Robert Richards and I recently spoke about his new collection of wonderfully engaging and provocative essays on Darwin, Darwinians, and much else. You can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Was Hitler a Darwinian?: An Interview
Michelle King’s wonderful new book explores the intertwined histories of imperialism and infanticide, situating the histories of infant killing and abandonment in China within a broader account of these practices in western Europe and across Eurasia. You can listen to our recent conversation about it here. Continue reading Between Birth and Death: An Interview
Jamie Cohen-Cole and I recently spoke about his wonderful new book on the emergence of a discourse of creativity, interdisciplinarity, and the “open mind” in the context of Cold War American politics, education, and society. It’s a beautifully written and carefully argued study of the history of science, and you can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading The Open Mind: An Interview
Xiaojue Wang’s new book reimagines the history of literature in modern China by considering the work of authors writing across the 1949 divide in the context of the global Cold War. It’s a careful, thoughtful, and ambitious study, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Modernity with a Cold War Face: An Interview
Emma Teng’s wonderful new book explores the history of discourses about Eurasian identity and the lived experiences of Eurasian people in China, Hong Kong, and the US between 1842 and 1943. She generously made the time to talk with me about it recently, it was such a pleasure, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Eurasian: An Interview
Angela Creager generously made time to talk with me recently about her impeccably researched and elegantly written new history of radioisotopes as military and civilian objects, for experimentation and therapeutic use, from the 1930s through the late twentieth century. It’s a fabulous book, and you can find our conversation about it here. Continue reading Life Atomic: An Interview
Josh Fogel and spoke recently about his thoughtful new exploration of the transformations of an artifact as read through the transformations in the way that artifact has been understood historically. It’s a book about a very particular gold seal in the history of Japan, and simultaneously about much more, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C. E.: An Interview
Marga Vicedo’s new book explores the emergence of the science of children’s emotional needs in the twentieth century, contextualizing the work of British psychoanalyst and psychiatrist John Bowlby (1907-1990) within a broader history of scientific studies of human and animal behavior. She was kind enough to talk with me about it, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Nature and Nurture of Love: An Interview
I had the pleasure of talking with Jonathan Sterne about his fascinating new study of the MP3 as a historical, cultural, conceptual, and social phenomenon. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading MP3: An Interview
Adam Shapiro recently visited UBC and generously made time to talk with me about his new book, a careful study that looks beyond the rubrics of “science” and “religion” to understand how the Scopes trial became such an important event in the histories of both. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Trying Biology: An Interview
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