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Book Chat: "Puppets, Gods and Brands. Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Episode 5
For this instalment, we had the pleasure of hosting Teri Silvio, who works as Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology. We chatt…
3 years, 2 months ago
Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?
Episode 143
Today’s book is: Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, by Dr. Alex D. Ketchum. Public scholarship—shari…
3 years, 2 months ago
Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 643
Fear pervades dictatorial regimes. Citizens fear leaders, the regime's agents fear superiors, and leaders fear the masses. The ubiquity of fear in su…
3 years, 2 months ago
How to Reach People with Your Research: A Discussion with Elissa Redmiles
Episode 106
Listen to this interview of Elissa Redmiles, Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems; Founder and M…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Los Angeles Review of Books: A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke
Episode 66
Today I talked to Michelle Chihara, Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books and Annie Berke, the Film Editor at the Los Angeles Review of …
3 years, 2 months ago
Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950
Episode 43
Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, talks about her book, Mexican Waves: Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico’s…
3 years, 2 months ago
Open Access in Humanities Publishing: A Discussion with Irene Van Rossom of Amsterdam UP
Episode 108
Irene Van Rossom and Avi do a deep dive into how Open Access works (or doesn't work) in the context for book manuscripts in the Humanities. Listeners…
3 years, 2 months ago
Girish Shambu, "The New Cinephilia" (Caboose, 2022)
Episode 157
Cinephilia has recently experienced a powerful resurgence, one enabled by new media technologies of the digital revolution. One strong continuity bet…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 206
Drawing on an ethnographic study of novel readers in Denmark and the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Ox…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Episode 105
Jeffrey joins the podcast to discuss the prevalence of English in the academic ecosystem and in research publishing. Jeffrey critiques the lackadaisi…
3 years, 2 months ago