Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRisa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 281
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thous…
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Frank R. Baumgartner, “Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 63
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Fazil Moradi, "Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 327
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is therefore essential to criticize political violence i…
1 year, 8 months ago
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
Episode 11
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, g…
1 year, 8 months ago
Transnational Communicative Care
Episode 32
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tor…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kristina Kolbe, "The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 485
What is the future of classical music? In The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music (Manchester UP, 202…
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Michael J. Thompson, "Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 385
In Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2024), Michael J. Thompson reconstructs the concept and practice o…
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Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Episode 341
Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Press, 2024) is a vital contribution to the growing…
1 year, 8 months ago
Alexandre Lefebvre, "Liberalism as a Way of Life" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 741
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your libe…
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From Tribalism to Common Humanity: A Conversation with Dr. John Ellis
Episode 121
For most of recorded history, neighboring countries, tribes, and peoples everywhere in the world regarded each other with apprehension—when not outri…
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