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The SOF/Heyman Bookshelf

Hosted by SOF/Heyman · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 92 episodes

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Podcasts from Columbia University's The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, where we feature talks with professors about their recent work, publications, novels, and more. Constantine Lignos hosts. Previous seasons were hosted by Olivia Branscum and Timothy Lundy.We also feature The Trilling Tapes. In this podcast series, we mine the recorded Trilling archives to uncover and contextualize more than forty years of exceptional critical thought.

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SOF/Heyman hosts The SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, a society show with 92 episodes published.

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Rob King's Man of Taste

Jan 5, 202634m0

Host highlights Rob King's Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger. Rob King uses Metzger’s work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult film industry and the changing f

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Julie Stone Peters's Staging Witchcraft Before the Law

Jan 4, 202632m0

In the final episode of the 2025 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights TStaging Witchcraft Before the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials by Julie Stone

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Hannah Weaver's Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past

Dec 11, 202537m0

Host highlights Hannah Weaver's Experimental Histories: Interpolation and the Medieval British Past. In this volume, Weaver examines the medieval practice of interpolation—inserting material from one text into another—wh

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Joseph Albernaz's Common Measures

Dec 2, 202534m0

Host highlights Joseph Albernaz's Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community. With sharp close readings, new historical constellations, and innovative theoretical paradigms, Common Measures recasts

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Ying Qian's Revolutionary Becomings

Nov 24, 202533m0

In our first episode of the 2025 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Ying Qian's Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China. This work studies documentary film as an “eventful m

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Hamid Dabashi's The Persian Prince

Sep 23, 202431m0

In the final episode of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype by Hamid Dabashi. This book articulates a bold new idea of t

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Alessandra Russo's A New Antiquity

Sep 16, 202429m0

In episode six of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600 by Alessandra Russo. Original and convincing, A New Antiquity is a pathbreaking

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Ana Fernández-Cebrián's Fables of Development

Sep 9, 202428m0

In episode five of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, our host highlights Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) by Ana Fernández-Cebrián. This book examines cultural fict

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Anoordha Iyer Siddiqi's Architecture of Migration

Aug 26, 202433m0

In episode four of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. Countering conceptualizations of

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Ellen Morris's Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt

Aug 19, 202429m0

In episode three of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Famine and Feast in Ancient Egypt by Ellen Morris. This work covers the creation and curation of social memory in pharaonic and Greco-Roman

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Ryan Carr's Samson Occom

Aug 12, 202430m0

In episode two of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast by Ryan Carr. In this groundbreaking book, Ryan Carr argues that Occom’s writings w

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Eleanor Johnson's Waste and the Wasters

Aug 5, 202431m0

In episode one of the 2024 season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Eleanor Johnson's Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England. The latest from the new SOF/Heyman board member

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee's The Evening Hero

Sep 11, 202332m0

In episode nine of the second season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Marie Myung-Ok Lee's The Evening Hero. This sweeping, lyrical novel follows a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confro

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Sarah Zukerman Daly's Violent Victors

Sep 5, 202330m0

In episode eight of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Sarah Zukerman Daly's Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections. Proposing actionable interventions that can help to m

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Annie Pfeifer's To The Collector Belong The Spoils

Aug 28, 202332m0

In episode seven of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation by Annie Pfeifer. Positing a shadow history of modernism rooted i

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Michele M Moody-Adams's Making Space For Justice

Aug 21, 202329m0

Michele M Moody-Adams's Making Space For Justice In episode six of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope by Mic

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Lauren Robertson's Entertaining Uncertainty In The Early Modern Theatre

Aug 14, 202329m0

In episode five of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response by Lauren Robertson. This original study shows th

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Bruce Robbins's Criticism and Politics

Aug 7, 202331m0

In episode four of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Bruce Robbins's Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction. This accessible introduction to cultural theory asks, "What is criticism fo

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Andreas Huyssen's Memory Art in the Contemporary World

Jul 31, 202330m0

In episode three of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Andreas Huyssen's Memory Art in the Contemporary World: Confronting Violence in the Global South. Andreas Huyssen deals with the ever-expand

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Nadia Abu El-Haj's Combat Trauma

Jul 24, 202329m0

In episode two of the new season of the SOF/Heyman Bookshelf, host highlights Nadia Abu El-Haj's Combat Trauma. Nadia Abu El-Haj argues that in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for des

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