))
Thinking Beyond Liberalism
…
continue reading
Interviews with Scholars of Military History about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
…
continue reading
Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society
…
continue reading
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology
…
continue reading
Interviews with Scholars of Global Affairs about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs
…
continue reading
Interview with scholars of the Medieval World about their new books
…
continue reading
Interviews with Scholars of East Asia about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies
…
continue reading
’Standing Orders’ is the weekly local Council podcast from Politis. Tom and Sue (with occasional special guests) have informal topical discussions about local government and anything else that crops up!
…
continue reading
Thought Fuzz is a brand new philosophy and politics podcast coming to you once a week on Thursdays, starting January 10th, 2019.
…
continue reading
The latest podcast feed searching 'Reformed Baptists' on SermonAudio.
…
continue reading
Global Media & Communication podcast series is part of the multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media and communication. We aim to bridge academic scholarship and public life, bringing the very best scholarship to bear on enduring global questions and pressing cont ...
…
continue reading
A podcast pairing discussions of theology and distilled spirits. And dad jokes. Join Justin VanRiper and Blake Cortright as they embark on this adventure through Christian theology, with whiskey in hand, and dad jokes at the ready!
…
continue reading
GTM Unfiltered, a podcast featuring Go-To-Market veterans Judd Borakove, Craig Rosenberg, and Matt Amundson features the best way to learn the latest and greatest in GTM and growth strategy – with fun, hilarious, insightful, and…unfiltered conversations. No scripts. No canned questions. Authentic conversations and as a result, a solid laugh and something new you can put to work right away.
…
continue reading
The Scarlet Spotlight is the preeminent podcast for all topics related to Rutgers University Athletics. Hosted by RU alumni Danny Breslauer and Jon Newman, the show looks to provide Scarlet Knights fans -- and those interested in Rutgers sports -- with a unique analysis of the athletic department and its programs. Check-in on New Jersey’s state university’s college sports and follow their journey in the Big Ten Conference. From interviews with prominent figures in the RU Athletics and New Je ...
…
continue reading
Educate yourself, inspire others, change the world. Since 2012, Kash Khan’s platform “Educate.Inspire.Change” has attracted millions of fans looking for positive, uplifting content that explores and raises consciousness. His new podcast features world-renowned guests sharing their personal journeys on life advancement. Every fortnight Kash chats to thinkers, doers and dreamers, listening to their unique perspectives on a broad range of topics including personal growth, self actualisation, me ...
…
continue reading
Bryan Fletcher has a lot to say. Adam Peacock is a great listener. And Rugby League is the sport that just keeps giving us all kinds of tangents to go on.
…
continue reading
Harvard Islamica, the podcast of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University, explores topics related to the scholarly study of Islam and Muslim societies at Harvard and beyond.
…
continue reading
1
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
1:07:25
1:07:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:25
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…
…
continue reading
Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify | Listen on other platforms Marc and Maria continue their conversation on Humanae Vitae; specifically on the desire to control the body and its reproduction through abortion. They discuss how abortion not only plays the function of the killing of innocent children, but reshapes the experience of the body…
…
continue reading
1
Mukund Padmanabhan, "The Great Flap of 1942: How the Raj Panicked over a Japanese Non-invasion (Vintage Books, 2024)
31:16
31:16
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
31:16
In April 1942, at least half a million people fled the city of Madras, now known as Chennai. The reason? The British, after weeks of growing unease about the possibility of a Japanese invasion, finally recommended that people leave the city. In the tense, uncertain atmosphere of 1942, many people took that advice to heart–and fled. The Japanese, of…
…
continue reading
1
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
39:02
39:02
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
39:02
Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändle talk with host Licia Cianetti about the multiple ways in which the online and the offline intersect in contemporary democracies, and how the engagement-maximising business model of privately owned so…
…
continue reading
1
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19:34
19:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
19:34
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires: The Global Ba…
…
continue reading
1
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
19:34
19:34
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
19:34
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires: The Global Ba…
…
continue reading
1
Geoff Eley, "Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945" (Routledge, 2013)
1:22:47
1:22:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:22:47
Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945 (Routledge, 2013) brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich. Featuring a wealth of revised, updat…
…
continue reading
1
Jason Bell, "Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
58:21
58:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:21
The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the earliest enemy of the Nazis, and the first spy to crack Hitler's deadliest secret code: the framework of the Final Solution. In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. As an MI6 spy--known as secret agent A12--in Berlin in 1919, he evaded gunfire and shook…
…
continue reading
1
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
1:07:54
1:07:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:54
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-ranging interests and work. The pair start by discussing Siddiqi's wonderful book, The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), a history o…
…
continue reading
1
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
1:07:54
1:07:54
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:54
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-ranging interests and work. The pair start by discussing Siddiqi's wonderful book, The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), a history o…
…
continue reading
1
John Tolan, "England's Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
58:13
58:13
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
58:13
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied important roles in mediaeval English society. England’s Jews revisits this neglected chapter of English history—one whose remembrance is more important than ever today, as antisemitism and other forms of rac…
…
continue reading
1
Philipp Demgenski, "Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
1:20:29
1:20:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:20:29
In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the …
…
continue reading
1
Robert Rozett and Iael Nidam-Orvieto, "After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation" (Yad Vashem, 2016)
55:46
55:46
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
55:46
After So Much Pain and Anguish: First Letters After Liberation (Yad Vashem, 2016) comprises letters written by survivors and liberating soliders in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, reflecting their extreme mixed emotions. The survivors express their sigh of relief at liberation intertwined with the anguish of irreparable loss, and even utt…
…
continue reading
1
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29:42
29:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
29:42
In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coup…
…
continue reading
1
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
29:42
29:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
29:42
In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coup…
…
continue reading
1
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
28:47
28:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
28:47
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. Using measurement technology as a lens, and examining in particular the measurement of hearing and breathing, Coreen McGuire's book Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Di…
…
continue reading
1
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
38:59
38:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:59
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic? Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism (404 Ink, 2024) by Heath…
…
continue reading
1
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
38:59
38:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:59
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we? Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic? Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism (404 Ink, 2024) by Heath…
…
continue reading
1
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
28:47
28:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
28:47
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. Using measurement technology as a lens, and examining in particular the measurement of hearing and breathing, Coreen McGuire's book Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Di…
…
continue reading
1
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
1:07:25
1:07:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:25
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…
…
continue reading
1
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
1:07:25
1:07:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:25
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…
…
continue reading
1
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
1:07:25
1:07:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:25
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…
…
continue reading
1
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
1:07:25
1:07:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:25
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…
…
continue reading
1
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
1:07:25
1:07:25
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:25
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western…
…
continue reading
1
Abortion and the Control of the Body | Part 2
59:20
59:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:20
Marc and Maria continue their conversation on Humanae Vitae; specifically on the desire to control the body and its reproduction through abortion. They discuss how abortion not only plays the function of the killing of innocent children, but reshapes the experience of the body as such. This episode is part 2 of a conversation on the Control of the …
…
continue reading
1
Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
51:09
51:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:09
Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour has become a milestone in Chinese economic history. Historians and commentators credit Deng’s visit to Guangzhou Province for reinvigorating China’s market reforms in the years following 1989—leading to the Chinese economic powerhouse we see today. Journalist Jonathan Chatwin follows Deng’s journey in The Southern…
…
continue reading
101
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
1:11:28
1:11:28
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:11:28
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan (Columbia UP, 2023) explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and …
…
continue reading
1
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
24:09
24:09
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
24:09
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland. The stories of Brigid's life and deeds survive in several early sources, but the most i…
…
continue reading
1
Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
36:07
36:07
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
36:07
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Cathy Yue Wang's Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy (Wayne State Univer…
…
continue reading
1
Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
1:01:59
1:01:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:01:59
Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? In How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year History (Reaktion, 2024) Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Dr. Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain’s engineers we…
…
continue reading
