Episodes

Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Gerard Hanlon on the military, Ukraine, management, the professions, and students from pathbreaking backgrounds
You can read about his work here:
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sbm/staff/academic/profiles/hanlong.html

Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Dennis Broe on Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders” et al.), the Los Angeles fires, and neoliberalism. Toby on Mexico
You can watch Dennis’ “LA is Burning” talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oHeJboBXw
and Karen Bass discourteously, if tellingly, doorstepped by Sky News here:

Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon, and Steve Macek on Jeff Bezos, Silicon Valley, the bourgeois media, the Democratic Party, the orange combover and the manchild's assault on scientific inquiry
You can read about their work here
https://education.ucsc.edu/people/lecturers.php?uid=nhigdon
https://faculty.fordham.edu/andersen/
https://www.northcentralcollege.edu/profile/shmacek

Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Thomas Scanlon on classics, sports, violence, gender, and empires
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Wednesday Feb 26, 2025
Thomas Scanlon on life in California versus London, the ancient Mediterranean world and the US, classics, sports, violence, gender, and empires
You can read about his work here: https://ucriverside.academia.edu/TScanlon

Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Sharika Thiranagama on war, difference, and Sri Lanka
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Wednesday Feb 19, 2025
Sharika Thiranagama on war, difference, and Sri Lanka
You can read about her work here:
https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/sharika-thiranagama

Friday Feb 07, 2025
Joe Maguire on Ireland, sports, Elias, sociology, and Marxism
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Joe Maguire on Ireland, sports, Elias, sociology, and Marxism
You can read about his work here:
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/sport-exercise-health-sciences/people/joseph-maguire/

Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Jennifer Smith Maguire on sociology, consumption, wine, fitness, and intermediation.
You can read about her work here:
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/jennifer-smith-maguire
Smith Maguire, J. 2021. Towards a sociology from wine and vina aperta. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 6(2), 10: 1-12. [Open Access]
Smith Maguire, J., Bridgeman, N-M., Marco-Thyse, S. & Erasmus, C. 2022. Wine farmworkers, provenance stories and ethical value claims. Journal of Wine Research. 33(4): 214-234. [Open Access here]
Smith Maguire, J., Ocejo, R. & DeSoucey, M. 2023. Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness. Journal of Consumer Culture. 23(3): 597-616. [Open Access here]
Lever, J., Smith Maguire, J. & Kapek-Goodridge, A. (Eds). 2024. Towards an Eliasian Understanding of Food in the 21st Century: Established Foundations and New Directions. Palgrave.

Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Dennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and today
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Dennis Broe on his new novel, The Dark Ages, Hollywood, and LA yesterday and today
You can read (all) about it here:
https://books.apple.com/es/book/the-dark-ages/id6739433342

Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Bruce Williams and Michael Delli Carpini on US politics
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Bruce Williams and Michael Delli Carpini on US politics
You can read more about their work here:
https://mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/people/bruce-williams
https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/michael-x-delli-carpini-phd

Friday Nov 22, 2024
Friday Nov 22, 2024
Toni Pape on higher education, media aesthetics, stealth, process philosophy, editing, and games
You can read about Toni’s work here:
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/a/t.pape/t.pape.html?cb
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5847/The-Aesthetics-of-StealthDigital-Culture-Video
https://www.dukeupress.edu/figures-of-time