Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWho was Francisco Goya?: A Discussion with Janis Tomlinson
The life of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country’s politics an…
5 years, 3 months ago
Marina Rustow, "The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 120
What does it mean that our single greatest source of medieval Islamic government documents comes from the attic of a Jewish synagogue in Cairo?
This i…
5 years, 4 months ago
Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?: A Conversation with Beth Shapiro
Episode 6
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of …
5 years, 4 months ago
Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 235
Paul Goldin's book The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them (Princeton UP, 2020) provides an unmatched introduction …
5 years, 4 months ago
Sharon Marcus, "The Drama of Celebrity" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 485
Sharon Marcus’s new book, The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton UP, 2020), sets out to help us understand celebrity culture and how it has shifted and ev…
5 years, 4 months ago
Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 62
Butterflies have long captivated the imagination of humans, from naturalists to children to poets. Indeed it would be hard to imagine a world without…
5 years, 4 months ago
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
Episode 5
In Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2020), Roland Betancourt reveals the fasc…
5 years, 4 months ago
Anthony A. Barrett, "Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 861
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and fiddled while the city burne…
5 years, 5 months ago
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 71
Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and …
5 years, 5 months ago
College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom: A Conversation with Eddie R. Cole
Episode 4
Some of America's most pressing civil rights issues--desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free …
5 years, 5 months ago