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Alexander Lee, "Humanism and Empire: The Imperi...
Lee looks at the relationship between humanists of northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire...
100 min
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Conservatism is Always Evolving: A Discussion w...
For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity...
58 min
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Paolo Astorri, "Lutheran Theology and Contract ...
Astorri shows how the Protestant Reformation influence European law. Martin Luther and his successors led European Christianity away from medieval ideas of penance and the careful accounting that went with it toward theology of grace...
41 min
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Doug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Da...
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern...
72 min
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Matthew W. Slaboch, "A Road to Nowhere: The Ide...
It turns out that some major, influential thinkers were not wild about the idea of progress...
86 min
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Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writ...
When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public...
37 min
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Margrit Pernau, "Emotions and Colonial Modernit...
Pernau examines the varied and hugely consequential expressions of and normative investments in emotions in modern South Asian Muslim thought...
67 min
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Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ot...
Malcolm tells the story of Western European fascination with the Ottoman empire and Islam between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the latter half of the 18th century...
60 min
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Nadia Nurhussein, "Black Land: Imperial Ethiopi...
Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...
37 min
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Elisabeth Paquette, "Universal Emancipation: Ra...
What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?
58 min
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James Simpson, "Permanent Revolution: The Refor...
In Simpson’s account, liberalism did not flow neatly from Protestant triumph. Liberalism and Protestantism are indeed intertwined, but in a much more violent, anguished way than we’re familiar with...
86 min
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Michael Walzer, "A Foreign Policy for the Left"...
What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...
69 min
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Spencer Critchley, "Patriots of Two Nations: Wh...
America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...
58 min
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Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: ...
Stefan Bauer has written an outstanding study of one of the most important Catholic historians in early modern Europe...
29 min
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Tamura Lomax, “Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Bl...
One of the central threads in the public discourse on Black womanhood is the idea of the “Jezebel"...
68 min
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Adam Knowles, "Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: ...
Martin Heidegger was member of the Nazi Party. What does that mean for his thought?
87 min
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Sree Padma, "Vicissitudes of the Goddess: Recon...
Padma focuses on two types of Gramadevatas or goddesses: deified women and those associated with disease and fertility...
32 min
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Brian Weatherson, "A History of Philosophy Jour...
Weatherson examines the entirety of research articles published in twelve major English-language philosophy journals between 1876 and 2013, identifying 90 topics across the journals to retrace their fortunes over time...
60 min
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Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Hen...
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike...
59 min
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Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall ...
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia...
56 min
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Elleni Centime Zeleke, "Ethiopia in Theory: Rev...
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia...
52 min
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Mira L. Siegelberg, "Statelessness: A Modern Hi...
Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness in the years following the First and Second World Wars...
52 min
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Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
44 min
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Joshua Kotin, "Utopias of One" (Princeton UP, 2...
In "utopias of one," the authors at one and the same time publish for an external audience, but sketch out modes of living and being that are in important ways both non-accessible and non-replicable....
63 min