David Carballo, "Collision of Worlds: A Deep Hi...
Carballo provides a deep history of the encounter, one that considers temporal depth in the richly layered cultures of Mexico and Spain...
60 min
1202
Drew Thomases, "Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Touri...
Drew Thomases investigates the Indian pilgrimage town of Pushkar...
55 min
1203
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding:...
We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....
65 min
1204
R. P. Saldin and S. M. Teles, "Never Trump: The...
Should we understand the conservative elites of #Never Trump as homogeneous and united? Failed renegades? Moral guardians of republicanism and values?
83 min
1205
Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" ...
What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one?
50 min
1206
Michael Goldfield, "The Southern Key: Class, Ra...
Goldfield charts the rise of labor activism in each and then examines how and why labor organizers struggled so mightily in the region...
27 min
1207
Greg Garrett, "A Long, Long Way: Hollywood’s Un...
Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history...
62 min
1208
Ehud Halperin, “The Many Faces of a Himalayan G...
Halperin employs an interdisciplinary approach to tell the story of Hadimba from the ground up...
66 min
1209
Anya P. Foxen, "Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, ...
Foxen traces several disparate yet entangled roots of modern yoga practice to show that much of what we call yoga...
54 min
1210
Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will ...
Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...
56 min
1211
Hamsa Stainton, "Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskr...
Stainton explores the relationship between 'poetry’ and ‘prayer’ in South Asia through close examination of the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir from the eighth century onwards...
55 min
1212
James A. Diamond, "Jewish Theology Unbound" (Ox...
Diamond challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology...
62 min
1213
Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, A...
Duncombe considers ancient views of relativity from Plato, Aristotle, the Skeptics (particularly Simplicius), and the Stoics (particularly Sextus Empiricus)...
59 min
1214
Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford U...
"The Subhedar's Son" provides a fascinating insight into Brahmanical-Christian conversions of the era, along with attitudes surrounding such conversions...
63 min
1215
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
1216
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
1217
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
1218
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
1219
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
1220
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
1221
T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Pol...
How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
65 min
1222
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
1223
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
1224
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...