Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAndrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Episode 64
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – …
2 years, 5 months ago
Jason Puskar, "The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 356
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency.
The Sw…
2 years, 5 months ago
Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Episode 267
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstantino…
2 years, 5 months ago
Terah J. Stewart, "Sex Work on Campus" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 324
Terah J. Stewart's book Sex Work on Campus (Routledge, 2022) examines the experiences of college students engaged in sex work and sparks dialogue abo…
2 years, 5 months ago
Huping Ling, "Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Episode 72
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Huping Ling on her two latest books, Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community…
2 years, 5 months ago
Laurence Ralph Reckons With Police Violence (EF, JP)
Episode 117
In the third episode of our Global Policing series, Elizabeth and John spoke back in 2020 with anthropologist Laurence Ralph about The Torture Letter…
2 years, 5 months ago
Pavitra Sundar, "Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
Episode 5
Pavitra Sundar's book Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema (U Michigan Press, 2023) is a study of the cultural politics and poss…
2 years, 5 months ago
Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
Episode 423
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. B…
2 years, 5 months ago
Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)
Episode 21
In this interview, we talk with Stefan Tanaka, professor emeritus of UCSD and a specialist in modern Japanese history. He is author of two books on m…
2 years, 5 months ago
Briana L. Wong, "Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Episode 25
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverber…
2 years, 5 months ago