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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 …
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