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February 26, 2021
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Robert Darnton
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — …
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History
February 26, 2021
Ruling Culture
Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
Fiona Greenland
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to talk about her new book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the …
History
February 22, 2021
A New History of England
Jeremy Black
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
'Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.' Cecil Rhodes's characteristically nineteenth-century confidence rings rather hollow as England enters the twenty-first …
History
February 22, 2021
London and the Seventeenth Century
The Making of the World's Greatest City
Margarette Lincoln
Hosted by Joshua Tham
Margarette Lincoln's London and the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2021) explores the ups and downs of life in Stuart London through the eyes of those who lived through it. The Gunpowder Plot, the …
Jewish Studies
February 19, 2021
Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement
A Revolution in the Name of Tradition
Naomi Seidman
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. In Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (Littman Library of …
European Studies
February 19, 2021
The Constitutional Theory of the Federation and the European Union
Signe Rehling Larsen
Hosted by Tim Jones
“The autarkic European nation-state, if it ever existed, was the exception rather than the rule. Nevertheless it is the myth of the self-sufficient nation-state that lies at the heart of …
History
February 19, 2021
The Way of Bach
Three Years with the Man, the Music, and the Piano
Dan Moller
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
A tale of passion and obsession from a philosophy professor who learns to play Bach on the piano as an adult. Dan Moller grew up listening to heavy metal in the …
Jewish Studies
February 18, 2021
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir
A Modern History
Dina Danon
Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
Across Europe, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir invites a …
African Studies
February 16, 2021
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
Jelmer Vos
Hosted by Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order (U Wisconsin Press, 2017) traces the history that led to a violent insurrection that erupted in the …
History
February 16, 2021
Forbidden Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we speak to Hannah Marcus, Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about her new monograph, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science …
History
February 15, 2021
Reluctant European
Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit
Stephen Wall
Hosted by Charles Coutinho
In 2016, the voters of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union. The majority for 'Leave' was small. Yet, in more than 40 years of EU membership, the …
European Studies
February 12, 2021
European Banking and Financial Law
Matthias Haentjens and Pierre De Gioia-Carabellese
Hosted by Tim Jones
Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regulation since Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in …
Islamic Studies
February 12, 2021
The Feeling of History
Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia
Charles Hirschkind
Hosted by SherAli Tareen
Charles Hirschkind’s lyrical and majestic new book The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia (University of Chicago Press, 2020) represents a profound work of retrieval that launches and executes a …
History
February 11, 2021
Inca Apocalypse
The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
R. Alan Covey
Hosted by Mark Klobas
The arrival in 1532 of a small group of Spanish conquistadores at the Andean town of Cajamarca launched one of the most dramatic – and often misunderstood – events in …
Christian Studies
February 10, 2021
Adam Boreel (1602-1665)
A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity" (Brill, 2020)
Francesco Quatrini
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
The debate about the origins of Enlightenment haven’t paid as much attention as they should have done to the radical religious cultures of the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century …
Music
February 8, 2021
Resonant Recoveries
French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars
Jillian C. Rogers
Hosted by Kristen Turner
Understanding how people cope with large-scale traumatic events has become more urgent as we continue to cope with the effects of the pandemic. In Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma …
Latin American Studies
February 5, 2021
Fifth Sun
A New History of the Aztecs
Camilla Townsend
Hosted by Lisette Varon Carvajal
In her latest book Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press 2020), Camilla Townsend tells the story of the Aztecs from their perspective and using their …
Christian Studies
February 4, 2021
Christian Socialism as Political Ideology
The Formation of the British Christian Left, 1877-1945
Anthony A.J. Williams
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Anthony A.J. Williams is a political scientist who has taught at the University of Liverpool and at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Anthony is the author of an outstanding new account …
German Studies
February 3, 2021
Mobilizing Black Germany
Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
Tiffany N. Florvil
Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and …
European Studies
February 3, 2021
The Orbán Regime
Plebiscitary Leader Democracy in the Making
András Körösényi and Gábor Illés
Hosted by Tim Jones
As Hungary's opposition parties form themselves into an unlikely pre-electoral coalition, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces the first genuine challenge to his "illiberal" rule since 2010. This is the second of …
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