Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHiroshima's Last Witnesses and Japan's Nuclear Future
Episode 2934
M. G. Sheftall has lived in Japan since 1987. He has a PhD in international relations and modern Japanese history from Waseda University in Tokyo. Si…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
Episode 2933
What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In thi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)
Episode 2932
Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932 (Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the arc…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 2931
In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Kazakhstan inherited the remnants of one of the world's most contaminated landscapes: the Semipalati…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Devin Kennedy, "Coding Capitalism: Computers and the Remaking of the Postwar US Economy" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Episode 2930
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After W…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
Episode 2929
How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 2…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm: Evolving Forms of Transnational Authoritarianism in Asia and Beyond
Episode 2928
How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnat…
3 months ago
Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, "Fintech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 2927
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton Universit…
3 months ago
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
Episode 2926
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Lana Swartz, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Shannon Mid-Career at the University of Virginia,…
3 months ago
Mitra Sharafi, "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
Episode 2925
Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia (Cornell University Press, 2026) uncovers colonial South Asia's cr…
3 months ago