Podcast Episodes

Joseph Maiolo and Laura Robson, "The League of Nations" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Laura Robson and Joe Maiolo challenge histories of the League of Nations that present it as a meaningful if flawed experiment in global governance in…

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Daisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)

Is culture good for you? In Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives (Cornerstone Press, 2026) Daisy Fancourt, a Professor of Psychobiology &…

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Betto van Waarden, "Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

How did politicians deal with mass communication in a rapidly changing society? And how did the performance of public politics both help and hinder d…

1 month ago

Michelle Henning, "A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

In A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire (U Chicago Press, 2026), Professor Michelle Henning presents an environmental history o…

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Namit Arora and Romila Thapar, "Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present" (India Allen Lane, 2025)

What does it mean to be a historian? How do you try to explain the past when sources are lacking? And how do we talk about history when it’s so polit…

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Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Gaining mass popularity in the mid-1990s with the True Love Waits rally on the Washington Mall, purity culture began as an urge from evangelical cons…

1 month ago

Katie Welch, "Ladder to Heaven" (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025)

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadert speaks with Kamloops, BC author Katie Welch about her novel, Ladder to Heaven (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025). 

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Colin Mayer, "Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them" (Oxford UP, 2024)

The world is encountering multiple crises - climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix …

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Knut A. Jacobsen, "Hinduism in the World: Migrations and Global Presence" (Routledge, 2025)

Hinduism in the World: Migrations and Global Presence (Routledge, 2025) explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presen…

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Democracy and Its Inter-Connections

Former Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla joins us for a conversation on global democratic backsliding, the role of the international community, …

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