Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 100
The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2022) unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latin…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jamie Allinson, "The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 62
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of protests for far-reaching social change around the world – from the Arab Spring and Oc…
3 years, 8 months ago
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
Episode 178
An alienated society divided into groups and classes suspicious of one another does not pose an especially great problem for an authoritarian regime …
3 years, 8 months ago
Sabine Frühstück, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 468
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press 2022) is a new addition to a list of publications by Sabine Fruhstuck, one of the le…
3 years, 8 months ago
Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan W. Concannon, "Does Scripture Speak for Itself?: The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 4
Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of…
3 years, 8 months ago
Gregory Conti, "Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 67
Given that we live in an era roiled by concerns about how democratic supposedly democratic countries actually are and when skepticism abounds about h…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 281
Censorship, Urdu literature, Islam, and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan have a complex, intertwined history. Sarah Wa…
3 years, 8 months ago
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 623
Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democratic …
3 years, 8 months ago
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 326
Sarah Derbew’s new book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2022) asks how should articulations of blackness from the fifth centur…
3 years, 8 months ago
Erin A. Snider, "Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
Episode 622
For nearly two decades, the United States devoted more than $2 billion towards democracy promotion in the Middle East with seemingly little impact. T…
3 years, 9 months ago