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Native American Studies November 29, 2021

Settler Memory

The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States

Kevin Bruyneel

Hosted by John Cable
Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined …

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Political Science November 29, 2021

Following the Leader

Alliance Design, Security Strategies, and Institutional Emulation

Raymond C. Kuo

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Nations have powerful incentives to ensure that their military alliances are well-structured. Successful military alliances set long-lasting foundations for global and regional order, while unsuccessful ones can perpetuate and widen …
Japanese Studies November 29, 2021

Japanese Philosophy in the Making 2

Borderline Interrogations

John Maraldo

Hosted by Jingyi Li
The second of three volumes of essays that engage Japanese philosophers as intercultural thinkers, this collection critically probes seminal works for their historical significance and contemporary relevance. Japanese Philosophy in …
Jewish Studies November 29, 2021

Hadassah

An American Story

Hadassah Lieberman

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Born in Prague to Holocaust survivors, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated in 1949 to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government …
Law November 29, 2021

Dangerous Ideas

A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

Eric Berkowitz

Hosted by Ian Drake
Eric Berkowitz has written a short history of a censorship, a large topic that has been a phenomenon since the advent of recorded history. In Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History …
Environmental Studies November 29, 2021

After One Hundred Winters

In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs

Hosted by Brady McCartney
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands (Princeton UP, 2021) confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of …
African American Studies November 26, 2021

How the Word Is Passed

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
How do we narrate history, both the troubling past and what we chose to remember? Clint Smith sets out to wrestle with this question and its relationship to enslavement in …
Art November 26, 2021

A History of Arab Graphic Design

Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar

Hosted by Holiday Powers
Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and political changes that were taking place …
German Studies November 26, 2021

The Knight Without Boundaries

Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations

Annegret Oehme

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy …
African American Studies November 26, 2021

Love for Liberation

African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground

Robin J. Hayes

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
During the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the …
Eastern European Studies November 26, 2021

Romania's Holy War

Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust

Grant T. Harward

Hosted by Roland Clark
What motivated conscripted soldiers to fight in the Romanian Army during the Second World War? Why did they obey orders, take risks, and sometimes deliberately sacrifice their lives for the …
Intellectual History November 24, 2021

The Right of Sovereignty

Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations

Daniel Lee

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
Sovereignty is the vital organizing principle of modern international law. Daniel Lee's book The Right of Sovereignty: Jean Bodin on the Sovereign State and the Law of Nations (Oxford UP, 2021) …
Diplomatic History November 24, 2021

Unconditional

The Japanese Surrender in World War II

Marc Gallicchio

Hosted by Grant Golub
Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender formally ended the war in the Pacific …
Latin American Studies November 24, 2021

The Dark Side of Memory

Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching

Tessa Bridal

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
I sat down with award winning author Tessa Bridal to talk about her latest book, The Dark Side of Memory: Uruguay's Disappeared Children and the Families Who Never Stopped Searching, published by Invisible Ink (October …
Asian Review of Books November 24, 2021

Distant Shores

Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier

Melissa Macauley

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
“The Europeans raise all the cattle, but the Chinese get all the milk.” This joke, told in colonial Singapore, was indicative of the importance of the Chinese diaspora throughout Southeast …
American West November 24, 2021

Shakespeare in Montana

Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer

Gretchen E. Minton

Hosted by Troy Hallsell
Tracing more than two centuries of history, Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Writer (University of New Mexico Press, 2020) uncovers a vast array of …
East Asian Studies November 23, 2021

Indigenous Cultural Translation

A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

Darryl Sterk

Hosted by Li-Ping Chen
Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale (Routledge, 2020) is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous …
South Asian Studies November 23, 2021

Police Matters

The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975

Radha Kumar

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 (Cornell UP, 2021) moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the …
General History November 23, 2021

The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland

Crawford Gribben

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today Crawford Gribben joins us to talk about his new book, The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland (Oxford UP, 2021). Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of …
General History November 23, 2021

Hinge Points

A Podcast about Historical Contingency

Matt Christman and Daniel Bessner

Hosted by Michael Vann
How do we balance the importance of individual human agency with our understanding of larger socio-economic structures? How do we explore crucial “what ifs” in history? How do we make …