Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEs-pranza Humphrey, "Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen" (Poster House Museum, 2026)
Episode 1031
Starting in the 1880s, Black performers, and those invested in telling stories centering Black people, attempted to counter the dehumanizing and harm…
5 months, 1 week ago
Counter-Revolutionary Puzzles with Guillermo Badia
Episode 1029
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Guillermo Badia.
Dr Guillermo Badia is a philosopher working in logic. His research interests are logic in compute…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Holly EJ Black, "The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art" (Yale UPs, 2026)
Episode 1030
The significance of printmaking within the history of art is often underplayed, obscured or misunderstood. The Story of Printmaking: A Global History…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Nazi-Looted Art and Archives: Recovering and Preserving Jewish Culture
Episode 1028
The ravages of the Holocaust and post-World War II led to the theft and disappearance of art, archives, and personal assets. Join Jonathan Brent and …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ana I. Oancea, "Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Episode 1027
Dangerous Creations: The Inventor Novel in Fin-de-siècle France (U Toronto Press, 2025) presents a master narrative of the inventor in fin-de-siècle …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Angela Dimitrakaki, "Feminism. Art. Capitalism" (Pluto Press, 2026)
Episode 1026
Can art change the contemporary world? In Feminism, Art, Capitalism Angela Dimitrakaki, a Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the un…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett on Audio Art, Wonder, and Humanistic Reasoning
Episode 1025
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, and special guest host, Melanie Kiechle (Associate Professor of History, Virginia Tech), chat with radio producers…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Cooking Sections, "Waves Lost at Sea" (Spector Books, 2026)
Episode 1024
Waves Lost at Sea (Spector Books, 2026) traces the evolving practice of Cooking Sections, whose work spans visual arts, architecture, and ecology. Si…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Nabil Ali, "Gold from Newton's Apple Tree: Historical Recipes for Natural Inks, Paints, and Dyes" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 1023
Flowering currant, ivy, Portuguese laurel, and woad might all have grown in a medieval garden, but it would have taken special expertise to extract a…
6 months, 1 week ago
Decolonizing the Novum
Episode 1022
In this episode of High Theory, Zac Zimmer talks to Kim about Decolonizing the Novum. The novum is a concept developed by Darko Suvin that names the …
6 months, 1 week ago