Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOwen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 358
Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in ninetee…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ramie Targoff, "Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance" (Knopf, 2024)
Episode 103
In Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance (Knopf, 2024) by Dr. Ramie Targoff, discover the lives and work of four ambitious Rena…
1 year, 11 months ago
Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 1500
No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites …
1 year, 11 months ago
George Severs, "Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 143
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literat…
1 year, 11 months ago
Tom Theuns, "Protecting Democracy in Europe: Pluralism, Autocracy and the Future of the EU" (Hurst, 2024)
Episode 37
The European Union has a big problem—a potentially fatal one. How should it deal with a member state or states that reject democracy and the rule of …
1 year, 11 months ago
Nicholas Baer, "Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 166
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in…
1 year, 11 months ago
Agustina Paglayan, "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 109
How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens.
Nearly ever…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lucian Staiano-Daniels, "The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 78
In The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War (Cambridge UP, 2024), Lucian Staino-Daniles uses the tr…
1 year, 11 months ago
Laure Astourian, "The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 220
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) traces the surprising …
1 year, 11 months ago
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 161
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain.…
1 year, 11 months ago