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Catholic Studies March 21, 2023

Bede the Theologian

History, Rhetoric, and Spirituality

John P. Bequette

Hosted by Jackson Reinhardt
Revered by contemporaries and posterity for both his sanctity and his scholarship, Bede (672-735) is a pivotal figure in the history of the Church. Known primarily as an historian for …

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Military History March 21, 2023

Liberty Is Sweet

The Hidden History of the American Revolution

Woody Holton

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious …
Irish Studies March 20, 2023

Land and Liberalism

Henry George and the Irish Land War

Andrew Phemister

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Andrew Phemister is Research Associate at Newcastle University. He has previously held postdoctoral positions in History at NUI Galway, the University of Oxford, and Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in …
Literary Studies March 19, 2023

The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton

Arya Aryan

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Arya Aryan's book The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton (Cambridge Scholars, 2022) explores the postmodernist representation of reality and argues that historiographic metafictional texts, such as Peter Ackroyd’s …
Literary Studies March 19, 2023

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Jessica Brantley

Hosted by John Yargo
Today’s guest is Jessica Brantley, Professor of English at Yale University. Professor Rosenberg is the author of the previous monograph, Reading in the Wilderness, published by the University of Chicago …
Military History March 18, 2023

The Island of Extraordinary Captives

A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

Simon Parkin

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp (Scribner, 2022 is the “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York …
Literary Studies March 17, 2023

Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism

Humility and Humiliation

Rick de Villiers

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Humility and humiliation have an awkward, often unacknowledged intimacy. Humility may be a queenly, cardinal or monkish virtue, while humiliation points to an affective state at the extreme end of …
Music March 16, 2023

The Fascist Groove Thing

A History of Thatcher's Britain in 21 Mixtapes

Hugh Hodges

Hosted by Bradley Morgan
This is the late 1970s and '80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys …
Critical Theory March 16, 2023

Playing Oppression

The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (MIT Press, 2023) by Dr. Mary Flanagan & Dr. Mikael Jakobsson is a striking analysis of popular board …
Middle Eastern Studies March 15, 2023

Teachers as State-Builders

Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Hilary Falb Kalisman

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans …
Early Modern History March 14, 2023

Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare

Laura Kolb

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2021), Laura Kolb examines how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented credit-driven artifice and interpretation on the early modern …
South Asian Studies March 13, 2023

The Progressive Maharaja

Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government

Rahul Sagar

Hosted by Alok Prasanna and Sarayu Natarajan
Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao delivered in …
British Studies March 11, 2023

Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Alison Stone

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon …
Literary Studies March 11, 2023

John Trevisa's Information Age

Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400

Emily Steiner

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
What would medieval English literature look like if we viewed it through the lens of the compendium? In that case, John Trevisa might come into focus as the major author …
Popular Culture March 10, 2023

The Wife of Bath

A Biography

Marion Turner

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers--from Shakespeare to James …
Literary Studies March 10, 2023

Botanical Poetics

Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print

Jessica Rosenberg

Hosted by John Yargo
Today’s guest is Jessica Rosenberg, who is the author of a new book titled Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022). An …
Caribbean Studies March 9, 2023

Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados

The Late Colonial Period

Hilbourne A. Watson

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Beginning in the 1920s, Barbadians and other British West Indians began organizing politically in an international environment that was marked by a severe capitalist economic and financial crisis that intensified …
British Studies March 8, 2023

Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England

Selected Correspondence

Jacqueline Broad

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris …
South Asian Studies March 7, 2023

Delhi Reborn

Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital

Rotem Geva

Hosted by Niharika Yadav
Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city …
Critical Theory March 5, 2023

The Racial Code

Tales of Resistance and Survival

Nicola Rollock

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why do racial inequalities persist? In The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival (Penguin, 2023), Nicola Rollock, a Professor of Social Policy & Race at King’s College London, examines the often …