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General History
August 16, 2022
Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965
Eva-Maria Muschik
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Miranda Melcher
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the …
Off the Page: A Columbia UP Podcast
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Literary Studies
August 2, 2022
Free Indirect
The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Timothy Bewes
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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 …
Biography
June 24, 2022
German, Jew, Muslim, Gay
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus
Marc David Baer
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Armanc Yildiz
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most …
Sociology
June 20, 2022
The Urbanization of People
The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Eli Friedman
Hosted by
Michael Johnston
Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed …
East Asian Studies
June 15, 2022
The Musha Incident
A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan
Michael Berry
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Li-Ping Chen
On October 27, 1930, members of six Taiwanese indigenous groups ambushed the Japanese attendees of an athletic competition at the Musha Elementary School, killing 134. The uprising came as a …
Journalism
June 13, 2022
Not Exactly Lying
Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History
Andie Tucher
Hosted by
Jenna Spinelle
Long before the current preoccupation with “fake news,” American newspapers routinely ran stories that were not quite, strictly speaking, true. Today, a firm boundary between fact and fakery is a …
Film
June 6, 2022
Alluring Monsters
The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization
Rosalind Galt
Hosted by
Jules O'Dwyer
In Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization (Columbia University Press, 2021), film scholar Rosalind Galt offers a cinematic exploration of the pontianak, a female vampire ghost whose origins …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones
May 31, 2022
The Future of the Brain
A Conversation with Daniel Graham
Daniel Graham
Hosted by
Owen Bennett-Jones
When people describe the brain they often compare it to a computer. In fact, the metaphor of the brain as a computer has defined the field for decades now. And …
Chinese Studies
May 19, 2022
Fixing Landscape
A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges
Corey Byrnes
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Julia Keblinska
Corey Byrnes’ Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges (Columbia University Press, 2019) is a work of considerable historical and disciplinary depth. Byrnes brings together the Tang dynasty …
Critical Theory
May 19, 2022
Universality and Identity Politics
Todd McGowan
Hosted by
Reuben Niewenhuis
The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of …
Medicine
May 12, 2022
The Cage of Days
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison
Michael G. Flaherty and K. C. Carceral
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Rachel Pagones
Prisons operate according to the clockwork logic of our criminal justice system: we punish people by making them “serve” time. The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison …
Anthropology
May 9, 2022
The Sound of Salvation
Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China
Guangtian Ha
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Irene Promodh
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in …
Film
April 8, 2022
Hollywood and Israel
A History
Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman
Hosted by
Nathan Abrams
From Frank Sinatra’s early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg’s present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both …
Performing Arts
April 6, 2022
A Revolution in Three Acts
The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
David Hajdu and John Carey
Hosted by
Andy Boyd
Too often, vaudeville is seen from the perspective of its decline: it is the corny, messy art form that predated the book musical, or that gave us Chaplin, Keaton, and …
Literary Studies
March 29, 2022
Literature in Motion
Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas
Ellen Jones
Hosted by
Jennifer Lee
In Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas (Columbia University Press, 2022), Ellen C. Jones centers not just translation but multilingualism as both an artistic practice and scholarly lens through which to examine …
East Asian Studies
March 22, 2022
The Profits of Nature
Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Peter B. Lavelle
Hosted by
Zachary Lowell
In The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China (Columbia UP, 2020), Peter Lavelle offers a fascinating narrative history of natural resource development in …
East Asian Studies
March 21, 2022
A Companion to the Story of the Stone
A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide
Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung
Hosted by
Linshan Jiang
A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide (Columbia UP, 2021), co-authored by Susan Chan Egan and Pai Hsien-yung (Columbia University Press, 2021), is a straightforward guide to …
Gender Studies
March 11, 2022
An Empire of Touch
Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal
Poulomi Saha
Hosted by
Ann Choi
Can subalterns speak? Now an iconic question from a prominent postcolonial studies scholar Gayatri Spivak, the question interrogates the in-built assumption about the locatable agency in an individual. Postcolonial studies …
Science
March 10, 2022
Racism, Not Race
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman
Hosted by
Adam Bobeck
The science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural …
Chinese Studies
March 8, 2022
Internationalist Aesthetics
China and Early Soviet Culture
Edward Tyerman
Hosted by
Julia Keblinska
I am joined for my interview with Edward Tyerman by Ed Pulford, another host on our channel. Together, we discuss Edward’s new book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture …
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