In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1076
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
1077
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
1078
Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Scie...
Finocchiaro shows that there were (and are) really two Galileo “affairs.”
61 min
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Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrori...
Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...
44 min
1080
Joshua Foa Dienstag, "Cinema Pessimism: A Polit...
Dienstag considers the interaction between our experiences in watching films and our positions as citizens in a representative democracy...
55 min
1081
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., "In Do Morals Matter?: Pres...
Americans since the beginning of their history, have constantly made moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through and assessed...
42 min
1082
Michelle Murray, "The Struggle for Recognition ...
Is a rising power – like China – a threat to the world order?
43 min
1083
Megan T. Neely and Ken Hou-Lin, "Divested: Ineq...
Neely and Hou-Lin explore the rise of finance in American life over the last forty years and its implications for American workers, families, and economies...
47 min
1084
Theda Skocpol, "Upending American Politics" (Ox...
Since 2008, the Tea Party and the Resistance have caused some major shake-ups for the Republican and Democratic parties...
42 min
1085
Sandro Galea, "Well: What We Need to Talk About...
Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...
24 min
1086
Kathy Peiss, "The Information Hunters" (Oxford ...
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause...
31 min
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Jeffrey James Byrne, "Mecca of Revolution: Alge...
Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..
81 min
1088
Olivier Roy, "Is Europe Christian?" (Oxford UP,...
What does the success of 1960s values mean for the reiteration of religious identities?
30 min
1089
Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language ...
Berman shows us the complexities of Marshallese life and reveals the way that age, a central part of Marshallese culture, is not biologically given but culturally constructed...
60 min
1090
Patrick Inglis, "Narrow Fairways: Getting By an...
Inglis uses the interactions between elite members of golf clubs in city of Bangalore and the caddies who carry their bags to examine how globalization is both upending and reproducing a status quo of extreme inequality...
57 min
1091
Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: H...
Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...
37 min
1092
Jennifer B. Saunders, "Imagining Religious Comm...
Saunders tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders..
70 min
1093
Murad Idris, "War for Peace: Genealogies of a V...
Idris traces the concept of peace, and the way it is often insinuated with other words and concepts, over more than 2000 years of political thought...
63 min
1094
Lee Drutman, "Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop:...
Drutman dives into both the problems with the current political dynamic and the possible solutions...
36 min
1095
James K. Wellman, Jr., "High on God: How Megach...
In the United States, the number of megachurches increased from 350 in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2011 with that number continuing to grow exponentially in subsequent years...
46 min
1096
Howard Jones, "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the D...
On March 16th, 1968, several units of American soldiers descended upon a collection of small villages in Central Vietnam, now collectively known as My Lai. In the space of a few short hours, they committed one of America’s most infamous war crimes...
76 min
1097
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title...
"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed
60 min
1098
Shannon Vallor, "Technology and the Virtues" (O...
How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond?
71 min
1099
David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science B...
Adger brings foundational ideas in the cognitive science of language to a popular audience...
110 min
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Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest...
44 min