The Edinburgh University Press Podcast

The Edinburgh University Press Podcast

episodes

Interviews with authors of Edinburgh UP books.

Sara Farhan, "Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

July 12, 2026

Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959

Sara Farhan
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869–1959 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) by Dr. Sara Farhan offers a rigorous social and cu…

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, "Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

July 10, 2026

Freedom to Know

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
Hosted by Jessica Zu

Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) asks how a (world) community …

Kate Dannies, "Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

July 1, 2026

Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire

Kate Dannies
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire: Family, Law and War (Edinburgh UP, 2026) by Dr. Kate Dannies examines the gender and fam…

Marta Dominguez Diaz, "Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

June 25, 2026

Tunisia's Andalusians

Marta Dominguez Diaz
Hosted by Amanie Antar

Tunisia’s Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority (Edinburgh UP, 2025) tells the captivating story of those Andalusians, descen…

Charles J. Stivale, "Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987: Summaries and Commentary" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

June 25, 2026

Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987

Charles J. Stivale
Hosted by Nathan Smith

From the inside flap: “A rich resource of Deleuze’s research that is unavailable in his published writing Includes summaries of 216 seminar sessio…

Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

May 18, 2026

Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film

Benjamin Dalton
Hosted by Victoria Lupascu

Our bodies and brains are radically transformable, mutable and plastic. From the neuroplasticity of the brain to the epigenetic malleability of our bo…

Edith Szanto, "Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

May 7, 2026

Twelver Shi'i Self-flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria

Edith Szanto
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani

Edith Szanto’s Twelver Shi'i Self-Flagellation Rites in Contemporary Syria: Mourning Sayyida Zaynab (Edinburgh UP, 2025) is a striking and deeply imme…

Leslie Barnes, "Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

April 7, 2026

Sex Work in Southeast Asia

Leslie Barnes
Hosted by Michael Vann

In Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2025), Leslie Barnes examines the ambivalences that mark So…

Emotions of LGBT Rights

April 6, 2026

Emotions of LGBT Rights

Senthorun Raj

In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks to Senthorun Raj about the Emotions of LGBT Rights. Emotions from disgust and fear to love and joy shape…

Hans A. Harmakaputra, "Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia: Resistance, Identity and Belonging" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

March 31, 2026

Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia

Hans A. Harmakaputra
Hosted by Byung Ho Choi

The post-Reformation era has witnessed a vastly changing landscape in Indonesian Islam, particularly with the emergence of conservative Muslim voices.…

David McCrone, "Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

February 3, 2026

Changing Scotland

David McCrone
Hosted by Matt Dawson

Scotland is a nation that has undergone significant changes over the last 50 years or so. This is, of course, true of much of the Western world but, a…

Nicole Wegner, "Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

January 31, 2026

Martialling Peace

Nicole Wegner
Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) by Dr. Nicole Wegner is not a book about peacekeepi…

Adam Bursi, "Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

January 26, 2026

Traces of the Prophets

Adam Bursi
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier

Adam Bursi’s Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam (Edinburg University Press, 2024) uses writings by early Muslims to map a…

Julian Schmid, "Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

December 12, 2025

Marvel, DC and US Security

Julian Schmid
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Marvel, DC and US Security: The Superhero Genre and Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Edinburgh UP, 2025) by Dr. Julian Schmid considers how…

Madeleine Chalmers, "French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

October 13, 2025

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

Madeleine Chalmers
Hosted by Gina Stamm

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, wh…

Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen, "The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

October 13, 2025

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor

Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen
Hosted by Michael Motia

This book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor (ca. 320-390) and demonstrates for the first time both the…

Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

August 30, 2025

Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo

Daisy Livingston
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. In Managing Paper…

Intercultural Communication

August 26, 2025

Intercultural Communication

Ingrid Piller

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her bes…

Joseph Valente, "Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

July 12, 2025

Irish Shame

Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente
Hosted by Helen Penet

The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame Offers an anatomy of Irish shame as a cultural predicamentCombines t…

Kevin Potter, "Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

June 6, 2025

Poetics of the Migrant

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English and American Studies Kevin Potter
Hosted by Pavan Mano

Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections on cla…