Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 1490
Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery …
2 years ago
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 110
Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour quest…
2 years, 2 months ago
Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 477
How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media and Dir…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
Episode 227
Nguzunguzu is the traditional figurehead which was formerly affixed to canoes in the Solomon Islands. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rod…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker, "Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up" (NewSouth, 2023)
Episode 92
Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up (New SouthPress, 2023) is a groundbreaking work of history that spans from Deep Time to the present. Applying…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 273
Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Ebony Nilsson explores the lives …
2 years, 3 months ago
Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 2
In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues th…
2 years, 3 months ago
Joanna Siekiera, "21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition" (Warsaw UP, 2023)
Episode 1
With the ever-greater shift of the balance of global power towards the Pacific region, what does this have implications for the geopolitics of the re…
2 years, 4 months ago
Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 1448
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 (Cambridge UP, 2023) explores the rise of the prof…
2 years, 4 months ago
John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023)
Episode 91
Why does Australia have a national signals intelligence agency? What does it do and why is it controversial? And how significant are its ties with ke…
2 years, 4 months ago