Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNadine A. Sinno, "A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Episode 157
Over the last two decades in Beirut, graffiti makers have engaged in a fierce “war of colors,” seeking to disrupt and transform the city’s physical a…
2 years, 1 month ago
Justin O’Connor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 353
According to Dr. Justin O’Connor, culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil, "The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 227
The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab Gulf.
Looking closely at the cultural archives pr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Adia Harvey Wingfield, "Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It" (Amistad Press, 2023)
Episode 352
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to ad…
2 years, 2 months ago
Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 209
What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpret…
2 years, 2 months ago
John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 4
Is alcohol a universal feature of human society? Why is problematic in some countries and not others? How was alcohol helped build the modern state? …
2 years, 2 months ago
Gary S. Cross, "Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 98
Free time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfulfilling. But why? And how did leisure activities transition from strolling in the par…
2 years, 2 months ago
Philipp Demgenski, "Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
Episode 298
In Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City (U Michigan Press, 2024), Philipp Demgenski examines the complexities …
2 years, 2 months ago
Fumilayo Showers, "Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 217
As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care workers in home and institutional settings has increas…
2 years, 2 months ago
Vaia Touna and Richard Newton, "Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 225
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbury, 2023) introduces students to the so-called classics of the …
2 years, 2 months ago