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Arts & Letters
Australian and New Zealand Studies
February 26, 2021
Eating with My Mouth Open
Sam van Zweden
Hosted by Bede Haines
Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one. Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and …
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Islamic Studies
February 26, 2021
Terror Epidemics
Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies …
The Common Magazine
February 26, 2021
Weeds and Flowers
Bina Shah
Hosted by Emily Everett
Bina Shah speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “Weeds and Flowers,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Shah talks about …
History
February 26, 2021
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Robert Darnton
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — …
History
February 26, 2021
Ruling Culture
Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
Fiona Greenland
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to talk about her new book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the …
SSEAC Stories
February 25, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between
A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Hosted by Natali Pearson
As a Thai-Australian woman artist, Phaptawan Suwannakudt has long battled prejudice and discrimination relating to her gender. This disappointment with society’s dictates features at the heart of Phaptawan’s artistic practice …
Science Fiction
February 25, 2021
The Phlebotomist
Chris Panatier
Hosted by Rob Wolf
Humans have found many ways to divide and stratify—by skin color, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, health status, body type or size, and so on. The list is …
Performing Arts
February 25, 2021
Maybe the People Would Be the Times
Luc Sante
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press, 2020) could be described as a memoir in essay form. Collecting pieces from the past two decades, this book covers Luc Sante's …
Law
February 25, 2021
Protecting Art in the Street
A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti
Enrico Bonadio
Hosted by Nick Pozek
There has recently been a sharp increase in cases where corporations have been sued by street and graffiti artists because their artworks had been used and exploited without the artists’ …
Asian Review of Books
February 25, 2021
Bombay Hustle
Making Movies in a Colonial City
Debashree Mukherjee
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1935, the writer Baburao Patel writes the following about Bombay’s film industry: “In India, with financing conditions still precarious, the professional film distributor thrives. . . . He comes …
Indian Religions
February 25, 2021
The Mahabharata
Bibek Debroy
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins the Pandavas and the Kouravas but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 25, 2021
Overground Railroad
The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Candacy Taylor about her book Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Press, 2020) Taylor is an award-winning author …
American West
February 24, 2021
Cinematic Settlers
The Settler Colonial World in Film
Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
The medium of cinema emerged during the height of Victorian-era European empires, and as a result, settler colonial imperialism has thematically suffused film for well over a century. In Cinematic …
Critical Theory
February 24, 2021
Penguin Books and Political Change
Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988
Dean Blackburn
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why do books and publishing matter to the contemporary history of Britain? In Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988 (Manchester UP, 2020), Dean Blackburn, a Lecturer in Modern …
Scholarly Communication
February 24, 2021
Writing in Disciplines
A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
Shyam Sharma
Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Shyam Sharma, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. We talk about how mutually appreciative …
Chinese Studies
February 24, 2021
Writing for Print
Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China
Suyoung Son
Hosted by Aliki Semertzi
Suyoung Son’s book Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China (Harvard UP, 2018) examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial …
National Security
February 23, 2021
Strategic Instincts
The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
Dominic D. P. Johnson
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
In Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2020), Dominic Johnson challenges the assumption that cognitive biases led to policy failures, disasters …
Popular Culture
February 23, 2021
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!
Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community
Robert L. Stone
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Folklorist Robert L. Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. The introductory text and extended …
Literary Studies
February 23, 2021
Fictions of America
The Book of Firsts
Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, Miranda Corcoran speaks to Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal about their unique anthology, Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (Warbler Press …
African American Studies
February 23, 2021
Liner Notes for the Revolution
The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University Press, 2021) by Dr. Daphne Brooks is a lyrical masterpiece that takes readers on an exhilarating …
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