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November 8, 2026
Intersectional Listening
Gentrification is often considered through a visual lens, where development, progress, and neighborhood changes are observed. But what does gentrifica…
November 7, 2026
Constructing a Renaissance Pope
Constructing a Renaissance Pope: Rhetoric, Ceremony, and Authority in the Age of Leo X (1513-1521) (Oxford University Press, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Mc…
November 7, 2026
One from Many
We tend to talk about globalisation as if it arrived with container ships, multinationals and the internet. Christopher Meissner’s One from the Many: …
November 6, 2026
The Cantigas de Santa Maria
Amongst the many achievements of the Castilian court of King Alfonso X (1221-184) is the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of 429 songs preserved …
November 1, 2026
Mediating God
Mediating God: Muhammad Ghazali and the Politics of Divine Presence in 20th century Egypt (Oxford UP, 2025) is a fascinating and compelling intellectu…
October 23, 2026
Runes
Tom Birkett, University College, Cork, joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, Runes: A Concise History (Oxford UP, 2025) An accessible and illumina…
October 23, 2026
Radio ReOrient S15:2: Terror, Torture and State Violence in Colonial India, with Deana Heath, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven
In this episode, Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven were joined by Deana Heath to discuss her work Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colon…
October 18, 2026
In Defence of the Human Being
At a time when artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and digital technologies increasingly shape our understanding of what it means to be human, Fuch…
October 16, 2026
RadioReOrient S15:1: Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez, hosted by Amina Easat-Daas and Claudia Radiven
In this episode, hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Farid Hafez to discuss his most recently published book Governing Islam in …
October 16, 2026
Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712
From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Mag…
October 14, 2026
Hidden Terrors
In this episode of In Conversation, Lilyanna D'Amato speaks with Paul Kelton about his new book, Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's A…
October 10, 2026
Europe in the Eleventh Century
Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about th…
October 9, 2026
The Technocratic International
Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselves as techn…
October 8, 2026
A Pacific Power
Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Samoa, a thr…
October 6, 2026
The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy
Ukraine and Russia are today at opposite points of the political spectrum: Despite 300 years of contact with Russian authoritarian politics, Ukraine's…
September 26, 2026
Weaponizing Civilian Protection
Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weaponizing C…
September 17, 2026
To Rule All Under Heaven
The Warring States Period is one of the most important times in China’s history. It marked the end of one dynasty–the Zhou–and the beginning of a new …
September 10, 2026
Kin Matters
What is kinship? This central question in cultural anthropology is standardly answered in terms of culturally constructed relationships that are uncon…
September 5, 2026
Mass Expulsion
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its preva…
September 4, 2026
The Self and its Disorders
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…