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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 …
Literature July 9, 2023

The Family Bones

Elle Marr

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
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Today I talked to Elle Marr about her new book The Family Bones (Thomas & Mercer, 2023) Psychology student Olivia Eriksen's family is notorious among true-crime buffs. Faced with a legacy of …
British Studies November 21, 2023

Being Single in Georgian England

Families, Households, and the Unmarried

Amy Harris

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Harris is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and …
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 …
Canadian Studies September 28, 2023

Gifts from Amin

Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada

Shezan Muhammedi

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to "Ugandan citizens." Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans …
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 …
Burned by Books November 3, 2023

Happiness Falls

A Novel

Angie Kim

Hosted by Chris Holmes
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when …
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 …
General History September 14, 2023

The Golden Voice

The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen

Gregory Cahill

Hosted by Michael Vann
The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen (Life Drawn, 2023) is very well-researched graphic novel based on the life of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose …
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 – …