In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

Episodes

Total: 1617

Glenn Dynner, “Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2015/12/1

In Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland (Oxford UP, 2014), Glenn Dynner,

Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik, eds., “Twenty Years After Communism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/11/23

For people and governments in the west the revolutions of 1989 and 1991 were happy events, and as th

Charles Fountain, “The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/11/20

Gambling and sports have been in the news lately in the US. Authorities in Nevada and New York have

Naser Ghobadzadeh, “Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2015/11/18

While “fundamentalism” and “authoritarian secularism” are commonly perceived as the two mutually exc

Kenneth L. Marcus, “The Definition of Anti-Semitism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/11/12

In The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 2015), Kenneth L. Marcus, the President

Michael L. Oberg, “Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/11/10

On November 11, 2015, leaders and citizens of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy–Senec

Maria Heim, “The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention and Agency” (Oxford UP, 2013)
2015/11/8

Buddhaghosa, a fifth-century Pali Buddhist scholar or group of scholars, is the most influential com

Aaron W. Hughes, “Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2015/11/5

In Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism (Oxford University Press, 201

Lisa Tessman, “Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/11/1

Moral theories are often focused almost exclusively on answering the question, “What ought I do?” Ty

Vicken Cheterian, “Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/10/29

The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions

Vicken Cheterian, "Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide" (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/10/29

The assassination of the Armenian-Turkish activist Hrant Dink in 2007 raised uncomfortable questions

Clare Croft, “Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/10/27

What’s missing from our understanding of the role of dancers in the context of American Cultural Dip

Sanjay Srivastava, “Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/10/2

Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (Oxford University

Jonathyne Briggs, “Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/9/30

“Pop pop pop pop musik” -M Jonathyne Briggs‘ new book, Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Commun

Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, “Using Technology, Building Democracy: Digital Campaigning and the Construction of Citizenship” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/9/28

Jessica Baldwin-Philippi is the author of Using Technology, Building Democracy: Digital Campaigning

Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/9/26

Valuation is a central question in contemporary social science. Indeed the question of value has a r

Lois Lee, “Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular” (Oxford UP, 2015)
2015/9/14

What does non-religion mean? In a new book Recognizing the Non-Religious: Reimagining the Secular (O

Aysha Hidayatullah, “Feminist Edges of the Qur’an” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2015/9/9

What are some of the key features and characteristics of the Muslim feminist Qur’an exegetical tradi

Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, “New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India” (Oxford UPs 2015)
2015/9/8

New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India (Oxford Univ

Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds., “The Jewish Study Bible” (Oxford UP, 2014)
2015/9/2

At 2,300 pages and featuring 54 contributors and 42 contextual and interpretive essays, the second e