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Philipp Stelzel, "History after Hitler: A Trans...
The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history...
57 min
2827
Christine D. Baker, "Medieval Islamic Sectarian...
How do contemporary events shape the ways in which we read, understand, and interpret historical processes of identity formation?
51 min
2828
James Gordon Finlayson, "The Habermas-Rawls Deb...
Finlayson traces their dispute from its inception in their earliest works to the 1995 exchange and its aftermath, as well as its legacy in contemporary debates...
121 min
2829
David Brandenberger, "Stalin's Master Narrative...
The Short Course was designed to be the definitive party narrative, but the party purges and Stalin’s own personal preferences led to him stripping out the traditional historical framework...
60 min
2830
Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt N...
Nobody should feel excited about the renewed relevance of Hannah Arendt's work today...
56 min
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Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Cat...
Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...
56 min
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Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Cu...
You don’t have to be mathematically curious to appreciate Julian’s talent for weaving mathematics and history together...
56 min
2833
David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The ...
Namier remains famous in academic circles for supposedly declaring that any reference to ideas in political discourse was nothing more than 'flapdoodle'...
75 min
2834
What are Empires and Why do they Matter?
You hear a lot about "empires," but what are they?
59 min
2835
Ian Parker, "Psychoanalysis, Clinic, and Contex...
Ian shares with us his encounter with British psychoanalysis’s “entangled world of personal-political relationships and rivalries"...
58 min
2836
Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Fai...
Mendes-Flohr paints a detailed and compelling portrait of one of the twentieth century's most versatile and influential thinkers..,
47 min
2837
John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and...
Spielrein's life resembles a nodal point; she stood at the crossroads of extraordinary changes in world politics and psychoanalysis...
56 min
2838
Han F. Vermeulen, "Before Boas: The Genesis of ...
Where did ethnography come from?
100 min
2839
Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psyc...
Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...
54 min
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Najam Haider, "The Rebel and the Imam in Early ...
In the absence of any real certainty about the nature and intention of the early sources that tell us the story of the early Islamic period, how can we use them?
44 min
2841
Donald Ostrowski, "Europe, Byzantium, and the '...
Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?
76 min
2842
Annabel L. Kim, "Unbecoming Language: Anti-Iden...
Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...
58 min
2843
Cara New Daggett, "Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuel...
Daggett suggests that reassessing our relationships with fossil fuels in the face of climate change also requires that we rethink the concept of energy itself...
40 min
2844
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
2845
Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Mean...
Mill’s life was in many respects unsatisfying – riven with anxiety and trauma...
66 min
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Julia Nicholls, "Revolutionary Thought after th...
NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..
56 min
2847
Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Alfonso X, the Justinia...
As O’Callaghan details, many of the code's provisions were drawn up in response to the problems Alfonso dealt with as king...
56 min
2848
Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James B...
Buccola uses the iconic debate between Baldwin and Buckley which took place at the Cambridge Union in February 1965 as an entry point into their own lives and their place within the post black freedom struggle...
61 min
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David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility" (Pr...
Richeson tells the fascinating story of the 2000 year quest to solve four of the most perplexing problems of antiquity: squaring the circle, duplicating the cube, trisecting the angle, and constructing regular polygons...
50 min
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min