In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Books
History
Social Sciences
1201
Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
51 min
1202
Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich, "Implacable...
The two authors, both masters in the field, take on the monumental task of offering a civil-military synthesis of the war against Japan that covers both the home front and the campaigns in exacting detail...
69 min
1203
E. Douglas Bomberger, "Making Music American: 1...
Rather than primarily trace historical events while touching on cultural matters as many of these books do, Bomberger follows the events in jazz and classical music during this crucial year while framing them within America’s entry into World War One....
59 min
1204
Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Sci...
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...
57 min
1205
Michael Ruse, "A Meaning to Life" (Oxford UP, 2...
Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today?
59 min
1206
John West, "Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, ...
John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...
35 min
1207
Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...
73 min
1208
Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media,...
Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...
24 min
1209
Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and H...
McGowen identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech can be harm...
61 min
1210
Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Ox...
One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.
53 min
1211
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is t...
Kramer outlines the way that a right to personality, combined with an accommodation-focused inquiry, could update and refresh our approach to civil rights...
54 min
1212
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
1213
Guy Beiner, "Forgetful Remembering: Social Forg...
Beiner argues for the complexities and ambiguities of communal recollection by focusing on the contested memories of one of the shortest and certainly the bloodiest of politically driven Irish insurrections...
33 min
1214
Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: T...
A free black woman from Connecticut, Jane Manning James positioned herself at the center of LDS history with uncanny precision...
52 min
1215
Deonnie Moodie, "The Making of a Modern Temple ...
Moodie examines the history of the Kalighat temple of Kolkata...
57 min
1216
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, ...
Kingston interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what it means, how it works, how it is applied and understood, and where there are clear gaps in that application...
51 min
1217
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: E...
Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden...
99 min
1218
Jonathan Marks, "The Perils of Partnership: Ind...
22 min
1219
Abraham A. Singer, "The Form of the Firm: A Nor...
Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...
43 min
1220
Matthew Fox-Amato, "Exposing Slavery: Photograp...
In the mid-19th century, photographs became key tools in debates surrounding slavery...
49 min
1221
Tricia Bruce, "Parish and Place: Making Room fo...
What does a typical American Catholic parish look like?
38 min
1222
William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's...
The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting investment in people and infrastructure...
42 min
1223
René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Mari...
Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...
46 min
1224
Ariel I. Ahram, "Break all the Borders: Separat...
47 min
1225
Dilip Hiro, "Cold War in the Islamic World: Sau...
In recent years, the concept of a ‘Cold War’ has been revived to describe the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran...
65 min