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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 …

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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 Vault September 21, 2018

An Introduction to NYIH Studios

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
Ministry of Ideas August 1, 2017

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …
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 …
Early Modern History December 5, 2022

The Art of Childbirth

A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant

Cathy McClive

Hosted by Jana Byars
Cathy McClive (Florida State University) offers the first full-length bilingual edition of an extraordinary treatise on childbirth written by a seventeenth-century French midwife in The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary …
Iberian Studies December 5, 2022

Jamón and Halal

Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía

Christina Civantos

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
In this episode, I interview Dr. Christina Civantos (University of Miami, FL, USA) about her open access book Jamón and Halal: Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía (Amherst College Press, 2022) …
Genocide Studies December 5, 2022

Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik

The Map and the Territory

Yochai Ataria

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and central figures in the shaping of Holocaust memory …
Politics & Polemics December 5, 2022

Conservatism

A Rediscovery

Yoram Hazony

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
Conservatism needs to be rediscovered. That is, it needs to be differentiated from the post WWII concept of liberal democracy and return to its traditional three pillars of religion, nationalism …
Middle Eastern Studies December 5, 2022

Palestine in the Victorian Age

Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land

Gabriel Polley

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
In this episode I have interviewed Gabriel Polley, winner of the Ibrahim Dakkak Award for the best essay published in 2021 by the Jerusalem Quarterly. Narratives of the modern history …
Women's History December 5, 2022

Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism

The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre Et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941

Jasmine Calver

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism …
General History December 5, 2022

Lapidarium

The Secret Lives of Stones

Hettie Judah

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones (John Murray/Penguin, 2022) by Hettie Judah is a beautifully designed collection of true stories/essays about sixty …
Medieval History December 5, 2022

The Mongol Storm

Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Nicholas Morton

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region’s complex history. As Nicholas Morton …
Women's History December 5, 2022

Skirts

Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
While the story of women’s liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era …
NYIH Conversations December 5, 2022

Dirty Work

Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

Eyal Press

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
In the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel December 5, 2022

The Grieving Brain

The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Mary-Frances O'Connor

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the deep yearning, how …
International Horizons December 5, 2022

Protests in Iran

Maybe not the Tocqueville Paradox

Ali Ansari

Hosted by International Horizons
In mid-September of this year, a young Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died under suspicious circumstances after her arrest by the morality police for improperly covering her hair. Her death …
Writ Large December 5, 2022

On James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"

A Discussion with Josef Sorett

Josef Sorett

Hosted by Zachary Davis
The writer and activist James Baldwin grew up in a majority white America that saw white American lives as standard and universal, and Black American lives as different and particular …
Middle Eastern Studies December 4, 2022

Transnational Palestine

Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948

Nadim Bawalsa

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians lived …
Military History December 4, 2022

Agents of Subversion

The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China

John Delury

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China (Cornell University Press, 2022) by Dr. John Delury reconstructs the remarkable story of a …