Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKatrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 150
Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization…
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Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 209
In Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism (Cambridge UP, 2023), Rik Peels explores atheism from a new perspective that aims to go beyond the…
3 years ago
Sarah Sunn Bush and Lauren Prather, "Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 675
Foreign influences on elections are widespread. Although foreign interventions around elections differ markedly-in terms of when and why they occur, …
3 years ago
Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 192
Sumit Chakrabarti's book Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal (Cambridge UP, 2023) examin…
3 years ago
Peter Reed, "Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America: Revolution, Race and Popular Performance" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 411
American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century Am…
3 years ago
Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 99
What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 …
3 years ago
Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 172
Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge UP, 2021) presents a ground-breaking int…
3 years ago
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 311
Sexual violence is a significant problem within many Western militaries. Despite international attention to the issue and global #MeToo and #TimesUp …
3 years ago
Rahul Ranjan, "The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 199
How do affective sites such as memorials and statues produce political visions, emotions, and opportunities? And how are they used strategically to f…
3 years ago
David B. Wong, "Moral Relativism and Pluralism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Today I talked to David B. Wong about his book Moral Relativism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2023).
The argument for metaethical relativism--the view …
3 years ago