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March 2, 2021
Strategic Imaginations
Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture
Anke Gilleir and Aude Defurne
Hosted by Jana Byars
This episode of New Books in History features an interview with Anke Gilleir, professor of Modern German Literature at KU Leuven, about her new edited volume, Strategic Imaginations: Women and the …
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Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
March 1, 2021
The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer
A Discussion with Marion Turner
Marion Turner
Hosted by Marshall Poe
More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life—yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they …
History
February 26, 2021
Pirating and Publishing
The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment
Robert Darnton
Hosted by Zachary McCulley
In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — …
Religion
February 26, 2021
Dangerous Religious Ideas
The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Rachel S. Mikva
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon, 2020) reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because …
Islamic Studies
February 26, 2021
Terror Epidemics
Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies …
Chinese Studies
February 24, 2021
Writing for Print
Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China
Suyoung Son
Hosted by Aliki Semertzi
Suyoung Son’s book Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China (Harvard UP, 2018) examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial …
East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
A Roundtable on the History of the Japanese Student Movement
A Discussion with Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Chelsea Szendi Schieder’s Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left and Naoko Koda’s The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1973: Managing a Free World provide new …
Literary Studies
February 23, 2021
Fictions of America
The Book of Firsts
Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran
In this episode of New Books in Literary Studies, Miranda Corcoran speaks to Ulrich Baer and Smaran Dayal about their unique anthology, Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (Warbler Press …
African American Studies
February 23, 2021
Liner Notes for the Revolution
The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Daphne A. Brooks
Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard University Press, 2021) by Dr. Daphne Brooks is a lyrical masterpiece that takes readers on an exhilarating …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
February 22, 2021
Only Among Women
Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940
Anne Eakin Moss
Hosted by Colleen McQuillen
In Only Among Women: Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940 (Northwestern University Press, 2019), Anne Eakin Moss examines idealized relationships between women in Russian literature and …
Philosophy
February 19, 2021
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Patricia Hill Collins
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Is intersectionality a critical social theory? What must intersectionality do to be both critical and a social theory? Must social justice be a guiding normative principle? And what does or …
American Studies
February 19, 2021
Margaret Mead
A Twentieth-Century Faith
Elesha J. Coffman
Hosted by Lilian Calles Barger
Elesha J. Coffman's Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith (Oxford UP, 2021) takes a careful look at Mead’s religious origins and influence. As a famous American anthropologist, Mead’s intellectual contributions to mid-century culture …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
February 18, 2021
Probable Impossibilities
Musings on Beginnings and Endings
Alan Lightman
Hosted by Dan Hill
Imagination with a Straight Jacket Alan Lightman is a writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and …
Biblical Studies
February 17, 2021
The Messianic Theology of the New Testament
Joshua W. Jipp
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
One of the earliest Christian confessions—that Jesus is Messiah and Lord—has long been recognized throughout the New Testament. Joshua Jipp shows that the New Testament is in fact built upon …
Christian Studies
February 17, 2021
The Logic of the Body
Retrieving Theological Psychology
Matthew A. LaPine
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
Matthew A. Lapine has written a fantastic interdisciplinary study weaving together the history of ideas, contemporary psychological anthropology, and Christian theology. The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology (Lexham Press, 2020) is …
South Asian Studies
February 16, 2021
The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity
A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism
Harshana Rambukwella
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
What is the role of cultural authenticity in the making of nations? Much scholarly and popular commentary on nationalism dismisses authenticity as a romantic fantasy or, worse, a deliberately constructed …
History
February 16, 2021
Forbidden Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we speak to Hannah Marcus, Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about her new monograph, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
February 15, 2021
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
A Discussion with Michael Hanchard
Michael G. Hanchard
Hosted by Marshall Poe
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination …
Intellectual History
February 12, 2021
Dreamworlds of Race
Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America
Duncan Bell
Hosted by Yi Ning Chang
Published in December 2020, Duncan Bell’s Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America (Princeton University Press, 2020) concludes his loose trilogy of books about the metropolitan settler imaginary in …
Architecture
February 12, 2021
The Figure of Knowledge
Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
Sebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen
Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologizing effort during the 1990s charted …
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