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Digital Humanities July 15, 2021

Technology and the Historian

Transformations in the Digital Age

Adam Crymble

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical research is practiced. In his new book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age …

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Digital Humanities July 14, 2021

The Network Turn

Changing Perspectives in the Humanities

Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian Ahnert, Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart

Hosted by Katherine McDonough
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks …
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 …
Communications July 6, 2021

Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

Nathan R. Johnson

Hosted by Lee Pierce
We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a …
Caribbean Studies July 5, 2021

The Digital Black Atlantic

Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These …
Ethnographic Marginalia June 28, 2021

Talking Digital Ethnography and Netnography

In Conversation with Marta-Marika Urbanik

Marta-Marika Urbanik

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak with Dr …
Education June 15, 2021

Generous Thinking

A Radical Approach to Saving the University

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) charges the academy with thinking constructively rather …
Scholarly Communication May 7, 2021

Book Wars

The Digital Revolution in Publishing

John B. Thompson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Today I talked to John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, about his new book Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021). We discuss crowdfunding, audio books, distribution chains …
Indian Religions April 30, 2021

Teaching Buddhist Studies Online

A Discussion with Kate Hartmann

Kate Hartmann

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Join Raj Balkaran as he talks with Dr. Kate Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming and Director of Buddhist Studies Online, a new educational platform …
Critical Theory April 29, 2021

Working Aesthetics

Labour, Art and Capitalism

Danielle Child

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the …
Islamic Studies April 23, 2021

Fear in Our Hearts

What Islamophobia Tells Us about America

Caleb Iyer Elfenbein

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
In Fear In Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America (NYU Press, 2021), Caleb Iyer Elfenbein, Associate Professor at Grinnell College, examines Islamophobia in the United States, positing that …
Critical Theory April 16, 2021

Redlining Culture

A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction

Richard Jean So

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020), Richard Jean So, an assistant professor of …
Jewish Studies March 18, 2021

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age

Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices

Jeffrey Shandler

Hosted by Robin Buller
How do technological advances and changing archival practices alter historical memory? In what ways have developments in the preservation and dissemination of historical material already impacted how scholars and the …
Scholarly Communication March 4, 2021

Common Ground Scholar

A Discussion with Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, creators of the website newlearningonline.com and also professors at the College of Education, University of Illinois. We talk about monastic …
Indian Religions January 26, 2021

Digital Hinduism

Xenia Zeiler

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. Xenia Zeiler's book …
General History January 22, 2021

Feral Atlas

The More-than-human Anthropocene

Anna L. Tsing

Hosted by Michael Vann
Do you feel lost in the Anthropocene? Would you like a map to chart your way through our changing world? How about an atlas? Well, the Feral Atlas Collective has …
African American Studies January 22, 2021

Careers

A Discussion with Dorothy Berry, DIgital Archivist

Dorothy Berry

Hosted by Adam McNeil
On today’s podcast, I am chatting with Dorothy Berry, Houghton Library's Digital Collections Program Manager. In it, we discuss why she became an archivist, what digital archivists do, and about the great …
Caribbean Studies January 20, 2021

Rogue Revolutionaries

The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean

Vanessa Mongey

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
The University of Pennsylvania describes Mongey's work as follows. "When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simon Bolivar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries …
Digital Humanities December 23, 2020

Visualization and Interpretation

Humanistic Approaches to Display

Johanna Drucker

Hosted by Luca Scholz
In the several decades since scholars in the humanities have taken up computational tools, they have borrowed many techniques from other fields, including visualization methods to create charts, graphs, diagrams …
General History December 8, 2020

Reproductive Citizens

Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945

Nimisha Barton

Hosted by Julia Gossard
On today’s New Books in History, we sit down with Dr. Nimisha Barton to discuss her new book, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France (Cornell …