In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
976
Hannah L. Walker, "Mobilized by Injustice: Crim...
Walker brings together the political science and criminal justice disciplines in exploring how individuals are mobilized to engage in political participation by their connection to the criminal justice system in the United States...
44 min
977
David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Di...
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?
40 min
978
Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant...
Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...
28 min
979
Sheri Berman, "Democracy and Dictatorship in Eu...
At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship...
54 min
980
E. A. Alpers and C. Goswami, "Transregional Tra...
81 min
981
Berit Brogaard, "Hatred: Understanding Our Most...
What is it that makes hatred so addicting?
36 min
982
Serena Parekh, "No Refuge: Ethics and the Globa...
Rarely does the discourse consider the role of wealthy Western countries in creating the conditions under which a refugee crisis emerges....
70 min
983
Christopher J. Blythe, "Terrible Revolution: La...
Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...
37 min
984
Geoffrey Plank, "Atlantic Wars: From the Fiftee...
Plank uses war as a lens to examine the interactions of peoples who forged shared experiences amid endemic conflict...
26 min
985
Susan D'Agostino, "How to Free Your Inner Mathe...
Doing mathematics can be stimulating, deep, and sometimes fantastic. It can also be frustrating, impenetrable, and at times dispiriting. In her new collection of essays, writer and mathematician Susan D'Agostino shows how math itself can be a useful guide through these experiences...
61 min
986
Bruce Isaacs, "The Art of Pure Cinema: Hitchcoc...
Isaacs offers the first book-length study to examine the historical foundations and stylistic mechanics of pure cinema...
66 min
987
Alison Games, "Inventing the English Massacre: ...
Alison Games shows how the English East India Company transformed that conspiracy into a massacre through printed works, both books and images, which ensured the story's tenacity over four centuries...
90 min
988
S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fas...
Lawreniuk and Parsons brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history.,,
79 min
989
David Paul Kuhn, "The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New ...
Kuhn cautions Americans to look back to the 1970s with an eye to class to better understand our political tribalism...
64 min
990
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...
63 min
991
Omar H. Ali, "Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery ac...
Ali provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar...
33 min
992
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it...
Strossen dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony...
70 min
993
Majid Daneshgar, "Studying the Qur’an in the Mu...
Daneshgar invites his readers on a journey exploring how the Muslim academy—that is, academic institutions in the Muslim-majority world—teaches Islamic Studies, with an emphasis on the Qur’an...
37 min
994
S. J. Potter, "Wireless Internationalism and Di...
Potter describes the efforts to use radio to promote global harmony and how they were eclipsed by nationalism and the weaponization of broadcasting as a propaganda tool...
45 min
995
Glenda Goodman, "Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Mu...
Through a penetrating examination of music manuscript books, Goodman analyzes the gendered and classed dynamics of the white New England gentry who made these hand-copied music documents...
52 min
996
Alexander Kaye, "The Invention of Jewish Theocr...
The tension between secular politics and religious fundamentalism is a problem shared by many modern states. This is certainly true of the state of Israel...
49 min
997
J. Herbst and S. Lovegrove, "Brexit And Financi...
The UK’s transition from legally withdrawing from the EU to leaving the union’s single market will come to an end at midnight on December 31 with no successor trade agreement yet in place....
31 min
998
Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Ir...
Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...
66 min
999
Nicole Hassoun, "Global Health Impact: Expandin...
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child...
36 min
1000
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min