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January 1, 2023
Introducing Ministry of Ideas
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Introducing Ministry of Ideas, a podcast that explores the ideas that shape our lives. …
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December 27, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Maggie Freeman
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Welcome to Digital Nomads! This episode introduces your host, Maggie, and gives a brief overview of the aims, future of, and inspiration behind this podcast. Music in this episode: Desert …
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The Proust Questionnaire Podcast
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October 1, 2023
When We Walk By
Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes
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Stephen Pimpare
Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
October 1, 2023
Moscow's Heavy Shadow
The Violent Collapse of the USSR
Isaac McKean Scarborough
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Miranda Melcher
Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. Isaac Mckean Scarborough tells the story of the collapse of the USSR from the perspective …
Literary Studies
October 1, 2023
Workshops of Empire
Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War
Eric Bennett
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Morteza Hajizadeh
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and …
Southeast Asian Studies
October 1, 2023
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia
Lynette J. Chua
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Erron Medina
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in the region. Instead of deriving definitions of rights from …
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October 1, 2023
CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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Marius Turda and Mark A. Brandon
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Welcome to episode 7 of the CEU Press Podcast Series. In this episode, we sit down with Professor Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes, UK), the series editor of CEU Press Studies …
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October 1, 2023
Free Agents
How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Kevin J. Mitchell
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Mark Klobas
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of …
Genocide Studies
October 1, 2023
Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation
Derk Venema
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Ari Barbalat
Derk Venema's edited volume Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation (Amsterdam UP, 2022) is the first extensive treatment of leading judicial institutions under Nazi rule in WWII. It focusses on all democratic …
African American Studies
October 1, 2023
Black Female Intellectuals in 19th Century America
Born to Bloom Unseen?
Rebecca J. Fraser
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Katrina Anderson
Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women’s contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America …
Critical Theory
October 1, 2023
A Taste of Honey
Melanie Williams
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Dave O'Brien
What makes a film a classic? In A Taste of Honey (Bloomsbury, 2023), published as part of the BFI Film Classics series, Melanie Williams, a Professor of Film and Television Studies …
Philosophy
October 1, 2023
On Taking Offence
Emily McTernan
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Robert Talisse
A lot of work in moral, political, and legal theory aims to define the offensive. Surprisingly, relatively little attention has been paid to the affectively intoned practice of taking offense …
Anthropology
September 30, 2023
Progress in the Balance
Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil
Daniel R. Reichman
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Yadong Li
Progress and development have long been important issues in anthropology and social sciences. Based on extensive archives and ethnographic fieldwork, Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil …
Food
September 30, 2023
Holy Food
How Cults, Communes and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat
Christina Ward
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Laura Goldberg
Independent food historian and author Christina Ward joins New Books Network to discuss her highly anticipated book Holy Food: How Cults, Communes and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat (Process …
Jewish Studies
September 30, 2023
Living Under the Evil Pope
The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th Cent.)
Martina Mampieri
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Ari Barbalat
In Living under the Evil Pope (Brill, 2019), Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Italian …
Medieval History
September 30, 2023
Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic World
Michelle Karnes
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Morteza Hajizadeh
Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers’ stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period’s philosophical writing. Rather …
CEU Press Podcast Series
September 30, 2023
Getting Published
About Peer Review
Rabea Rittgerodt and Jen McCall
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The sixth episode of the CEU Press Podcast Series is all about the peer review process. Our guests are Rabea Rittgerodt, senior acquisitions editor for social/cultural history (19th-20th century) at …
Law
September 30, 2023
Supreme Hubris
How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It
Aaron Tang
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William Domnarski
Today I talked to Aaron Tang about his new book Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It (Yale UP, 2023). The Supreme Court, once the most respected …
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