Podcasts by SOF/Heyman Podcasts
Podcasts from Columbia University's The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, where we feature talks with professors about their recent work, publications, novels and more. Hear them read from their work, and also responses from other professors in their fields. These episodes are hosted by Olivia Branscum and Timothy Lundy.
We also feature The Trilling Tapes. In this podcast series, we mine the recorded archives--the Trilling Tapes--to uncover and contextualize more than forty years of exceptional critical thought.
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Frank Andre Guridy's The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics from 2021-06-09T14:53:45
In the 1960s and 1970s, America experienced a sports revolution. New professional sports franchises and leagues were established, new stadiums were built, football and basketball grew in popularity...
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Chris Washburne's Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz from 2021-05-26T15:51:14
Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage h...
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Kaiama L. Glover's A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being from 2021-03-24T13:33:02
Hosted by Olivia Branscum and Timothy Lundy, this week's episode features Kaiama L. Glover's A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being.
In A Regarded Self Kai...
Dustin Stewart's Futures of Enlightenment Poetry from 2021-03-03T17:54:14
This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth cen...
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Jack Halberstam's Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire from 2021-02-17T16:12:33
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century....
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Matthew Hart's Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction from 2021-01-27T17:26:50
The future of fiction is neither global nor national. Instead, Matthew Hart argues, it is trending extraterritorial. Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power...
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Eugenia Lean's Vernacular Industrialism in China from 2021-01-14T16:58:04
In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkere...
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Casey Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick's At the Center from 2020-12-16T18:42:53
At a time when American political and cultural leaders asserted that the nation stood at “the center of world awareness,” thinkers and artists sought to understand and secure principles that lay at...
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Deborah Paredez's Year of the Dog from 2020-12-09T17:26:53
In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War. The title refers to the year 1970—the...
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Elleni Centime Zeleke's Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016 from 2020-12-02T17:53:06
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between socia...
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Maggie Cao's The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America from 2020-10-21T16:02
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Ameri...
Adam Tooze's Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World from 2020-10-14T18:27:15
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-o...
Wael Hallaq's Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge from 2020-10-07T17:11:51
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In this landmark theoretical investigation, Wael B. Hal...
Adam Reich and Peter Bearman's Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart from 2020-09-30T18:17:46
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encomp...
Claudio Lomnitz's Nuestra América: utopía y persistencia de una familia judía from 2020-09-23T17:57:52
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Claudio Lomnitz's most recent book, Nuestra América, is...
Maria Victoria Murillo & Ernesto Calvo's Non-Policy Politics from 2020-09-16T19:16:05
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Calvo and Murillo consider the non-policy benefits that...
Will Slauter's Who Owns the News: A History of Copyright from 2020-09-09T18:06:18
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto ...
Ilana Feldman's Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics from 2020-09-02T18:34:53
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displace...
Murad Idris' War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought from 2020-09-02T18:31:10
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Peace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a...
Gil Eyal's The Crisis of Expertise from 2020-08-26T18:27:03
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In recent political debates there has been a significan...
Mariusz Kozak's Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music from 2020-08-19T19:53:11
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
What is musical time? Where is it manifested? How does ...
Jennifer Wenzel's The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature from 2020-06-18T17:59:53
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we...
Stephanie McCurry's Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War from 2020-06-12T15:48:36
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
When the war broke out, Union soldiers assumed Confeder...
Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference from 2020-06-05T15:45:12
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in ...
Sarah Cole's Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century from 2020-05-29T15:26:30
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive...
Brendan O'Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi's Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, & the Pursuit of Justice from 2020-05-22T14:49:13
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Shadows of Doubt reveals how deeply stereotypes distort...
Sharon Marcus' The Drama of Celebrity from 2020-05-15T16:08:19
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon ...
Stathis Gourgouris' The Perils of the One from 2020-05-08T16:53:04
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a p...
Nara B. Milanich's Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father from 2020-05-01T16:10:55
New Books at SOF/Heyman: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The new science of paternity, with methods such as bloo...
James Zetzel's Critics, Compilers, and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology from 2019-09-04T16:38:50
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
"To teach correct Latin and to explain the poets...
Nico Baumbach's Cinema/Politics/Philosophy from 2019-09-04T16:33:48
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and J...
Pier Mattia Tommasino's The Venetian Qur'an: A Renaissance Companion to Islam from 2019-08-07T17:01:38
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 tit...
Konstantina Zanou's Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850 from 2019-07-24T15:58:04
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean in...
Hamid Dabashi's The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature from 2019-07-10T15:50:48
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literat...
Brinkley Messick's Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology from 2019-06-26T16:04:59
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology
B...
The Trilling Tapes: Lauren Berlant from 2019-06-24T16:01:13
In the first episode of "The Trilling Tapes," the scholar Lauren Berlant talks live about her new project: an analysis about the affect of humorlessness in politics. Featuring the scholar Bruce Rob...
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Alan Stewart's The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern from 2018-12-11T20:21:46
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Ea...
Eric Klinenberg's Palaces for the People (full event audio) from 2018-12-04T15:18:02
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
We are living in a time of deep divisions. Ameri...
Ana Paulina Lee's Mandarin Brazil; Race, Representation, and Memory from 2018-12-04T15:12:05
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Mandarin Brazil; Race, Representation, and Memor...
A Conversation with Cory Doctorow (full event audio) from 2018-11-28T16:20:22
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
A special edition of our series, hear the full e...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne's Open to Reason from 2018-11-28T16:16:53
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversat...
Joseph Howley's Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture from 2018-11-28T16:11:01
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Aulus Gellius and Roman Reading Culture: Text, P...
Erik Gray's The Art of Love Poetry from 2018-10-09T20:13:44
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Art of Love Poetry
By: Erik Gray
Caitlin Gillespie's Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain from 2018-10-09T20:10:37
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain
By: ...
Mark Taylor's Last Works: Lessons in Leaving from 2018-10-09T20:08:48
New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Living in the shadow of death may enhance the gi...
Jack Halberstam's Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability from 2018-08-15T19:00:42
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Trans: A...
Bernard Harcourt's The Counterrevolution from 2018-08-15T18:53:31
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Militari...
Andreas Wimmer's Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart from 2018-08-14T21:32:53
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Nation B...
Jenny Davidson's Reading Jane Austen from 2018-08-14T21:23:04
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Reading ...
Dennis Tenen's Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation from 2018-08-14T21:15:35
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Plain Te...
Bruce Robbins' The Beneficiary from 2018-08-13T00:00
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Bene...
Naor Ben-Yehoyada's The Mediterranean Incarnate from 2018-08-01T17:27:17
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Medi...
Irina Reyfman's How Russia Learned to Write: Literature and the Imperial Table of Ranks from 2017-12-12T16:09
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
How Russ...
Liza Knapp's Anna Karenina and Others: Tolstoy’s Labyrinth of Plots from 2017-12-12T15:40:37
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Anna Kar...
Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller's The Seasons Alter from 2017-09-20T18:08:44
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Seas...
Turkuler Isiksel's Europe’s Functional Constitution: A Theory of Constitutionalism beyond the State from 2017-05-12T03:15:57
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Europe’s...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne's The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa from 2017-05-12T02:43:24
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
The Ink ...
Josef Sorett's Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics from 2017-05-12T02:31:07
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Spirit i...
The Unplugged Soul: "Keynote Conversation With Chris Lydon And Dave Winer" from 2017-04-13T00:00
A series of unprecedented freedoms – on demand software, discrete audiences, portable devices, cheap production costs, the bypassing of broadcast infrastructure and with it content restrictions – l...
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The Unplugged Soul: A Conference on the Podcast: "Disrupting Story" from 2017-04-12T00:00
Jeff Emtman (Here Be Monsters), “The Cult of the Story”
Bethany Jo Denton (Here Be Monsters), “A Case for the Minimalist Narrator”
Jonathan Hirsch (ARRVLS), “Storytelling vs Steno...
The Unplugged Soul: "Get Close. Now Get Closer... Creating Audio Movies For The Mind" from 2017-04-12T00:00
Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson (The Kitchen Sisters), “Get Close. Now Get Closer… Creating Audio Movies for the Mind"
A series of unprecedented freedoms – on demand software, discrete audien...
The Unplugged Soul: A Conference on the Podcast: "In Microphones Begin Responsibilities" from 2017-04-12T00:00
Hillary Frank (The Longest Shortest Time), “Podcasts Can Change the World (At Least a Little)”
Devon Taylor (Millennial), “New Ears”
Rachel Zucker (Commonplace), “Less and Less an...
Recent Work by Elizabeth Povinelli and Lila Abu-Lughod from 2017-03-08T18:59:16
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
Veiled S...
Manan Ahmed's A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia from 2017-03-08T18:54:21
New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors.
A Book o...