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In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

87 hours 47 mins; June 25, 2023

David Cressy, "Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; June 21, 2023

Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)

56 mins; June 21, 2023

John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 20, 2023

Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 25 mins; June 18, 2023

Lloyd Daniel Barba, "Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 mins; June 16, 2023

Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)

76 hours 0 mins; June 15, 2023

Simon Paul Cox, "The Subtle Body: A Genealogy" (Oxford UP, 2021)

56 mins; June 15, 2023

Michael Magcamit, "Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts" (Oxford UP, 2022)

38 mins; June 15, 2023

Daniel E. Agbiboa, "They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria" (Oxford UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 14, 2023

Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change" (Oxford UP, 2023)

74 hours 25 mins; June 13, 2023

R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)

34 mins; June 11, 2023

Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

42 mins; June 09, 2023

Loriliai Biernacki, "The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and the New Materialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

31 mins; June 08, 2023

Lawrence Freedman, "Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; June 08, 2023

Mark R. Warren, "Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline" (Oxford UP, 2021)

37 mins; June 07, 2023

Philip Kitcher, "What's the Use of Philosophy?' (Oxford UP, 2023)

51 mins; June 05, 2023

Chris Suh, "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion" (Oxford UP, 2023)

118 hours 22 mins; June 03, 2023

James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)

61 hours 14 mins; June 03, 2023

Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

58 mins; June 02, 2023

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; June 01, 2023

Tatiana Carayannis and Thomas G. Weiss, "The 'Third' United Nations: How a Knowledge Ecology Helps the UN Think" (Oxford UP, 2021)

39 mins; May 31, 2023

Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)

55 mins; May 31, 2023

Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)

66 hours 5 mins; May 25, 2023

Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)

59 mins; May 21, 2023

Simon Cox on the Subtle Body

76 hours 11 mins; May 18, 2023

Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)

65 hours 52 mins; May 18, 2023

Aarie Glas, "Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 19 mins; May 15, 2023

Karen Schrier, "We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" (Oxford UP, 2021)

36 mins; May 11, 2023

Nina Hall, "Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era: Think Global, Act Local" (Oxford UP, 2022)

43 mins; May 08, 2023

Ami Harbin, "Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; May 07, 2023

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

39 mins; May 05, 2023

Daniel Roth, "Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice" (Oxford UP, 2021)

28 mins; May 03, 2023

Free Speech 69: Campus Misinformation with Bradford Vivian

73 hours 45 mins; May 02, 2023

Chandra Mallampalli, "South Asia's Christians: Between Hindu and Muslim" (Oxford UP, 2023)

72 hours 51 mins; May 01, 2023

Darrel Moellendorf, "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2022)

63 hours 42 mins; May 01, 2023

Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2023

Timothy R. Pauketat, "Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America" (Oxford UP,

46 mins; April 27, 2023

David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)

56 mins; April 27, 2023

Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)

72 hours 39 mins; April 27, 2023

Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; April 26, 2023

Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)

62 hours 1 min; April 22, 2023

Cao Yin, "Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45" (Oxford UP, 2022)

70 hours 55 mins; April 19, 2023

Zoha Waseem, "Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi" (Oxford UP, 2022)

52 mins; April 18, 2023

Donald Harman Akenson, "The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible" (Oxford UP. 2023)

32 mins; April 16, 2023

Rajesh Veeraraghavan, "Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Reform in India" (Oxford UP, 2022)

68 hours 9 mins; April 11, 2023

Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)

77 hours 33 mins; April 11, 2023

Susan Allen and Amy Yuen, "Bargaining in the UN Security Council: Setting the Global Agenda" (Oxford UP, 2022)

38 mins; April 10, 2023

Mercedes Valmisa, "Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action" (Oxford UP, 2021)

58 mins; April 08, 2023

Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)

58 mins; April 07, 2023

Laura Arnold Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family" (Oxford UP, 2021)

50 mins; April 05, 2023

Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; April 05, 2023

Ben Shneiderman, "Human-Centered AI" (Oxford UP, 2022)

22 mins; April 04, 2023

Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

63 hours 35 mins; April 03, 2023

Philip Jenkins, "He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives of Psalm 91" (Oxford UP, 2022)

29 mins; April 01, 2023

Karen Frost-Arnold, "Who Should We Be Online?: A Social Epistemology for the Internet" (Oxford UP, 2023)

65 hours 39 mins; April 01, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

Rebecca Herman, "Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

42 mins; March 29, 2023

Mark Robert Rank, "The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

33 mins; March 29, 2023

Heidi J. Larson, "Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start--and Why They Don't Go Away" (Oxford UP, 2020)

51 mins; March 27, 2023

Tracy Livecchi and Liza Morton, "Healing Hearts and Minds: A Holistic Approach to Coping Well with Congenital Heart Disease" (Oxford UP, 2023)

26 mins; March 26, 2023

Tobias Tanton, "Corporeal Theology: The Nature of Theological Understanding in Light of Embodied Cognition" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; March 22, 2023

Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

60 hours 36 mins; March 20, 2023

Left to Our Own Devices: A Conversation with Julia Ticona

80 hours 2 mins; March 20, 2023

Cathal J. Nolan, "Mercy: Humanity in War" (Oxford UP, 2022)

74 hours 30 mins; March 19, 2023

Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; March 17, 2023

Ezra Rashkow, "The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, 'Tribes', Extermination and Conservation, 1818-2020" (Oxford UP, 2023)

48 mins; March 16, 2023

Herman Wasserman, "The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)

62 hours 35 mins; March 15, 2023

Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)

57 mins; March 15, 2023

Rahul Sagar, "The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government" (Oxford UP, 2021)

68 hours 6 mins; March 13, 2023

Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)

70 hours 36 mins; March 12, 2023

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

56 mins; March 11, 2023

Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)

54 mins; March 11, 2023

Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)

72 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2023

H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2023

Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

74 hours 4 mins; March 07, 2023

The Future of the Silk Road: A Discussion with Tim Winters

38 mins; March 07, 2023

Martin K. Dimitrov, "Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China" (Oxford UP, 2023)

51 mins; March 07, 2023

Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 16 mins; March 04, 2023

Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)

70 hours 28 mins; March 01, 2023

Melvyn P. Leffler, "Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq" (Oxford UP, 2023)

81 hours 41 mins; February 28, 2023

Stephen Bullivant, "Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America" (Oxford UP, 2022)

83 hours 52 mins; February 26, 2023

Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)

69 hours 9 mins; February 25, 2023

Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)

45 mins; February 24, 2023

Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2023

Zoe Adams, "The Legal Concept of Work" (Oxford UP, 2022)

88 hours 29 mins; February 19, 2023

Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)

82 hours 56 mins; February 17, 2023

Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)

25 mins; February 16, 2023

Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)

49 mins; February 16, 2023

Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)

51 mins; February 15, 2023

James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)

65 hours 55 mins; February 11, 2023

Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

58 mins; February 11, 2023

Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)

72 hours 36 mins; February 10, 2023

Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)

49 mins; February 09, 2023

Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; February 02, 2023

Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)

78 hours 1 min; February 01, 2023

Elizabeth Kelly Gray, "Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914" (Oxford UP, 2023)

59 mins; January 27, 2023

Uther Charlton-Stevens, "Anglo-India and the End of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)

41 mins; January 26, 2023

Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)

63 hours 53 mins; January 25, 2023

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