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East-West Psychology Podcast April 4, 2022

Introduction to the East-West Psychology Podcast

Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay

Hosted by Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay
In this episode you will meet your podcast hosts, Stephen Julich and Jonathan Kay and learn a little about their journey to the East-West Psychology Department of CIIS. They will …

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High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

An Introduction

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 27, 2022

Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations

Jonathan Fulton

Hosted by Julie Yu-Wen Chen
Have you ever read Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises? When asked how he went bankrupt, a character replies, “Gradually, then suddenly.” In this conversation, Julie Yu-Wen Chen, professor of Chinese …
Law May 27, 2022

Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South

African Americans and Law Enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920–1945

Brandon T. Jett

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this groundbreaking work, Professor Brandon T. Jett unearths how police departments evolved with the urbanization of the Jim Crow South, to target African Americans through a variety of mechanisms of …
American Studies May 27, 2022

We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes

Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan

Andrew Hunt

Hosted by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
Ronald Reagan’s hagiography has created an entire mythology around the 40th president of the US; anticommunism and the fight against the ‘Evil Empire’ are the central tropes of the Reagan …
Art May 27, 2022

Sea Change

Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean

Amanda Phillips

Hosted by Tanja Tolar
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire, in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense …
Islamic Studies May 27, 2022

Sorcery or Science?

Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

Ariela Marcus-Sells

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars …
Latin American Studies May 27, 2022

Home in Florida

Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness

Anjanette Delgado

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Today I spoke to Anjanette Delgado, a Puerto Rican writer and journalist based in Miami who has compiled emblematic stories and essays by writers from many countries who congregate in …
Native American Studies May 27, 2022

Brotherhood to Nationhood

George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement

Peter McFarlane with Doreen Manuel

Hosted by Zachary Smith
Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement (Between the Lines Books, 2020) details the life of George Manuel, a seminal figure in the emergence and development …
Critical Theory May 27, 2022

Heritage and Nationalism

Understanding Populism through Big Data

Chiara Bonacchi

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What are the connections between the past and modern politics? In Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism through Big Data (UCL Press, 2022), Chiara Bonacchi, a Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text …
Israel Studies May 27, 2022

Searching for Peace

A Memoir of Israel (Part 2 of 2)

Ehud Olmert

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
NB: This is part 2 of a two part interview with Ehud Olert. Part 1 is here. Written almost entirely from inside a prison cell, Searching for Peace: A Memoir …
The Common Magazine May 27, 2022

Spin

The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)

Cheryl Collins Isaac

Hosted by Emily Everett
Cheryl Collins Isaac speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “Spin,” which appears in The Common’s new spring issue. “Spin” is about two Liberian immigrants making a new …
On Religion May 27, 2022

The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature

Finding Nirvana in the Classics

Dean Sluyter

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Today I talked to Dean Sluyter about his book The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics (New World Library, 2022). Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku …
Jewish Studies May 27, 2022

The Venice Ghetto

A Memory Space That Travels

Chiara Camarda, Amanda K. Sharick, and Katharine G. Trostel

Hosted by Amber Nickell
The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and …
Irish Studies May 27, 2022

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland

Kay Muhr and Liam Ó. hAisibéil

Hosted by Margaret Smith
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland (Oxford UP, 2021) contains explanations of over 3,800 family names, of any origin, that are established in Ireland, both in the Republic …
Politics & Polemics May 27, 2022

The Disenchanted Earth

Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism

Richard Seymour

Hosted by Nicholas Pritchard
In The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism & Barbarism (Indigo Press, 2022), Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading left-wing writers, gives an account of his 'ecological awakening'. A search for transcendence, beyond …
General History May 27, 2022

This Mortal Coil

A History of Death

Andrew Doig

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone …
African American Studies May 27, 2022

There's a Disco Ball Between Us

A Theory of Black Gay Life

Jafari S. Allen

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
In There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what …