Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 229
Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag …
11 months ago
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Episode 36
Taylor McCall's The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe (Reaktion, 2023) is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrate…
11 months ago
Darcie Fontaine, "Modern France and the World" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 116
As she taught university-level courses on modern French history, Darcie Fontaine felt like she could not find a textbook that provided an up-to-date …
11 months ago
Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward
Episode 107
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talked with Kamran Khan about linguistics, citizenship and belonging. The conversation travelled fro…
11 months ago
What is Happening in the Mediterranean Right Now – And Why You Should Care
Episode 2451
Since 2014 more than 32,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. As the EU and its member states have been increasingl…
11 months ago
Nina Wilén, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 2450
The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) …
11 months ago
Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 215
Thinking of the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it is hard to think of him without imagining him in very particular contexts. One will likely im…
11 months, 1 week ago
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 2448
In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventio…
11 months, 1 week ago
Tracy Borman, "The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025)
Episode 2447
In the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition from one monarch to another has been as fraught and consequential as that which end…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Lars Cornelissen, "Neoliberalism and Race" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 2445
In Neoliberalism and Race (Stanford UP, 2025) Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal i…
11 months, 2 weeks ago