Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoeri Teeuwisse, "Fake History: 101 Things That Never Happened" (Ebury Press, 2022)
Episode 1378
Fake news about the past is fake history.
Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot th…2 years, 7 months ago
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 115
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, artist Jenny Odell examined the power of quiet contemplation in a world where our attention is bought and sold.…
2 years, 7 months ago
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 356
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency.
The Sw…
2 years, 7 months ago
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 5
Pavitra Sundar's book Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema (U Michigan Press, 2023) is a study of the cultural politics and poss…
2 years, 7 months ago
'For All Mankind,’ An Alternate History About the Possibility of Utopia
Episode 5
It’s the UConn PopCast, and in this episode we tackle ‘For All Mankind,’ Apple TV’s alternate history about a space race that never ended. We first r…
2 years, 7 months ago
Emily H. C. Chua, "The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 266
China’s news sector is a place where newsmakers, advertising executives, company bosses, and Party officials engage one another in contingent and evo…
2 years, 7 months ago
Speak UP!: Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Jane Bunker
Episode 139
University Press Week 2023 will provide an opportunity for presses and their supporters to shout to the rooftops about the value of the essential wor…
2 years, 7 months ago
Adrien Sebro, "Scratchin' and Survivin': Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 114
The 1970s was a golden age for representations of African American life on TV sitcoms: Sanford & Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons. Surprisingly, nearl…
2 years, 7 months ago
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 262
From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were wr…
2 years, 7 months ago
Randy Laist, ed.. "The '80s Resurrected: Essays on the Decade in Popular Culture Then and Now" (McFarland, 2023)
Episode 680
Randy Laist, professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport, has a new edited volume focusing specifically on popular cu…
2 years, 7 months ago