Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 225
In Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India (Duke UP, 2022), Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest …
2 years, 10 months ago
Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence
Episode 67
Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her b…
2 years, 10 months ago
Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Cost of My Faith: A Conversation with Jack Phillips and Jake Warner
Season 1 Episode 38
Jack Phillips is the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado. In 2012, Jack Phillips declined to create a custom wedding cake celebrating…
2 years, 10 months ago
Reece Jones, "White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall" (Beacon Press, 2021)
Episode 221
Recent racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In White Bo…
2 years, 10 months ago
Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)
Episode 69
Journalists around the world agree that autonomy is central to their work, but what exactly is it journalists should be autonomous from, and for what…
2 years, 10 months ago
Rachel Dunn et al., "What Is Legal Education For?" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 187
This book delves deep into the question of what is legal education for? Who does it serve, and how, as educators can we reflect on what we deliver in…
2 years, 10 months ago
Defending Academic Freedom: A Conversation with Keith Whittington
Episode 34
What is academic freedom for? What are the greatest threats to academic freedom today? Should Critical Race Theory be taught on college campuses? Wha…
2 years, 10 months ago
All Men Are Created Equal: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
Episode 32
Is the Declaration of Independence unique? Does the Declaration prescribe a form of government? What is the relationship between the Declaration and …
2 years, 10 months ago
Paul A. Lombardo, "Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
Episode 651
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough” were the infamous words U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1927. In Buck v. Be…
2 years, 10 months ago
Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 224
More than fifty years of civil rights legislation and movements have not ended employment discrimination. Kerri Lynn Stone's Panes of the Glass Ceili…
2 years, 10 months ago