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Society & Culture
History
976
Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pu...
An interview with Jackson Lears
62 min
977
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in H...
An interview with Peter Brown
61 min
978
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Appr...
An interview with Pankaj Jain
45 min
979
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui a...
An interview with Tristan G. Brown
54 min
980
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographi...
An interview with Stephen Legg
49 min
981
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three C...
An interview with Paul Crosthwaite and Helen Paul
47 min
982
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval ...
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
52 min
983
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing R...
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention.
60 min
984
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
985
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
986
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
70 min
987
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: Th...
An interview with Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
49 min
988
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odys...
An interview with Barbara D. Savage
31 min
989
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christi...
An interview with J. Christopher Edwards
72 min
990
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material Histo...
An interview with Daniel Jütte
60 min
991
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Wi...
An interview with Poppy Corbett and William G. Pooley
60 min
992
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy a...
An interview with Christian B. Miller
54 min
993
Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Histo...
An interview with Jürgen Zimmerer
58 min
994
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Ri...
An interview with Charles S. Maier
48 min
995
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The Hi...
An interview with Shuchen Xiang
86 min
996
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Y...
An interview with Tony Spawforth
54 min
997
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writin...
An interview with Roslyn Weiss
69 min
998
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psycho...
An interview with Ran Zwigenberg
62 min
999
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Ind...
An interview with Jeremy Black
26 min
1000
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Mediev...
An interview with Amir Al-Azraki
39 min