In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1076
John Stratton Hawley, “Krishna's Playground: Vr...
What happens when the Anthropocene Age makes everything virtual? What happens when heaven gets plowed under?
51 min
1077
Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migrati...
Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...
61 min
1078
Kevin Duong, "The Virtues of Violence: Democrac...
Duong offers a fascinating analysis of the way that violence has been used, in a sense, to create or promote solidarity during the course of the “long nineteenth century” in France...
54 min
1079
Elissa Bemporad, "Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogrom...
Bemporad examines the uneasy and often ambivalent but mutually dependent, and ever-shifting relationship between the regime and the Jewish population as the Soviet century unfolds...
56 min
1080
Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legac...
Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...
50 min
1081
James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politi...
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?
41 min
1082
T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Pol...
How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
65 min
1083
Paul Matzko, "The Radio Right" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...
51 min
1084
Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at th...
Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...
49 min
1085
Stacy Wolf, "Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and ...
From backstage moms to tiny divas to dinner theatres, Wolf demonstrates that this charming pastime of American culture that is anything but past...
64 min
1086
Caleb Simmons, "Devotional Sovereignty: Kingshi...
Simmons examines the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868) in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore...
58 min
1087
Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American ...
For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.
36 min
1088
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transformi...
Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...
49 min
1089
María Cristina García, "The Refugee Challenge i...
García evaluates how the end of the Cold War brought new and unanticipated challenges to upholding this commitment from 1989 to the present...
62 min
1090
Paul M. Renfro, "Stranger Danger: Family Values...
Renfro narrates how the bereaved parents of missing and slain children turned their grief into a mass movement and, alongside journalists and policymakers from both major political parties, propelled a moral panic...
31 min
1091
Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (O...
Adamson and Ganeri survey the breadth and depth of Indian philosophical traditions...
85 min
1092
Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Rig...
The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...
64 min
1093
Nicola Lacey, "In Search of Criminal Responsibi...
Lacey brings together philosophical, historical and socio-legal methods to give an account of the ever changing notion of responsibility in criminal law...
59 min
1094
Gregory Scott, "Building the Buddhist Revival: ...
Scott focuses on reconstructions of Buddhist monasteries in modern China that took place in the period from 1866 to 1966,..
46 min
1095
Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The ...
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?
60 min
1096
Shadaab Rahemtullah, "Qur'an of the Oppressed: ...
Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...
39 min
1097
Anna Bull, "Class, Control, and Classical Music...
What is the relationship between inequality and classical music?
41 min
1098
Christine Fair, "In Their Own Words: Understand...
Fair reveals a little-known aspect of how LeT functions in Pakistan and beyond, by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT..
87 min
1099
Paul Matzko, "The Radio Right" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Matzko details its emergence in the 1950s and the response to its rise by some of the leading political and religious institutions of the era...
51 min
1100
Arthur Asseraf, "Electric News in Colonial Alge...
Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...
59 min