Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJohn Trafton, "Movie-Made Los Angeles" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Episode 924
Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotio…
1 year, 4 months ago
antonio c. cuyler, "Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 923
How can cultural organisations better support diversity? In Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector antonio c. cuyler, Professor of Mu…
1 year, 4 months ago
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 51
Christianity is often considered prevalent when it comes to defining the key values of late antique society, whereas 'feeling connected to the Roman …
1 year, 4 months ago
Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman
Episode 921
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman.
Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman works as a teacher and researcher in philosophy in Naarm/Melbourne…
1 year, 4 months ago
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 920
How are working class women represented in contemporary culture? In Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture (Routledge, 2025), …
1 year, 5 months ago
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 919
Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking—the ingenious proc…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jaleh Mansoor, "Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 171
Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, Univers…
1 year, 5 months ago
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 46
A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the …
1 year, 5 months ago
Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, "Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia" (Brill, 2024)
Episode 168
Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia (Brill, 2024) explores the visual culture of national rec…
1 year, 5 months ago
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 281
Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists' ref…
1 year, 5 months ago