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German Studies October 26, 2021

Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna

Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater

Caroline A. Kita

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism …

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Interviews with scholars of Germany about their new books.

Ideas Roadshow Podcast October 15, 2021

Kant, Applied

Onora O’Neill

Hosted by Howard Burton
Kant, Applied is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Onora O’Neill, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a crossbench member of the …
Diplomatic History October 7, 2021

Israelpolitik

German-Israeli Relations, 1949-69

Lorena De Vita

Hosted by Grant Golub
The rapprochement between Germany and Israel in the aftermath of the Holocaust is one of the most striking political developments of the twentieth century. German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently referred …
German Studies October 6, 2021

Revenants of the German Empire

Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations

Sean Andrew Wempe

Hosted by Jack Guenther
Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations (Oxford UP, 2019) reveals the various ways in which Colonial Germans attempted to cope with the loss …
German Studies September 27, 2021

What Remains

The Post-Holocaust Archive in German Memory Culture

Dora Osborne

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
With the passing of those who witnessed National Socialism and the Holocaust, the archive matters as never before. However, the material that remains for the work of remembering and commemorating …
Genocide Studies September 22, 2021

Comrades Betrayed

Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler

Michael Geheran

Hosted by Kelly McFall
What claims could Jewish veterans make on the Nazi state by virtue of their having fought for Germany?  How often did Germans treat Jewish veterans differently from Jewish men without …
Anthropology September 6, 2021

In Humboldt's Shadow

A Tragic History of German Ethnology

H. Glenn Penny

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important anthropological museums, housing more than a half million objects collected from around the globe. In Humboldt's Shadow: A …
German Studies September 2, 2021

Don't Need No Thought Control

Western Culture in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Gerd Horten

Hosted by Jill Massino
The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast September 1, 2021

Inspired By Beethoven

A Conversation with Robin Wallace

Robin Wallace

Hosted by Howard Burton
Baylor University musicologist and the author of Hearing Beethoven Robin Wallace chats with Howard about the magic of Beethoven, weaving personal sentiments with professional insights to explore his unparalleled musical …
German Studies August 31, 2021

Grotesque Visions

The Science of Berlin Dada

Thomas O. Haakenson

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
Thomas O. Haakenson's book Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (Bloomsbury, 2021) focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they …
German Studies August 24, 2021

Modernism in Trieste

The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945

Salvatore Pappalardo

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that …
Genocide Studies August 19, 2021

The Compromise of Return

Viennese Jews After the Holocaust

Elizabeth Anthony

Hosted by Kelly McFall
Most often our engagement with the Holocaust is a process of wrestling with the absence of presence and the presence of absence.  This is right and important and necessary. But Elizabeth …
Eastern European Studies August 11, 2021

Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe

The Deluge of 1919

Eliza Ablovatski

Hosted by Steven Seegel
In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of …
Military History August 10, 2021

Faustian Bargain

The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

Ian Ona Johnson

Hosted by Scott Lipkowitz
German Ambassador Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau believed that Germany and the Soviet Union were locked together in a Schicksalgemienshaft, or “community of fate.” The interaction of these two nations, Brockdorff-Rantzau thought …
Sociology July 29, 2021

How Green Became Good

Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

Hillary Angelo

Hosted by Richard Ocejo
As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and …
General History July 21, 2021

Sheer Misery

Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Mary Louise Roberts

Hosted by Douglas Bell
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem …
European Studies July 21, 2021

Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy

Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia

Malte Dold and Tim Krieger

Hosted by Tim Jones
Once described as a “German oddity”†, Ordoliberalism was one of a number of new liberalisms that emerged from the political maelstrom of the interwar period. But, unlike the other neoliberal …
Christian Studies July 19, 2021

The Flesh of the Word

The Extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy

K. J. Drake

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The extra Calvinisticum, that the eternal Son maintains his existence beyond the flesh during his earthly ministry and perpetually, divided the Lutheran and Reformed traditions during the Reformation. K. J …
Cover Story July 13, 2021

What Can Wittgenstein Teach Us About Raising Our Kids?

A Discussion with Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby

Hosted by Agata Popeda
Ryan Ruby is a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review Daily, Conjunctions, n+1 …
General History July 9, 2021

The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Nick Lloyd

Hosted by Douglas Bell
The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most …