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Episode 17: In this episode Sulaiman Ahmed talks with Ambika Natarajan about her book: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914. Please follow this link for more information about Servants of Culture: berghahnbooks.com/title/NatarajanServants

Episode 16: Nationalism. In this episode Sulaiman Ahmed talks with Passi Ihalainen and Antero Holmila about the volume that they co-edited: Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State; and to Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher about their edited volume Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism. Please follow these links for more information about these books: berghahnbooks.com/title/IhalainenNationalism berghahnbooks.com/title/BerezhnayaRampart

Editorial 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: Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

Ulf 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 Enlightening Encounters: The Journeys of an Anthropologist

In 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.

Episode 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 process behind the book, and how money relates to our place in society.  www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HartSelf

In 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 Ruination. In the second interview, we are joined by Karen Hagemann and Donna Harsch, who co-edited Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements along with Friederike Brühöfener. For more information about these books: berghahnbooks.com/title/StraubeAfter berghahnbooks.com/title/BruehoefenerGendering

In 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

Following 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 from the vantage point of our publishing program. Through establishing a new collection titled Reading Against Racism: A Berghahn Collection, we have committed to increasing the visibility of and access to materials which contribute to ongoing conversations surrounding race and racism. To coincide with the release of Reading Against Racism, this episode features four interviews with writers included in that work. You can visit www.berghahnbooks.com/readingagainstracism to find chapters and articles by all of today's guests, as well as a number of other free resources on the topic of race.  

In 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 political events, and that shape the responses. The conversation focuses on the parallels between human created disasters and natural phenomena, what Disasters Studies has to say about contemporary issues, such as Haiti and post-Katrina New Orleans, as well as representation and diversity in the field of Disaster Studies, as well as the series editors' plans for the future.   Learn more about the book series here:  Berghahn Series: Catastrophes in Context

In 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 Working Class; Raffaella Sarti, editor of What is Work?: Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present; and a poem from John Greening, whose most recent collection, A Post Card To, was published this year by Red Squirrel Press. A reminder that both of today's featured books can be found on our website berghahnbooks.com, and the poem will be featured in an upcoming edition of Critical Survey.  

In 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: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture. We'll close today's salon with a reading of a poem by Colin James, "The Betrothal of a Semi Compliant Therefore Semi Coherent, Narcissus," previously published in Critical Survey.

This 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 look towards the future with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Guests on this episode include: Stewart Anderson, author of A Dramatic Reinvention: German Television and Moral Renewal after National Socialism, 1956–1970 Tríona Ní Shíocháin, author of Singing Ideas: Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry Georgia Curran, author of Sustaining Indigenous Songs: Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia Carl Devito, author of Science, SETI, and Mathematics And poet Michael W. Thomas reading his poem 'Even the Hem of Midsummer' from the upcoming issue of the journal Critical Survey.

This 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 series, and Jean-Paul Gagnon, editor of the Berghahn Journal Democratic Theory.  We will also share instructions on how to enter for the chance to win a $100 gift card to Blackwell's Bookstore, "an Oxford family bookshop."  

Episode 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 featuring Selcen Küçüküstel author of the forthcoming title EMBRACING LANDSCAPE: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia, as well as Andrew Dawson and Simone Dennis, editors of this year's special volume of the journal Anthropology in Action focusing on "Covid-19 and the Transformation of Intimacy." And, in a special segment, a few of our colleagues share beloved holiday recipes and memories of family, friends, and food.