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Latin American Studies
Middle Eastern Studies December 4, 2022

Transnational Palestine

Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948

Nadim Bawalsa

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians lived …

Latin American Studies

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Human Rights December 4, 2022

Transitional Justice

Ruti G. Teitel

Hosted by Lavinia Stan
Societies that are throwing off the yoke of authoritarian rule and beginning to build democracies face a daunting question: should they punish the representatives of the ancien regime or let …
Anthropology November 29, 2022

Permanent Markers

Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome

Sarah Abel

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about …
Medicine November 28, 2022

Where They Need Me

Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti

Pierre Minn

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular framework of …
Food November 21, 2022

Chocolate

How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature

Erin Alice Cowling

Hosted by Daniela Gutierrez Flores
In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity …
Environmental Studies November 18, 2022

Sweet Fuel

A Political and Environmental History of Brazilian Ethanol

Jennifer Eaglin

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
As the hazards of carbon emissions increase and governments around the world seek to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, the search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an …
Caribbean Studies November 16, 2022

Energy without Conscience

Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity

David McDermott Hughes

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He …
On Religion November 15, 2022

On Migrational Religion and the Latinx Diaspora

A Discussion with João Chaves and Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. João Chaves and Dr. Arlene Sánchez-Walsh discuss Brazil and the book Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora, out now from Baylor University Press. …
Islamic Studies November 11, 2022

The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean

Ken Chitwood

Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Ken Chitwood’s book The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean (Lynn Rienner Publishers Inc, 2021) is a provocation to its readers to include Latin American and Caribbean Muslim histories …
Caribbean Studies November 7, 2022

Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Coping with Calamity

June Carolyn Erlick

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship between natural disasters and civil society, immigration and diaspora communities …
Caribbean Studies November 7, 2022

The Deepest Dye

Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

Aisha Khan

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2021), Aisha Khan explores how colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and …
Latin American Studies November 2, 2022

Water for All

Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia

Sarah T. Hines

Hosted by Elena McGrath
Sarah T. Hines's Water for All Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern Bolivia (University of California Press, 2021) chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the Cochabamba region, the country's third …
Politics & Polemics November 2, 2022

Chingona

Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

Alma Zaragoza-Petty

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice (Broadleaf Books, 2022), Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish …
Latino Studies November 1, 2022

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

Sarah Quesada

Hosted by Anna Lindner
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World …
Mexican Studies October 31, 2022

Mexico's Human Rights Crisis

Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Lawless elements are ascendant in Mexico, as evidenced by the operations of criminal cartels engaged in human and drug trafficking, often with the active support or acquiescence of government actors …
Writ Large October 24, 2022

On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas"

A Discussion with Sidney Chalhoub

Sidney Chalhoub

Hosted by Zachary Davis
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is such a complex and clever allegory of Brazilian society that many readers didn’t initially understand just how searing its critique really was. Its …
Novel Dialogue October 20, 2022

“A short, sharp punch to the face”

José Revueltas’ "The Hole" (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes

Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes

Hosted by Novel Dialogue
Alia Trabucco Zerán, award-winning author of The Remainder (La Resta), and Women Who Kill (Las Homicidas), and Sophie Hughes, Alia’s translator and finalist for the International Booker Prize talk with …
Law October 12, 2022

The Small Matter of Suing Chevron

Suzana Sawyer

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world’s largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron. Within years, a US federal court and an international tribunal determined that …
Darts & Letters October 10, 2022

Technocracy Now! Part 2

Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics

Joy Rohde

Hosted by Gordon Katic
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political scientists who proposed a cybernetic computer …
Latin American Studies October 7, 2022

The World That Latin America Created

The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era

Margarita Fajardo

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era (Harvard University Press, 2022) tells the story of how a group of …