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History
901
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China...
An interview with Kristian Petersen
39 min
902
Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the ...
An interview with Joshua W. Jipp
36 min
903
Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (P...
An interview with Stuart Elden
43 min
904
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Ma...
An interview with Timothy McCall
60 min
905
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall ...
An interview with Edward J. Watts
62 min
906
Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Trans...
An interview with Olga V. Solovieva
30 min
907
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outla...
An interview with Anne E. Linton
58 min
908
David M. Freidenreich, "Jewish Muslims: How Chr...
An interview with David M. Freidenreich
55 min
909
Ricardo Sousa Silvestre et al., "Vaiṣṇava Conce...
55 min
910
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classica...
An interview with Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin
65 min
911
Katlyn Marie Carter, "Democracy in Darkness: Se...
48 min
912
Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: ...
An interview with Gary Saul Morson
46 min
913
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pu...
An interview with Jackson Lears
62 min
914
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Appr...
An interview with Pankaj Jain
45 min
915
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in H...
An interview with Peter Brown
61 min
916
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui a...
An interview with Tristan G. Brown
54 min
917
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three C...
An interview with Paul Crosthwaite and Helen Paul
47 min
918
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographi...
An interview with Stephen Legg
49 min
919
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval ...
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
52 min
920
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing R...
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention.
60 min
921
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
922
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 1: Climbing th...
We all know many stories about how modernity came about. But what does it mean to be “modern”?
46 min
923
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
70 min
924
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: Th...
An interview with Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
49 min
925
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odys...
An interview with Barbara D. Savage
31 min