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Keith Keller
Registered nurse, recovery advocate, and author with more than 30 years in substance use disorder treatment.
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Episode: The Warm Hug: Substance Use and How to Fix the Failure of Treatment and Recovery in America with Keith Keller (Infinite Recovery, 2026)
Tyrell Haberkorn
Scholar of Thailand specializing in state violence, dissident cultural politics and human rights
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Episode: Tyrell Haberkorn In Conversation with Duncan McCargo
Roger T. Ames
Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and philosopher of Chinese thought
Peking University
Episode: Living Chinese Philosophy: Zoetology As First Philosophy with Roger T. Ames (SUNY Press, 2025)
Farid Hafez
Assistant professor of International Relations at William & Mary and senior researcher at Georgetown University
William & Mary
Episode: Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez
Christopher J. Leahy
Professor of History and author of President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler
Coker University
Episode: Presidentess: The Life of First Lady Julia Gardner Tyler with Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy (UP of Kansas, 2026)
Sharon Williams Leahy
Independent scholar of first ladies and coauthor of Presidentess
Episode: Presidentess: The Life of First Lady Julia Gardner Tyler with Christopher J. Leahy and Sharon Williams Leahy (UP of Kansas, 2026)
Mona Sloane
Sociologist and Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia
Episode: Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)
Aaron Trammell
Professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Privilege of Play and Repairing Play
University of California, Irvine
Episode: How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play with Aaron Trammell (Duke UP, 2026)
Nat Cutter
Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in History
University of Melbourne
Episode: Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712 with Nat Cutter (Oxford UP, 2026)

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Rebecca Buchanan
Host at New Books Network; frequent interview facilitator

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    The lady’s voice is so sharp, it’s painful to listen to. Sorry.

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    A very prejudiced and loaded episode. Why would living near a nuclear power station will affect your life significantly? It wouldn’t. Have either of you visited one? Author or interviewer?

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  • Important historical analyses

    Lisa Silverman is an historian whose books I want to explore, based on this interview. I’m not an academically-trained historian, but read and study a lot, especially from the first half of the twentieth century. Thank you for giving her the platform for explaining her ideas. I’m embarking on post-WWII histories now, and my reading list is enhanced.

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Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez
Q: How do you feel colonial amnesia manifests in the Western European context that you're exploring?
Hafez says Austria's colonial past remains largely absent from public consciousness, while postwar narratives of supporting decolonization helped obscure its own imperial history. He argues that acknowledging these histories is necessary to understand enduring colonial structures.
Governing Islam in Austria and Germany, with Farid Hafez
Q: Could you tell us a little bit about the work and some of the nuances in the context you're examining?
Hafez explains that the book compares how the German and Austro-Hungarian empires governed Muslim subjects, especially through religious institutions and education, and traces those patterns into the present.
How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play with Aaron Trammell (Duke UP, 2026)
Q: How does quantifying things in the game's construction and mechanics lead to restrictive understandings of gender and race?
Trammell gives examples including a fan-created table quantifying attraction between fantasy races and gender rules that reflected Gary Gygax's views, arguing that game mechanics could encode reductive cultural biases.
How Dungeons and Dragons Changed the Way We Play with Aaron Trammell (Duke UP, 2026)
Q: Can we discuss some of the influences Dungeons & Dragons is drawing on, and how the Cold War and the military-industrial sphere relate to its design?
Trammell traces the game to fantasy literature and wargaming, and links its underground settings and play in basements to Cold War-era anxieties about war and underground spaces.
Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo with Timothy Thurston (U Washington Press, 2025)
Q: How do you see these forms of expression being repurposed through Lajia or ethnic pride, and how do they go beyond the limitations by the state?
Thurston says familiar performance formats could be legible to state media decision-makers and censors, creating access to platforms where Tibetan performers could publicly address issues they considered important. The forms later changed as audiences and media shifted, including toward television sketches and hip-hop.

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