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Middle Eastern Studies May 13, 2022

A Liminal Church

Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956

Maria Chiara Rioli

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
The history of the Palestine War does not only concern military history. It also involves social, humanitarian and religious history, as in the case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of …

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East Asian Studies April 13, 2022

Conflicting Memories

Tibetan History Under Mao Retold: Essays and Primary Documents

Robert Barnett, Benno Weiner, and Françoise Robin

Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
After the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, history under him was retold: for example, the Cultural Revolution was rebranded as “Ten Years of Chaos” and its policies were deemed …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists April 1, 2022

Growing Out of Communism

Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017

Andrea Lanoux, Kelly Herold, and Olga Bukhina

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017 (Brill, 2021) explores the rise of a new body of literature for children and teens following the collapse of …
Biblical Studies March 23, 2022

Covenant

A Vital Element of Reformed Theology

Hans Burger, Gert Kwakkel and Michael Mulder

Hosted by Michael Morales
Covenant theology has been a vital topic in both biblical studies and historic and systematic theology. Unfortunately, these disciplines rarely intersect. Such a predicament is answered in the new book …
Intellectual History March 7, 2022

The Diplomatic Enlightenment

Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation

Edward Jones Corredera

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation (Brill, 2021) reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the …
Historical Materialism February 14, 2022

The Ideological Condition

Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender

Himani Bannerji

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
How should we understand identity? What sort of politics are needed to address various forms of oppression and marginalization? Are knowledge and practice untainted by ideological obfuscation possible? These …
Biblical Studies December 23, 2021

The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature

"Let My People Go!"

Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty

Hosted by Michael Morales
The account of the exodus of Israel out of Egypt led by Moses has shaped the theology and community identity of both Jewish people and Christians across the centuries, blossoming …
German Studies November 26, 2021

The Knight Without Boundaries

Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations

Annegret Oehme

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
This volume explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy …
World Christianity November 15, 2021

Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity

Historical Studies in Honour of Brian Stanley

Alexander Chow and Emma Wild-Wood

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and shared belief and practice, and the impulse for distinction, plurality, and …
Systems and Cybernetics November 3, 2021

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Bernard Scott

Hosted by Tom Scholte
On this episode, I have the great pleasure of finally getting to talk with one of the “unsung heroes” of cybernetics, whose work has finally begun to receive the critical …
Historical Materialism October 25, 2021

Lukács

Praxis and the Absolute

Daniel Andrés López

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The Hungarian Marxist philosopher George Lukács has long occupied a complicated place in the Marxist canon of thinkers, both his lived and theoretical practice subject to much critical commentary …
Indian Religions October 14, 2021

An Introductory Sanskrit Reader

Improving Reading Fluency

Antonia M. Ruppel

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency (Brill, 2021) aims to help students start reading original Sanskrit literature. When we study ancient languages, there often is quite a gap between …
Intellectual History October 11, 2021

The State of Nature

Histories of an Idea

Mark Somos and Anne Peters

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
The phrase, “state of nature”, has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hell, interstate relations, and the locus of …
Historical Materialism October 7, 2021

Becoming Marxist

Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance

Ted Stolze

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Marxism is having a moment; higher workloads, stagnating wages, rising costs of living, a new economic crisis every few years, a warming climate and now almost two years of …
Japanese Studies October 4, 2021

An Ise monogatari Reader

Contexts and Receptions

Joshua S. Mostow and Tokurō Yamamoto

Hosted by Jingyi Li
An An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions (Brill, 2021) is the first collection of essays in English on The Ise Stories, a canonical literary text ranked beside The Tale …
Historical Materialism September 17, 2021

Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony

Political Practice and Theory in the Class Struggle

Alan Shandro

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Few figures stand as prominently in Marxist theory and history as V.I. Lenin. The revolutionary who played a pivotal role in one of the most important events in world …
Critical Theory July 26, 2021

Crises and Hegemonic Transitions

From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy

Lorenzo Fusaro

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Gramsci’s concept of hegemony is often invoked, but usually as a means of cultural critique and analysis. However, my guest Lorenzo Fusaro argues in his recent book Crises and Hegemonic …
Gender Studies July 23, 2021

Beauvoir in Time

Meryl Altman

Hosted by Lilian Calles Barger
Meryl Altman's new book Beauvoir in Time, published by Brill Rodopi Press (2020), situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) in its historical context and responds to criticism that …
Education July 12, 2021

Obstinate Education

Reconnecting School and Society

Gert Biesta

Hosted by Kai Wortmann
What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society (Brill, 2019) argues that education is not just there to give individuals, groups and societies what …
World Christianity July 12, 2021

World Christianity

Methodological Considerations

Martha Theodora Frederiks and Dorottya Nagy

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
World Christianity publications proliferate but the issue of methodology has received little attention. World Christianity: Methodological Considerations (Brill, 2020) addresses this lacuna and explores the methodological ramifications of the World Christianity turn …