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Secrets of the Killing State
Jul 3, 20251h 9m
153: What Hannah Arendt Has to Teach Us about Anticipatory Despair (JP)
Jul 3, 202526 min
Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
Jul 3, 202544 min
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jul 3, 202551 min
Rebecca Jo Kinney, "Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt" (Temple UP, 2025)
Jul 2, 20251h 9m
Timothy Stacey, "Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Jul 2, 202554 min
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (HarperCollins UK, 2025)
Jul 2, 20251h 3m
Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira, "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France" (MIT Press, 2025)
Jul 2, 20251h 13m
NIAS Podcast from the University of Tartu Asia Centre: Migration Policies and Realities in Estonia and Japan
Jul 2, 202533 min
Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jul 2, 20251h 15m
Michael Marmur, "Living The Letters: An Alphabet of Emerging Jewish Thought" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Jul 2, 202557 min
S1.E2. Wayne County at the Trucks (1974)
Jul 2, 202551 min
Craig E. Bertolet and Susan Nakley eds., "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer" (Routledge, 2024)
Jul 2, 20251h 6m
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, "Why America Didn't Become Great Again" (Routledge, 2025)
Jul 2, 202537 min
Heather Sutherland, "Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, C.1600-c.1906" (NUS Press, 2021)
Jul 2, 202555 min
Hans Joas and Matthias Bormuth eds., "The Anthem Companion to Karl Jaspers" (Anthem Press, 2025)
Jul 1, 20251h 35m
Gender Crisis N.Y.C.
Jul 1, 202547 min
Malaysian-Nordic Relations
Jul 1, 202519 min
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining" (Milkweed, 2025)
Jul 1, 20251h 5m
Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Jul 1, 202536 min
Libby Buck, "Port Anna" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Jul 1, 202521 min
Sven Saaler, Kudō Akira, and Tajima Nobuo eds., "Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010" (Brill, 2017)
Jul 1, 20251h 8m
An Interview with Colby Sharp
Jul 1, 202543 min
Elisabeth Åsbrink, "1947: Where Now Begins" (Other Press, 2019)
Jul 1, 20251h 0m
Cheryl Thompson, "Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1895" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)
Jul 1, 20251h 14m
Lindsay Zier-Vogel, "The Fun Times Brigade" (Book*hug Press, 2025)
Jun 30, 202542 min
Yonatan Y. Brafman, "Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jun 30, 20251h 1m
Sarah Bull, "Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 30, 202543 min
Considering Leaving Academia?
Jun 30, 202553 min
Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 30, 202546 min
Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)
Jun 30, 20251h 0m
Matthew Wisnioski on the History of the Idea and Culture of “Innovation” in the United States
Jun 30, 20251h 33m
Felix Cowan, "The Kopeck Press: Popular Journalism in Revolutionary Russia, 1908-1918" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
Jun 30, 202549 min
Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
Jun 30, 202557 min
Jonathon Stuart Wright, "Joseph and Aseneth After Antiquity: A Study in Manuscript Transmission" (de Gruyter, 2025)
Jun 30, 202559 min
Bianca Marais, "A Most Puzzling Murder" (Harper Collins, 2025)
Jun 29, 202532 min
Amogh Dhar Sharma, "The Backstage of Democracy: India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 20251h 26m
Sarah Kenny, "Growing Up and Going Out: Youth Culture, Commerce, and Leisure Space in Post-War Britain" (Manchester UP, 2025)
Jun 29, 202540 min
Elana Gomel, "The Pilgrim Soul: Being a Russian in Israel" (Cambria Press, 2009)
Jun 29, 20251h 2m
Eric Blanc, "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" (Univ of California Press, 2025)
Jun 29, 202551 min
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
Jun 29, 20251h 0m
Todd May "Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times" (Crown, 2024)
Jun 29, 202558 min
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Jun 29, 20251h 9m
Sergey Radchenko, "To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 29, 20251h 10m
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)
Jun 29, 202530 min
Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli, "Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)
Jun 28, 202551 min
Andrea Graziosi and Frank E. Sysyn, "Communism and Hunger: The Ukrainian, Chinese, Kazakh, and Soviet Famines in Comparative Perspective" (CIUS Press, 2016)
Jun 28, 20251h 13m
John P. Gribbin, "Gribbin: A Family History of Ulster" (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2023)
Jun 28, 202534 min
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods" (Milkweed Editions, 2025)
Jun 28, 202558 min
Talin Suciyan, "Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
Jun 28, 202544 min