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WikiVictorian from 2022-06-27T08:00
Helena DiGiusti talks about @WikiVictorian, the Twitter account that she runs. More than a traditional wiki, it embodies the randomness and miscellaneous nature of so much of Victorian cultures. Sh...
ListenDistant Reading from 2022-05-25T08:00
In this episode Kim talks with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu about distant reading. Ama Bemma provides her Global Poetics Project as an awesome example of distant reading. She also references Franco More...
ListenKaren Redrobe and Jeff Scheible, "Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) from 2022-02-04T09:00
In Deep Mediations: Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures (U of Minnesota Press, 2021), co-editors Karen Redrobe and Jeff Schieble argue that the notion of “depth” is a multivalent one in t...
ListenWim Van Petegem et al., "Evolving as a Digital Scholar: Teaching and Researching in a Digital World" (Leuven UP, 2021) from 2022-02-01T09:00
What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains of digit...
ListenGrant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021) from 2022-01-28T09:00
When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and worlds, about the value o...
Listen73 Teletherapy with Hannah Zeavin (High Theory Crossover, Saronik) from 2022-01-27T09:00
Crossover Month at Recall this Book ends with a glance sideways at the doings of our pals Saronik and Kim, hosts of the delightfully lapidary podcast High Theory. Refresh your sense of them with Re...
ListenMarshall Poe: The Founder and Editor of the New Books Network from 2022-01-17T09:00
This interview was recorded and first published in early 2020 when the NBN had about a million downloads a month. Since then the downloads have increased more than four-fold to just below 5 million...
Listen71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP) from 2022-01-06T09:00
This week on Recall this Book, another delightful crossover episode from our sister podcast Novel Dialogue, which puts scholars and writers together to discuss the making of novels and what to make...
ListenJanneke Adema, "Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities" (MIT Press, 2021) from 2021-12-22T09:00
In Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021), Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project -- not as linear, bound and f...
ListenAndrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020) from 2021-12-14T09:00
Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data (Cambridge UP, 2020) by Andrew Piper tackles the problem of generalization with respect to text-based evidence in the field of lit...
ListenEdward J. Ayers, "Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020" (LSU Press, 2020) from 2021-12-08T09:00
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 (LSU Press, 2020) narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present da...
ListenJonatan Leer and S. G. S. Krogager, "Research Methods in Digital Food Studies" (Routledge, 2021) from 2021-12-02T09:00
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food and medi...
ListenMatt Christman and Daniel Bessner, "Hinge Points: A Podcast About Historical Contingency" from 2021-11-23T09:00
How do we balance the importance of individual human agency with our understanding of larger socio-economic structures? How do we explore crucial “what ifs” in history? How do we make this stuff ac...
ListenSanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2) from 2021-11-18T09:00
This interview continues the conversation with Martin Gluckman, Researcher at University of Capetown and Director at Sanskrit Research Institute. We discuss his Panini Research Tool, Sanskrit Write...
ListenSanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1) from 2021-11-11T09:00
This interview features amazing open-access digital Sanskrit projects spearheaded by Martin Gluckman, Researcher at University of Capetown and Director at Sanskrit Research Institute. We discuss Ma...
ListenDeanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld, "Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization" (Princeton UP, 2021) from 2021-10-07T08:00
When Google announced that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of autho...
ListenMike Jones, "Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum" (Routledge, 2021) from 2021-09-21T08:00
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum (Routledge, 2021) provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary m...
ListenHoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021) from 2021-09-14T08:00
In The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age (Columbia UP, 2021), Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational m...
ListenKaty Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021) from 2021-09-10T08:00
To envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and inte...
ListenOnline Dharma??stra Library: A Conversation with Don Davis from 2021-09-09T08:00
Dr. Don Davis (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies) speaks about the newly launched Resource Library for Dharma??stra Studies, a digitized open educational resource hosted at the Unive...
ListenMichael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021) from 2021-08-23T08:00
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. In their just-published A...
ListenP. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021) from 2021-08-17T08:00
Increasingly we live through our personal screens; we work, play, socialize, and learn digitally. The shift to remote everything during the pandemic was another step in a decades-long march toward ...
ListenA Conversation with Jacob Kyle, Founder of Embodied Philosophy from 2021-08-11T08:00
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacob Kyle about the genesis and vision of the online educational platform Embodied Philosophy. Over the course of their rich conversation, they touch on contemplative stud...
ListenJohn Davies and Alexander J. Kent, "The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World" (U Chicago Press, 2017) from 2021-08-06T08:00
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted an ambitious yet clandestine programme to map the world - from big cities like New York and Tokyo, to seemingly-obscure towns like Gainsborough (...
ListenAdam Crymble, "Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age" (U Illinois Press, 2021) from 2021-07-15T08:00
The digital age has touched and changed pretty much everything, even altering how historical research is practiced. In his new book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age ...
ListenRuth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021) from 2021-07-14T08:00
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, the...
ListenDiana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021) from 2021-07-09T08:00
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first tim...
ListenNathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020) from 2021-07-06T08:00
We are now living in the richest age of public memory. From museums and memorials to the vast digital infrastructure of the internet, access to the past is only a click away. Even so, the methods a...
ListenRoopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, "The Digital Black Atlantic" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) from 2021-07-05T08:00
How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? Th...
ListenTalking Digital Ethnography and Netnography: In Conversation with Marta-Marika Urbanik from 2021-06-28T08:00
As our research subjects increasingly live their social lives on and through virtual platforms, how can ethnographers incorporate digital methods into our research? On this episode we speak with Dr...
ListenKathleen Fitzpatrick, "Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) from 2021-06-15T04:00
In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her 'Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) charges ...
ListenJohn B. Thompson, "Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing" (Polity, 2021) from 2021-05-07T08:00
Today I talked to John Thompson, Emeritus Professor, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, about his new book Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing (Polity, 2021). We discuss crowdfunding, ...
ListenTeaching Buddhist Studies Online: A Discussion with Kate Hartmann from 2021-04-30T08:00
Join Raj Balkaran as he talks with Dr. Kate Hartmann, Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming and Director of Buddhist Studies Online, a new educational platform provid...
ListenDanielle Child, "Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) from 2021-04-29T08:00
Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject f...
ListenCaleb Iyer Elfenbein, "Fear in Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America" (NYU Press, 2021) from 2021-04-23T08:00
In Fear In Our Hearts: What Islamophobia Tells Us about America (NYU Press, 2021), Caleb Iyer Elfenbein, Associate Professor at Grinnell College, examines Islamophobia in the United States, positin...
ListenRichard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020) from 2021-04-16T09:00
What is the story of race in American fiction? In Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2020), Richard Jean So, an assistant profess...
ListenCommon Ground Scholar: A Discussion with Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis from 2021-03-04T09:00
Listen to this interview of Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, creators of the website newlearningonline.com and also professors at the College of Education, University of Illinois. We talk about monast...
ListenXenia Zeiler, "Digital Hinduism" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-26T09:00
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. Xenia Zeiler's book Digita...
ListenCareers: A Discussion with Dorothy Berry, Digital Archivist from 2021-01-22T09:00
On today’s podcast, I am chatting with Dorothy Berry, Houghton Library's Digital Collections Program Manager. In it, we discuss why she became an archivist, what digital archivists do, and about th...
ListenVanessa Mongey, "Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020) from 2021-01-20T09:00
The University of Pennsylvania describes Mongey's work as follows. "When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simon Bolivar might come to min...
ListenJohanna Drucker, "Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display" (MIT Press, 2020) from 2020-12-23T09:00
In the several decades since scholars in the humanities have taken up computational tools, they have borrowed many techniques from other fields, including visualization methods to create charts, gr...
ListenNimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945" (Cornell UP, 2020) from 2020-12-08T09:00
On today’s New Books in History, we sit down with Dr. Nimisha Barton to discuss her new book, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France (Cornell University Press, 2...
ListenS. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2020) from 2020-11-24T09:00
Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies (Liverpool UP, 2020) explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of ...
ListenM. Wodzi?ski and W. Spallek, "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (Princeton UP, 2018) from 2020-11-18T09:00
The Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton UP, 2018) is the first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era’s most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring seventy-four large...
ListenL. L. Paterson and I. N. Gregory, "Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) from 2020-11-17T09:00
Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniqu...
ListenDoug Specht, "Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping" (U London Press, 2020) from 2020-10-29T08:00
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the...
ListenThomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Deathscape: Grave Reform in Modern China" (Stanford UP, 2019) from 2020-10-23T08:00
In the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been exhumed and reburied across the Chinese landscape. The campaign has transformed China's graveyards into sites of acute personal, so...
ListenD. Bilak and T. Nummedal, "Furnace and Fugue. A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s 'Atalanta fugiens' (1618)" (U Virginia Press, 2020) from 2020-10-21T08:00
In 1618, on the eve of the Thirty Years’ War, the German alchemist and physician Michael Maier published Atalanta fugiens, an intriguing and complex musical alchemical emblem book designed to engag...
ListenBrian Weatherson, "A History of Philosophy Journals. Volume 1: Evidence from Topic Modeling, 1876-2013" (2020) from 2020-10-14T08:00
Anglophone philosophy in the twentieth century was centered, to an unprecedented extent, around journals: periodical publications that aimed to present (one vision of) the best philosophical work o...
ListenMartin Paul Eve, "Close Reading with Computers" (Stanford UP, 2019) from 2020-09-29T08:00
Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens when such telescopic techniques function as a microscope ...
ListenBonus Episode: A Discussion with Dr. Brian Collins from 2020-08-31T08:00
Today I talked with Dr. Brian Collins, the creator of "A Very Square Peg." We talked about: How he discovered Eilser in a used bookstore in Ann ArborHow he didn't seem to be able to let go of Eisl...
ListenNeil Selwyn, "What is Digital Sociology?" (Polity, 2019) from 2020-03-27T08:00
The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an appro...
ListenEric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015) from 2015-11-15T18:04
By now it is incontrovertible that new technology has had an effect on how regular people get information. Whether in the form of an online newspaper or a Google search, new technology has allowed ...
ListenColin Gordon, “Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality” (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013) from 2013-06-25T17:27
Americans seem to be more concerned about economic inequality today than they have been in living memory. The Occupy Movement (“We are the 99%”) is only the most visible sign of this growing unease...
ListenColin Gordon, “Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality” (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013) from 2013-06-25T17:27
Americans seem to be more concerned about economic inequality today than they have been in living memory. The Occupy Movement (“We are the 99%”) is only the most visible sign of this growing unease...
ListenColin Gordon, “Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality” (Institute for Policy Studies, 2013) from 2013-06-25T17:27
Americans seem to be more concerned about economic inequality today than they have been in living memory. The Occupy Movement (“We are the 99%”) is only the most visible sign of this growing unease...
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