Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCoreen 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.…
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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 …
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Annaliese 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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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