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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 …

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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 …
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 …
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 …
Intellectual History November 24, 2020

Digitizing Enlightenment

Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies

Simon Burrows and Glenn Roe

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies (Liverpool UP, 2020) explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured …
Digital Humanities November 18, 2020

Historical Atlas of Hasidism

Marcin Wodziński and Waldemar Spallek

Hosted by Marshall Poe
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large-format maps …
Digital Humanities October 21, 2020

Furnace and Fugue

A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) with Scholarly Commentary

Donna Bilak and Tara Nummedal

Hosted by Molly Taylor-Poleskey
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to …
Digital Humanities October 14, 2020

A History of Philosophy Journals

Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013

Brian Weatherson

Hosted by Luca Scholz
Anglophone philosophy in the twentieth century was centered, to an unprecedented extent, around journals: periodical publications that aimed to present (one vision of) the best philosophical work of the moment …
Digital Humanities September 29, 2020

Close Reading with Computers

Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Martin Paul Eve

Hosted by Joanna Taylor
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope instead. The first monograph …
A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler August 31, 2020

A Very Square Peg

A Discussion with Brian Collins

Dr. Brian Collins

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Today I talked with Dr. Brian Collins, the creator of "A Very Square Peg." We talked about: --How he discovered Eilser in a used bookstore in Ann Arbor --How he …
Digital Humanities March 27, 2020

What is Digital Sociology?

Neil Selwyn

Hosted by Krystina Millar
The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers …