In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of Oxford University Press books.

Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 26, 2024

Beyond Ukraine

Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels

War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford Univers…

Jonathan Dimbleby, "Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 24, 2024

Endgame 1944

Jonathan Dimbleby
Hosted by Richard Northrop

The war on the Eastern front remains relatively less well explored as compared to the western front of World War II. Yet some of the most titanic batt…

Charles Barr, "British Cinema: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

July 23, 2024

British Cinema

Charles Barr
Hosted by Daniel Moran

Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of Bri…

Kevin Mattson, "We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America" (Oxford UP, 2020)

July 22, 2024

We're Not Here to Entertain

Kevin Mattson
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

In his new book, We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America (Oxford UP, 2020), Kevin Mattson doc…

Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 20, 2024

The New Roman Empire

Anthony Kaldellis
Hosted by Charles Coutinho

In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated mo…

Jeremiah Coogan, "Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 18, 2024

Eusebius the Evangelist

Jeremiah Coogan
Hosted by Rob Heaton

The development of Christian scriptures did not terminate once, for example, following Irenaeus and other influential patristic figures, the four gosp…

Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 18, 2024

Eliza Scidmore

Diana P. Parsell

Eliza Scidmore (1856-1928) was a journalist, a world traveler, a writer, an amateur photographer, the first female board member of the National Geogra…

Life in a New Language, Part 6: Citizenship

July 17, 2024

Life in a New Language

Emily Farrell

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 16, 2024

Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence

Emily Wilbourne
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, Voice, Slavery, an…

Life in a New Language, Part 5: Monolingual Mindset

July 10, 2024

Life in a New Language

Loy Lising

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Shannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 10, 2024

The AI Mirror

Shannon Vallor
Hosted by Carrie Figdor

There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and de…

Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

July 9, 2024

The Women Are Up to Something

Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb

The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris …

Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 9, 2024

Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing

Paige Reynolds
Hosted by Helen Penet

Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between c…

Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)

July 7, 2024

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism

Jonathan Tran
Hosted by Shu Wan

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach…

Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 6, 2024

American Aurora

Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi

American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern ra…

Life in a New Language, Part 4: Parenting

July 3, 2024

Life in a New Language

Shiva Motaghi Tabari

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Ailbhe O'Loughlin, "Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

July 3, 2024

Law and Personality Disorder

Ailbhe O'Loughlin
Hosted by Jane Richards

In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial and…

Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 2, 2024

Trolling Ourselves to Death

Jason Hannan
Hosted by Michael LaMagna

We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy …

Pandemic Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science

July 2, 2024

The Dynamic Nature of Science

Michael Gordin
Hosted by Howard Burton

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Cont…

Miranda Sachs, "An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris" (Oxford UP, 2023)

July 2, 2024

An Age to Work

Miranda Sachs
Hosted by Richard Northrop

Childhood as lived during the French Third Republic was very different from childhood during the modern era. Working-class children laboured alongside…