New Books Network
Book of the Day/ Geography

The Pyrocene

How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next

Stephen J. Pyne

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
Stephen J. Pyne's new book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next (U California Press, 2021) tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability to manipulate fire, swiftly remaking both itself and eventually the world …
Science, Technology, and Society

Wild Souls

Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Emma Marris

Hosted by Christopher Gambino
In Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), Emma Marris wrestles with big ethical questions facing the conservation field. Emma takes us through several experiences …
Food

Building Community Food Webs

Ken Meter

Hosted by Susan Grelock-Yusem
Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income …
Psychology

Towards an Ecopsychotherapy

Mary-Jayne Rust

Hosted by Susan Grelock-Yusem
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy (Confer Books, 2020) provides an overview of ecopsychology and introduces the newly emerging field of ecopsychotherapy, including insightful case examples for practitioners. However, ecopsychotherapy is not simply …
Geography

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Emily O'Gorman

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended …
The Future of Higher Education

An Interview with Sheldon Schuster and Jim Sterling

President and PhD Program Director at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences

Sheldon Schuster and Jim Sterling

Hosted by David Finegold
The third episode in our series on the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of Applied Life Sciences, the 7th of the Claremont Colleges founded in 1998, features a discussion with Sheldon …
World Christianity

A Gospel for the Poor

Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left

David C. Kirkpatrick

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Gathering together nearly 2,500 Protestant evangelical leaders from more than 150 countries and 135 denominations, it rivaled Vatican …
Sociology

Home Care Fault Lines

Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances

Cynthia J. Cranford

Hosted by Ann Choi
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we think about care. Care work has long been devalued – the daily labors of sustaining the well-being of individuals and community members were …
Medicine

Transformative Healthcare

A Physician-Led Prescription to Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of Dollars

Jeffrey Kuhlman and Daniel Peach

Hosted by Colin Miller
Today's guests are Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman and Dr. Daniel Peach. Dr. Kuhlman is a former White house physician. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Chief of the White House …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Homelessness, a Solvable Problem

A Conversation with Juha Kaakinen

Juha Kaakinen

Hosted by Howard Burton
Howard speaks to Juha Kaakinen, CEO of Y-Foundation, a global leader in implementing the "Housing First principle" and a clear example of how genuine progress can be made in concretely …
Book of the Day/ Political Science

America's Voucher Politics

How Elites Learned to Hide the State

Ursula Hackett

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Political Scientist Ursula Hackett’s new book, America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State (Cambridge UP, 2020), is the winner of the APSA 2021 Education Policy and Politics Section Best Book Award. America’s Voucher Politics  examines the way that the approach to vouchers, as a policy design and as a point of advocacy, has evolved over the past decades, and, in the process, this policy area has shifted strategic losses …
Architecture

The Art of Experiment

Artistic Research in Experimental Architecture

Rolf Hughes and Rachel Armstrong

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time―from the deep past to the …
Academic Life

Archival Etiquette

What To Know Before You Go

Megan Hahn Fraser

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Economic and Business History

Cornering the Market

Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business

Susan V. Spellman

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernandez
In this episode for the Economic and Business History channel, I interviewed Dr. Susan V. Spellman, Associate Professor of History at Miami University. She is the author of Cornering the Market …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Understanding ADHD

Stephen Hinshaw

Hosted by Howard Burton
Understanding ADHD is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Stephen Hinshaw, Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley. Stephen Hinshaw is an expert in the fields of …
Indian Religions

Online Dharmaśāstra Library

A Conversation with Don Davis

Don Davis

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Dr. Don Davis (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies) speaks about the newly launched Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies, a digitized open educational resource hosted at the University of …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight

Burnout to Breakthrough

Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters

Eileen McDargh

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Eileen McDargh about her new book Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters (Berrett-Koehler, 2020).What’s another way to frame both living-in-the-moment and respecting …
Indian Religions

To Savor the Meaning

The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir

James D. Reich

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Medieval Kashmir in its golden age saw the development of some of the most sophisticated theories of language, literature, and emotion articulated in the pre-modern world. James D. Reich's book To …
Asian Review of Books

Alexandria

The Quest for the Lost City

Edmund Richardson

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The story of Alexander the Great has inspired conquerors and would-be conquerors throughout history. Alexander’s sweep through the Middle East and Central Asia left behind evidence of his mark on …
Language

Learning a Foreign Language

Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics

Alex Poole

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
In Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Alex Poole, professor of English at Western Kentucky University helps potential learners to negotiate the vagaries of …
Science

Giving Bodies Back to Data

Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology

Silvia Casini

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology …
Israel Studies

Leaving Zion

Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

Ori Yehudai

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Ori Yehudai's erudite examination of Jewish emigration from Israel in the early years of the state presents a fascinating study of the lived experiences of Israeli refugees from Israel. This …
Book of the Day/ Journalism

All the News That’s Fit to Click

How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists

Caitlin Petre

Hosted by Jenna Spinelle
Over the past 15 years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsroom metrics influence which stories are written, how news is promoted, and which journalists get hired and fired. Some argue that metrics help journalists better serve their audiences. Others worry that metrics are the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch-wielding factory manager. In All the News That's …
Nordic Asia Podcast

Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia

A Conversation with Raquel Carvalho

Raquel Carvalho

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel Carvalho, Asia Correspondent …
General History

The International Brigades

Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

Giles Tremlett

Hosted by Mark Klobas
When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, tens of thousands of young men and women from across the world flocked there to fight against the Nationalist uprising. Though …
General History

The Cosmopolites

The Coming of the Global Citizen

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
What does citizenship—an institution that has historically linked identity to place—mean in an age of globalization? This is the question that Atossa Araxia Abrahamian investigates in her planet-sprawling book The …
LGBTQ+ Studies

Saved by a Song

The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting

Mary Gauthier

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her …
Islamic Studies

The Christian Encounter with Muhammad

How Theologians Have Interpreted the Prophet

Charles Tieszen

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Muhammad has not only been at the center of Muslims discussions of prophethood but he has also been the focus for many Christians as well. In The Christian Encounter with …
Eastern European Studies

Citizens Without Borders

Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe

Brigitte Le Normand

Hosted by Jill Massino
Among Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal democracies. Brigitte Le Normand's book Citizens Without Borders: Yugoslavia and …
Philosophy

Leveraging Distortions

Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science

Collin Rice

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Most of us agree that science aims to tell us what is true about the world. But how do we get at the truth by using theories and models that …
Science

Atlas of Forecasts

Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures

Katy Borner

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and …
African American Studies

The Life and Times of Louis Lomax

The Art of Deliberate Disunity

Thomas Aiello

Hosted by James West
In The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity (Duke University Press, 2021), Thomas Aiello traces the complicated and fascinating life of a pioneering Black journalist and media personality. A …
Performing Arts

Starring Women

Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851

Sara E. Lampert

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. In Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851 (U Illinois Press, 2020), Sara …
Book of the Day/ Postscript

Postscript

The Changing Landscape of Abortion Politics

Renée Ann Cramer, Rebecca Kreitzer, Andrew R. Lewis, Joshua C. Wilson, and Mary Ziegler

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) engages the latest chapter in American abortion politics as the United States Supreme Court has just allowed a Texas statute banning abortions after 6 weeks to go into effect. Lilly Goren and Susan Liebell have assembled a panel of experts in political science and law to interrogate the construction of the Texas law, the Supreme Court …
Australian and New Zealand Studies

Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church

Reassessing the Evidence

Virginia Miller

Hosted by Bede Haines
In Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence (Firenze UP, 2021), Dr Miller analyses empirical findings, methodologies and conclusions of the three main national inquiries (Irish, US, Australian) …
General History

Saved at the Seawall

Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift

Jessica DuLong

Hosted by Robert Snyder
When terrorists struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 a small fleet of boats on a rescue mission converged on lower Manhattan. In one of the less told …
Historical Fiction

No Accidental Death

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Despite the deluge of novels about World War II that has characterized the last few years, the period leading up to the war on the Pacific Front has received far …
East Asian Studies

More Than One Child

Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter

Shen Yang

Hosted by John Traphagan
'I broke a law simply by being born.' In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China's One-Child Policy. As the second daughter of the …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Saving the World at Business School (Part 2)

Andy Hoffman

Hosted by Howard Burton
Saving the World at Business School (Part 2) is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of …
Anthropology

In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency

Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India

Jelle J. P. Wouters

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
Jelle J. P. Wouters' book In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (Oxford UP, 2018) declutters and reconceptualizes the top-down notion of conceptualizing and understanding …
Poetry

The Things We Are Not Talking About

Shlomit Naim Naor

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Shlomit Naim Naor’s poetry is a unique voice in Israel. She is inviting the readers to delve deeper and engage in a dialogue with the Jewish religion and texts …
Sociology

Social Research Matters

A Life in Family Sociology

Julia Brannen

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Drawing from forty years of experience, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research in family studies is conducted and 'matters' at particular times. Social Research Matters: A Life in …
Politics & Polemics

American Democracy in Crisis

The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government

Jeanne Sheehan

Hosted by Kirk Meighoo
Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challenges--everything from record levels of personal and …
Literary Studies

The Small Literary Press

An Interview with Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli of Home Press (Israel)

Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Home Press is a tiny local publishing house and press in Tel Aviv Jaffa. Uri Yoeli and Nana Ariel, a couple, established it in their apartment in 2019. The Home …
The Future of Higher Education

A Discussion with Ben Nelson (Part 1)

Founder of the Minerva Project and Minerva University

Ben Nelson

Hosted by David Finegold
In the first of two parts, we meet Ben Nelson, the charismatic founder of the Minerva Project and Minerva University. Ben shares the fascinating story of how he was able …
Book of the Day/ Diplomatic History

The Picky Eagle

How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U. S. Territorial Expansion

Richard W. Maass

Hosted by Grant Golub
The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U. S. Territorial Expansion (Cornell UP, 2020) explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the U.S. rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard …
Architecture

The Loop

The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

Patrick T. Reardon

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about …
Diplomatic History

Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Hosted by Grant Golub
What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars …
South Asian Studies

Unsettling Utopia

The Making and Unmaking of French India

Jessica Namakkal

Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control …
Public Policy

Free to Discriminate

How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America

Gene Slater

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Gene Slater's book Free to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America (Heyday Books, 2021) uncovers realtors' definitive role in segregating America and shaping modern conservative thought. Gene Slater follows …
Science

Running Smart

How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance

Mariska van Sprundel

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Conventional wisdom about running is passed down like folklore (and sometimes contradicts itself): the right kind of shoe prevents injury—or running barefoot, like our prehistoric ancestors, is best; eat a …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Battling Protestants

David Hollinger

Hosted by Howard Burton
Battling Protestants is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and intellectual historian David Hollinger, UC Berkeley, and examines the unique role that different strands of religion have …
Digital Humanities

The Values in Numbers

Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age

Hoyt Long

Hosted by Katherine McDonough
In The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age (Columbia UP, 2021), Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and …
African American Studies

Read Until You Understand

The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
Before Farah Jasmine Griffin’s father died, he wrote to her a note ending with a line “read until you understand.” He would die years later when she was nine, and …
Australian and New Zealand Studies

The History of a Riot

Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson

Jared Davidson

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Jared Davidson, the author of The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson (Bridget Williams Books, 2021). In 1843, the …
Cover Story

Covering Donald Trump

A Conversation with Allen Salkin

Allen Salkin

Hosted by Agata Popeda
What's it like to cover Donald Trump? In this episode, veteran American journalist Allen Salkin explains.  For over three decades, Salkin has written about many things for many high-profile publications, including …
Book of the Day/ Intellectual History

Wollstonecraft

Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

Sylvana Tomaselli

Hosted by Tejas Parasher
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women’s rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft’s thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of Wollstonecraft herself, as a philosopher and moralist who deftly tackled major social and political issues and the arguments of such figures as Edmund Burke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and …
Popular Culture

Leatherface Vs. Tricky Dick

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as Political Satire

Martin Harris

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
The Watergate scandal was a horror show. What better way to satirize it than with a horror movie? The Texas Chain Saw Massacre written by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel premiered in …
American West

Facilitating Injustice

The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946

Yoosun Park

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government forcibly removed approximately 120,000 people "of Japanese ancestry" from their homes and into self-proclaimed concentration camps across the American West and South …
Environmental Studies

Abalone

The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish

Ann Vileisis

Hosted by Kathryn (Kate) Carpenter
From rocky coves at Mendocino and Monterey to San Diego’s reefs, abalone have held a cherished place in California culture for millennia. Prized for iridescent shells and delectable meat, these …
Latin American Studies

El Chapo

The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord

Noah Hurowitz

Hosted by Pamela Fuentes
"El Chapo. The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021) is a stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El …
General History

A Fake Saint and the Real Church

The Story of a Forgery in Seventeenth-Century Naples

Stefania Tutino

Hosted by Jana Byars
Stefania Tutino, Professor and Peter Reill Chair in European History at UCLA talks about her new book, A Fake Saint and the True Church: the Story of a Forgery in …
Buddhist Studies

Rewriting Buddhism

Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270

Alastair Gornall

Hosted by Bruno Shirley
Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 (UCL Press, 2020) is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of …
Film

Engulfed

The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood

Bernard F. Dick

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age …
Science

The Memory Thief

And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery

Lauren Aguirre

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
How could you lose your memory overnight, and what would it mean? The day neurologist Jed Barash sees the baffling brain scan of a young patient with devastating amnesia marks …
Southeast Asian Studies

Language Ungoverned

Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949

Tom G. Hoogervorst

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – writings produced by the Chinese community in the Malay language – in …
Critical Theory

Trade and Nation

How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought

Emily Erikson

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How can ideas from sociology help us understand history and economics? In Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought (Columbia UP, 2021), Emily Erikson, Associate Professor of …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin

A Conversation with Henry Hardy

Henry Hardy

Hosted by Howard Burton
Howard talks to Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and the author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure about the many joys—and occasional frustrations—of …
Book of the Day/ Sports

Our Team

The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball

Luke Epplin

Hosted by Paul Knepper
In July 1947, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby would follow in his footsteps on the Cleveland Indians. Though Doby, as the second Black player in the majors, would struggle during his first summer in Cleveland, his subsequent turnaround in 1948 from benchwarmer to superstar sparked one of the wildest and most …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel

The Star and the Scepter

A Diplomatic History of Israel

Emmanuel Navon

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel (Jewish Publication Society, 2020) retraces …
Science

The Plant-Based Athlete

A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance

Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance (HarperOne, 2021) by Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke reveals the incontrovertible proof that the human body does not need meat, eggs, or …
Sociology

Where Misfits Fit

Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks

Thomas Michael Kersen

Hosted by Michael Johnston
All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life …
Political Science

Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical

Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury and Sara A. Mehltretter Drury

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Hamilton: An American Musical made its record-breaking Broadway debut in 2015—but the musical has reached far beyond typical Broadway audiences to pave a path into political discourse, pop culture, classroom …
Academic Life

Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism

A Discussion with Ginetta Candelario

Ginetta Candelario

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So we are reaching across our mentor network to bring you …
Indian Religions

Performing the Ramayana Tradition

Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments

Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha's book Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments (Oxford UP, 2021) examines diverse retellings of the Ramayana narrative as interpreted and embodied through a spectrum of …
Asian Review of Books

The Tale of the Horse

A History of India on Horseback

Yashaswini Chandra

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The horse is an important symbol in India’s culture, as shown by the many stories and works we see of Indian royalty and adventurers on horseback. As noted by Mughal …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Exploring Spinoza

Susan James

Hosted by Howard Burton
Exploring Spinoza is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Susan James, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. Susan James is an internationally-renowned Spinoza scholar …
SSEAC Stories

Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos

Human Rights and Research in Southeast Asia Series

Nick Enfield

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocating for human rights in Southeast Asia. In the …