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Society & Culture
History
1026
Pankaj Jain, "Modern Jainism: A Historical Appr...
An interview with Pankaj Jain
45 min
1027
Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in H...
An interview with Peter Brown
61 min
1028
Tristan G. Brown, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui a...
An interview with Tristan G. Brown
54 min
1029
Paul Crosthwaite et al., "Invested: How Three C...
An interview with Paul Crosthwaite and Helen Paul
47 min
1030
Stephen Legg, "Round Table Conference Geographi...
An interview with Stephen Legg
49 min
1031
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval ...
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism?
52 min
1032
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing R...
Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention.
60 min
1033
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
1034
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
1035
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
70 min
1036
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: Th...
An interview with Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
49 min
1037
Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odys...
An interview with Barbara D. Savage
31 min
1038
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christi...
An interview with J. Christopher Edwards
72 min
1039
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material Histo...
An interview with Daniel Jütte
60 min
1040
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy a...
An interview with Christian B. Miller
54 min
1041
Poppy Corbett et al., "Creative Histories of Wi...
An interview with Poppy Corbett and William G. Pooley
60 min
1042
Jürgen Zimmerer, "Memory Wars: New German Histo...
An interview with Jürgen Zimmerer
58 min
1043
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Ri...
An interview with Charles S. Maier
48 min
1044
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The Hi...
An interview with Shuchen Xiang
86 min
1045
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Y...
An interview with Tony Spawforth
54 min
1046
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psycho...
An interview with Ran Zwigenberg
62 min
1047
Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writin...
An interview with Roslyn Weiss
69 min
1048
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Mediev...
An interview with Amir Al-Azraki
39 min
1049
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of History" (Ind...
An interview with Jeremy Black
26 min
1050
Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: ...
An interview with Jennifer Maclure
60 min