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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
Zachary Davis
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Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …
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Nomads, Past and Present
December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Maggie Freeman
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Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
June 24, 2020
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
An Introduction
Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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What motivates creative people to do what they do, especially to change the world? The Proust Questionnaire is thought in action. It's a personality test that allows us a glimpse …
The Vault
September 21, 2018
An Introduction to NYIH Studios
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Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
General History
October 4, 2023
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson
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Miranda Melcher
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In their remarkable new book Slavery, Capitalism, and the Industrial Revolution (Polity, 2023), Professor Maxine Berg and Professor Pat Hudson “follow the money” to document in revealing detail the role …
Indian Religions
October 4, 2023
Against High-Caste Polygamy
An Annotated Translation
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar (Translated by Brian A. Hatcher)
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Raj Balkaran
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Against High-Caste Polygamy: An Annotated Translation (Oxford UP, 2023) offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar's 1871 tract arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal …
Biblical Studies
October 4, 2023
First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences
The Gospels as Performance Literature
Thomas E. Boomershine
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Rob Heaton
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Tom Boomershine, one of the pioneers of performance criticism for biblical texts, joined the New Books Network to discuss the publication of First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as …
Disability Studies
October 4, 2023
Design, Disability and Embodiment
Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power
Janice Rieger
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Shu Wan
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Janice Rieger's book Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power (Routledge, 2023) explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts …
Japanese Studies
October 4, 2023
Being Dead Otherwise
Anne Allison
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Nathan Hopson
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In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death as a personal and social phenomenon …
Genocide Studies
October 4, 2023
Norway in the Second World War
Politics, Society and Conflict
Ole Kristian Grimnes
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
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Covering political, military, economic and social history, Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict (Bloombury, 2020) is the most authoritative book on the subject in the English language …
Asian American Studies
October 4, 2023
Warring Genealogies
Race, Kinship, and the Korean War
Joo Ok Kim
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Ann Choi
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“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In her book, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship …
Higher Education
October 4, 2023
Teaching (and Learning) at a University Online
A Discussion with Caleb Simmons of the University of Arizona
Caleb Simmons
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Raj Balkaran
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There is a lot of talk about online learning, and particularly universities going online. Today I talked to Caleb Simmons, Executive Director of Arizona Online (and notable scholar of religion …
Art
October 4, 2023
The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production
Katrin Nahidi
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Kaveh Rafie
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Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production …
Music
October 4, 2023
Missing Like Teeth
An Oral History of Winnipeg Underground Rock
Sheldon Birnie
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Gregory Soden
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From 1990 to 2001, while the popular radio waves were consumed with the buzz of grunge and alternative rock, Winnipeg managed to craft a unique underground music scene that moved …
Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
October 4, 2023
Credit Unions, Deposit Insurance, Financial Regulation, and Digital Currencies
A conversation with Kyle Hauptman
Kyle Hauptman
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Jon Hartley
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Kyle Hauptman (National Credit Union Administration Vice Chairman) speaks on his beginnings working in finance, as an economic policy advisor on the Mitt Romney Presidential campaign as well as in …
American Studies
October 3, 2023
A Constitutional Culture
New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire
Adrian Chastain Weimer
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Crawford Gribben
In A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than …
Critical Theory
October 3, 2023
Why?
The Philosophy Behind the Question
Philippe Huneman
Hosted by
Morteza Hajizadeh
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Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question (Stanford …
Women's History
October 3, 2023
Rewriting Eve
Claiming Women's Sacred Stories As Our Own
Ronna Detrick
Hosted by
Latoya Johnson
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In Rewriting Eve: Rescuing Women’s Stories from the Bible and Reclaiming Them as Our Own (She Writes Press, 2023), Ronna Detrick invites us into the presence and power of ten …
General History
October 3, 2023
Extremely Online
The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Taylor Lorenz
Hosted by
Michael Vann
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Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off …
Anthropology
October 3, 2023
Indifference
On the Praxis of Interspecies Being
Naisargi N. Davé
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Shraddha Chatterjee
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In Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being (Duke UP, 2023), Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal …
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