Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMichael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 425
Should governments fund the arts? In The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Michael Rushton, Co-Director of…
2 years, 11 months ago
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Episode 77
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored po…
2 years, 11 months ago
Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 261
W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purposes, it might be worth remembering what he meant. …
2 years, 11 months ago
Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 254
Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be highe…
2 years, 11 months ago
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 1
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ed Simon, "Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology" (Cernunnos, 2023)
Episode 211
Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable--angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as medi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 260
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This…
3 years ago
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Episode 116
Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Theater at Harvard, editor of more than one Norton An…
3 years ago
Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Episode 420
Is art education worthwhile? In The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Henrik …
3 years ago
Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)
Episode 56
Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps (Brill, 2023) is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames…
3 years ago