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General History July 28, 2022

Culture from the Slums

Punk Rock in East and West Germany

Jeff Hayton

Hosted by Ran Zwigenberg
Jeff Hayton's book Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany (Oxford UP, 2022) is a cultural history of punk in Germany. The manuscript tracks “the advent and …

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German Studies July 27, 2022

Prevail until the Bitter End

Germans in the Waning Years of World War II

Alexandra Lohse

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
In Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II (Cornell UP, 2021), Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions …
LGBTQ+ Studies July 15, 2022

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Laurie Marhoefer

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with …
Women's History July 15, 2022

Birth, Sex and Abuse

Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule

Beverley Chalmers

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule (Grosvenor House, 2015) is a fascinating and gripping examination of birth, sex and abuse during the Nazi era. Dr Chalmers’ unique …
German Studies July 13, 2022

The Making of an Antifascist

Nordahl Grieg Between the World Wars

Dean Krouk

Hosted by Nicholas Misukanis
A young imperialist adventurer turned hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, Norwegian journalist, poet, and playwright Nordahl Grieg has become more of a national legend than a real person since his …
The Vault July 8, 2022

On Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"

A Discussion

Anthony Grafton, Rony Brauman, Margarethe von Trotta, and Pamela Katz

Hosted by New York Institute for the Humanities
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we have an excerpt from a two day symposium--“Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event …
German Studies July 1, 2022

The Hygienic Apparatus

Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder

Paul Dobryden

Hosted by Paul Lerner
The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder (Northwestern UP, 2022) traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany’s Weimar Republic. In the early twentieth …
Human Rights June 30, 2022

War and Peace

America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine

Samuel Moyn, Silja Vöneky, Frauke Lachenmann, and James Cavallaro

Hosted by Jim Cavallaro
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion on “War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine.” The panel was part of the Annual Conference of the …
Performing Arts June 30, 2022

Brecht and the Bible

A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City

G. Ronald Murphy

Hosted by Andy Boyd
In Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City (UNC Press, 2020), Father G. Ronald Murphy argues that Brecht, atheist …
German Studies June 29, 2022

Fear of the Family

Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany

Lauren K. Stokes

Hosted by Paul Lerner
Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar …
Biography June 24, 2022

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

Marc David Baer

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most …
Music June 21, 2022

Singing Like Germans

Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms

Kira Thurman

Hosted by Kristen Turner
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman (Cornell University Press, 2021) is a truly interdisciplinary study. Dr. Thurman’s work sits at …
General History June 16, 2022

The Atlantic Realists

Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States

Matthew Specter

Hosted by Sean Byrnes
In The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States (Stanford UP, 2022), intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a …
Anthropology June 15, 2022

Coconut Colonialism

Workers and the Globalization of Samoa

Holger Droessler

Hosted by Alex Golub
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globalization on Sāmoa and vice versa. Using a …
Jewish Studies June 13, 2022

If This Is a Woman

Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust

Denisa Nesťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann, and Jakub Drábik

Hosted by Amber Nickell
If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust (Academic Studies Press, 2021) contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the “XX. Century Conference: If …
German Studies June 13, 2022

Nazi Billionaires

The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

David de Jong

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Nazi Billionnaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties (HarperCollins, 2022), journalist David de Jong presents a groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off …
German Studies June 10, 2022

The Grey Men

Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

Ralph Hope

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. For forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing …
German Studies June 9, 2022

A Brief History of Germany

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
This succinct history of Germany will take you on an incredible journey through time spanning from the 1500s to the present. Focusing on Germany in detail and in a global …
General History June 3, 2022

Eastern Europe!

Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does

Tomek Jankowski

Hosted by Lia Paradis
Prime Minister Pierre Eliot Trudeau once gave a press conference while visiting Washington, during which he famously said: "Living next to [the United States] is in some ways like sleeping …
German Studies June 2, 2022

Israel's Moment

International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949

Jeffrey Herf

Hosted by Nicholas Misukanis
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged …