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Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia.

The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution,

and a profusion of laws that recognized individual music and dance

expressions as intangible cultura... more

26 Jul 2026 • 1 hr

Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2026)

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan (Harvard University Press, 2026) offers

a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan

(794–1185), uncove... more

24 Jul 2026 • 1 hr 7 min

Anja Foerschner, "Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

In Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001 (Bloomsbury, 2024), Anja Foerschner offers a compelling exploration of the women artists, curators, scholars, and activists who shaped the cultural landscape of Yugoslavia and its successor states. D... more

19 Jul 2026 • 45 min

Yiddish Tangos and Klezmer Mambos

This panel discussion will explore the remarkable influence of Latin American music and dance on the culture of Yiddish speaking communities in the United States. Ronald Robboy will discuss Latin American musical influences upon Yiddish theater compo... more

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Michelle Bigenho

Author; Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Colgate University

Episode: Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Henry Stobart

Author; Researcher in ethnomusicology and heritage studies

Royal Holloway, University of London

Episode: Michelle Bigenho and Henry Stobart, "Heritage Fever: Law and Cultural Politics in a Decolonizing State" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Ashton Lazarus

Dr. Ashton Lazarus from the University of Utah, author of Performing Transgression, Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

University of Utah

Episode: Ashton Lazarus, "Performing Transgression: Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Krzysztof Rowiński

Professor of literary studies and author

Trinity College Dublin

Episode: Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)

James O'Leary

Author of The Middlebrow Musical, Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America

Oxford University Press

Episode: James O'Leary, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Cheryl Thompson

Author of Staging Blackface in Canada, Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919

Canada Research Chair in Black Expressive Culture and Creativity, Toronto Metropolitan University

Episode: Cheryl Thompson, "Staging Blackface in Canada: Public Amusements, Variety Shows, and Racial Acts in an Age of Imitation, 1898-1919" (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2026)

Kristen Abbott Bennett

Associate Professor of English, Framingham State University; founder of the Kit Marlowe Project; pedagogy lead for Map of Early Modern London

Framingham State University

Episode: Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Ginger Dellenbaugh

Musician, historian of music and politics, trained opera singer

Independent scholar/author

Episode: Ginger Dellenbaugh, "Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Allyson Nadia Field

Author of Acts of Love, Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History

University of California Press

Episode: Allyson Nadia Field, "Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History" (U California Press, 2026)

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Kristen Turner

Host of The New Books Network interview program in Performing Arts

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Krzysztof Rowiński, "Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption: Twentieth Century Literature and Film" (Routledge, 2026)

Q: How do you define 'narrative redemption' beyond religious context?

Narrative redemption is about the portrayal of failure in a way that reveals social costs, avoids smooth telescoping to a future victory, and instead foregrounds how failures can be generative in the present without guaranteeing long-term political outcomes.

Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)

Q: What interventions are you making with this book?

The interventions shake loose the traditional, whitened narrative of musical variety, expanding the field to include four groups often overlooked, examining how space, language, and economic dynamics (like black and non-black management) affected performances, and showing how these circuits reflected and influenced broader social and cultural life in the early 20th century.

Shane Breaux, "Reverberations of Culture: Racialized Performance in Early Twentieth-Century Musical Variety by Just a Buncha Clowns" (Routledge, 2026)

Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

I'm Shane Breaux, a PhD in Theatre and Performance; the book grew from my experiences in Louisiana and my graduate studies, and it aims to broaden the history of musical variety beyond whiteness by including Black, Asian, Mexican American, and white rural performers and managers, arguing for an integrated history that accounts for lived realities and the contributions of under-studied comedians.

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Q: Could you read the passage from The poet's eye and explain how it relates to parallax?

The passage demonstrates how Shakespeare uses heaven and earth to model imaginative perception, arguing that the mind can navigate between realms to construct meaning, a process enriched by parallax as a tool to teach students about shifting contexts.

Kristen Abbott Bennett, "Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Q: What's your favorite instance of the Theatre of the World metaphor in Shakespeare?

The discussion highlights the famous set piece All the world's a stage, focusing on how the different stages of life map onto cosmological hierarchies and the way readers can read these moments as openings to discuss perspective, mortality, and social roles.

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Scholarly conversations across arts, cinema, and performance history—often anchored by recently published books or curated exhibitions—are a hallmark. Episodes frequently explore memory, memory culture, theatre history, film history, and the politics of representation, pairing authors, curators, and researchers with seasoned hosts. Notable strengths include rigorous, evidence-based discussions that connect archival material to contemporary debates, plus a recurring emphasis on accessibility for educated audiences beyond specialists. A standout is the blend of deep scholarship with lively, practical storytelling about production, curation, and public engagement, making it useful for listeners who want rigorous ideas presented through engagin... more

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