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Disability Studies June 1, 2023

Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller

Hosted by Shu Wan
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The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporters defend NIPT on the grounds that genetic information about the fetus helps …

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Political Science May 31, 2023

The "Third" United Nations

How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think

Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss

Hosted by Sally Sharif
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Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss' book The "Third" United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think (Oxford UP, 2021) is about the Third UN: the ecology of supportive …
Critical Theory May 31, 2023

Anarchism

A Very Short Introduction

Alex Prichard

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this true? What …
Women's History May 25, 2023

The Suffragist Peace

How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars

Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In the modern age, some parts of the world are experiencing a long peace. Nuclear weapons, capitalism and the widespread adoption of democratic institutions have been credited with fostering this …
Women's History May 21, 2023

Do Everything

The Biography of Frances Willard

Christopher H. Evans

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Frances Willard (1839-1898) was one of the most prominent American social reformers of the late nineteenth century. As the long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast May 18, 2023

Simon Cox on the Subtle Body

Simon Cox

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What links Vajrayana Buddhism and Vajrayogini to Alistair Crowley and the neo-Platonists? A topic of speculation, desire and imagination, the Subtle Body, also known as the energy body, is an …
Interpretive Political and Social Science May 18, 2023

Freedom Inside?

Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State

Farah Godrej

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate the political and social structures that incarcerate …
Diplomatic History May 15, 2023

Practicing Peace

Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America

Aarie Glas

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Southeast Asia and South America are regions made up of largely illiberal states lacking stabilizing great powers or collective identities. But despite persistent territorial disputes, regime instability, and interstate rivalries …
Game Studies May 11, 2023

We the Gamers

How Games Teach Ethics and Civics

Karen Schrier

Hosted by Rudolf Thomas Inderst
Ethics and civics have always mattered, but perhaps they matter now more than ever before. Recently, with the rise of online teaching and movements like #PlayApartTogether, games have become increasingly …
Political Science May 8, 2023

Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era

Think Global, Act Local

Nina Hall

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the role of digital advocacy organizations, a major new addition to the international arena. Organizations such as MoveOn, GetUp, and Campact derive …
Sociology May 7, 2023

Fearing Together

Ethics for Insecurity

Ami Harbin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing …
Middle Eastern Studies May 5, 2023

Erdoğan's War

A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria

Gönül Tol

Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's pugnacious president, is now the country's longest-serving leader. On his way to the top, he has fought many wars. This book tells the story of those …
Islamic Studies May 5, 2023

Rebuilding Community

Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality

Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Hosted by SherAli Tareen
In her moving, sophisticated, and analytically groundbreaking new book Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford UP, 2023), Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts and engages …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel May 3, 2023

Third-party Peacemakers in Judaism

Text, Theory, and Practice

Daniel Roth

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
In the race to discover real solutions for the conflicts that plague contemporary society, it is essential that we look to precedent. Many of today's conflicts involve ethno-religious tensions that …
Think About It May 2, 2023

Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian

Free Speech 69

Bradford Vivian

Hosted by Uli Baer
State censorship and cancel culture, trigger warnings and safe spaces, pseudoscience, First Amendment hardball, as well as orthodoxy and groupthink: universities remain a site for important battles in the culture …
Philosophy May 1, 2023

Mobilizing Hope

Climate Change and Global Poverty

Darrel Moellendorf

Hosted by Robert Talisse
The news concerning climate change isn’t good. The warming of our planet now threatens to trap millions of people in extreme poverty while destabilizing the global order in ways that …
World Christianity May 1, 2023

South Asia's Christians

Between Hindu and Muslim

Chandra Mallampalli

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some dating almost to the …
Political Science May 1, 2023

Deploying Feminism

The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations

Stéfanie von Hlatky

Hosted by Susan Liebell
In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing launched the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Successive UN Security Council resolutions highlighted the need to include more women …
Archaeology April 27, 2023

Gods of Thunder

How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America

Timothy R. Pauketat

Hosted by Sarah Newman
Timothy R. Pauketat’s Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America (Oxford UP, 2023) is a sweeping account of what happened when Indigenous peoples of Medieval North and …
Indian Religions April 27, 2023

Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam

Mantrankam and Anguliyankam

David Shulman and Heike Oberlin

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. David Shulman and Heike Oberlin's Two Masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam (Oxford …