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In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastParting Gifts of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Esmat ElhalabyFor this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Esmat Elhalaby about his first book, "Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization" (University of California Press, 2025), which offers a pathbreaking perspective on the under-explored relationship between Arab and Indian intellectuals throughout the twentieth century and the era of decolonization. Their conversation charts the various forms of knowledge production that arose from these two regions and their shared experiences of imperialism, contemporary critiques of cosmopolitanism, and how else scholars might write global intellectual histories in the present.
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In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastHarvests of Liberation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Ahmad ShokrOn this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ahmad Shokr about his monograph, "Harvests of Liberation: Cotton, Capitalism, and the End of Empire in Egypt" (Stanford University Press, 2025). In "Harvests of Liberation," Shokr examines Egyptian decolonization through one of the nation’s most valuable commodities: cotton. In so doing, he weaves a history comprised of various strands and passed through numerous hands—from colonial advisors and nationalist leaders, to agrarian reformers and rural workers—to demonstrate how changes in the cotton economy ultimately led Egyptian nationalists to “embrace policies of land reform and industrialization and adopt a new conception of his
2026-01-2853 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastHayek's Bastards: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Quinn SlobodianIn this episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Quinn Slobodian on his latest book, "Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" (Zone Books, 2025). Here, Slobodian looks to the likes of Murray Rothbard, Charles Murray, and Javier Milei and their (mis)readings of Friedrich von Hayek and Ludwig von Mises to reveal the entangled relationship between neoliberalism after the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the Far Right today.
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In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Age of Choice: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Sophia RosenfeldIn this most recent episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sophia Rosenfeld about her new book The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her book explores how the idea of making a choice from a menu of options arranged by someone else became synonymous with what it meant to be free between the early modern period and the 20th century, via shifts to consumer culture, religious life, romance, and reproduction.
2025-10-291h 04
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastLiberty as Independence: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Quentin SkinnerDisha Karnad Jani interviews Quentin Skinner on his new book Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal (Cambridge University Press, 2025). In this book, Skinner traces how liberty as a political ideal became tied to independence and the absence of coercion through the political upheavals of early modern England, debates about absolute
monarchy, the American Revolution, discussions of women's independence under the law, and the role of slavery in defining what it meant to be free.
2025-09-1043 min
The ChatterboxThe Internal Colony: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam Klug Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Internal Colony: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam KlugPub date: 2025-07-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam Klug about his new book The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2025). In this book, Klug explores how the process of decolonization in the 1940s–70s transformed US debates about the role of race in American...
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In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Internal Colony: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam KlugIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Sam Klug about his new book The Internal Colony: Race and the American Politics of Global Decolonization (University of Chicago Press, 2025). In this book, Klug explores how the process of decolonization in the 1940s–70s transformed US debates about the role of race in American life, via the analogy of the “internal colony.” The comparison between how race operated in the US and how colonialism functioned in the world was taken up by activists, social scientists, and policymakers alike, and transformed how Black social movements and the US government approached the...
2025-07-281h 08The ChatterboxSpaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen LeggPub date: 2025-06-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg about his new book, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities" (University of Georgia Press, 2025). In the book, Legg provides a study of Indian anti-colonialism in the decades before Independence that foregrounds the spatially-mediated and bottom-up politics of old and New Delhi’s p...
2025-07-0949 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastSpaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen LeggIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg about his new book, "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities" (University of Georgia Press, 2025). In the book, Legg provides a study of Indian anti-colonialism in the decades before Independence that foregrounds the spatially-mediated and bottom-up politics of old and New Delhi’s poor, its middle classes, and the prominent anti-colonial figures of the Indian National Congress, including especially the women of the anti-colonial movement. He centers the concept of parrhesia (from the later lectures of Michel Foucault) to arrive at an account of the governmentality of anti-colon...
2025-06-2549 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Architects of Dignity: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Kevin PhamDisha Karnad Jani interviews Kevin Pham, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, about his recent book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024).
In his book, Pham traces the evolution of Vietnamese political thought through six figures, Phan Bội Châu, Phan Chu Trinh, Nguyễn An Ninh, Phạm Quỳnh, Hồ Chí Minh, and Nguyễn Mạnh Tường. He explores how across the 19th and 20th centuries, as generations of Vietnamese thinkers responded to and organized against French and US colonialism, they debated distinct and powerful ways to conceptualize politics, mob...
2025-06-1841 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Archive of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Asheesh Kapur SiddiqueIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Asheesh Kapur Siddique, assistant professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, about his recent book, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale University Press, 2024).
Siddique examines how early modern British administrators ushered in a new kind of information state and draws together how successive early modern rulers in Britain transformed the collection, preservation, and use of information as they expanded their influence and rule over South Asia and the Americas. Through an analysis of the forms of knowledge encou...
2025-04-091h 01In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastSummer of Fire and Blood: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Lyndal RoperIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford about her new book, "Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War" (Basic Books, 2025), also available in German as "Für die Freiheit: Der Bauernkrieg 1525" (trans. Holger Fock and Sabine Müller, S. Fischer Verlage, 2024). In this new history of this massive event, Roper closely examines the political, religious, and intellectual worlds of the thousands of peasants who rose up and took over vast lands in what is now Germany, in one of the most decisive moments in th...
2025-03-2454 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastPax Economica: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marc-William PalenIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Marc-William Palen, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter, about his new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Palen begins his story in the 1840s, and shows how over a century of left-wing activists, politicians, and scholars imagined ways to transform the world through free-trade economics. People with distinct and overlapping politics populate this world, including anti-colonial nationalists, liberals, socialists, Christians, and feminists. Through an analysis of the evolving discussions of the meaning of free trade and protectionism for war and peace across...
2025-03-111h 00
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Revolutionary Temper: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Robert DarntonIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Robert Darnton, Professor Emeritus and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard University, about his recent book, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 (W. W. Norton, 2024), also published in French translation: L'humeur révolutionnaire: Paris, 1748-1789 (trans. Hélène Borraz, Gallimard, 2024).
Darnton traces how the antecedents to revolution circulated among the Parisian public in the decades before the storming of the Bastille, through their everyday oppositions to the rising price of bread, the overreaches of the monarchy, and the policing of poor neighborhoods. Through their growing sense that the powerful in their society...
2025-02-161h 00
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastCompleting Humanity: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Umut ÖzsuIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Umut Özsu, Professor in the Department of Law and Legalities at Carleton University, about his book Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960-82 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The book shows how jurists from the Third World transformed international law during post-1945 decolonization, and traces the legal dimensions of ideas of territorial sovereignty, resource extraction, justice, and freedom.
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In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastDisalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille RobcisIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Camille Robcis, Professor of History and French at Columbia University about her recent book Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Robcis traces how the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles, together with his colleagues and patients in the village of St-Alban-sur-Limagnole, transformed the practice and theory of psychiatry during and after the Second World War. They did this by turning towards the institution of the hospital itself, and
considering how psychiatric care could be rooted in an ethical and political critique of social conditi...
2024-10-0950 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Life of Nuns: Luke Wilkinson interviews Henrike LähnemannLuke Wilkinson interviews Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, to discuss her and Eva Schlotheuber's new book 'The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents' (Open Book Publishers, 2024). They discuss the ideas that circulated through the sounds and spaces of medieval German convents.
2024-10-0554 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastAwakening the Ashes: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marlene DautDisha Karnad Jani interviews Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, about her new book "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (The University of North Carolina Press, 2023). Daut draws out the influential concepts transformed by 18th and 19th century Haitian thinkers writing during and in the immediate aftermath of the revolution. She shows the simultaneous universality and specificity of the Haitian revolutionary moment for the development of enduring ideas about freedom, indigeneity, revolution, and slavery.
2024-10-0246 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Solidarity Economy: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Tehila SassonDisha Karnad Jani interviews Tehila Sasson, Assistant Professor of Britain and the World in the Department of History at Emory University. In this interview, the author discusses her new book The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire (Princeton University Press, 2024). Sasson shows how British nonprofits sought to create an ethical capitalism in the decades immediately after the Second World War and traces how many of the core concepts and practices of neoliberalism grew out of experiments from the left-liberal nonprofit sector in the era of decolonization.
2024-06-1757 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastBlack Scare/Red Scare: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-StellyHistorian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly about her new book, Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The book explores how related panics about Black political power and communism in the early 20th century drove the US government’s attempts at repression of anti-capitalist and anti-racist movements.
2024-06-0539 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastAbundance: Sexuality’s History: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Anjali ArondekarHistorian and In Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Anjali Arondekar, Professor of Feminist Studies at California University of California, Santa Cruz and Founding Director of the Center for South Asian Studies about her recently published book, Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke University Press, 2023).
2023-12-1152 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastTerms of Exchange: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian MerkelIn Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian Merkel, Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, about his first book, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences (The University of Chicago Press, 2022).
2023-09-2557 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastMerchants of Virtue: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya CherianIn Theory editor Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian, Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University about her book, Merchants of Virtue. Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (University of California University Press, 2022).
2023-07-2159 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastSex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria - Disha Karnad Jani interviews Judith SurkisIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Judith Surkis, Professor of History at Rutgers School of Art and Sciences, about her book, Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930(Cornell University Press, 2019).
2023-01-2357 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastIntellectual History of Racialized Emotions: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Dannelle Gutarra CorderoIn Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, Lecturer in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, about her book, She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World(Cambridge University Press, 2021).
2022-11-301h 06The IntellectualInternationalist aesthetics: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Edward Tyerman Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Internationalist aesthetics: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Edward TyermanPub date: 2022-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Professor Edward Tyerman, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, about his book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021).The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from JHIdeas, which is the property of its...
2022-10-191h 30In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastInternationalist aesthetics: Kristin Engelhardt interviews Edward TyermanIn Theory editor Kristin Engelhardt interviews Professor Edward Tyerman, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, about his book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021).
2022-10-101h 30In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Spirit of French Capitalism: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charly ColemanIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charly Coleman, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and award-winning author of the 2016 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, about his book, The Spirit of French Capitalism. Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment(Stanford University Press, 2021).
2022-08-051h 00In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastHumane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War: Tom Furse interviews Samuel MoynJHI Blog editor Tom Furse interviews Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Yale University about his book, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (Verso, 2022).
2022-07-0148 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Italian Renaissance and Modern Humanities: John Raimo interviews Christopher S. CelenzaJohn Raimo, one of the founding editor of the JHI Blog and PhD candidate at New York University, interviews Christopher S. Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History in Classics at Johns Hopkins University about his new book, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800"(Cambridge University Press, 2021).
2022-06-031h 23Over The Wire PodcastThe Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed Asif Podcast: In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed AsifPub date: 2022-03-07Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century? The guest argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. This episode describes the idea of Hindustan as reflected in the w...
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In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Lost Idea of Hindustan: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Manan Ahmed AsifIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and co-executive editor of the JHI, about his book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020).
2022-03-071h 00In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastScience and Censorship in Early Modern Italy: Glauco Schettini Interviews Hannah MarcusJHI Blog contributing editor Glauco Schettini interviews Hannah Marcus, Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University and the winner of the JHI's 2020 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, about her book, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy(University of Chicago Press, 2020).
2022-02-0952 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastCapitalism and Civic Equality: Simon Brown interviews William H. Sewell Jr.In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews William H. Sewell Jr., the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago, about his new book, Commercial Capitalism and Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France(University of Chicago Press, 2021).
2021-08-3055 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastChina's Grassroots Intellectuals: John Raimo interviews Sebastian VegGuest host John Raimo interviews Sebastian Veg, professor of the intellectual history of twentieth-century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS) in Paris, about his book, Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals (Columbia University Press 2019, and paperback 2021).
2021-05-311h 10In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastAsian Place, Filipino Nation: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Nicole CuUnjieng AboitizIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, about her new book, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912(Columbia University Press, 2020).
2021-03-1746 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastTea War and Political Economy: Simon Brown interviews Andrew B. LiuIn Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Andrew B. Liu, assistant professor of history at Villanova University, about his new book, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India(Yale University Press, 2020).
2021-03-1051 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastAmerican Sympathy with Italian Fascism: Simon Brown interviews Katy HullIn Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Katy Hull, lecturer in American Studies at the University of Amsterdam, about her new book, The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2021).
2021-02-081h 01In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastBlack Women and Citizenship in the French Empire: Ariel Mond interviews Annette K. Joseph-GabrielGuest Host Ariel Mond (PhD candidate, Rutgers University – New Brunswick)interviews Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, about her new book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press, 2020).
2021-01-041h 01In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastEthiopia in Theory: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Elleni Centime ZelekeIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Elleni Centime Zeleke, assistant professor in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, about her book, Ethiopia In Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016 (Brill, 2019).
2020-12-2151 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastAfter the Flood: Luna Sarti interviews Lydia BarnettJHI Blog editor Luna Sarti interviews Lydia Barnett, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, about her book, After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe(Johns Hopkins University Press: 2019).
Professor Barnett was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best book in intellectual history by the Journal of the History of Ideas in 2019.
2020-11-3029 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastHuman Nature in Cold War America: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Erika Lorraine MilamIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Erika Lorraine Milam, Professor of History at Princeton University, about her book, Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America(Princeton University Press: 2019).
2020-09-091h 05In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastInky, Laborious Humanism: Simon Brown interviews Anthony GraftonIn Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, about his new book, Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe(Harvard University Press: 2020).
2020-08-3147 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Dawning of the Apocalypse: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Gerald HorneIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, about his new book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century(Monthly Review Books: 2020).
2020-08-191h 05
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastBroadly Speaking: Peter De Bolla on Liberty and Concept AnalysisPeter de Bolla, Ewan Jones, Paul Nulty, Gabriel Recchia, and John Regan, all affiliated with the Cambridge Concept Lab, have coauthored the article "The Idea of Liberty, 1600–1800: A Distributional Concept Analysis," published in the most recent issue (81.3, July 2020) of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Peter De Bolla spoke with Brendan Mackie, a contributing editor at the JHI Blog, about their article.
2020-08-1729 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastHuman Rights and Neoliberalism: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Jessica WhyteIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Jessica Whyte, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Whales, about her new book, Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism(Verso: 2019).
2020-07-0648 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Story of an Atlantic Slave War: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Vincent BrownIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, about his new book, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War(Belknap Press HUP: 2020).
2020-03-3046 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastLiberalism at Large: Simon Brown interviews Alexander ZevinIn Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Alexander Zevin, an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York, about his new book, Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist (Verso, 2019).
2020-03-2359 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastImagining Judeo-Christian America: Simon Brown interviews K. Healan GastonIn Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews K. Healan Gaston, Lecturer in American Religious History and Ethics at Harvard Divinity School, about her new book, Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism, and the Redefinition of Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
You can find her article, "Reinscribing Religious Authenticity: Religion, Secularism, and the Perspectival Character of Intellectual History" in Andrew Hartman and Raymond Haberski, Jr., eds., American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times (Cornell University Press, 2018).
You can read Udi Greenberg's review, "The Right’s 'Judeo-Christian' Fixation," in The New Republic.
2020-02-2749 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastSarah Pickman interviews Michael Robinson about History and PodcastingSarah Pickman, a PhD candidate at Yale University, speaks with Michael Robinson, a professor of history at Hillyer College, University of Hartford, about history and podcasting. Robinson started his blog and associated podcast, "Time to Eat the Dogs," in 2008, and has used it as a platform to interview scholars about their work in the history of science and exploration.
2020-02-2452 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastIndian Sex Life: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba MitraIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, about her new book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought (Princeton University Press, 2020).
2020-01-2944 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastWriters and Politics in France: John Raimo interviews Gisèle SapiroJohn Raimo, a founding editor of the JHI Blog and PhD candidate at New York University, interviews Professor Gisèle Sapiro of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. They discuss her new book, "Les écrivains et la politique en France : De l’affaire Dreyfus à la guerre d’Algérie" (Seuil, 2018).
2020-01-221h 19
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastA Friend in Deed: Brendan Mackie interviews Joshua FogelBrendan Mackie, the host of "The Making of a Historian" podcast (https://www.historian.live/), speaks with Professor Joshua Fogel of York University about his book 'A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War' (Association for Asian Studies, 2019).
2020-01-1551 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastBlack Freethinkers: An Interview with Prof. Christopher CameronIn Theory co-host Disha Karnad Jani interviews Christopher Cameron, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, about his new book Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism (Northwestern University Press, 2019).
2020-01-0852 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastA Final Story: An Interview with Prof. Nasser ZakariyaIn Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Nasser Zakariya , Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, about his book A Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
2019-12-0254 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastIn Theory: With Priyamvada GopalIn Theory: With Priyamvada Gopal by JHIdeas
2019-11-1139 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastLeibniz and Asia: An Interview with Professor Michael Carhart (Old Dominion University)In Theory co-host Simon Brown interviews Professor Carhart about his new book: Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2019-10-2342 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastPolitical Survivors. An Interview with Prof. Emma KubyDisha Karna Jani speaks with Professor Emma Kuby about her new work Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell, 2019).
2019-10-0148 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastSimon Brown interviews Professor Holly CaseA discussion of Professor Case's 2018 "The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond."
2019-09-2259 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastPolitical Myth in Blumenberg's thought: Dr. Andrew Hines interviews Prof. Angus NichollsPolitical Myth in Blumenberg's thought: Dr. Andrew Hines interviews Prof. Angus Nicholls by JHIdeas
2019-09-1333 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastDisha Karnad Jani Interviews Prof. Adom GetachewDisha Karnad Jani Interviews Prof. Adom Getachew by JHIdeas
2019-06-1053 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastDisha Karnad Jani Interviews Eli CookDisha Karnad Jani Interviews Eli Cook by JHIdeas
2019-04-0148 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastSimon Brown interviews Sophia RosenfeldSimon Brown interviews Sophia Rosenfeld by JHIdeas
2019-03-2647 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastBoundaries of the International: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Jennifer PittsBoundaries of the International: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Jennifer Pitts by JHIdeas
2019-03-0147 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastRichard Calis and Lillian Datchev interview Pamela LongRichard Calis and Lillian Datchev interview Pamela Long by JHIdeas
2018-12-2349 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastDisha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary WilderDisha Karnad Jani interviews Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder about their Theses on Theory and History.
2018-11-281h 05
In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast“To Intervene yet again”: Theory Revolt, Live!Introduced by Oz Frankel, Joan Wallach Scott and Gary Wilder discuss “Theses on Theory and History" at the New School on October 8, 2018.
2018-11-261h 33
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastConversation with Eli Cook on "The Pricing of Progress"Conversation with Eli Cook on "The Pricing of Progress" by JHIdeas
2018-11-1953 minIn Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastPodcast 1, Interview With Surekha DaviesIn our inaugural podcast, Contributing Editor Cynthia Houng speaks with Prof. Surekha Davies about her book, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016), winner of the 2016 Morris D. Forkosch Prize for the best first book in intellectual history.
2018-05-011h 06In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastPodcast 2, Interview With Stefanos GeroulanosIn today’s podcast, our Editor Sarah Dunstan speaks with Professor Stefanos Geroulanos about his latest book Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (Stanford University Press, 2017).
2018-05-011h 14In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastPodcast 3, Roundtable On History Of QuantificationHosted by John Handel, with Dan Bouk, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual (UChicago, 2015); William Deringer, Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age (HUP, 2018); and Jamie Pietruska, Looking Forward: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America (UChicago, 2017);
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