Latest Academicbooks Podcast Episodes
Coffee and Pepsi
Salon B - November 23, 2022 10:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEditorial Associate of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Sulaiman Ahmed, talks to Andrew Kloiber, the author of Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization Amanda Horn, our Cultural Studies Editor, talks to Melissa Oliver-Powell, the author of Pepsi and the Pill...
Stephen Gudeman
Salon B - September 27, 2022 10:21 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsUlf Hannerz says of Stephen Gudeman that he "may well be the internationally most renowned economic anthropologist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries." In this episode of Salon B, Tom Bonnington, Social Sciences Associate Editor at Berghahn, talks with Stephen Gudeman about his new book...
Journals Special: Girlhood Studies and TURBA
Salon B - June 09, 2022 09:29 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode Janine Latham, our Journals Manager, talks with the managing editors from two of Berghahn's journals: Dr Ann Smith from Girlhood Studies and Dina Davida from TURBA.
Keith Hart
Salon B - April 06, 2022 13:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEpisode 12 In this episode, our senior social science editor Tony Mason talks with anthropologist Keith Hart about his life and his newly published book Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes. They cover a wide variety of topics including Keith’s early life in Manchester, the writing proce...
Gender in History, Coloniality
Salon B - March 08, 2022 19:13 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode, we are pleased to share two interviews that look at the themes of gender in history, and coloniality. In the first interview, we are joined by Christian Straube, author of the open access title After Corporate Paternalism: Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruin...
Indigenous Stories, Colonialism, and Play
Salon B - December 02, 2021 15:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode we discuss a variety of topics related to Indigeneity, colonialism, and play. Guests on this episode include friends of the Berghahn journal ‘Girlhood Studies,’ author Emily Aguilo-Perez, and book editors Tiina Äikäs and Anna-Kaisa Salmi. www.berghahnbooks.com/podcast
Announcing: Reading Against Racism
Salon B - November 02, 2021 14:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFollowing an initial proposal for lasting solidarity in June of 2020, Berghahn Books committed to joining the global academic community and our publishing peers in challenging racism. Since then, we have fostered company-wide conversations on how best to contribute in perpetuity to that cause fr...
Catastrophe
Salon B - October 04, 2021 16:32 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of Salon B, our senior social science editor, Tony Mason, talks with the series editors of Catastrophes in Context, a Berghahn series that aims to bring critical attention to the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that create disasters, out of natural hazards or...
Labor
Salon B - May 10, 2021 15:06 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn celebration of International Workers' Day having taken place on May 1st and Karl Marx having been born on May 5th, our theme for this month’s episode is labor. This episode features Stephanie Fortado, co-editor of Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Wor...
Humor
Salon B - April 01, 2021 14:28 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn the spirit of the April Fool’s Day release date, this episode is themed around ‘humor,’ featuring conversations with Heidi Hakkarainen, author of Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna and Veronika Pehe, author of Velvet Retro...
Transmission
Salon B - March 03, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis month’s theme, appropriately enough, is transmission. We consider transmission in its many forms, from television transcending boundaries between West and East Germany, to the passing on of Aboriginal ceremonies in Australia. History speaks to us through the words of an Irish poet, and we l...
Crisis
Salon B - January 28, 2021 18:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode is centered around the notion of ‘crisis,’ featuring moments of intensity that prompt change. We’ll be chatting with Karena Kalmbach, author of The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France, Mark Schuller, editor of the Catastrophes in Context seri...
Intimacy
Salon B - December 24, 2020 00:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEpisode 3: “Intimacy” SALON B HOLIDAY SPECIAL As many of us find ourselves reinterpreting the idea of intimacy in the face of pandemic isolation, we are delighted to invite you into our salon for a while as we gather with academics and colleagues from the press. On this episode, we are fe...
Youth
Salon B - December 02, 2020 20:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe study of youth transcends traditional disciplinary bounds. On this episode of Salon B, we discuss the reshaping of social relations among young males in post-Socialist Kyrgyzstan, the reinforcement of ideology through East German comic books, and how boyhood is represented in contemporary fi...
Bones
Salon B - October 29, 2020 15:46 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to the first episode of Salon B, the new podcast from Berghahn Books. We are happy that you could join us as we embark on this exciting project. Historically, salons followed Horace’s aim of poetry “either to please or to educate”, and we hope to do both as we bring you a gathering of ...
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