New Books Network Podcast

Canadian Studies September 28, 2023

Gifts from Amin

Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada

Shezan Muhammedi

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

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In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to "Ugandan citizens." Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans …

Sociology September 24, 2023

The Golden Passport

Global Mobility for Millionaires

Kristin Surak

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Our lives are in countless ways defined by our citizenship. The country we belong to affects our rights, our travel possibilities, and ultimately our chances in life. Obtaining a new …

Sociology September 24, 2023

Good Soldiers Don't Rape

The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence

Megan MacKenzie

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp movements highlighting the impact of sexual violence, rates of …

Disability Studies September 20, 2023

Not Good Enough for Canada

Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities

Valentina Capurri

Hosted by Shu Wan

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Valentina Capurri's book Not Good Enough for Canada: Canadian Public Discourse Around Issues of Inadmissibility for Potential Immigrants with Diseases And/Or Disabilities (U Toronto Press, 2020) investigates the development of Canadian …

Jewish Studies September 13, 2023

Who Gets In

An Immigration Story

Norman Ravvin

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

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In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Yosef Eisenstein, arrived in Canada from Poland to escape persecution and the rise of Nazism in the hopes of starting a new life …

Darts & Letters September 1, 2023

The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine

A Discussion with Erika Dyke and David Nickles

Erika Dyke and David Nickles

Hosted by Gordon Katic

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Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — a tool for personal revelation, cosmic oneness, spiritual enlightenment, whatever people …

Environmental Studies August 22, 2023

Tree Thieves

Crime and Survival in North America's Woods

Lyndsie Bourgon

Hosted by Brian Hamilton

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In Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods (Little, Brown Spark, 2022), Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber …

General History August 20, 2023

Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship

A New Social History

Tanya Evans

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers …

Jewish Studies August 12, 2023

Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values

Shana Rosenblatt Mauer

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers. Criticizing him for his portrayals of Canada and accusing him of being anti-Jewish, many found …

Intellectual History August 4, 2023

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans

The Making of a Pan-African North America

Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

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Twentieth-century African American history cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of U.S. policy from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told …

Ukrainian Studies July 7, 2023

Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction

The Seeds of Memory

Mateusz Świetlicki

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

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Mateusz Świetlicki's book Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023) is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children's historical fiction published …

Canadian Studies July 2, 2023

The Tenant Class

Ricardo Tranjan

Hosted by Phil Henderson

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Today I talked to Ricardo Tranjan about his book The Tenant Class (Between the Lines, 2023). It’s well known and almost taken for granted that we live in the midst of a “housing …

Medicine June 22, 2023

The Smile Gap

A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality

Catherine Carstairs

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

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As recently as fifty years ago most people expected to lose their teeth as they aged. Few children benefited from braces to straighten their teeth, and cosmetic procedures to change …

American West June 20, 2023

Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America

Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces

Rani-Henrik Andersson and Janne Lahti

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

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Finns tell a story about themselves as a people exempt from European colonialism. Not so, argue the contributors to Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America: Rethinking Finnish Experiences in Transnational Spaces (Helsinki …

World Affairs June 18, 2023

Martialling Peace

How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare

Nicole Wegner

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Nicole Wegner is not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies …

Library Science May 24, 2023

For the Encouragement of Learning

The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law

Myra Tawfik

Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Myra Tawfik's book For the Encouragement of Learning: The Origins of Canadian Copyright Law (U Toronto Press, 2023) addresses the contested history of copyright law in Canada, where the economic and …

British Studies April 21, 2023

Empire, Kinship and Violence

Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842

Elizabeth Elbourne

Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Elizabeth Elbourne traces the history of three linked imperial …

MIT Press Podcast April 6, 2023

This is My Body

Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England and New France

Carla Cevasco

Hosted by MIT Press

Carla Cevasco, Assistant Professor of American Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, discusses her recent article, "This is My Body: Communion and Cannibalism in Colonial New England …

Biography March 28, 2023

Class Warrior

The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley

Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, editors

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman

The socialist activist E. T. Kingsley occupies an odd place in the history of labor and the left. Often mentioned due to his prolific life of speaking, writing, traveling …

LGBTQ+ Studies March 25, 2023

Violent Inheritance

Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

E. Cram

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard

Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West (U California Press, 2022) deepens the analysis of settler colonialism's endurance in the North American West and how …