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Episode 292
Today, when we think about Gaza we think about the war, the destruction of the city and the constant movement of its population. In contemporary publ…
1 year, 4 months ago
Peter Boxall, "The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 335
The Possibility of Literature: The Novel and the Politics of Form (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is a collection of Peter Boxall's essays over tw…
1 year, 4 months ago
Marcel Elias, "English Literature and the Crusades: Anxieties of Holy War, 1291-1453" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 88
The period from the Mamlūk reconquest of Acre (1291) to the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453) witnessed the production of a substantial corpus o…
1 year, 4 months ago
Xiangli Ding, "Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 107
As a rising infrastructure powerhouse, China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Iain D. Thomson, "Rethinking Death in and after Heidegger" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 238
We are coming up on the centenary of Heidegger’s Being and Time, a text that radically reshaped the intellectual landscape. One of its most central t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 166
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique app…
1 year, 4 months ago
Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 263
Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge UP, 2024) traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian m…
1 year, 4 months ago
Angela Roskop Erisman, "The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible: Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 181
What is the function of the wilderness narratives for understanding the Pentateuch and Israel and Judah’s historical experience? Drawing from literar…
1 year, 4 months ago
Roland Erne et al., "Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 41
Year 2008 marked the introduction of a new economic governance regime in the European Union (EU) in response to the global financial crisis. Politici…
1 year, 5 months ago
Vera Keller, "Curating the Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major and the Experimental Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 21
How did the research universities of the Enlightenment come into being? And what debt do they owe to scholars of the previous era? Focusing on the ca…
1 year, 5 months ago