Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLizhi Liu, "From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 163
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule …
1 year, 7 months ago
Meta-Practice (on Chinese Medicine)
Episode 105
Today I sit down with Volker Scheid, an interdisciplinary scholar and longtime practitioner of Chinese medicine. Together, we take an intellectual de…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jeremy Black, "Introduction to Global Military History: 1775 to the Present Day" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 250
Introduction to Global Military History:: 1775 to the Present Day (Routledge, 2018) provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developmen…
1 year, 7 months ago
Libuse Hannah Veprek, "At the Edge of AI: Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations" (Transcript, 2024)
Episode 81
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone?
In At the Edge…
1 year, 7 months ago
Artur Gruszczak and Sebastian Kaempf, "Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 249
This handbook provides a comprehensive, problem-driven and dynamic overview of the future of warfare. The volatilities and uncertainties of the globa…
1 year, 7 months ago
David Rowell, "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music" (Melville House, 2024)
Episode 256
A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, wi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Stuart Anderson, "Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2024)
Episode 142
The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standar…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jerry Brotton, "Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction" (Penguin, 2024)
Episode 376
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting …
1 year, 7 months ago
Salem Elzway and Jason Resnikoff on Automation
Episode 84
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern…
1 year, 7 months ago
Brian Groom, "Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World" (Harpernorth, 2024)
Episode 137
Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the …
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