Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatthew L. Reznicek, "Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale" (Liverpool UP, 2026)
Episode 2554
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale (Liverpool UP, 2026) is about the way the Romantic National Tale…
5 months ago
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2553
A central paradox of democracies is that they are always ruled by elites. What can democracy mean in this context? Today, it is often said that a p…
5 months ago
Brett Neilson, "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" (Verso, 2024)
Episode 2552
At the heart of the fiercest international conflicts is the struggle for the future of globalization.
In the wake of a pandemic that tested economie…
5 months ago
Denise Z. Davidson, "Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 2551
Denise Z. Davidson joins Jana Byars to talk about Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters (Cornell UP, 2025). The book explores how two wea…
5 months ago
Radio ReOrient S14:7: Surveilling Muslimness in Denmark, with Amani Hassani, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas
Episode 2550
In this episode hosts Claudia Radiven and Amina Easat-Daas were joined by Amani Hassani, to discuss her most recent work around Islamophobia and Musl…
5 months, 1 week ago
James Q. Whitman, "Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 605
Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work,…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sophie Rose, "Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion: Regulating Sex, Marriage, and Family Life, 1600–1800" (Brill, 2025)
Episode 2549
Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous conseq…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Paola De Santo, "The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy" (U Delaware Press, 2026)
Episode 2547
Paola de Santo joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, The Ambassador and the Courtesan: Political Bodies in Renaissance Italy (U Delaware Press…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Foundations of Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 2546
A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe.
Virgil. Chaucer. Pet…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Anthony Kaldellis, "1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Episode 2545
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire an…
5 months, 3 weeks ago