings, communal spell-work …
Writ Large
On Frederick Douglass
A Discussion with John Stauffer
John Stauffer
Hosted by
Zachary Davis
When Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, it was illegal for him to learn the alphabet. Slave masters feared the power of a literate slave, so Douglass vowed …
Sports
Celebrate Winter
An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing
John Morton
Hosted by
Robert Sherwood
Celebrate Winter: An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing (Morton Trails, 2020) by John Morton is a wonderful look back at experiences and lessons learned from over 5 …
British Studies
The Game Is Afoot
The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes
Jeremy Black
Hosted by
Charles Coutinho
Fans of Sherlock Holmes will delight to investigate Victorian England, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. In The …
Japanese Studies
Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises
Anoma Van Der Veere, Florian Schneider, and Catherine Lo
Hosted by
Jingyi Li
Every nation in Asia has dealt with COVID-19 differently and with varying levels of success in the absence of clear and effective leadership from the WHO. As a result, the …
Intellectual History
Warspeak
Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism
Hosted by
David Kunsman
On this episode we have Michael Grenke (St. John's College) who wrote the introduction to Lise Van Boxel's Warspeak: Nietzsche's Victory Over Nihilism (Political Animal Press, 2020). A comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
Modern Mathematical Logic
Joseph Mileti
Hosted by
Marshall Poe
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Joe Mileti, associate professor of mathematics at Grinnell College. Even if you are not "into" math, you will enjoy this conversation. We …
Burned by Books
Disorientation
A Novel
Elaine Hsieh Chou
Hosted by
Chris Holmes
Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American writer from California. A 2017 Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow, her short fiction appears in The Normal …
Darts & Letters
Don’t Look Left
A Discussion with David Sirota, writer of "Don't Look Up"
David Sirota
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Why does the democratic establishment always avoid turning left, even when it might mean a political win? Gordon asks David Sirota. Sirota is behind the smash-hit Netflix movie Don’t Look …
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Animal Studies
Animal Revolution
Ron Broglio
Hosted by
Callie Smith
Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, Animal Revolution (U Minnesota Press, 2022) threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we should pay attention …
General History
Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965
Eva-Maria Muschik
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the …
East Asian Studies
Moral Foods
The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia
Angela Ki Che Leung, Melissa L. Caldwell, and Robert Ji-Song Ku
Hosted by
Nathan Hopson
The twelve chapters of Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia (U Hawai’i Press, 2020) are divided into three sections: Good Foods, Bad Foods, and Moral …
Literature
Meeting Mozart
A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte
Howard Jay Smith
Hosted by
G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Howard Jay Smith about his new novel Meeting Mozart (Sager Group, 2020). It’s 1946, and a young army intelligence officer is awakened early by a gruff priest …
Animal Studies
The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife
Failures of Principle and Policy
Max Foran
Hosted by
Kyle Johannsen
Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of …
Economics
The Future of Money
How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
Eswar S. Prasad
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021) provides a cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the …
General History
Road to Nowhere
What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
Paris Marx
Hosted by
Michael Vann
In Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso, 2022), Paris Marx identifies two convergent forces in the 20th century: the growth of the climate …
On Religion
On Vodun, Voodoo, and the Movies
A Discussion with Emily Crews
Emily Crews
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Emily Crews is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her dissertation project traces the relationship between movement and identity formation in the …
Sports
Gridiron Capital
How American Football Became a Samoan Game
Lisa Uperesa
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Sāmoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron …
Caribbean Studies
Island on Fire
The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
Tom Zoellner
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
For five horrific weeks after Christmas in 1831, Jamaica was convulsed by an uprising of its enslaved people. What started as a peaceful labor strike quickly turned into a full-blown …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
Of Marsupials and Men
Alastair Paton
Hosted by
Bede Haines
Alistair Paton joins today, writer of Of Marsupials and Men (Black Inc, 2022), a book recounting the fascinating and often hilarious history of the men and women who dedicated their lives …
Writ Large
On W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"
A Discussion with James Campbell
James Campbell
Hosted by
Zachary Davis
Nearly 40 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, American writer, sociologist and civil rights activist W. E. B. DuBois shed light on Black life in America and what it …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
The Future of Net Zero
A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
Eric Lonergan and Corrine Sawyers
Hosted by
Owen Bennett-Jones
There is no shortage of words written about climate change and the goal of reaching net zero - but there is a shortage of practical suggestions about to get to …
German Studies
Berlin Contemporary
Architecture and Politics After 1990
Julia Walker
Hosted by
Lea Greenberg
For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible …
Darts & Letters
Nothing Spreads Like Greed
The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Has the pandemic taught us anything? As we look forward and imagine what the future might look like, we like to think ‘next time will be different.’ But, if we …
High Theory
Normalization
A Discussion with Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay
Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay
Hosted by
Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Gëzim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert tell us about normalization in international relations. Their research applies Foucault’s social theories of the normal and abnormal to …
Book of the Day
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In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Rome
Strategy of Empire
James Lacey
Hosted by
Mark Klobas
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years -- an impressive number by any standard, and fully one-fifth of all recorded history. In fact, the decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian trying to unearth the grand strategy of the Roman Empire must, therefore, always …
General History
Inventing the Alphabet
The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
Johanna Drucker
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Miranda Melcher
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Dr. Johanna Drucker provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship …
Irish Studies
Beyond Exclusion
Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland
Stephen Hewer
Hosted by
Margaret Smith
Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland (Brepols, 2022) offers a fresh look at the legal status of minorities in English Ireland. Through …
Biology and Evolution
Molecular Capture
The Animation of Biology
Adam Nocek
Hosted by
Victor Monnin
In Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Adam Nocek, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies at Arizona State University, investigates …
Systems and Cybernetics
Impact Networks
Creating Connection, Sparking Collaboration, and Catalyzing Systemic Change
David Ehrlichman
Hosted by
Kevin Lindsay
I recently caught up with the very busy David Erlichman, co-founder and coordinator of the Converge network (www.converge.net), about his fantastic book Impact Networks: Creating Connection, Sparking Collaboration, and Catalyzing Systemic Change (Berrett-Koehler …
Religion
Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Contemporary Romania
Reforming Apostles
Marc Roscoe Loustau
Hosted by
Diana Dukhanova
Set against the backdrop of the rise of right-wing Christian nationalism in Eastern Europe, this book declares that Catholic theologians ought to be understood and studied as intellectuals: socially and …
Art
Three Women Artists
Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos
Hosted by
Kirstin Ellsworth
Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest—and particularly West Texas—on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the …
On Religion
On African-American Catholic Identity, Sex Abuse, and Systemic Racism
A Discussion with Tia Noelle Pratt
Tia Noelle Pratt
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dr. Tia Noelle Pratt is a higher education professional, researcher, and inclusion and diversity specialist based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her PhD in sociology from Fordham University. A sociologist …
African American Studies
Black Patience
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Julius B. Fleming Jr.
Hosted by
Mickell Carter
“Freedom, Now!” This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people wait—in the holds of slave ships and on …
Medieval History
Weeds and the Carolingians
Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900
Paolo Squatriti
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Miranda Melcher
In Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750–900 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Dr. Paolo Squatriti asks: Why did weeds matter in the Carolingian empire …
East Asian Studies
Global Taiwanese
Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World
Fiona Moore
Hosted by
Li-Ping Chen
In Global Taiwanese: Asian Skilled Labour Migrants in a Changing World (U Toronto Press, 2021), Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates in London and Toronto, along …
Writ Large
On T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
A Discussion with Charles Stang
Charles Stang
Hosted by
Zachary Davis
Lawrence of Arabia has become one of the most well known films in the world. It inspired Steven Spielberg to become a filmmaker and President Barack Obama considers it one …
Economic and Business History
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America
Samuel Evan Milner
Hosted by
John Emrich
Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political economy. In his book Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits …
African Studies
From Rebels to Rulers
Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
Paul Naylor
Hosted by
Sara Katz
Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, including over 300 Arabic texts authored …
Darts & Letters
Canada’s Dumbest Public Intellectual
Darts and Letters’ Most Coveted Award
Hosted by
Gordon Katic
Canada’s intellectual culture is now like a barren soil that struggles to give life to even the simplest flora. They’re just not that smart. We make too many right wing …
The Vault
His Sister, Her Monologue
A Discussion with Hilton Als
Hilton Als
Hosted by
New York Institute for the Humanities
In this 2011 episode from The Vault, Hilton Als reads from, and discusses, His Sister, Her Monologue, a novella he published in Mcsweeney's #35. Als is a staff writer at …