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German Studies January 30, 2018

Not in My Family

German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust

Roger Frie

Hosted by Ryan Stackhouse
What if you suddenly discovered a cherished member of your family was a Nazi? How would you make sense of the code of silence that had kept an uncomfortable reality at bay? How would you resolve the wartime suffering of your family with their moral culpability for the Holocaust? Roger Frie explores the thorny issue of historical memory and intergenerational trauma in his new award winning book Not in My …
Women's History November 11, 2022

Not the Camilla We Knew

One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army

Rachael Hanel

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
How could an artist and former social worker from small-town Minnesota become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Camilla Hall was a pastor's daughter who …
Gender Studies July 29, 2021

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India

Vaibhav Saria

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized …
Neuroscience January 27, 2021

Successful Aging

A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J Levitin

Hosted by Victoria Reedman
In Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives (Dutton Books, 2020), Daniel J. Levitin delivers powerful insights:• Debunking the myth that memory always declines with age• …
Asian American Studies May 16, 2022

Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Fordham UP, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle …
Neuroscience February 18, 2022

A Molecule Away from Madness

Tales of the Hijacked Brain

Sara Manning Peskin

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here …
Literature May 14, 2021

The Portrait

A Novel

Ilaria Bernardini

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
The Portrait is a story full of ambiguity and suspense, one that works on many different levels and holds the reader’s attention until the very last page. Recently published to great acclaim …
Australian and New Zealand Studies July 8, 2022

Root and Branch

Essays on Inheritance

Eda Gunaydin

Hosted by Bede Haines
Eda Gunaydin joins us today to talk about Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance (NewSouth, 2022). Lots of themes: Turkey, Australia, Sydney, family, friends, media, food, essays. That there is no easy translation …
Anthropology September 29, 2021

Can You Run Away from Sorrow?

Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade

Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic

Hosted by Anna Domdey
How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel December 20, 2022

The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation

Where Do Organs Come From?

Hagai Boas

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
This is the story of organ transplantation, told from the organ’s point of view. Organs for transplantations come from two sources: living or post-mortem organ donations. These sources set different …
East Asian Studies October 28, 2022

The Last Cherry Blossom

Kathleen Burkinshaw

Hosted by Bing Wang
Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family …
Middle Eastern Studies January 29, 2023

Water the Willow Tree

Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood

George Anton Kiraz

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood (Gorgias Press, 2022), George A. Kiraz tells the story of a young Palestinian boy growing up in Bethlehem, fascinated with …
Historical Fiction May 31, 2022

Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder

Catherine Lloyd

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
As we soon find out in this opener to a new series set in 1830s London, Lady Caroline Morton’s illustrious heritage has been tarnished by the financial ruin and suicide …
Literature November 13, 2020

Mobile Home

A Memoir in Essays

Megan Harlan

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Home is the place many of us have spent our days for the last eight months. During the pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, our classrooms, and our social …
Japanese Studies October 15, 2021

The Blood of Gutoku

A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan

J. W. Traphagan

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Today I talked to anthropologist J. W. Traphagan's novel The Blood of Gutoku: A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan (Balestier Press, 2021). Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire – …
Literature January 12, 2021

The Tenth Muse

A Novel

Catherine Chung

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Katherine recalls being young and friendless. While growing up in the 40’ and 50’s, she remembers when her mother packed up and left, her father remarried, and she was left …
Historical Fiction October 11, 2021

God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen

Rhys Bowen

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Back in the days when brick-and-mortar bookstores were common in suburban America, I was browsing the shelves at my local Borders when a title caught my eye: Her Royal Spyness …
Jewish Studies May 26, 2022

So They Remember

A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine

Maksim Goldenshteyn

Hosted by Amber Nickell
When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious sites. In the …
Public Policy November 8, 2022

Who Cares

The Social Safety Net in America

Christopher Howard

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also …
Economics May 18, 2022

Streets of Gold

America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

Hosted by Peter Lorentzen
Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth …