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Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books

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Terror, Torture and State Violence in Colonial India, with Deana Heath, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven

In this episode, Salman Sayyid and Claudia Radiven were joined by Deana Heath to discuss her work Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violenc...

00:59:36Oct 23, 2026

Runes: A Concise History with Tom Birkett (Oxford UP, 2025)

Tom Birkett, University College, Cork, joins Jana Byars to discuss his new book, Runes: A Concise History (Oxford UP, 2025) An accessible an...

00:47:36Oct 23, 2026

In Defence of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology with Thomas Fuchs (Oxford UP, 2021)

At a time when artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and digital technologies increasingly shape our understanding of what it means to be h...

00:44:56Oct 18, 2026

Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712 with Nat Cutter (Oxford UP, 2026)

Moving beyond official diplomatic records and printed texts, Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712: Merchants, Consuls, and Cultural Ex...

00:49:01Oct 16, 2026

Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson's America with Paul Kelton (Oxford UP, 2026)

In this episode of In Conversation, Lilyanna D'Amato speaks with Paul Kelton about his new book, Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in J...

00:45:42Oct 14, 2026

Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform with Charles West (Oxford UP, 2025)

Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, on...

00:39:27Oct 10, 2026

The Technocratic International: Experts and the Making of a World from Nowhere with Jan Eijking (Oxford UP, 2026)

Most international organisations today-from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the World Health Organisation-present themselve...

00:39:45Oct 9, 2026

A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa with Matthew P. Fitzpatrick (Oxford UP, 2025)

Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Annexed to this empire in 1900 was Sa...

00:48:38Oct 8, 2026

Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan with Thomas Gregory (Oxford UP, 2025)

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weap...

00:42:53Sep 26, 2026

Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan with Thomas Gregory (Oxford UP, 2025)

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His new book, Weap...

00:42:53Sep 25, 2026

Andrew Seth Meyer, "To Rule All Under Heaven: A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor" (Oxford UP, 2026)

The Warring States Period is one of the most important times in China’s history. It marked the end of one dynasty–the Zhou–and the beginning...

00:52:23Sep 17, 2026

Robert A. Wilson, "Kin Matters: Relational Beings in the Fragile Sciences" (Oxford UP, 2026)

What is kinship? This central question in cultural anthropology is standardly answered in terms of culturally constructed relationships that...

01:06:02Sep 10, 2026

Meghan Garrity, "Mass Expulsion: The Politics of Forced Population Removal" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite...

41:24Sep 5, 2026

Baruch Fischhoff, "Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Baruch Fischhoff's Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems: A Vision for Management Science (Oxford University Press, 2025), part of the...

77:04Sep 4, 2026

Shaun Gallagher, "The Self and its Disorders" (Oxford UP, 2024)

In this interview, Shaun Gallagher discusses The Self and its Disorders (Oxford University Press, 2024) A ground-breaking theory of the self...

54:51Sep 4, 2026

Stefan Collini, "Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2025) by Stefan Collini The study and teaching of...

75:35Aug 29, 2026

Jamie L. Brummitt, "Protestant Relics in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Edward Blum interviews Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt on how new book Protestant Relics in Early America. In Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxfo...

43:14Aug 27, 2026

Chenchen Zhang, "Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China" (Oxford UP, 2026)

With commentary on the emergence of a ‘multipolar’ world, of transatlantic rifts and the rise of ‘middle powers’ ubiquitous, tales of the de...

70:00Aug 25, 2026

Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with auth...

57:28Aug 25, 2026

Travis Bruce, "Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean" (Oxford UP, 2026)

Constructing the Medieval Maritime State: Identity, Violence, and Connection in the Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2026) by Profess...

42:18Aug 23, 2026