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Performing Arts
June 5, 2023
Performing the Socialist State
Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture
Xiaomei Chen
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Andy Boyd
Xiaomei Chen's book Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture (Columbia UP, 2023) looks at three "founding fathers" of Chinese spoken drama: Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian. Dr. Chen argues that these three theatre artists laid the groundwork for Mao-era Chinese drama during the earlier Republic period, and that there is more continuity between the two periods than has typically been supposed. She also argues that these …
Anthropology
June 4, 2023
The Politics of Survival
Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour
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Reighan Gillam
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Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The media renders them invisible or casts them …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
June 3, 2023
The Future of Big Finance
A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan
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Owen Bennett-Jones
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How common is financial malpractice in big, well known financial companies? Is it so common that it should really be seen as a business model more than an occasional aberration …
Southeast Asian Studies
June 2, 2023
A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand
Patrick Jory
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Nick Cheesman
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If you’ve visited Thailand even for a short time you’ve probably been given, or have come across, some basic instructions on dos and don’ts — where to put, or not …
Disability Studies
June 1, 2023
Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller
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Shu Wan
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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps …
Critical Theory
May 31, 2023
Anarchism
A Very Short Introduction
Alex Prichard
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Morteza Hajizadeh
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If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What …
South Asian Studies
May 30, 2023
A Part Apart
The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar
Ashok Gopal
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Rituparna Patgiri
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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born into a caste deemed ‘unfit for human association’, he came to define what it means to …
Science, Technology, and Society
May 29, 2023
The Possibility of Life
Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos
Jaime Green
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John Traphagan
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In this episode we talk to Jaime Green about her superb cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos. It examines how the possibility of life on other planets shapes our understanding …
Biblical Studies
May 28, 2023
Armageddon
What the Bible Really Says about the End
Bart D. Ehrman
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Frances Sacks
A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar, reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.You’ll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the …
General History
May 27, 2023
The West
A New History of an Old Idea
Naoíse Mac Sweeney
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Miranda Melcher
Dr. Naoíse Mac Sweeney presents a radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives in her …
Islamic Studies
May 26, 2023
Broken
The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
Evelyn Alsultany
Hosted by
Kristian Petersen
In Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), Evelyn Alsultany, Professor at the University of Southern California, argues that, even amid challenges to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives …
Women's History
May 25, 2023
The Suffragist Peace
How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars
Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart
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Miranda Melcher
In the modern age, some parts of the world are experiencing a long peace. Nuclear weapons, capitalism and the widespread adoption of democratic institutions have been credited with fostering this …
Chinese Studies
May 24, 2023
Reproductive Realities in Modern China
Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez
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Laurie Dickmeyer
In Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge UP, 2022), assistant professor of history at Missouri State University, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez explores the longue durée history …
Medieval History
May 23, 2023
Rome and the Invention of the Papacy
The Liber Pontificalis
Rosamond McKitterick
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Miranda Melcher
The remarkable, and permanently influential, papal history known as the Liber pontificalis shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy …
Political Science
May 22, 2023
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood
White Women, Class, and Segregation
Rebecca Brückmann
Hosted by
Susan Liebell
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation (U Georgia Press, 2021) offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women involved in massive resistance. The …
Science, Technology, and Society
May 21, 2023
We Have Always Been Cyborgs
Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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Frances Sacks
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain–computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension. Despite its enduring influence in …
Political Science
May 20, 2023
The State
Philip Pettit
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Caleb Zakarin
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and …
Media
May 19, 2023
City of Newsmen
Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington
Kathryn J. McGarr
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James Kates
Kathryn McGarr’s City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington (U Chicago Press, 2022) explores foreign policy journalism in Washington during and after World War II—a …
Interpretive Political and Social Science
May 18, 2023
Freedom Inside?
Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State
Farah Godrej
Hosted by
Nick Cheesman
Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate the political and social structures that incarcerate …
Chinese Studies
May 17, 2023
The Dean of Shandong
Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
Daniel A. Bell
Hosted by
Keith Krueger
I am not now nor at any time have ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Yet I serve as dean of a large faculty of political …
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