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Back to SearchElizabeth Anne Davis, "Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 991
In Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke University Press, 2023), Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, …
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Karin Barber, "Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos, 1910–1930" (Ohio UP, 2026)
Episode 990
Much Matter in a Penny Paper: Early Yoruba Print Culture in Lagos,1910-1930 (Ohio UP, 2026) is a survey of the history and development of Yoruba prin…
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An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals with Matthew Engelke
Episode 989
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary London, An Honest Death: Life's End and Humanist Funerals (Princeton …
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Ashanté M. Reese, "Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness" (W. W. Norton, 2026)
Episode 988
Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a wo…
2 months ago
A Cure for Loneliness: On Homecoming with Ian Marcus Corbin
Episode 987
Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community and friends…
2 months ago
Ting Hui Lau, "Decolonial Endurance: Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 986
A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do pe…
2 months ago
Máximo Badaró, "Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China" (Berghahn, 2026)
Episode 985
Pedagogies of Value: Marketing Foreign Goods in China (Berghahn, 2026) by Dr. Máximo Badaró explores how China is reshaping global hierarchies of w…
2 months, 1 week ago
Sophie Chao, "Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 984
In Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and the…
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Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul, "Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest" (U Nebraska Press, 2026)
Episode 983
Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest (U Nebraska Press, 2026) centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill,…
2 months, 1 week ago
Dalit Studies with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana and Sanal Mohan
Episode 982
This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studie…
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