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Russian and Eurasian Studies March 20, 2023

Picturing the Page

Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin

Megan Swift

Hosted by Polina Popova
Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin (U Toronto Press, 2020) offers …

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Native American Studies March 20, 2023

Allotment Stories

Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege

Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien

Hosted by John Cable
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien's book Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (U Minnesota Press, 2021) collects more than two dozen chronicles of white imperialism and Indigenous …
Irish Studies March 20, 2023

Land and Liberalism

Henry George and the Irish Land War

Andrew Phemister

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Andrew Phemister is Research Associate at Newcastle University. He has previously held postdoctoral positions in History at NUI Galway, the University of Oxford, and Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in …
Military History March 19, 2023

White Knights in the Black Orchestra

The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler

Tom Dunkel

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of …
Literary Studies March 19, 2023

Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms

Jessica Brantley

Hosted by John Yargo
Today’s guest is Jessica Brantley, Professor of English at Yale University. Professor Rosenberg is the author of the previous monograph, Reading in the Wilderness, published by the University of Chicago …
Military History March 19, 2023

Mercy

Humanity in War

Cathal J. Nolan

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
Mercy: Humanity in War (Oxford University Press, 2022) gathers and explores acts of singular mercy, giving them form and substance across wars, causes, and opposing uniforms. These acts demand our attention …
Japanese Studies March 19, 2023

The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory

Ancient Myths and Modern Empire

David Weiss

Hosted by Raditya Nuradi
The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire (Bloomsbury, 2022) traces reiterations and reinterpretations of the deity Susanoo regarding his relationship with Korea vis-a-vis Japan. Through …
Anthropology March 19, 2023

Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science

The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations

Patrick L. Schmidt

Hosted by Alex Golub
Harvard's Department of Social Relations made history in the 1950s and 1960s as the most ambitious program in social science in the United States. Dedicated to a synthesis of sociology …
MIT Press Podcast March 19, 2023

Anti-Irish Prejudice in the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan (Northampton, Massachusetts, 1806)

A Discussion with Bill Fowler, Michael Dukakis and Dick Brown

Bill Fowler, Michael Dukakis, and Dick Brown

Hosted by MIT Press
Bill Fowler, member of the editorial board of The New England Quarterly, Professor Dick Brown, and Governor Michael Dukakis discuss Brown's recent NEQ article, “'Tried, Convicted, and Condemned, in Almost …
Military History March 18, 2023

The Island of Extraordinary Captives

A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp

Simon Parkin

Hosted by AJ Woodhams
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp (Scribner, 2022 is the “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York …
Economic and Business History March 18, 2023

Pioneers of Capitalism

The Netherlands 1000–1800

Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Hosted by Javier Mejia
During the Middle Ages, the Netherlands played a significant role in the emergence of capitalism, which led to the impressive Dutch Golden Age and paved the way for long-term economic …
Canadian Studies March 18, 2023

Double Threat

Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II

Ellin Bessner

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Ellin Bessner about her book Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II (New Jewish Press, 2018). "He died so Jewry should suffer no more." …
Jewish Studies March 18, 2023

Is Superman Circumcised?

The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero

Roy Schwartz

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Superman is the original superhero, an American icon, and arguably the most famous character in the world--and he's Jewish! Introduced in June 1938, the Man of Steel was created by …
Scholarly Communication March 17, 2023

To the Collector Belong the Spoils

Modernism and the Art of Appropriation

Annie Pfeifer

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (Cornell UP, 2023) rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice, which flourishes beyond institutions like …
Military History March 17, 2023

Conquer We Must

A Military History of Britain, 1914-1945

Robin Prior

Hosted by Philip Blood
The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914-1945 an unprecedentedly intense and violent era of history. But how did Britain develop …
Think About It March 17, 2023

Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

Book Talk 58

Vivian Gornick

Hosted by Uli Baer
What Is to Be Done? In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 2011), Vivian Gornick brings us back to this question, originally made …
Critical Theory March 16, 2023

Playing Oppression

The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games

Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (MIT Press, 2023) by Dr. Mary Flanagan & Dr. Mikael Jakobsson is a striking analysis of popular board …
Intellectual History March 16, 2023

Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century

The German Tradition

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism …
Indian Religions March 16, 2023

The Nature of Endangerment in India

Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020

Ezra Rashkow

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Perhaps no category of people on earth has been perceived as more endangered, nor subjected to more preservation efforts, than indigenous peoples. And in India, calls for the conservation of …
American West March 16, 2023

A People's History of SFO

The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport

Eric Porter

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
What can an airport tell us about a city? Quite a bit, according to UC-Santa Cruz history professor Eric Porter in A People's History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and …