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851
Nature-Study
A Discussion with John Linstrom
21 min
852
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-C...
An interview with Jonathan Puntervold
22 min
853
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy o...
Once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality?
44 min
854
Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Int...
An interview with Matthieu Felt
40 min
855
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China...
An interview with Kristian Petersen
39 min
856
Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the ...
An interview with Joshua W. Jipp
36 min
857
Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (P...
An interview with Stuart Elden
43 min
858
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Ma...
An interview with Timothy McCall
60 min
859
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall ...
An interview with Edward J. Watts
62 min
860
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Trans...
An interview with Olga V. Solovieva
30 min
861
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outla...
An interview with Anne E. Linton
58 min
862
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre et al., "Vaiṣṇava Conce...
55 min
863
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Chr...
An interview with David M. Freidenreich
55 min
864
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classica...
An interview with Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin
65 min
865
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Se...
48 min
866
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: ...
An interview with Gary Saul Morson
46 min
867
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pu...
An interview with Jackson Lears
62 min
868
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Appr...
An interview with Pankaj Jain
45 min
869
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in H...
An interview with Peter Brown
61 min
870
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui a...
An interview with Tristan G. Brown
54 min
871
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval ...
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
52 min
872
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographi...
An interview with Stephen Legg
49 min
873
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three C...
An interview with Paul Crosthwaite and Helen Paul
47 min
874
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing R...
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention.
60 min
875
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Mod...
We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to start at different places, but which always includes us. Yet people have been claiming to be modern since at least the third century BC.
36 min