Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSandipto Dasgupta, "Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 250
Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated audacious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institut…
1 year, 11 months ago
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 1507
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, …
1 year, 11 months ago
Daniel S. Goldberg, "Tackle Football and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Law, Ethics, and Public Health" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 749
Football is the national game in the United States – and many families and friends bond over their love of the sport. While few people play professio…
1 year, 11 months ago
Megan Rae Blakely, "Technology, Intellectual Property Law, and Culture: The Tangification of Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 495
How can we protect diverse cultural expressions in an era of huge technological change? In Technology, Intellectual Property Law and Culture: The Tan…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Secret Life of Central Bankers
Season 1 Episode 72
This is the final episode of Cited’s most recent season, Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise, a season that tells stories of the political and scholarl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Katherine C. Epstein, "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 377
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question:…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kevin B. Smith, "The Jailer's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 24
How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a millio…
1 year, 11 months ago
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 748
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of col…
1 year, 11 months ago
Robert B. Talisse, "Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Season 1 Episode 748
An internet search of the phrase "this is what democracy looks like" returns thousands of images of people assembled in public for the purpose of col…
1 year, 11 months ago
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
Season 1 Episode 20
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.”
We d…
1 year, 11 months ago