In Theory is the podcast of the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. The hosts of the JHI Blog team interview intellectual scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, natural and social sciences, religion, and political thought about their latest books and works. The aim of the JHI podcast is to highlight the huge diversity of intellectual history at university departments across the world.
The Death of the Clinic: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Benoît Loiseau
On this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Benoît Loiseau about his formally inventive and recently published work, "The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine" (2026). Focusing on five attempts to radically reimagine the institution of the clinic in Europe and the United States throughout the twentieth century, Loiseau—and, by extension, this conversation—invites readers and listeners to reevaluate the history of ideas regarding health and care, the state and the self, as well as power and resistance.
2 Sept 2026
By Flesh and Toil: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Mélanie Lamotte
On this episode of the In Theory podcast, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Mélanie Lamotte about her recent book "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (2026). Lamotte's work presents a globe-spanning account of how a shared set of racially based policies wedded together various French colonies and outposts in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In turn, Lamotte responds to questions about composing a history at such a transoceanic scale, reading against the archival grain to uncover the voices of the enslaved and free people of color who struggled against this emergent legal order, and reckoning with what these struggles mean for our understanding of the history of rights and revolution in this period.
5 Aug 2026
Labors of Division: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Navyug Gill
For this episode of the In Theory podcast, Navyug Gill speaks with Disha Karnad Jani about his book Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab (Stanford University Press, 2024) and how it critically reexamines the history of the category of “the peasant” vis-à-vis the political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in colonial Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a result, their conversation touches on a variety of questions relevant not only to scholars of South Asian or British colonial history, but to all those invested in histories of capitalism and comparative intellectual history writ large. How, for instance, do different kinds of categories become commensurable across wide-ranging contexts and histories? How and why does attending to the historical division of labor and agriculture help us better understand forms of social difference that emerge out of, say, religion and caste? How might one continue to ask new and “defamiliarizing” questions of a familiar set of archives?
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