Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTrevor Thompson, "Playing for Australia: The First Socceroos, Asia, and World Football" (Fair Play, 2018)
Episode 144
Today we are joined by Trevor Thompson, a journalist who has reported on association football in Australia and around the world since the 1980s. He i…
6 years, 11 months ago
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Episode 45
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most tra…
6 years, 11 months ago
Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity" (Duke UP, 2019)
Episode 219
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human ind…
7 years ago
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Episode 81
The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often bordering on obsession, and a comfort with the solitude …
7 years ago
Maria Nugent, "Captain Cook Was Here" (Cambridge UP, 2009)
Episode 606
Maria Nugent talks about Aboriginal Australians first encounter with Captain Cook at Botany Bay, a violent meeting has come to represent the origin s…
7 years ago
Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Episode 46
Called "perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature" by…
7 years ago
Andrew Wright Hurley, "Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth" (Camden House, 2018)
Episode 556
Andrew Wright Hurley talks about the life and afterlife of the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, a man whose reputation has shifted to reflect the…
7 years, 2 months ago
Roy Hay, "Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
Episode 138
Today we are joined by Roy Hay, Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, and the author of Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century…
7 years, 3 months ago
Christina Thompson, "Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia" (Harper, 2019)
Episode 37
It's rare for a book of non-fiction to catch the interest of the reading public in the United States, much less a book on the history of science in t…
7 years, 3 months ago
Bonita Mersiades, "Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way" (Powderhouse Press, 2018)
Episode 132
Today we are joined by Bonita Mersiades, former Head of Public Affairs with the Football Federation Australia, and author of Whatever It Takes: The I…
7 years, 4 months ago