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Adam Barsouk

Medical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University, author of Outsmarting Cancer

Johns Hopkins University

Episode: Adam Barsouk, "Outsmarting Cancer: Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention" (JHU Press, 2026)

Rod Phillips

Professor, author of Cats, A History ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026)

Johns Hopkins University Press

Episode: Rod Phillips, "Cats: A History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2026)

Jay Belsky

Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Family Studies, UC Davis; author of The Nature of Nurture

University of California, Davis

Episode: Jay Belsky, "Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Philippa Gander

Author of Life in Sync; Professor Emerita at Massey University

Massey University

Episode: Philippa Gander, "Life in Sync: The Science of Internal Clocks and How We’re Disrupting Them" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Sadiah Qureshi

Professor; author of Vanished, An Unnatural History of Extinction

University/academic affiliation not explicitly stated in transcript

Episode: Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)

Philippe Huneman

Director of Research at the Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, CNRS; Professor at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

CNRS / University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Episode: Philippe Huneman, "When Metaphysics Meets Biology: Kantian Approaches to the Concept of An Organism" (Routledge, 2026)

Benjamin Dalton

Lecturer in French Studies

Lancaster University

Episode: Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

Rina Bliss

Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Philosopher, novelist, public intellectual

Author, The Mattering Instinct

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Victoria Lupashko

Host of The New Books Network channel, with a focus on scholarly interviews about recently published research.

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Host coordinating intros and guiding questions; appears across multiple episodes.

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Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)

Q: What do you think people should think about more when this topic comes up today, given the long arc you trace?

Qureshi urges moving away from resurrecting the past toward considering futures we want to create, emphasizing that de-extinction discussions should address whether technological fixes truly respect the beings involved and tackle underlying causes of loss.

Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)

Q: What does that then mean for thinking about the world as it was then? How were past extinctions applied in colonial contexts, for example?

The guest describes how extinction ideas moved from prehistoric contexts to present and colonial settings, noting how colonial discourse used the extinction narrative to justify dispossession and governance, and how the Beothic and other Indigenous groups were framed as vanishing in ways that echoed wider imperial anxieties.

Sadiah Qureshi, "Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction" (Penguin, 2025)

Q: Could you start us off please by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book? What kinds of questions did you want to ask that motivated a project like this?

Sadiah explains that the work began as a witness to violence across histories of empire, evolving from endangered-races narratives to a broader examination of extinction as a concept, and ultimately transforming into a wide exploration of how extinction is understood across science, religion, and society.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)

Q: What role does the concept of 'deserving of attention' play in political polarization?

Polarization often reflects conflicting mattering maps where groups feel their own form of mattering is being threatened, leading to a clash over who deserves attention.

Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

Q: What is the role of the observer or witness when bodies are changing in ways that resist stable identity, and how does Carax's cinema illustrate this plasticity through moving images?

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