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East Asian Studies
February 26, 2021
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan
Aspects of Maritime Religion
Fabio Rambelli
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
In The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion (Bloomsbury 2018), Fabio Rambelli invites various fifteen scholars of Japanese religions to reflect on a well taken-for-granted fact: although the sea …
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History
February 26, 2021
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Robert Darnton
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — …
History
February 26, 2021
Ruling Culture
Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy
Fiona Greenland
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Fiona Greenland, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to talk about her new book, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the …
Asian Review of Books
February 25, 2021
Bombay Hustle
Making Movies in a Colonial City
Debashree Mukherjee
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1935, the writer Baburao Patel writes the following about Bombay’s film industry: “In India, with financing conditions still precarious, the professional film distributor thrives. . . . He comes …
Indian Religions
February 24, 2021
Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab
Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947
Michale P. Brunner
Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Michael P. Brunner's Education and Modernity in Colonial Punjab: Khalsa College, the Sikh Tradition and the Webs of Knowledge, 1880-1947 (Palgrave, 2020) explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a …
Japanese Studies
February 24, 2021
African Samurai
The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
Geoffrey Girard and Thomas Lockley
Hosted by Jingyi Li
The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northern Africa to the heights of Japanese society. When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s …
Critical Theory
February 24, 2021
Penguin Books and Political Change
Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988
Dean Blackburn
Hosted by Dave O'Brien
Why do books and publishing matter to the contemporary history of Britain? In Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988 (Manchester UP, 2020), Dean Blackburn, a Lecturer in Modern …
Chinese Studies
February 24, 2021
Writing for Print
Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China
Suyoung Son
Hosted by Aliki Semertzi
Suyoung Son’s book Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China (Harvard UP, 2018) examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial …
East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
Buddhism after Mao
Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions
Zhe Ji, Gareth Fisher, André Laliberté
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
With over 100 million followers, Buddhism in the People's Republic of China now fosters the largest community in the world of individuals who self-identify as Buddhists. Although Buddhism was harshly persecuted …
Christian Studies
February 24, 2021
God's Cold Warrior
The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles
John D. Wilsey
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
When John Foster Dulles died in 1959, he was given the largest American state funeral since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s in 1945. President Eisenhower called Dulles—his longtime secretary of state—“one of …
East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
A Roundtable on the History of the Japanese Student Movement
A Discussion with Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Chelsea Szendi Schieder’s Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left and Naoko Koda’s The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1973: Managing a Free World provide new …
African American Studies
February 23, 2021
Women's War
Fighting and Surviving the Civil War
Stephanie Mccurry
Hosted by Jerrad Pacatte
In Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War (Harvard UP, 2019), the award-winning author of Confederate Reckoning challenges the idea that women are outside of war, through a trio of dramatic …
Jewish Studies
February 23, 2021
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on …
National Security
February 23, 2021
Strategic Instincts
The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
Dominic D. P. Johnson
Hosted by Kyle Beadle
In Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2020), Dominic Johnson challenges the assumption that cognitive biases led to policy failures, disasters …
Literary Studies
February 23, 2021
Fictions of America
The Book of Firsts
Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, Miranda Corcoran speaks to Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal about their unique anthology, Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (Warbler Press …
Christian Studies
February 23, 2021
Yours, Till Heaven
The Untold Love Story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon
Ray Rhodes Jr.
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Enter the remarkable untold love story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon. Charles Spurgeon is esteemed for his writing, preaching, and passion for the Lord. But behind the great man was …
German Studies
February 23, 2021
Diagnosing Dissent
Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany During World War One
Rebecca Ayako Bennette
Hosted by Michael O'Sullivan
Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with …
Eastern European Studies
February 23, 2021
Empire of Friends
Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia
Rachel Applebaum
Hosted by Jill Massino
The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
February 22, 2021
The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917
Roger R. Reese
Hosted by Aaron Weinacht
Roger Reese’s recent book, The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917 (University of Kansas, 2019), takes a deep dive into the internal workings of the Russian army …
Film
February 22, 2021
The Brothers Mankiewicz
Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics
Sydney Stern
Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Herman J. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only …
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