In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1151
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
1152
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
1153
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
1154
Omar H. Ali, "Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery ac...
Ali provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar...
33 min
1155
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
1156
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
1157
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
1158
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
1159
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
1160
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
1161
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
1162
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
1163
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
1164
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
1165
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
1166
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
1167
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
1168
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
1169
John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
1170
Jennie C. Ikuta, "Contesting Conformity: Democr...
It's good to buck the trend, right? Well, maybe...
55 min
1171
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
1172
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
1173
John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White...
81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....
32 min
1174
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
1175
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