Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Episode 221
Dr. Tim Harte's Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture (U Wisconsin Press, 2020) loo…
3 years, 8 months ago
Susan Stewart, "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 203
How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, fr…
3 years, 8 months ago
Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 351
Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno – n…
3 years, 9 months ago
Angela Vanhaelen, "The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths" (Penn State UP, 2022)
Episode 29
Angela Vanhaelen's The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths (Penn State University Press, 2022)…
3 years, 9 months ago
Collaborations between Cold War Scientists and Artists
Episode 21
Patrick McCray, Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Ar…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Beautiful, Gruesome, and True: Artists at Work in the Face of War" (Columbia Global Reports, 2022)
Episode 131
Art has a long history of engaging with conflict and violence. From the antiquities, through Goya, to Guernica, our museums are filled with depiction…
3 years, 9 months ago
Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Episode 238
In Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (U Washington Press, 2020), Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of th…
3 years, 9 months ago
Seeing Truth in Museums
Episode 57
Feeling down about museums? We have so many reasons to, but Chris Newell, Tribal Community Member-in-Residence at UConn and Director of Education at …
3 years, 9 months ago
Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 172
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, …
3 years, 9 months ago
Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Episode 171
Many histories of science have been written, but A New History of the Humanities (Oxford UP, 2014) offers the first overarching history of the humani…
3 years, 9 months ago