New Books Network
Human Rights October 28, 2021

Limits of Supranational Justice

The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict

Dilek Kurban

Hosted by Rine Vieth
Dilek Kurban’s Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish Conflict (Cambridge UP, 2020) considers the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) engagement with Turkey’s ongoing …

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Asian Review of Books October 28, 2021

The Travel Writing Tribe

Tim Hannigan

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
As most of us are stuck at home, whether due to lockdowns or border closures, some of us have returned to the idea of travel writing: nonfiction that charts someone’s …
Indian Religions October 28, 2021

Kunti: The Sati Series II

Koral Dasgupta

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Kunti, a rare matriarch in the Mahabharata and one of the revered Pancha Satis, holds an unforgettable position in the Indian literary imagination. Yet, little is known about the fateful …
Academic Life October 28, 2021

Just Like Family

How Companion Animals Joined the Household

Andrea Laurent-Simpson

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Andrea Laurent-Simpson’s path in and out of and back into graduate schoolThe story of her college dog, who became …
Catholic Studies October 28, 2021

Meatpacking America

How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland

Kristy Nabhan-Warren

Hosted by Carlos Ruiz Martinez
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plants—and Americans feared for their meat supply …
Architecture October 28, 2021

Empty Spaces

Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History

Courtney J. Campbell and Allegra Giovine

Hosted by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial …
SSEAC Stories October 28, 2021

Wonders of the Mekong

Rethinking Sustainable Development and Resilience in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

Josephine Gillespie

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Cambodia’s Tonle Sap is the largest inland lake in Southeast Asia. Each year, during the monsoon, this freshwater lake experiences an incredible hydrological phenomenon, in which it is inundated with …
Women's History October 28, 2021

This Land is Herland

Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870-2010

Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Cori Simon (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Sarah Eppler Janda (Professor, Cameron University) and Patricia Loughlin (Professor, University of Central Oklahoma) about their new edited volume, This Land …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight October 28, 2021

Facilitating Breakthrough

How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together

Adam Kahane

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Adam Kahane about his new book Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together (Berrett-Koehler, 2021). You’re helping South Africa make the transition …
Political Science October 28, 2021

Power Shifts

Congress and Presidential Representation

John A. Dearborn

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist John Dearborn’s new book, Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation (U Chicago Press, 2021), weaves together three connected threads in the course of his analysis: the role and capacity …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast October 28, 2021

Mental Health

Policies, Laws and Attitudes

Elyn Saks

Hosted by Howard Burton
Mental Health: Policies, Laws and Attitudes is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elyn Saks, Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Law …
French Studies October 28, 2021

The Persian Mirror

French Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

Susan Mokhberi

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
When I/we think about the early modern relationship between France and Persia, Montesquieu's 1721 Lettres persanes is a text that comes to mind immediately. Susan Mokhberi's The Persian Mirror: Reflections of the …
Japanese Studies October 27, 2021

British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922

The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance

Antony Best

Hosted by Shatrunjay Mall
Antony Best's British Engagement with Japan, 1854-1922: The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance (Routledge, 2020) reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain …
Media October 27, 2021

Media Is Us

Understanding Communication and Moving Beyond Blame

Elizaveta Friesem

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk about media as something people should be …
General History October 27, 2021

The Impossible Office?

The History of the British Prime Minister

Anthony Seldon

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister (Cambridge UP, 2021) tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and …
Politics & Polemics October 27, 2021

The Money Illusion

Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy

Scott Sumner

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It's happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics …
Eastern European Studies October 27, 2021

The Frontline

Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present

Serhii Plokhy

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Serhii Plokhy’s The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2021) includes discussions that focus on the major milestones of the history of Ukraine, ranging from …
European Studies October 27, 2021

Peripheries at the Centre

Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Machteld Venken

Hosted by Jill Massino
Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in which fellow citizens often differed dramatically from one another …
Jewish Studies October 27, 2021

The Steinsaltz Tanya V3: Sha'ar Hayihud Veha'emuna and Iggeret Hateshuva

Adin Steinsaltz

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Tanya, a hugely influential 18thcentury work of Hasidic philosophy and spirituality, is at the foundation of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, indeed, written by the movement’s founder, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of …
Celebration Studies October 27, 2021

Doing Gender in Events

Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies

Barbara Grabher

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Exploring the relationship between gender and events, Doing Gender in Events: Feminist Perspectives in Critical Event Studies (Routledge, 2021) delivers an ethnographic analysis of the celebration of gender equality in …