Podcast Episodes
Back to Search88 Underwater Eye: Margaret Cohen explores the Film Aquatic
Episode 88
Margaret Cohen joins John to discuss The Underwater Eye, which explores "How the Movie Camera Opened the Depths and Unleashed New Realms of Fantasy."…
3 years, 8 months ago
Emily Michelson, "Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 18
Starting in the sixteenth century, Jews in Rome were forced, every Saturday, to attend a hostile sermon aimed at their conversion. Harshly policed, t…
3 years, 8 months ago
Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 87
Information is everywhere. We live in an “Information” Society. We can get more of it faster, quicker, and in more different shapes and sizes than at…
3 years, 8 months ago
Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 46
A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emanc…
3 years, 8 months ago
Helen Pfeifer, "Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 95
It’s the sixteenth century, and the Ottoman Empire has just defeated the Mamluk Sultanate, conquering Damascus and Cairo, important centers of Arab l…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 45
For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the v…
3 years, 9 months ago
Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 105
What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make (Princeton University Press, 2022) by Dr. Michael Hathaway pushes today’s mushroom rena…
3 years, 9 months ago
Didac Queralt, "Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 37
How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign…
3 years, 9 months ago
Christof Dejung et al., "The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 306
While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois cultur…
3 years, 9 months ago
Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 44
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and ce…
3 years, 10 months ago