Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA. Bagliani and N, Şenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 88
A People's Church brings together a distinguished international group of historians to provide a sweeping introduction to Christian religious life an…
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Rosina Buckland and Oleg Benesch, "Samurai" (British Museum, 2025)
Episode 187
Samurai (British Museum Press 2026) is a richly illustrated volume co-authored by exhibition curator Rosina Buckland (British Museum) and Oleg Benesc…
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Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 381
If you asked a passerby on the street what anarchism is, they may answer that it is an ideology based on chaos, disorder, and violence. But is this t…
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Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 182
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lindsa…
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Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 30
Thomas Kuehn, Professor Emeritus at Clemson University talks about his new book, Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge University Press, …
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Cindy Anh Nguyen, "Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam" (U California Press, 2026)
Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet Vietnamese readers pur…
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Olivier Esteves et al., "France, You Love It but Leave It: The Silent Flight of French Muslims" (Polity, 2025)
Their names are Mohamed, Samira, sometimes Matthieu or Sophie. They were born and bred in France and are highly qualified, but they have decided to g…
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Polina Dimova, "At the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and…
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China’s Climate and Air Quality Governance and EU-China Cooperation
When it comes to the global challenges posed by climate change and environmental issues, China has been presented both as a source of problems and a …
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Church and State (Professors Dan Rober, Michelle Loris, and Charlie Gillespie): American Cardinals denounce US Foreign Policy
Following Pope Leo’s State of the World Address in January of 2026, the three American Cardinals who are also diocesan archbishops Cardinal Cupich (A…
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