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Religion
June 2, 2020
Until the End of Time
Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
Hosted by John Weston
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and …
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African American Studies
April 28, 2020
Slavery and the University
Histories and Legacies
Leslie M. Harris
Hosted by Adam McNeil
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of …
Language
March 30, 2020
Sleight of Mind
75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
Matt Cook
Hosted by Jim Stein
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn't require …
Communications
February 25, 2020
Inside the Critics’ Circle
Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times
Phillipa Chong
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McMaster …
Education
January 30, 2020
Going Alt-Ac
A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers
Kathryn E. Linder, Kevin Kelly, Thomas J. Tobin
Hosted by Zeb Larson
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. However, if you’ve spent the …
Economics
December 3, 2019
How Charts Lie
Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Alberto Cairo
Hosted by Jim Stein
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous―and …
Communications
November 4, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Kathryn Conrad
Hosted by Marshall Poe
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that …
Education
October 24, 2019
Geeky Pedagogy
A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers
Jessamyn Neuhaus
Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
The things that make people academics -- a deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude that developing expertise requires -- do …
Communications
December 6, 2018
General Intellects
Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century
McKenzie Wark
Hosted by Carla Nappi
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. The chapters of General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for …
Literary Studies
November 20, 2018
Discognition
Steven Shaviro
Hosted by Carla Nappi
Steven Shaviro’s book Discognition (Repeater Books, 2016) opens with a series of questions: What is consciousness? How does subjective experience occur? Which entities are conscious? What is it like to …
Anthropology
August 13, 2018
The Ecology of Attention
Yves Citton
Hosted by Carla Nappi
We are arguably living in the midst of a form of economy where attention has become a key resource and value, labor, class, and currency are being reconfigured as a …
Psychology
January 13, 2018
The Character Gap
How Good Are We?
Christian B. Miller
Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Are we good people? Or do we just think we are? In his new book The Character Gap: How Good Are We? (Oxford University Press, 2017), author Christian B. Miller …
Gender Studies
December 25, 2017
Down Girl
The Logic of Misogyny
Kate Manne
Hosted by Lilian Calles Barger
Kate Manne is an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University. As a feminist and moral philosopher, Manne examines an idea that has been inadequately addressed in her book Down …
Literary Studies
November 24, 2017
The Story Cure
A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing your Novel or Memoir
Dinty W. Moore
Hosted by Eric LeMay and Zoe Bossiere
If you've ever wondered how your favorite writers go about crafting their written works, or if you've ever been interested in writing a book yourself, chances are you've wandered into …
European Studies
November 6, 2017
Modern Religion, Modern Race
Theodore Vial
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
The categories religion and race share a common genealogy. The modern understanding of these terms emerges within the European enlightenment but grasping their gradual production requires us to investigate further …
Biblical Studies
October 23, 2017
The Great Shift
Encountering God in Biblical Times
James L. Kugel
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In a career spanning several decades, James L. Kugel has illuminated the Hebrew Bible from the perspectives of both a biblical scholar of enormous skill and eloquence and as an …
Literary Studies
September 29, 2017
Under the Cover
The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel
Clayton Childress
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How does a book come into being? In Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel (Princeton University Press, 2017), Clayton Childress, Assistant Professor in the Department …
World Affairs
September 25, 2017
After World Religions
Reconstructing Religious Studies
Christopher R. Cotter and David G. Robertson
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
When undergraduate students look through a course catalog and see the title World Religions they probably have some idea what the course will be about. But why is that? Why …
History
September 7, 2017
The Oxford Illustrated History of Science
Iwan Rhys Morus
Hosted by J. N. Campbell
What is science? A seemingly profound, yet totally ridiculous question to try and answer. Yet, when Oxford University Press reached out to the brilliant scholar of Victorian science, Iwan Rhys …
Literary Studies
August 25, 2017
The Edge of Evolution
Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau
Ron Edwards
Hosted by Eric LeMay
As I was reading Ron Edward's fascinating and far-reaching new book, The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau (Oxford University Press, 2016), I had a flashback. I must …
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