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Ministry of Ideas January 1, 2023

Introducing Ministry of Ideas

Zachary Davis

Hosted by Zachary Davis
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

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
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 …
High Theory April 1, 2022

Welcome to High Theory!

Kim Adams and Soronik Bosu

Hosted by 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 …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 24, 2020

The Proust Questionnaire Podcast

An Introduction

Uli Baer and Caroline Weber

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
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

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
Welcome to the New York Institute for the Humanities podcast. Learn more about the history of the Institute and our shows. …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …
Irish Studies March 27, 2023

Safety As We Watch

Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998

Declan Warde, Joseph Tracey, and John Cahill

Hosted by Bridget English
The discovery of anaesthesia which could be administered safely to eliminate the pain of surgery and other medical and dental procedures is widely considered to be one of the greatest …
Women's History March 27, 2023

Edith

The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick

Andrea Friederici Ross

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Young Edith and her siblings had access to the best educators in the world, but the girls were not taught how to handle the family money; that responsibility was reserved …
American South March 27, 2023

Southern Beauty

Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South

Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd

Hosted by Brandon Jett
Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd's book Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South (U Georgia Press, 2022) explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues …
Public Health March 27, 2023

Stuck

How Vaccine Rumors Start - and why They Don't Go Away

Heidi J. Larson

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around their side effects -- have gone mainstream, blending …
Medieval History March 27, 2023

The Fantasy of the Middle Ages

An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds

Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene

Hosted by Evan Zarkadas
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture. From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the …
Military History March 27, 2023

The Last Letter

A Father's Struggle, a Daughter's Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust

Karen Baum Gordon

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
Born a German Jew in 1915, Rudy Baum was eighty-six years old when he sealed the garage door of his Dallas home, turned on the car ignition, and tried to …
Shakespeare For All March 27, 2023

Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 2: Characters and Questions

A Discussion with Emma Smith

Emma Smith

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most concentrated and thrilling tragedies. Macbeth is a warrior lord living in medieval Scotland who starts the play by saving his king — only to …
Christian Studies March 27, 2023

The Necessity of Christ's Satisfaction

A Study of the Reformed Scholastic Theologians William Twisse (1578-1646) and John Owen (1616-1683)

Joshua D. Schendel

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
The seventeenth century Reformed Orthodox discussions of the work of Christ and its various doctrinal constitutive elements were rich and multifaceted, ranging across biblical and exegetical, historical, philosophical, and theological …
MIT Press Podcast March 27, 2023

Art and Atoms

A Roundtable Discussion

Hosted by MIT Press
Our contributors discuss the connections between science, specifically chemistry, and art, and talk about how materials traditionally identified with science can be used to create art. This conversation was recorded …
Scholarly Communication March 27, 2023

The Science of Security

A Discussion with Cormac Herley, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research

Cormac Herley

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Cormac Herley, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. We talk about the science of security and as well, about the communication of security science. Cormac Herley …
Critical Theory March 27, 2023

Fear of a Black Republic

Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

Leslie M. Alexander

Hosted by Anna Lindner
The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's study reveals the untold story of …
Sociology March 26, 2023

Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries

Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency

Uddipana Goswami

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency (Routledge, 2022) forward Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical …
Literary Studies March 26, 2023

Decolonizing Memory

Algeria and the Politics of Testimony

Jill Jarvis

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
In Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Duke UP, 2021), Jill Jarvis examines the crucial role that writers and artists have played in cultivating historical memory and nurturing political resistance …
Literary Studies March 26, 2023

Endless Flight

The Life of Joseph Roth

Kieron Pim

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth (Granta Books, 2022) travels with Roth from his childhood in the town of Brody on the eastern edge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to …