In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1001
S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Grea...
The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...
36 min
1002
György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Ox...
Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives on neuroscientific theory and research methodology.
92 min
1003
William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-...
Pooley explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921)....
54 min
1004
Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trum...
How did the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns affect other elections in 2016? How did the use of gender stereotypes and insulting references to women in the presidential campaign influence the way House and Senate candidates campaigned?
61 min
1005
Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epi...
During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winner Max Steiner did more than any other composer to introduce and establish the language of film music....
65 min
1006
John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
1007
Jennie C. Ikuta, "Contesting Conformity: Democr...
It's good to buck the trend, right? Well, maybe...
55 min
1008
Will Smiley, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War: ...
Smiley examines the emergence of rules of warfare surrounding captivity and slavery in the context of Ottoman-Russian military rivalry between 1700 and 1878....
69 min
1009
Roman David and Ian Holliday, "Liberalism and D...
Democracy is a popular topic among scholars of politics in Southeast Asia. Liberalism is not..
46 min
1010
John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White...
81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....
32 min
1011
Paul De Grauwe, "Economics of Monetary Union" (...
First published in 1992 before the creation of the euro, Paul De Grauwe’s "Economics of Monetary Union" has become a standard text....
43 min
1012
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others...
64 min
1013
Ananya Chakravarti, "The Empire of Apostles" (O...
Chakravarti recovers the religious roots of Europe's first global order, by tracing the evolution of a religious vision of empire through the lives of Jesuits working in the missions of early modern Brazil and India...
76 min
1014
Tanya Kant, "Making it Personal: Algorithmic Pe...
How are algorithms shaping our experience of the internet?
34 min
1015
Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translatio...
Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed to have translated ancient scriptures. He dictated an American Bible from metal plates reportedly buried by ancient Jews in a nearby hill,...
53 min
1016
Nyasha Junior, “Reimagining Hagar: Blackness an...
Junior sought to understand how Hagar become Black and what purposes that served...
48 min
1017
Nathan Spannaus, "Preserving Islamic Tradition:...
Who exactly was Abu Nasr Qursawi and what was his reformist project to grapple with this situation?
50 min
1018
Nathan Carlin, "Pastoral Aesthetics: A Theologi...
Carlin critically engages Beauchamp and Childress by revisiting the role of religion in bioethics and argues that pastoral theologians can enrich moral imagination in bioethics by cultivating an aesthetic sensibility...
46 min
1019
Charlton D. McIlwain, "Black Software: The Inte...
In connecting these threads, McIlwain demonstrates the centrality of African Americans to both the history and future of the Internet...
48 min
1020
Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of Inter...
Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...
58 min
1021
Danyel Reiche and Tamir Sorek, "Sport, Politics...
The edited volume is not only an at times ethnographic dive into Middle Eastern sports’ multiple facets but also in many ways a mapping of how much remains to be explored....
66 min
1022
Pritipuspa Mishra, "Language and the Making of ...
The province of Odisha, previously “Orissa,” was the first linguistically organized province of India...
69 min
1023
Jan Doering, "Us versus Them: Race, Crime, and ...
In Chicago, "public safety" and "social justice" do not alway go hand in hand...
50 min
1024
M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of R...
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the potential for disruption is even greater.
31 min
1025
Lakshmi Subramanian, "The Sovereign and the Pir...
Subramanian offers an amphibious history written around the juncture of the nineteenth century, when the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids....
83 min