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Russian and Eurasian Studies February 6, 2023

Stalin's Library

A Dictator and His Books

Geoffrey Roberts

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly …

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Peoples & Things February 4, 2023

The Internet, Inequality, and the “Digital Divide”

A Discussion with Daniel Greene

Daniel Greene

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
Information scholar Daniel Greene, an assistant professor at University of Maryland, talks about his book, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, with Peoples & …
Jewish Studies January 30, 2023

Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews

Mark A. Schneegurt

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
A century after being expelled from Portugal, cryptoJews in Mexico, false converts to Christianity, could not speak of their beliefs for fear of becoming embroiled in the imprisonment, torture, and …
Scholarly Communication January 14, 2023

Digital Codicology

Medieval Books and Modern Labor

Bridget Whearty

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Medieval manuscripts are our shared inheritance, and today they are more accessible than ever—thanks to digital copies online. Yet for all that widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed how we connect …
Scholarly Communication December 3, 2022

Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive

Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive's Acoustic Legacies

Irene Hilden

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condition. Dealing with the colonial archive is not merely about stories …
Academic Life November 22, 2022

Books, Antisemitism, and a Viral Tweet

A Conversation with Library Director Susan Kusel

Susan Kusel

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Need help curating a list of Holocaust books for your students or library patrons? What’s on your shelf? What should be there? This podcast episode explores: The most commonly assigned …
Why We Argue November 3, 2022

Seeing Truth in Collections, Memory and Death Studies

A Conversation with Jane Wildgoose

Jane Wildgoose

Hosted by Alexis Boylan
Jane Wildgoose claims she just expanded a beachcomber’s collection but in fact her Wildgoose Memorial Library is a subversive infiltration into the nature of display, memory, knowledge building. Join us …
Media August 23, 2022

Information

A Historical Companion

Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton

Hosted by Erika Monahan
Information is everywhere. We live in an “Information” Society. We can get more of it faster, quicker, and in more different shapes and sizes than at probably any other time …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 15, 2022

Viral Cultures

Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS

Marika Cifor

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
Serving as a vital supplement to the existing scholarship on AIDS activism of the 1980s and 1990s, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (U Minnesota Press, 2022) …
Art August 5, 2022

Shelf Documents

Art Library as Practice

Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
How can a library change the world? How can an art library change the art school or the gallery? Or even an art practice? In Shelf Documents: Art Library as …
Irish Studies June 28, 2022

The Fadden More Psalter

The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure

John Gillis

Hosted by Danica Ramsey-Brimberg
In The Faddan More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure Dr. John Gillis explores the conservation, construction, and context of an early medieval psalter discovered by chance in …
Jewish Studies March 22, 2022

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization (6)

Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880

Elisheva Carlebach and Deborah Dash Moore

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750–1880 (Yale University Press, 2019), covers a period in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the most …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 31, 2022

The New Librarianship Field Guide

R. David Lankes

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Can libraries be radical positive change agents in their communities? R. David Lenkes offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference …
General History December 7, 2021

The Library

A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags …
Academic Life December 2, 2021

Underrepresented Groups in Archives

A Conversation About Ethics, Inclusion, and Acquisitions

Megan Hahn Fraser

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Megan Fraser’s job collecting and curating a Punk Rock archive, her current work at the Research Institute for Contemporary …
Middle Eastern Studies November 22, 2021

The Rise of the Arabic Book

Beatrice Gruendler

Hosted by Miguel Monteiro
How did it happen that, in the 13th century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes while Baghdad alone boasted of several libraries holding from 200,000 to 1,000,000 books …
Recall This Book November 18, 2021

Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon

A Conversation with Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Book Industry Month continues with a memory-lane voyage back to a beloved early RtB episode. This conversation with Martin Puchner about the very origins of writing struck us as perfect …
The Common Magazine October 22, 2021

Arabic Translations from Morocco

Nariman Youssef

Hosted by Emily Everett
Nariman Youssef speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her work translating three short stories from Arabic for The Common’s portfolio of fiction from Morocco, in the spring issue. In …
Digital Humanities October 7, 2021

Along Came Google

A History of Library Digitization

Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of …
Indian Religions September 9, 2021

Online Dharmaśāstra Library

A Conversation with Don Davis

Don Davis

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dr. Don Davis (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies) speaks about the newly launched Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies, a digitized open educational resource hosted at the University of …