Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLeigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 88
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
2 years ago
John L. Sullivan, "Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 132
Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium (Bloomsbury, 2024) explores the transition underway in podcasting by consideri…
2 years ago
Natalia Grincheva and Elizabeth Stainforth, "Geopolitics of Digital Heritage" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 452
How are digital platforms transforming heritage? In Geopolitics of Digital Heritage (Cambridge UP, 2023), Dr Natalia Grincheva, Program Leader of the…
2 years ago
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
Episode 13
Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändl…
2 years ago
Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 364
The global battle among the three dominant digital powers―the United States, China, and the European Union―is intensifying. All three regimes are rac…
2 years ago
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Episode 70
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-rang…
2 years ago
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 296
In Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton UP, 2023), Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strat…
2 years ago
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
Episode 40
In the future, we’ll all be having sex with robots… won’t we?
Roboticists say they’re a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and arti…
2 years ago
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Episode 42
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability.…
2 years ago
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
Episode 234
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or …
2 years ago