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Recall This Book January 6, 2022

Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp

Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)

Jennifer Egan and Ivan Kreilkamp

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
This week on Recall this Book, another delightful crossover episode from our sister podcast Novel Dialogue, which puts scholars and writers together to discuss the making of novels and what …

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Interviews with digital humanists and scholars of digital humanities about their new work.

Digital Humanities December 22, 2021

Living Books

Experiments in the Posthumanities

Janneke Adema

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
In Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021), Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project -- not as linear, bound …
Digital Humanities December 14, 2021

Can We Be Wrong?

The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data

Andrew Piper

Hosted by Katherine McDonough
Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data (Cambridge UP, 2020) by Andrew Piper tackles the problem of generalization with respect to text-based evidence in the …
American South December 8, 2021

Southern Journey

The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020

Edward L. Ayers

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the …
Entrepreneurship and Leadership January 17, 2022

Marshall Poe

The Founder and Editor of the New Books Network

Hosted by Richard Lucas and Kimon Fountoukidis
This interview was recorded and first published in early 2020 when the NBN had about a million downloads a month. Since then the downloads have increased more than four-fold to just below …
Food December 2, 2021

Research Methods in Digital Food Studies

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food and media studies and explores …
General History November 23, 2021

Hinge Points

A Podcast about Historical Contingency

Matt Christman and Daniel Bessner

Hosted by Michael Vann
How do we balance the importance of individual human agency with our understanding of larger socio-economic structures? How do we explore crucial “what ifs” in history? How do we make …
Indian Religions November 18, 2021

Sanskrit Tools on the Web

A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)

Martin Gluckman

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
This interview continues the conversation with Martin Gluckman, Researcher at University of Capetown and Director at Sanskrit Research Institute. We discuss his Panini Research Tool, Sanskrit Writer, Text to Speech …
Indian Religions November 11, 2021

Sanskrit Tools on the Web

An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1)

Martin Gluckman

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
This interview features amazing open-access digital Sanskrit projects spearheaded by Martin Gluckman, Researcher at University of Capetown and Director at Sanskrit Research Institute. We discuss Martin’s Sanskrit and computer science …
Recall This Book November 4, 2021

Everything and Less

Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon

Mark McGurl

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
What do you make of Amazon: The new Sears Roebuck? A terrifying monopoly threat? Satisfaction (a paperback in your mailbox, a Kindle edition on your tablet) just a click away …
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 …
Digital Humanities September 21, 2021

Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum

Mike Jones

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum (Routledge, 2021) provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of …
Digital Humanities September 14, 2021

The Values in Numbers

Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

Hoyt Long

Hosted by Katherine McDonough
In The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age (Columbia UP, 2021), Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and …
Science September 10, 2021

Atlas of Forecasts

Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures

Katy Borner

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and …
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 …
Intellectual History August 23, 2021

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer

Hosted by Daniel Peris
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. In their just-published A History …
Science August 17, 2021

The Digital Environment

How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now

Pablo J. Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward …
Indian Religions August 11, 2021

Embodied Philosophy

A Conversation with Jacob Kyle

Jacob Kyle

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacob Kyle about the genesis and vision of the online educational platform Embodied Philosophy. Over the course of their rich conversation, they touch on contemplative studies …
General History August 6, 2021

The Red Atlas

How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

John Davies and Alexander J. Kent

Hosted by Joshua Tham
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted an ambitious yet clandestine programme to map the world - from big cities like New York and Tokyo, to seemingly-obscure towns like Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) …
Japanese Studies August 3, 2021

The Values in Numbers

Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

Hoyt Long

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Ideas about how to study and understand cultural history—particularly literature—are rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first information age …