Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBarbara Klinger, "Immortal Films: 'Casablanca' and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 199
Casablanca is one of the most celebrated Hollywood films of all time, its iconic romance enshrined in collective memory across generations. Drawing f…
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Peter Hill, "Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East" (Oneworld Academic, 2024)
Episode 275
Today I talked to Peter Hill about his new book Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East (Oneworld Academic, 20…
2 years ago
Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 366
A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cult…
2 years ago
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
Episode 223
How do Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it? What narratives do they come up with to deal with the daily and all-enco…
2 years ago
Trish Kahle on the Labor History of Energy Systems
Episode 75
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Trish Kahle, Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University-Qatar, about Kahle's new project, "P…
2 years ago
Siobhan Angus, "Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 1449
In Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography (Duke UP, 2024) Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon whi…
2 years ago
M. Girard Dorsey, "Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 37
In Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II (Cornell UP, 2023), M. Girard Dorsey uncovers just …
2 years ago
Paulina Rowinska, "Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers" (Pan Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 67
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we…
2 years ago
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Episode 74
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the Data & Society Research Institute, a…
2 years ago
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 72
In the early modern era, seemingly impossible stories of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft were common and believable. The important question of…
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