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Ideas Roadshow Podcast September 22, 2021

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture

Dang Qun

Hosted by Howard Burton
Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness and architecture's unique balance of the concrete and ethereal. Howard …

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Intellectual History September 17, 2021

Aesthetic Science

Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720

Alexander Wragge-Morley

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in …
Architecture September 17, 2021

The Speculative City

Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles

Susanna Phillips Newbury

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los …
Gender Studies September 3, 2021

In Between Subjects

A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance

Amelia Jones

Hosted by Isabel Machado
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades …
German Studies August 31, 2021

Grotesque Visions

The Science of Berlin Dada

Thomas O. Haakenson

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
Thomas O. Haakenson's book Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (Bloomsbury, 2021) focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they …
Architecture August 17, 2021

Architecture Beyond Experience

Michael Benedikt

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Architecture Beyond Experience (Applied Research & Design, 2020) is a work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, “posthuman” and yet humanist strain in …
Art August 13, 2021

Bound by Creativity

How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged

Hannah Wohl

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social interactions even …
Performing Arts August 11, 2021

Writing and the Modern Stage

Theater beyond Drama

Julia Jarcho

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Julia Jarcho's Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama (Cambridge UP, 2017) is a fascinating argument for the centrality of writing in experimental theater from Gertrude Stein to Suzan-Lori Parks …
Art August 6, 2021

The Ends of Art Criticism

Patricia Bickers

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021) dispel these myths …
Art August 4, 2021

Art as an Interface of Law and Justice

Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption

Frans-Willem Korsten

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption (Hart Publishing, 2021) looks at the way in which the 'call for justice' is portrayed through art and presents …
Geography July 27, 2021

Mapping Beyond Measure

Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity

Simon Ferdinand

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (U Nebraska Press, 2019), Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in …
African American Studies July 21, 2021

The Black Civil War Soldier

A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

Deborah Willis

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, the photography culture grew during the Civil …
Art July 20, 2021

The Decisive Network

Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market

Nadya Bair

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
The legendary Magnum photo agency has long been associated with heroic lone wolf male photographers such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, roaming the world in search of the “decisive …
Mobilities and Methods July 16, 2021

Blackness in Morocco

Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture

Cynthia J. Becker

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums …
Art July 12, 2021

A History of Art History

Christopher Wood

Hosted by Allison Leigh
In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through …
Art July 9, 2021

Painting by Numbers

Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art

Diana Seave Greenwald

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer …
Architecture July 8, 2021

Building Brands

The Architecture of Corporate Modernism

Grace Ong Yan

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across the United States. Over this time, the design of …
Eastern European Studies July 6, 2021

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe

Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc (Routledge, 2021) puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east …
Literature July 5, 2021

A Glossary of Urban Voids

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (2020). It's one of …
Italian Studies July 5, 2021

A Companion to Federico Fellini

Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller, Marita Gubareva

Hosted by Giancarlo Glombardi
Federico Fellini’s distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned Fellini scholar Frank …