Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFeng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Episode 200
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary quee…
2 years, 4 months ago
Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
Episode 307
Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking (University Press of Flori…
2 years, 4 months ago
Sean Redmond, "The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 313
The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Sean Remond is a remarkably unique book takes th…
2 years, 4 months ago
"America: Now and Here": A Lecture by Artist Eric FIschl
Episode 68
Artist Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the Long Island suburbs. His paintings first received critical attention for depi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Youngna Kim, "Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes" (Brill, 2024)
Episode 10
In this beautiful new book, Dr. Youngna Kim draws on her vast understanding of Korean art to provide an overview of the peninsula’s contemporary art …
2 years, 4 months ago
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Episode 67
Eric Kandel was born in Vienna in 1929. In 1938 he and his family fled to Brooklyn, where he attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush. He studied history and…
2 years, 5 months ago
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 365
There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 254
Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024) is an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jan Baetens, "Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Episode 15
Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters (Rutgers UP, 2020) examines The Obscure Cities, one of the few comics series to a…
2 years, 5 months ago
Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
Episode 14
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip (Ohio State UP, 2024) is the first full-length study of US comic strips from th…
2 years, 5 months ago