Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 1392
Over the past seven decades, Peter Brown has transformed our collective understanding of the late Roman Empire and the European Middle Ages alike, es…
2 years, 4 months ago
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 79
Welcome to another episode of New Books in Chinese Studies. I am your host, Julia Keblinska, and I am speaking today to Prof. Tristan Brown about his…
2 years, 5 months ago
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 214
In Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023), political scientist Anna Grzymała-B…
2 years, 5 months ago
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 76
All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age: The Science of Longevity (Princeton UP, 2023), Coleen…
2 years, 5 months ago
Russ Castronovo, "American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 242
An incisive critique that examines the origins of contemporary American ideas about surveillance, terrorism, and white supremacy.
For more than three …
2 years, 5 months ago
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 117
A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catast…
2 years, 5 months ago
Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 508
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton UP, 2021) is a fascinatin…
2 years, 5 months ago
Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor, "Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society" (Princeton UP, 2016)
Episode 75
Princeton University Press’ Our Compelling Interests series focuses on diversity, in racial, gender, socioeconomic, religious, and other forms. Some …
2 years, 5 months ago
Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 74
Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker who…
2 years, 5 months ago
Juliet Hooker, "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 426
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being …
2 years, 5 months ago