Podcast Episodes

Shared Sacred Sites in South Asia: Negotiating Coexistence and Belonging with Christophe Jaffrelot (Hurst, 2026)

Episode 3758

What can shared sacred sites tell us about religious coexistence in South Asia? Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot joins Shreya Urvashi to disc…

8 hours ago

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Reimagining Foreign Aid in a Changing Global Order with Mary-Collier Wilks (Stanford UP, 2026)

Episode 3756

What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode of Interna…

4 days, 8 hours ago

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Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)

Episode 3755

Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi examines t…

6 days, 8 hours ago

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Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language with David Shuang Song (U of Minnesota Press, 2026)

Episode 3754

Who has the “right” to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language (U Minnesota Press, 2026), Dr. David …

1 week, 1 day ago

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Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)

Episode 3753

How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future.
 
The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth In…

1 week, 2 days ago

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Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Survival with Sarah Brothers (U California Press, 2026)

Episode 3752

As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the Art of Sur…

1 week, 4 days ago

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Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South with Lauren Nicole Henley (LSU Press, 2026)

Episode 3751

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Bla…

1 week, 5 days ago

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How Girls Achieve

Episode 3750

How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. …

3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Transient Becoming: Self-Improvement and Capitalist Virtuousness in Contemporary China with Gil Hizi (NUS Press, 2026)

Episode 3749

How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragmen…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

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Apocalyptic Abolitionism: How Millennialists Helped Abolish Slavery and Reform America with Kevin M. Burton (NYU Press, 2026)

Episode 3748

Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century America In March 1844, Me…

4 weeks ago

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