Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTerry Baxter and Libby Coyner-Tsosie, "Stories on Skin: A Librarian's Guide to Tattoos as Personal Archives" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 85
Tattoos are not merely decorative; they contain deep meaning for individuals and communities. They document their wearers' personal histories and pos…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Episode 165
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey speaks with Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein, co-authors of The Assault on the…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
Episode 11
Why are young men leaning right while young women shift left? Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones speak with NYU’s Scott Galloway, political…
1 year, 2 months ago
Television, Translation, and Algorithms on Netflix
Episode 16
How do media producers appeal to international audiences in the streaming era?
In this episode of the Global Media & Communication podcast, our host …
1 year, 2 months ago
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Marcus Kreuzer, "The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 21
In The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023), political scientist Marcus Kreuzer synthesises the differ…
1 year, 2 months ago
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 361
CrossFit in the United States has become increasingly popular, around which a fascinating culture has developed which shapes everyday life for the pe…
1 year, 2 months ago
Alfred L. Martin, Jr., "Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 152
Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us: The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences (NYU Press, 2025) break…
1 year, 2 months ago
Pil Ho Kim, "Polarizing Dreams: Gangnam and Popular Culture in Globalizing Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Episode 16
Gangnam is an exclusive zone of privilege and wealth that has lured South Korean pop culture industries since the 1980s and fueled the aspirations of…
1 year, 2 months ago
Christof Lammer, "Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China" (Berghahn, 2024)
Episode 110
On the podcast today I am joined by Christof Lammer, a social anthropologist based at the University of Klagenfurt and inherit fellow at Humboldt Uni…
1 year, 2 months ago