New Books Network
Central Asian Studies April 14, 2021

In Remembrance of the Saints - the Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty

David Brophy

Hosted by Nicholas Seay
David Brophy's translation of Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari's In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty (Columbia University Press, 2021) represents the first comprehensive translation of …

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Sports April 14, 2021

The Fastest Game in the World

Hockey and the Globalization of Sports

Bruce Berglund

Hosted by Bob D'Angelo
Today we are joined by Bruce Berglund, author of The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports (University of California Press, 2020). In this sweeping look …
Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness April 14, 2021

What's Beyond Mindfulness?

Waking Up to This Precious Life

Stephen Fulder

Hosted by Yakir Englander
What is the power and significance of mindfulness and similar practices in conflict zones and conflict situations? Does a person need to challenge the norms and authority of the society …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery April 14, 2021

Chemical Youth

Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

Anita Hardon

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Anita Hardon's Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and …
European Studies April 14, 2021

Belarus Under Lukashenka

Adaptive Authoritarianism

Matthew Frear

Hosted by Tim Jones
Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Alexander Lukashenka has ruled Belarus – a land-locked European country of close to 10 million people bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and two Baltic states …
The Future of Higher Education April 14, 2021

An Interview with Richard K. Miller (3 of 3)

Founding President of Olin College of Engineering

Hosted by David Finegold
In the concluding episode, Olin College of Engineering President Emeritus Richard Miller discusses how Olin has shared the key learnings from this innovative higher ed start-up, hosting over 800 groups …
History April 14, 2021

Britain and Italy in the Era of the First World War

Defending and Forging Empires

Stefano Marcuzzi

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
This is a reassessment of British and Italian grand strategies during the First World War. Dr. Stefano Marcuzzi, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, tries to shed new …
History April 14, 2021

The Athenaeum

More Than Just Another London Club

Michael Wheeler

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their …
Communications April 14, 2021

Political Perversion

Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering

Joshua Gunn

Hosted by Lee Pierce
When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land …
Eastern European Studies April 14, 2021

Survival As Victory

Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

Oksana Kis

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Oksana Kis’s Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Press, 2021) fundamentally contributes to the Gulag studies through its essential intervention …
Indian Religions April 14, 2021

The Muhammad Avatāra

Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam

Ayesha A. Irani

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam (Oxford University Press, 2021) reveals the powerful role of vernacular translation in the Islamization of Bengal.Its focus is on …
History April 14, 2021

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021

From World Power to ?

Jeremy Black

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Jeremy Black, one of the most prolific and punchy of historians of modern Britain, has written a new account of a period on which he has previously published. A Brief …
Scholarly Communication April 14, 2021

Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century

Christopher Thaiss

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Christopher Thaiss, author of Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century (Broadview Press 2019). We talk about the research article, about writing styles, and about the …
Education April 13, 2021

Bearing with Strangers

Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion

Morten T Korsgaard

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
Bearing with Strangers: Arendt, Education and the Politics of Inclusion (Routledge, 2018) looks at inclusion in education in a new way. By introducing the notion of the instrumental fallacy, it shows …
Literature April 13, 2021

Four Dead Horses

KT Sparks

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to KT Sparks about her debut novel Four Dead Horses (Regal House, 2021) On May 1, 1982, eighteen-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of …
Latin American Studies April 13, 2021

Just Immigration in the Americas

A Feminist Account

Allison B. Wolf

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Poetry April 13, 2021

Hotel Almighty

Sarah J. Sloat

Hosted by Andrea Blythe
Visually arresting and utterly one-of-a-kind, Sarah J. Sloat's Hotel Almighty (Sarabande Books) is a book-length erasure of Misery by Stephen King, a reimagining of the novel's themes of constraint and …
The Future of Higher Education April 13, 2021

An Interview with Richard K. Miller (2 of 3)

Founding President of Olin College of Engineering

Hosted by David Finegold
In part two of the interview with Rick Miller, the founding President of Olin College of Engineering, he describes the key elements of the Olin model that have helped this …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 13, 2021

Cruelty Or Humanity

Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities

Stuart Rees

Hosted by Bede Haines
Stuart Rees's Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities (Policy Press, a Bristol University Press imprint, 2020) exposes politicians' fascination with cruelty in their deliberations about policies. Through empirical analysis, human stories and …
Japanese Studies April 13, 2021

Flowering Tales

Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan

Takeshi Watanabe

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a …