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Intellectual History January 19, 2021

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge

British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832

Louisiane Ferlier and Benedicte Miyamoto

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832 (Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the …

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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 19, 2021

The Last Million

Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

David Nasaw

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
In May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of global military conflict did not cease with …
Eastern European Studies January 18, 2021

Roma Rights and Civil Rights

A Transatlantic Comparison

Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang

Hosted by Steven Seegel
F. B. Chang and S. T. Rucker-Chang's Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2020) tackles the movements for - and expressions of - equality for Roma in …
Military History January 18, 2021

Britain's War

A New World, 1942-1947

Daniel Todman

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
The second of Daniel Todman's two sweeping volumes on Great Britain and World War II, Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 (Oxford UP, 2020), begins with the event Winston Churchill called …
Literary Studies January 15, 2021

Strange Likeness

Description and the Modernist Novel

Dora Zhang

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this interview, I talk with Dora Zhang, associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, about her book Strange Likeness: Description in the Modernist …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast January 15, 2021

Goya

A Portrait of the Artist

Janis Tomlinson

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The life of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country’s politics and at the court which Goya served, changes …
European Studies January 14, 2021

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy

Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary

Gábor Scheiring

Hosted by Tim Jones
As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had …
Genocide Studies January 14, 2021

Advancing Holocaust Studies

Carol Rittner and John K. Roth

Hosted by Kelly McFall
I think this is the fifth time I've interviewed John K. Roth for the podcast (and the second for Carol Rittner).  He has always been relentlessly realistic about the challenges, intellectual …
History January 13, 2021

Albert Camus

A Very Short Introduction

Oliver Gloag

Hosted by Michael Vann
Albert Camus, one of the most famous French philosophers and novelists, has a diverse fan base. British alternative rockers The Cure sang about The Stranger in their first big hit …
Law January 6, 2021

Britain and Europe in a Troubled World

Vernon Bogdanor

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of …
History January 4, 2021

The Convent of Wesel

The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition

Jesse Spohnholz

Hosted by Jana Byars
We are here today with Jesse Spohnholz, Professor of History and Director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program at Washington State University in beautiful Pullman, Washington, to …
Economics December 31, 2020

Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics

Dirk Ehnts

Hosted by Tim Jones
With the coronavirus pandemic, Modern Monetary Theory met its moment. A sudden and massive loss of output globally was met with an unprecedented response by governments and central banks and …
Eastern European Studies December 31, 2020

Borders on the Move

Territorial Change and Forced Migration in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938-1948

Leslie Waters

Hosted by Steven Seegel
The movement of borders and people was a remarkably common experience for mid-twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europeans. Such was the case along the border between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, where territory …
Italian Studies December 30, 2020

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic

Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso

Andrea Moudarres

Hosted by Gerry Milligan
In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (University of Delaware Press, 2019), Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian …
History December 23, 2020

Cities of Strangers

Making Lives in Medieval Europe

Miri Rubin

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we speak to Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London about her 2020 Cambridge University Press publication, Cities of Strangers: Making …
French Studies December 23, 2020

The Afterlives of the Terror

Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France

Ronen Steinberg

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
How did the "Reign of Terror" end? In his new book, The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France (Cornell University Press, 2019), Ronen Steinberg explores the end …
History December 23, 2020

Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Marta V. Vicente

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today’s interview on New Books in History is with Dr. Marta Vicente, Professor of History at the University of Kansas to talk about her 2017 Cambridge University Press release, Debating …
Animal Studies December 18, 2020

Shaving the Beasts

Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain

John Hartigan Jr.

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Wild horses still roam the mountains of Galicia, Spain. But each year, in a ritual dating to the 1500s called rapa das bestas, villagers herd these “beasts” together and shave …
History December 17, 2020

Sarajevo 1914

Sparking the First World War

Mark Cornwall

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. This key event in 20th-century history continues to fascinate the public imagination, yet few historians have …
History December 16, 2020

Venice's Secret Service

Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance

Ioanna Lordanou

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are here with Dr. Ioanna Iordanou, a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Oxford Brookes University and an Honorary Researcher at the Centre for the Study of …