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
Eduardo Kohn and I recently spoke about his great new ethnography, a book that attempts an “anthropology beyond the human,” and that involves discussions of dreaming dogs and falling peccaries, and that I really, really loved. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading How Forests Think: An Interview
Sunil Amrith and I recently had the chance to talk about his fascinating new book on the (environmental, political, cultural, social) history of the Bay of Bengal in the maritime world. It’s great work, it was a pleasure to talk about it, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading Crossing the Bay of Bengal: An Interview
I recently spoke with Michael Ruse about his fascinating new history of the Gaia Hypothesis in the context of the transformations of professional and public engagements with science and technology in the 1960s. It was a pleasure, and you can find our conversation here. Continue reading The Gaia Hypothesis: An Interview
I had the great pleasure of talking with Sienna Craig about her wonderful new book on Tibetan medical practices in the modern world. It’s an inspiring and beautifully written ethnography, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Healing Elements: An Interview
Aaron S. Moore and I recently talked about his new book on technology, empire, and Japan’s wartime era. It’s a fascinating study, and you can listen to our conversation about it here. Continue reading Constructing East Asia: An Interview
I spoke recently with Rowan Flad about the great new book he co-authored with Pochan Chen. The book explores the historical, archaeological, ecological, and other topographies of the Three Gorges region in early China, and you can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading Ancient Central China: An Interview
Jim Milward and I recently talked about the new introduction to the Silk Road that he recently published as part of the Oxford “A Very Short Introduction” series. You can listen to our conversation here. Continue reading The Silk Road: An Interview
I had a blast talking with Dominic Pettman recently about his two most recent books on humanity, animals, machines, and the relationships among them in the modern mediascape. You can find our conversation here. Continue reading Human Error/Look at the Bunny: An Interview
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