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Jul 5, 2026
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Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022) 20.04.2022 1:07:00
Podcast : New Books in Gender (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Darren Byler, "Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City" (Duke UP, 2022) Pub date : 2022-04-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The continuing crisis in Xinjiang has, thanks to the work of many scholars and reporters, led to great...
The Objects That Made Britain 20.04.2022 25:32
Podcast : Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : The Objects That Made Britain Pub date : 2022-04-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What can art tell us about a country's history? Well, a lot! In today's episode, Dan is joined by Art Historian Temi Odumosu and popular historian James Hawes to discuss th...
Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots 20.04.2022 1:08:16
Podcast : The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots Pub date : 2022-04-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Do you do genealogical research? In this episode, historian Francesca Morgan talks abou...
Pedro Sanchez and Western Sahara with Nazha Elkhalidi #Saharalibre 13.04.2022 1:01:13
Podcast : The Sobremesa Podcast (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Pedro Sanchez and Western Sahara with Nazha Elkhalidi #Saharalibre Pub date : 2022-03-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Alan and Eoghan ( the new co-host! ) discuss recent events linked with Pedro Sanchez and Western Sahara, the last part of Africa to have no...
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020) 13.04.2022 56:31
Podcast : New Books in Anthropology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians" (Duke UP, 2020) Pub date : 2021-12-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Berlin is home to Europe’s largest Palestinian diaspora community and one of the world’s largest I...
The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth 13.04.2022 59:15
Podcast : Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth Pub date : 2022-03-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Do you buy into American Exceptionalism? Politicians of both parties do. But what does it mean to the planet? On this show professor...
12 Wayne Au - Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Social Justice Education in a Post-Trump America 07.04.2022 1:13:24
Podcast : Collective Intellectualities (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : 12 Wayne Au - Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Social Justice Education in a Post-Trump America Pub date : 2022-03-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, j...
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, "Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America" (Duke UP, 2020) 07.04.2022 50:32
Podcast : New Books in Gender (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, "Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America" (Duke UP, 2020) Pub date : 2022-03-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege...
The house that Viktor built 07.04.2022 27:50
Podcast : The Documentary Podcast (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The house that Viktor built Pub date : 2022-03-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, is running for a fourth consecutive term. The election is on 3 April. But now it is taking place against the background of a war...
The Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung 30.03.2022 1:45:34
Podcast : Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Dig: Clash of Empires w/ Ho-fung Hung Pub date : 2022-03-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The second of our two-part interview with sociologist Ho-fung Hung on Chinese political and economic history. This episode covers the 2008 financial crisis, how China’s r...
FreshEd #274 - Transitional Justice and Education in South Africa (Natasha Robinson) 30.03.2022 27:23
Podcast : FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : FreshEd #274 - Transitional Justice and Education in South Africa (Natasha Robinson) Pub date : 2022-03-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we talk about transitional justice, the role of truth telling in historical memory, and how education can help or hinder the proc...
Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020) 23.03.2022 59:50
Podcast : New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : Silvia M. Lindtner, "Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation" (Princeton UP, 2020) Pub date : 2022-03-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 20...
NPR and the Latinx Public 23.03.2022 53:59
Podcast : A Public Affair (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : NPR and the Latinx Public Pub date : 2022-03-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In recent months, there has been a spate of journalists of color leaving their posts at NPR, including Audie Cornish, Lourdes “Lulu” Garcia-Navarro, and Noel King. This has...
The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility 23.03.2022 59:10
Podcast : Harvard Divinity School (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility Pub date : 2022-03-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This event is part of the RCPI Fellows' Spring Series, "Disrupting Injustice and Promoting Moral Imagination in Israel/Palestine...
Women's Lives In Modern China 16.03.2022 39:52
Podcast : Asia Matters Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Women's Lives In Modern China Pub date : 2022-03-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization On the eve of International Women's Day, we're bringing you a special podcast in collaboration with King's College London's Lau China Institute, looking at t...
Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance 16.03.2022 47:41
Podcast : Democracy Paradox (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili on Afghanistan, Local Institutions, and Self-Governance Pub date : 2022-03-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It wasn't because Afghan social norms don’t support democracy. They do. And Afghans understood...
2791-America's Housing Scam w/ Andrew Ross 16.03.2022 1:00:16
Podcast : The Majority Report with Sam Seder (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : 2791-America's Housing Scam w/ Andrew Ross Pub date : 2022-03-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Emma hosts Andrew Ross , professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, to discuss his recent book Sunbelt Blues: The Failure...
Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West Africa 08.03.2022 2:06:44
Podcast : The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West Africa Pub date : 2022-02-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We start this episode with a few minutes of reading reviews – from fans and not-fans! Perhaps this will inspire you to review...
Decolonizing Memory, COVID-19 in MENA, Democratic Reform in Jordan (S. 11, Ep. 21) 08.03.2022 1:05:02
Podcast : POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Decolonizing Memory, COVID-19 in MENA, Democratic Reform in Jordan (S. 11, Ep. 21) Pub date : 2022-02-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jill Jarvis of Yale University joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss her new book, Deco...
FreshEd #271 – Reimagining Education in Chile’s New Constitution (Carlos Navia Canales) 08.03.2022 25:39
Podcast : FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : FreshEd #271 – Reimagining Education in Chile’s New Constitution (Carlos Navia Canales) Pub date : 2022-02-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 2020, Chilean citizens voted for their national constitution to be re-written. This was the culmination of mass protests the year...
Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021) 01.03.2022 56:08
Podcast : New Books in Chinese Studies (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Yunxiang Gao, "Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2021) Pub date : 2022-02-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the...
Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China 01.03.2022 24:11
Podcast : New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Understanding Authoritarianism: Deepening Autocratization, Dynamic Dictatorships, and China Pub date : 2022-02-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Authoritarian regimes have often been discussed in contrast to democratic governments and defined in te...
#11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural Commons 01.03.2022 1:25:07
Podcast : In Conversation with Jack Jacobs Episode : #11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural Commons Pub date : 2022-02-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What is the Cultural Commons? Is there a tradition that links Burke with Nietzsche? What about Burke and Gandhi? What was Gandhi's critique...
Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon 15.02.2022 49:38
Podcast : In Pursuit of Development (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon Pub date : 2022-02-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization As India’s stature across the globe increases, there is considerable interest in better understanding how its foreign policy is likely to evolve....
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