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Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Interviews with Cambridge UP authors about their new books
October 12, 2026
Seniorland
Despite the abundance of retirement communities in the US, none compare to The Villages in Central Florida. Home to nearly 150,000 residents and spann…
October 11, 2026
Healing and the Invention of Metaphor
It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. Healing and the In…
October 10, 2026
An Anticolonial Development
In An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa (Cambridge UP, 2026), Elisa Prosperetti argues that…
October 8, 2026
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India
Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025) delves into the complex intersection of…
October 7, 2026
Think of England
What is the basis of English national identity? How has this changed over time, and what is its future? Tracing the history of English identity over m…
October 5, 2026
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
In this episode, I speak with Dr Amy King of Bristol University about her book, The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memor…
October 3, 2026
The Real Pain of Punishment
The Real Pain of Punishment: Prison, Belonging, and the Quest for Humanized Justice (Cambridge UP, 2026) highlights the concept of 'belonging' as an u…
October 3, 2026
The Colombo Plan
Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting ann…
September 24, 2026
Filial Lines
Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form (Cambridge UP, 2026) by Dr. Emmy Waldman is the first book to place the autobiographical…
September 19, 2026
Sociology of Gender in India
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian sociology. Spa…
September 18, 2026
Through the Roof
Housing is the defining issue of our time, driving a persistent affordability crisis, financial instability, and economic inequality. Alexander Reisen…
September 16, 2026
Sober State
What happens when a democratic state—still in the process of formation—commits to banning a substance, especially one as controversial as alcohol? Sob…
September 14, 2026
Contesting Pluralism(s)
Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond (Cambridge UP, 2024) challenges a widespread tendency to limit stud…
September 14, 2026
The Bible's First Kings
Saul, David, and Solomon are among the most influential—and most contested—figures in the Hebrew Bible. The biblical narratives portray them as rulers…
September 13, 2026
Absence in the Archives
Ciara Breathnach is Professor of Irish Gender History at University College Cork. She has published widely on Irish socio-economic, gender, cultural a…
September 7, 2026
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is one of the landmarks of world literature. Gulliver's adventures with the tiny but spirited Lilliputians, the giant inhabitants o…
September 7, 2026
The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought
In The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought (Cambridge UP, 2026), Gabrielle Thomas questions the popular assumption that the devil served as th…
September 5, 2026
Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures
In Holocaust Migration in German Jewish Literatures (Cambridge UP, 2026), analysing the past two decades of literature on Holocaust memory and migrati…
September 4, 2026
Truth Commissions and International Law
Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines how truth commissions con…
August 30, 2026
Why Nations Still Fight
Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow offe…