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High Theory
April 1, 2022
Welcome to High Theory!
Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu
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Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Welcome to High Theory! High Theory is a podcast in which we get high on the substance of theory. And we ask the three standard questions, to each other, and …
Intellectual History
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Interviews with intellectual historians about their new books.
Jewish Studies
August 11, 2022
Power and Progress
Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History
Alexander Green
Hosted by
Ari Barbalat
The philosopher and biblical commentator Joseph Ibn Kaspi (1280–1345) was a provocative Jewish thinker of the medieval era whose works have generally been overlooked by modern scholars. Power and Progress …
General History
August 10, 2022
Feminism's Empire
Carolyn J. Eichner
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Michael Vann
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions …
Jewish Studies
August 10, 2022
The Crowns on the Letters
Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages
Ari D. Kahn
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Matthew Miller
Rabbi Ari Kahn’s The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages (OU Press, 2020) represents a major achievement in the study of the lives …
Environmental Studies
August 9, 2022
Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond
Redefining the Universe Through Natural Philosophy, Religious Reformations, and Sea Voyaging
Lindsay Starkey
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Aspen Brown
What is holding the oceans back from entirely flooding the earth? While a twenty-first century thinker may approach the answer to this question within a framework of gravity and geologic deep-time, Lindsay Starkey …
Jewish Studies
August 8, 2022
The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism
A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity
Jason A. Staples
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Michael Morales
How did the concept of Israel impact early Jewish apocalyptic hopes of restoration? How diverse was Israelite identity in antiquity? Tune in as we talk with Jason A. Staples about …
Darts & Letters
August 8, 2022
January 6th and the Myth of the Mob
The Pervasive Power of Crowd Theory
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Gordon Katic
This week, we’re showcasing some of our favourite past episodes of Darts and Letters themed around “Activism & Academia”. Today’s episode originally aired a little earlier this summer. In the …
General History
August 5, 2022
The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France
The Sins of Silence
Itay Lotem
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Michael Vann
In The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), Itay Lotem explores the remembering of empire in Britain and France. By comparing these two former …
History of Science
August 4, 2022
Minerva's French Sisters
Women of Science in Enlightenment France
Nina Rattner Gelbart
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Victor Monnin
In Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France (Yale University Press, 2021), Nina Gelbart, Professor of History and Anita Johnson Wand Professor of Women’s Studies at Occidental College …
Jewish Studies
August 3, 2022
Thinking about Good and Evil
Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity
Wayne Allen
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Matthew Miller
Today I talked to Rabbi Wayne Allen about his book Thinking about Good and Evil: Jewish Views from Antiquity to Modernity (U Nebraska Press, 2021). Starting with the Bible and Apocrypha …
Literary Studies
August 3, 2022
The Obsolete Empire
Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature
Philip Tsang
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Gargi Binju
Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and an …
Literary Studies
August 2, 2022
Free Indirect
The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Timothy Bewes
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Iqra Shagufta Cheema
What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its readers …
Intellectual History
August 1, 2022
Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)
Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation
Mark Solovey
Hosted by
Keith Krueger
This is part two of a two part interview. Mark Solovey’s Social Science for What? is essential reading for anyone in either the history of science policy or the history of …
Literary Studies
July 29, 2022
Bad Humor
Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England
Kimberly Anne Coles
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John Yargo
Kimberly Anne Coles is Professor of English at the University of Maryland; her first book, Religion, Reform and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England, was published with Cambridge University Press …
French Studies
July 29, 2022
The Military Enlightenment
War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Christy Pichichero
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Roxanne Panchasi
Covering the pivotal period from the mid-seventeenth century through the era of the French Revolution, Christy Pichichero's The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon (Cornell …
Religion
July 28, 2022
The Origin of Sin
Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity
David Konstan
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Tiatemsu Longkumer
Where did the idea of sin arise from? In The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity (Bloomsbury, 2022), David Konstan takes a close look at classical …
American Studies
July 27, 2022
Benjamin Franklin
The Religious Life of a Founding Father
Thomas S. Kidd
Hosted by
Zalman Newfield
Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years …
Intellectual History
July 27, 2022
The Discovery of Iran
Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan
Ali Mirsepassi
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Kaveh Rafie
The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan (Stanford UP, 2021), opens with a fascinating passage about the 1934 decree whereby foreign delegates were instructed to refer to the country as …
Gender Studies
July 27, 2022
How to Be Authentic
Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
Skye Cleary
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Lilian Calles Barger
Skye C. Cleary is a philosopher, writer and university teacher. In her new book How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) …
Religion
July 25, 2022
The Story of Religion in America
An Introduction
James P Byrd and James Hudnut-Beumler
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Jackson Reinhardt
The Story of Religion in America: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While …
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