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Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Queens without a Kingdom worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities is a fascinating study of nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist nunnery of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling in Kathmandu. Written by Dr. Chandra Chiara Ehm, who... more

15 Oct 2025 • 1 hr 5 min

Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)

In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos (MIT Press, 2023) is an absorbing exploration of Soviet-era family photographs that demonstrates the singular power of the photographic image to command attention, resist closure, and complicate... more

15 Oct 2025 • 59 min

William Lempert, "Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

The product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema (U Minnesota Press, 2025) delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community... more

14 Oct 2025 • 1 hr 6 min

Mukul Sharma, "Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Prof Mukul Sharma is a professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. His formal training is in Political Science and has worked as a special correspondent with a leading news outlet in India and received 12 national and international award... more

12 Oct 2025 • 43 min

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Oksana Sarkisova

Research fellow and historian with a focus on visual material and documentary cinema.

Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University

Episode: Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)

Olga Shevchenko

Sociologist and professor, teaches on social theory and memory in Soviet contexts.

Williams College

Episode: Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko "In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos" (MIT Press, 2023)

William Lempert

Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Episode: William Lempert, "Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Mukul Sharma

Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, journalist, and author

Ashoka University

Episode: Mukul Sharma, "Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Deepa Das Acevedo

Author of "War on Tenure" and Associate Professor of Law

Emory University

Episode: Deepa Das Acevedo, "The War on Tenure" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Dr. Jürgen Schaflechner

Author discussing the complexities at the Hinglaj Devi temple.

Free University of Berlin

Episode: Jürgen Schaflechner, "Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Dr. Gina Vale

Lecturer of criminology at the University of Southampton

University of Southampton

Episode: Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Dr. Laurian Bowles

Vann Professor of Racial Justice and Associate Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Davidson College

Davidson College

Episode: Laurian R. Bowles, "Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

Wu Qi

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Episode: Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

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Reighan Gillam

Host of the New Books in Anthropology channel, focused on exploring diverse anthropological topics and new publications.

Dr. Miranda Melcher

Co-host and contributor to discussions on anthropological themes and emerging research with a focus on encouraging academic dialogue.

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Good podcast; shame about the gambling ads
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It's a common belief that if you can't explain something simpl, you don't understand it. That doesn't naturally lead us to deliver all knowledge for the lowest common denominator, but most maybe all, sources of information are being written for the person who won't understand it. This podcast has breaks from that bad habit. In a week I've heard ideas, sharpened from experience and repetition, delivered with thrust I've never met elsewhere.
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Nahvis
United States4 years ago
mostly a podcast by experts for experts
It's a common belief that if you can't explain something simpl, you don't understand it. That doesn't naturally lead us to deliver all knowledge for the lowest common denominator, but most maybe all, sources of information are being written for the person who won't understand it. This podcast has breaks from that bad habit. In a week I've heard ideas, sharpened from experience and repetition, delivered with thrust I've never met elsewhere.
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5
Jer
United States4 years ago
Engaging and informative
This podcast covers a wide range of books, and the conversations are really interesting.
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Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Q: What kinds of secular education are available to the nuns currently?

Ehm explains that there is increasing demand for secular education among nuns, with some desiring accredited studies to connect better with the outside world, but these opportunities are often limited by male leadership.

Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Q: Can you explain more about why, as you say on page three, the nuns are at the bottom of the social ladder?

Ehm discusses the male-dominated structure of Tibetan Buddhist institutions, highlighting that nuns are often at the bottom of the social hierarchy despite their studies and contributions.

Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Q: What does that term 'Queens' mean for you?

Ehm explains that while nuns lack a kingdom to rule over, they possess strength and altruism, embodying qualities that could be likened to queens.

Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)

Q: How did you get into this field and to this research?

Ehm shares a romantic story about being encouraged by Charles Ramble to pursue academic studies alongside her monastic studies after interpreting for him at a UNESCO conference.

William Lempert, "Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)

Q: How did you navigate the challenges of being an ethnographer within Aboriginal film production?

Lempert explains how his position as a white outsider embedded in beloved Indigenous media organizations helped him to build trust and navigate complex cultural dynamics.

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