Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRosemary Salomone, "The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 1237
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and inte…
3 years, 11 months ago
Eray Çayli, "Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Episode 47
“Confronting the past” has become a byword for democratization. How societies and governments commemorate their violent pasts is often appraised as a…
3 years, 11 months ago
Karen Offen, "Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 1234
While it is an overused cliché, France is indeed a land of contrasts, famous for its paradoxes. In French political history, the most startling may b…
3 years, 11 months ago
Dean Krouk, "The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg Between the World Wars" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Episode 133
A young imperialist adventurer turned hero of the anti-Nazi resistance, Norwegian journalist, poet, and playwright Nordahl Grieg has become more of a…
3 years, 11 months ago
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Episode 324
From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Future of Erdogan: A Discussion with Dimitar Bechev
Episode 20
Reccep Tayyib Erdogan is towering politician. He has dominated Turkey for 20 years and is now being compared to Ataturk as a man who has changed the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Lauren K. Stokes, "Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 131
Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey.…
4 years ago
Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)
Episode 17
The three protagonists of Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV (Intellect, 2022) are food, television and politics. Th…
4 years ago
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, "European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Episode 178
European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine (1918-1948) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) investigates the transnationally connected histor…
4 years ago
Ukrainian Nationalism in Historical Context
Episode 19
In the midst of the ongoing war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, it is vital that the lay-educated public understand the historical origin…
4 years ago