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August 17, 2022
Rome
Strategy of Empire
James Lacey
Hosted by
Mark Klobas
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 B.C.) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years -- an impressive number by any standard, and fully one-fifth of all recorded history. In fact, the decline and final collapse of the Roman Empire took longer than most other empires even existed. Any historian trying to unearth the grand strategy of the Roman Empire must, therefore, always …
Animal Studies
August 16, 2022
Animal Revolution
Ron Broglio
Hosted by
Callie Smith
Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, Animal Revolution (U Minnesota Press, 2022) threads together news accounts and more …
Psychoanalysis
August 15, 2022
Circumcision on the Couch
The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
Jordan Osserman
Hosted by
Tracy Morgan
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether one thinks of it manifesting as a …
Economics
August 12, 2022
Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism
Roselyn Hsueh
Hosted by
Peter Lorentzen
Roselyn Hsueh’s Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism (Cambridge, 2022) presents a new framework for understanding how developing countries integrate into the global economy. Examining the labor-intensive textile sector and the capital-intensive …
Psychology
August 11, 2022
Hatred of Sex
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean
Hosted by
Eugenio Duarte
How well do we understand our relationship to sex? According to Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, authors of the new book Hatred of Sex (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), we …
Performing Arts
August 10, 2022
The Lost Conversation
Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde
Sara Farrington
Hosted by
Andy Boyd
Sara Farrington's The Lost Conversation: Interviews with an Enduring Avant-Garde (53rd State Press, 2021) is a collection of interviews with a host of influential artists in experimental theatre, including Richard Foreman …
Genocide Studies
August 9, 2022
Ideology and Mass Killing
The Radicalized Security Politics of Genocides and Deadly Atrocities
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies are crucial in providing the extremist …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
August 8, 2022
Sonorous Desert
What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us
Kim Haines-Eitzen
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Mark Klobas
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God …
General History
August 5, 2022
The Last Witches of England
A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
John Callow
Hosted by
Miranda Melcher
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and …
Biography
August 4, 2022
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Corey Robin
Hosted by
Caleb Zakarin
Most people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, and he almost never speaks from the bench. Here are some things they …
Popular Culture
August 3, 2022
Teenage Dreams
Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars
Charlie Jeffries
Hosted by
Rebekah Buchanan
Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Charlie Jeffries' Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars (Rutgers UP, 2022) examines the race- and class-inflected battles over …
Literary Studies
August 2, 2022
Free Indirect
The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Timothy Bewes
Hosted by
Iqra Shagufta Cheema
What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its readers …
Critical Theory
August 1, 2022
Producing Politics
Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us
Daniel Laurison
Hosted by
Dave O'Brien
Who runs American politics? In Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us (Beacon Press, 2022), Daniel Laurison, an associate professor …
African American Studies
July 29, 2022
Insurrection
Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
Hawa Allan
Hosted by
Brittney Edmonds
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became …
Native American Studies
July 28, 2022
Seeing Red
Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Michael John Witgen
Hosted by
John Cable
Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining much of their land in the Old Northwest—what’s now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers …
German Studies
July 27, 2022
Prevail until the Bitter End
Germans in the Waning Years of World War II
Alexandra Lohse
Hosted by
Lea Greenberg
In Prevail until the Bitter End: Germans in the Waning Years of World War II (Cornell UP, 2021), Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions …
East Asian Studies
July 26, 2022
Designing Reform
Architecture in the People's Republic of China, 1970-1992
Cole Roskam
Hosted by
Ed Pulford
China’s urban landscapes are full of radically different architectural styles which memorialise different eras in the country’s political past, from the remains of imperial palaces or city walls, to Republican-era …
British Studies
July 25, 2022
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
Maeve Ryan
Hosted by
Joseph Krulder
Maeve Ryan’s new book Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System (Yale UP, 2022) highlights Britain’s early-nineteenth-century, Royal Navy seizures of slave ships and the processes involved in the “liberation” of …
The Future of Higher Education
July 22, 2022
The Real World of College
What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner
Hosted by
Galina Limorenko
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,00 …
Film
July 21, 2022
Killing John Wayne
The Making of the Conqueror
Ryan Uytdewilligen
Hosted by
Daniel Moran
Behold the history of a film so scandalous, so outrageous, so explosive it disappeared from print for over a quarter century! A film so dangerous, half its cast and crew …
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