In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of Oxford University Press books.

Robert A. Wilson, "Kin Matters: Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2026)

September 10, 2026

Kin Matters

Robert A. Wilson
Hosted by Carrie Figdor

What is kinship? This central question in cultural anthropology is standardly answered in terms of culturally constructed relationships that are uncon…

Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)

September 5, 2026

Mass Expulsion

Meghan M. Garrity
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its preva…

Baruch Fischhoff, "Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science" (Oxford UP, 2025)

September 4, 2026

Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems

Baruch Fischhoff
Hosted by Alfred Marcus

Baruch Fischhoff's Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science (Oxford University Press, 2025), part of the Clarendon …

Shaun Gallagher, "The Self and its Disorders" (Oxford UP, 2024)

September 4, 2026

The Self and its Disorders

Shaun Gallagher
Hosted by Anya Daly

In this interview, Shaun Gallagher discusses The Self and its Disorders (Oxford University Press, 2024)A ground-breaking theory of the self as a patte…

Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)

August 29, 2026

Literature and Learning

Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Stefan Collini The study and teaching of English …

Jamie L. Brummitt, "Protestant Relics in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

August 27, 2026

Protestant Relics in Early America

Jamie L. Brummitt
Hosted by Edward Blum

Edward Blum interviews Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt on how new book Protestant Relics in Early America. In Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford UP, 20…

Chenchen Zhang, "Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 25, 2026

Easting the West

Chenchen Zhang
Hosted by Ed Pulford

With commentary on the emergence of a ‘multipolar’ world, of transatlantic rifts and the rise of ‘middle powers’ ubiquitous, tales of the decline of s…

Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 25, 2026

Occupying the Everyday

Niharika Pandit

Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharik…

Travis Bruce, "Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 23, 2026

Constructing the Medieval Maritime State

Travis Bruce
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2026) by Professor Travi…

Aleksandar Uskokov, "Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Language and the Highest Good in Early Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 20, 2026

Deciphering the Hidden Meaning

Aleksandar Uskokov
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

Deciphering the Hidden Meaning: Language and the Highest Good in Early Advaita Vedānta (Oxford UP, 2026) presents a transformative history of one of t…

Daniel Byman, "American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 14, 2026

American Pogroms

Daniel Byman
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America (Oxford Universit…

Kathleen J. Frydl, "Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation" (Oxford UP, 2025)

August 13, 2026

Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation

Kathleen J. Frydl
Hosted by Lilly Goren

This is a really good book. Really good. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a fascinating,…

The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller

August 13, 2026

The New Modern Medicine

Jonathan Fuller
Hosted by Alex Broadbent

Jonathan Fuller’s The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine (Oxford UP, 2025) takes the reader on a philosophical tour …

Christopher Campo-Bowen, "Visions of the Village: Ruralness, Identity, and Czech Opera" (Oxford UP, 2025)

August 10, 2026

Visions of the Village

Christopher Campo-Bowen
Hosted by Kristen Turner

The Bartered Bride, a comic opera by Bedrich Smetana, premiered in Prague on March 30, 1866. Its pastoral love story and setting in a rural Czech vill…

Caro Pirri, "Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement" (Oxford UP, 2025)

August 10, 2026

Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England

Caro Pirri
Hosted by Jane Degenhardt

Today’s guest, Caro Pirri, is the author of Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England: Stages of Unsettlement (Oxford University P…

Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan, "The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 9, 2026

The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties

Caryl Flinn and Dana B. Polan
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

In The Patty Duke Show and the American Sixties: Hot Dogs and Crêpes Suzette (Oxford UP, 2026), the first ever published on The Patty Duke Show (1963-…

Edward T. G. Anderson, "Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)

August 8, 2026

Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora

Edward T. G. Anderson
Hosted by Sachin Nikarge

Hindu nationalism is transforming India as an increasingly dominant ideology and political force. But it is also a global phenomenon, with sections of…

Deborah Barer, "Going Off Script: Improvisational Judgment in the Talmud" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 8, 2026

Going Off Script

Deborah Barer
Hosted by Marc Katz

What does it really mean to go "beyond the letter of the law"? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with scholar Deborah Barer to discuss her bo…

Russia’s Jews in World War I

August 8, 2026

Russia’s Jews in World War I

Polly Zavadivker
Hosted by YIVO Institute

When World War I began, the Russian Empire was home to more than 5.7 million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population in the world. Thirty yea…

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz and Alaka Atreya Chudal, "The Swasthani Vrata Katha" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 6, 2026

The Swasthani Vrata Katha

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, Alaka Atreya Chudal
Hosted by Raj Balkaran

The Swasthani Vrata Katha is the most widely read, recited, and listened to Hindu devotional text, especially of local indigenous origin, among Hindu …