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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 …
German Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Germany about their new books.
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 …
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