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Gender and Sexuality May 7, 2021

Hear #metoo in India

News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism

Pallavi Guha

Hosted by Jana Byars
Hello Everyone, and welcome to New Books in Gender and Sexuality, a channel on the New Books Network. I’m your host, Jana Byars, and I’m here today with Pallavi Guha …

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Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight May 6, 2021

You're Invited

The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence

Jon Levy

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Jon Levy about his new book You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence (Harper Business, 2021). Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist who over a decade …
SSEAC Stories May 6, 2021

Of Rice and Men

How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam

Justin Beardsley

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Fungal infections are amongst the leading infectious disease killers globally. They result in more deaths than malaria, and almost as many as tuberculosis. However, they are often overlooked, and receive …
Communications May 6, 2021

Silicon Values

The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism

Jillian C. York

Hosted by Marci Mazzarotto
What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or …
Communications May 6, 2021

Twitter

A Biography

Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym

Hosted by Ryan Shelton
As Twitter enters its own adolescence, both the users and the creators of this famous social media platform find themselves engaging with a tool that certainly could not have been imagined at …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 5, 2021

Ideologies of Race

Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context

David Rainbow

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Conflicting notions about the dynamics of race in Russia and the Soviet Union have made it difficult for both scholars and other observers of the region to understand rising racial …
Medicine May 5, 2021

Examining Tuskegee

The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

Susan M. Reverby

Hosted by Rachel Pagones
Some books are new, others are newly relevant – and so worth looking at from a new, contemporary perspective. Such is the case with Susan Reverby’s book Examining Tuskegee: The …
Geography May 5, 2021

Nuclear Suburbs

Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance

Patrick Vitale

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
From submarines to the suburbs--the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh's eastern …
Academic Life May 3, 2021

Pandemic Perspectives: A Student Speaks About Mental Health

An interview with Kaylah Marcello

Kaylah Marcello

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast May 3, 2021

Love Lives

From Cinderella to Frozen

Carol Dyhouse

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life's problems. But over …
Sociology May 3, 2021

The Promise of Access

Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

Daniel Greene

Hosted by Patrick Sheehan
Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and …
Animal Studies May 3, 2021

Metazoa

Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Hosted by Mark Molloy
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms …
Mobilities and Methods May 3, 2021

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bret Gustafson

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in …
Medicine April 30, 2021

Mass Vaccination

Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China

Mary Augusta Brazelton

Hosted by Laura Stark
Mary Brazelton’s new book, Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell UP, 2019) could hardly be more timely. During the Covid-19 pandemic, China was in the headlines …
SSEAC Stories April 29, 2021

Tales of Unsung Heroes--How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Discussion with Anjalee Cohen

Anjalee Cohen

Hosted by Natali Pearson
On 13 January 2020, Thailand confirmed the first known case of COVID-19 outside of China. As one of the world's most popular tourism destinations, with the majority of its travellers …
Science, Technology, and Society April 29, 2021

Genetic Crossroads

The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity

Elise K. Burton

Hosted by Laura Stark
Elise K. Burton’s important book, Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford University Press, 2021), documents how race and nation became fused in concept and …
Academic Life April 29, 2021

Inside Look: Campus Mental Wellness Services

Elisabeth Gonella

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Japanese Studies April 29, 2021

Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Jeanne Shea, Katrina Moore, and Hong Zhang

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Today these societies are experiencing unprecedented social …
Economic and Business History April 28, 2021

The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s

Paloma Fernández Pérez

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
The Emergence of Modern Hospital Management and Organisation in the World 1880s-1930s (Emerald, 2021) uses a range of empirical evidence and case studies drawn from previously unpublished archival sources to offer one …
Communications April 28, 2021

Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy

A Psychoanalytic Exploration

Jack Black

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Jack Black, Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (Routledge 2021). In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining …