In Theory: The JHI Blog Podcast

Oct 22 2024 55 ep. 56 mins 75
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In Theory is the podcast of the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. The hosts of the JHI Blog team interview intellectual scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, natural and social sciences, religion, and political thought about their latest books and works. The aim of the JHI podcast is to highlight the huge diversity of intellectual history at university departments across the world.

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Completing Humanity: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Umut Özsu

Oct 22 2024 75 mins  
In 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,

Disalienation: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Camille Robcis

Oct 09 2024 50 mins  
In 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 Life of Nuns: Luke Wilkinson interviews Henrike Lähnemann

Oct 05 2024 54 mins  
Luke 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.

Awakening the Ashes: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Marlene Daut

Oct 02 2024 46 mins  
Disha 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 af

The Solidarity Economy: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Tehila Sasson

Jun 17 2024 57 mins  
Disha 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 i

Black Scare/Red Scare: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Charisse Burden-Stelly

Jun 05 2024 39 mins  
Historian 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-capital

Abundance: Sexuality’s History: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Anjali Arondekar

Dec 11 2023 52 mins  
Historian 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).

Terms of Exchange: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Ian Merkel

Sep 25 2023 57 mins  
In 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).

Merchants of Virtue: Disha Karnad Jani interviews Divya Cherian

Jul 21 2023 59 mins  
In 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).

Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria - Disha Karnad Jani interviews Judith Surkis

Jan 23 2023 57 mins  
In 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).