Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnnaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 1435
In 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular I…
2 years ago
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 236
What did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary …
2 years ago
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
Episode 85
The stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily…
2 years ago
Darren Wershler et al,, "The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 131
A hybrid lab functions in the space between institutions and infrastructure, creating new opportunities for understanding their interconnection. Howe…
2 years ago
Sharrona Pearl, "Mask" (Bloombury, 2024)
Episode 129
From the theatre mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument f…
2 years ago
Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 15
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (Cambridge Univ…
2 years ago
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 78
In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equate…
2 years ago
David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)
Episode 233
In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and form…
2 years ago
Grazia Ingravalle, "Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 52
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is the first book-length study that investigates film …
2 years ago
100 Years of Radio in South Africa: Then and Now
Episode 209
Today’s book is: 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 1: South African Radio Stations and Broadcasters Then & Now (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), e…
2 years ago