Canadian Studies

Canadian Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Canada about their new books.

James T. White and John Punter, "Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto's CityPlace" (UBC Press, 2023)

December 1, 2024

Condoland

James T. White and John Punter
Hosted by Timi Koyejo

Casting an eye toward the frantic vertical urbanization of Toronto, Condoland: The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace (UBC, 2023…

Julie Salverson, "A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter's Daughter" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)

December 1, 2024

A Necessary Distance

Julie Salverson
Hosted by Hollay Ghadery

A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Screenwriter’s Daughter (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) by critically acclaimed author Julie Salverson braids together pe…

Youcef Soufi, "Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World" (NYU Press, 2025)

November 22, 2024

Homegrown Radicals

Youcef Soufi
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier

Youcef Soufi’s Homegrown Radicals: A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World (NYU Press, 2025) tells the story of thre…

Whitney Kemble, "Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020" (Library Juice Press, 2024)

November 15, 2024

Contested Spaces

Whitney Kemble
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries As Neutral Places, 1960-2020 (Library Juice Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive …

Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

October 30, 2024

Hessians

Friederike Baer
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, th…

Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)

October 14, 2024

Tecumseh's War

Donald R. Hickey
Hosted by Mark Klobas

The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to 1815. In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Lalawet…

Eric R. Schlereth, "Quitting the Nation: Emigrant Rights in North America" (UNC Press, 2024)

October 14, 2024

Quitting the Nation

Eric R. Schlereth
Hosted by Hannah Nolan

Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once th…

Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott, "Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls" (Lexington Book, 2024)

October 11, 2024

Walled-In

Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott
Hosted by Michael Johnston

Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, an…

Jamie Michaels and Doug Fedrau, "Christie Pits" (Dirty Water Comics, 2019)

October 7, 2024

Christie Pits

Jamie Michaels and Doug Fedrau
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

A gritty ride through Toronto's immigrant neighbourhoods, Christie Pits (Dirty Water Comics, 2019) tells the incredible true story of when young Jewis…

Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)

October 7, 2024

Black Expression and White Generosity

Natalie Wall
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey thro…

Israel G. Solares, "Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas" (U Nevada Press, 2024)

October 5, 2024

Underground Leviathan

Israel G. Solares

Underground Leviathan: Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas (U Nevada Press, 2024) explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts o…

Recall This Story: Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)

October 4, 2024

Part 2 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)

Linda Schlossberg

You will want to start with Part 1 of episode 135; it can be found right here. Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard…

Recall This Story: Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)

October 3, 2024

Part 1 of Linda Schlossberg on Alice Munro's "Miles City, Montana" (JP)

Linda Schlossberg

Linda Schlossberg, author of Life in Miniature, who teaches at Harvard, joins RTB to read and explore one of her favorite Alice Munro stories, "Miles …

Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)

August 24, 2024

Answers to the Labour Question

Gary Mucciaroni
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour questi…

Michael Hill, "The Lost Prime Ministers: Macdonald's Successors Abbott, Thompson, Bowell, and Tupper" (Dundurn, 2022)

August 24, 2024

The Lost Prime Ministers

Michael Hill
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

After John A. Macdonald’s death, four Tory prime ministers — each remarkable but all little known — rose to power and fell in just five years.From 189…

Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2

August 9, 2024

Neoliberalism and the University, Part 2

Natalie Fenton and Alison Hearn

This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co…

David M. K. Sheinin and David S. Koffman, "Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation" (Brill, 2024)

August 3, 2024

Promised Lands North and South

David M. K. Sheinin and David S. Koffman
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pa…

Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1

August 2, 2024

Neoliberalism and the University, Part 1

Natalie Fenton and Alison Hearn

This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co…

Adara Goldberg, "Holocaust Survivors in Canada: Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955" (U Manitoba Press, 2015)

July 31, 2024

Holocaust Survivors in Canada

Adara Goldberg
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed mom…

Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)

July 20, 2024

Lakota America

Pekka Hämäläinen

The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota…