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Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 26, 2026
47m 14s
Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 24, 2026
1h 07m 00s
Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Jun 23, 2026
46m 41s
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age
Jun 20, 2026
Unknown duration
Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jun 16, 2026
1h 31m 37s
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| 6/26/26 | ![]() Cleo Nisse, "Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting" (Princeton UP, 2026) | Between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries, European painting underwent a profound transformation as artists increasingly painted on canvas instead of wood or walls. Nowhere was more important to this shift than Venice, where painters experimented with canvas with remarkable creativity and innovation. In Venetian Canvas and the Transformation of Painting (Princeton University Press, 2026), Dr. Cleo Nisse investigates why Venetian artists adopted canvas and how it revolutionized their art between 1400 and 1600. Intertwining approaches from art history and art conservation, and featuring stunning new photographs that show details as never before, the book presents groundbreaking research based on close study of Venetian artworks, archival sources, art-making treatises, and early modern art criticism. It sheds new light on the materiality of early modern canvas, its production and supply, and the influence of climate on its use. The book offers fresh interpretations of iconic works and important concepts such as pittura di macchia and non finito, and demonstrates how canvas contributed to the radical new style of painters such as Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese. But above all else, it shows how canvas changed the making and meaning of paintings. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. | 47m 14s | ||||||
| 6/24/26 | ![]() Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2024) | What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money―or work for justice? To have children―or travel the world? The things we care about in life―family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals―often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don’t always know what we really want, or how to define success. This insightful book offers invaluable advice about living well by understanding your values and resolving the conflicts that frustrate their fulfillment. What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters (Princeton University Press, 2024) is an essential guide to helping you understand what really matters to you and how you can thoughtfully pursue it. | 1h 07m 00s | ||||||
| 6/23/26 | ![]() Catherine Fletcher, "The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires" (Princeton UP, 2026) | In Renaissance Italy, the gun was not only a tool of war but also a desirable object, a luxury item carried at court. Guns were in use on the battlefield by 1440; later in that century Leonardo da Vinci sketched a design for a faster-firing, more portable handgun that could be hidden beneath a cloak. As the gun proliferated in society, it became both a means of self-defence and a threat to civic order. In The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires (Princeton University Press, 2026), historian Catherine Fletcher explores the emergence of firearms in Renaissance Italy and beyond, describing the social transformations that accompanied the evolution of the handgun from innovative military technology to widely used personal accessory. Fletcher shows that as guns became smaller and the new wheellock mechanism made concealed carry possible, Italian states increasingly tried to control their use—even as they viewed firearms as necessary for their militias. In the end, Fletcher reports, the importance of civic defence trumped the concern for social order. As guns became ever more acceptable, stories of how firearms aided Europeans’ overseas conquests created a new and more positive image for a weapon once considered the devil’s work. Debates over the regulation of firearms five centuries ago—which included arguments over the restriction of gun ownership, the use of guns for self-defence and the regulation of an armed militia—in many ways anticipate discussions about gun control today. Fletcher’s groundbreaking account sheds new light on how governments weighed the competing priorities of defence and social order as they set out to build empires. Catherine Fletcher is professor of history at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of several books on early modern Italy, including The Roads to Rome, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance and The Black Prince of Florence: The Life of Alessandro de’ Medici. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube Channel: here | 46m 41s | ||||||
| 6/20/26 | ![]() Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age | In her recent publication, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, scholar Ayala Fader tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in twenty-first-century New York who lead “double lives” in order to protect those they love. Drawing on five years of fieldwork with those living double lives and the rabbis, life coaches, and religious therapists who minister to, advise, and sometimes excommunicate them, Fader investigates religious doubt and social change in the digital age. In following those living double lives, who range from the religiously observant but open-minded on one end to atheists on the other, Fader delves into universal quandaries of faith and skepticism, the ways digital media can change us, and family frictions that arise when a person radically transforms who they are and what they believe. Join YIVO for a discussion of this recent publication featuring Fader in conversation with Josh Lambert, professor and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Wellesley College. Buy the book: here This book talk originally took place on September 22, 2022. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Cristina Florea, "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" (Princeton UP, 2025) | Bukovina, when it has existed on official maps, has always fit uneasily among its neighbors. The region is now divided between Romania and Ukraine but has long been a testing ground for successive regimes, including the Habsburg Empire, independent and later Nazi-allied Romania, and the Soviet Union, as each sought to reshape the region in its own image. In this beautifully written and wide-ranging book B ukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland (Princeton UP, 2025), Cristina Florea traces the history of Bukovina, showing how this borderland, the onetime buffer between Christendom and Islam, found itself at the forefront of modern state-building and governance projects that eventually extended throughout the rest of Europe. Encounters that play out in borderlands have proved crucial to the development of modern state ambitions and governance practices.Drawing on a wide range of archives and published sources in Russian, Ukrainian, German, Romanian, French, and Yiddish, Florea integrates stories of ethnic and linguistic groups—rural Ukrainians, Romanians, and Germans, and urban German-speaking Jews and Poles—who lived side by side in Bukovina, all of them navigating constant reconfiguration and reinvention. Challenging traditional chronologies in European history, she shows that different transformations in the region occurred at different tempos, creating a historical palimpsest and a sense among locals that they had lived many lives.A two-hundred-year history of a region shaped by the conflicting pulls of imperial legacies and national ambitions, Bukovina reveals the paradoxes of modern history found in a microcosm of Eastern Europe. | 1h 31m 37s | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() Robert Suits, "The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants" (Princeton UP, 2026) | From the mid-nineteenth century through the dust bowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communities across America. The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton UP, 2026) by Dr. Robert Suits traces the journeys of these homeless men and women, showing how hobo work was an adaptation to energy transitions and a harsh and unpredictable climate, and how the hobo played a central role in the histories of industrialization and westward expansion.Challenging common depictions of the hobo as a world-weary, bearded man in ragged clothes, Dr. Suits reveals how these wandering laborers were often fastidious and heartbreakingly young. Forever on the move due to economic hardship and climate disaster, they chased harvests and took seasonal jobs in industries like logging and mining. Too often they couldn’t find employment at all. Suits describes the difficult, dangerous, and highly unstable jobs they worked while shedding light on the hobo life and philosophy, from their techniques for stowing away on railroads to their unique blend of socialist, anarchist, and anti-work thought. He traces the emergence of the hobo to the advent of steam and the need for manual laborers in places where this new technology couldn’t reach and describes how a growing reliance on the internal combustion engine brought an end to hobo work.Drawing on oral histories, environmental data, and cutting-edge digital methods, The Hobo paints an unforgettable portrait of an eclectic group of wandering radicals, troublemakers, poets, and writers, demonstrating how their experiences upend some of our basic assumptions about how environments and technologies shape society. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. | 58m 20s | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Lawrence Douglas, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | international justicestate violence+4 | Lawrence Douglas | Amherst CollegePrinceton University Press+1 | CongoUkraine | international lawstate aggression+3 | — | 52m 19s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | Spinoza's philosophyatheism+4 | Steven Nadler | Spinoza, AtheistTheological-Political Treatise | AmsterdamPortugal | Spinozaatheism+6 | — | 40m 55s | |
| 5/30/26 | ![]() Annette Gordon-Reed ed., "Jefferson on Race: A Reader" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | Thomas Jeffersonrace and slavery+4 | Annette Gordon-Reed | Princeton University PressThe New York Times+1 | — | Thomas Jeffersonrace+8 | — | 1h 06m 28s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | democracyelites+4 | Hugo Drochon | Princeton University PressElites and Democracy | — | democracyelites+5 | — | 1h 04m 12s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Kira Ganga Kieffer, "Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | vaccine hesitancyreligion+4 | Kira Ganga Kieffer | Wesleyan UniversityBoston University+10 | — | vaccine skepticismspiritual marketing+3 | — | 43m 02s | |
| 5/9/26 | ![]() Mark Peterson, "The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | American Constitutionhistorical analysis+4 | Mark Peterson | Princeton UPThe Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History | AmericaBritain+1 | American Constitutionhistory+4 | — | 1h 05m 35s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | parental rightsmodern conservatism+4 | Julia Bowes | Princeton UPNational League for Medical Freedom+2 | IllinoisUtah+1 | parental rightsmodern conservatism+5 | — | 38m 59s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() Julia Stephens, "Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire" (Princeton UP, 2025)✨ | British EmpireIndian migrants+3 | Julia Stephens | Rutgers UniversityWorldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire+1 | — | British EmpireIndian migration+3 | — | 45m 02s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Kim Haines-Eitzen, "The Gospel of John: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | New TestamentGospel of John+4 | Kim Haines-Eitzen | The Gospel of John: A BiographyThe Gospel of John | — | Gospel of JohnChristianity+5 | — | 50m 11s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() William Stell, "Born Again Queer: A History of Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | evangelicalismgay activism+4 | William Stell | Metropolitan Community ChurchesEvangelicals Concerned+2 | — | evangelicalismgay activism+5 | — | 47m 41s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Mostafa Hussein, "Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine" (Princeton UP, 2025)✨ | Hebrew OrientalismJewish culture+4 | Mostafa Hussein | Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine | Palestine | Hebrew OrientalismJewish identity+5 | — | 1h 32m 01s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() David Womersley, "Thinking Through Shakespeare" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | Shakespeareliterary criticism+5 | David Womersley | Thinking Through ShakespeareOthello+3 | — | ShakespeareDavid Womersley+6 | — | 1h 01m 29s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | slaveryJewish history+4 | Craig Perry | Emory UniversityPrinceton University Press+1 | — | slaveryJews+5 | — | 47m 11s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Yair Mintzker, "I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | historyantisemitism+3 | Yair Mintzker | Princeton UPI, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition | Israel | Wandering JewYair Mintzker+5 | — | 42m 12s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Roland Betancourt, "Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | automationDisneyland+4 | Roland Betancourt | DisneyPrinceton University Press+1 | — | Disneylandautomation+7 | — | 55m 07s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Audrey Borowski, "Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | philosophyhistory+4 | Audrey Borowski | Princeton UPUniversit | GermanyParis+1 | LeibnizBorowski+5 | — | 1h 01m 11s | |
| 4/15/26 | ![]() Daniel A. Bell, "Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | ancient Chinese political thoughtmodern political relevance+3 | Daniel A. Bell | University of Hong KongShandong University+1 | Beijing | Chinese political thoughtConfucius+5 | — | 1h 05m 24s | |
| 4/13/26 | ![]() Money Beyond Borders with Barry Eichengreen✨ | international currenciesdollar dominance+4 | Barry Eichengreen | Princeton University PressMoney Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto | United StatesFlorence+4 | dollarcurrencies+5 | — | 59m 45s | |
| 4/13/26 | ![]() Michael L. Satlow, "An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity" (Princeton UP, 2026)✨ | Late Antiquitylived religion+3 | Michael L. Satlow | Princeton UPAn Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity | — | Late Antiquityreligion+3 | — | 53m 28s | |
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