Open Books at the Fox Center

About Open Books at the Fox Center

This podcast is for anyone with a curious mind who wants the inside scoop on new research in the humanistic disciplines: history, literature, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, religious studies, and more. Each episode, we talk to researchers who are working at the cutting edge of their disciplines to learn about the books they’re writing, the questions that drive them, and the findings they hope we’ll take away. Many of the books discussed in this podcast have been supported by the Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative, which means you can read them online for free.

Publisher

Mae Velloso-Lyons, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Category

education · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Oct 2024

Latest episode

16 May 2025

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

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   16 May 2025

   Grappling with the Archive: Maria Montalvo on What Lawsuits Can Tell Us About Life Under Slavery

   Historians of American slavery face a quandary. Much of the surviving documentary evidence was produced by proponents of slavery. Louisiana archives offer an enormous trove of court cases that concern the buying and selling of enslaved people, but what are the risks of using these documents to reconstruct the hidden lives of the enslaved? For this episode of Open Books, Mae Velloso-Lyons is joined by Maria Montalvo, assistant professor of History at Emory University and author of Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past.

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   23 Jan 2025

   Breaking the Curse of the Child Prodigy: Kristin Wendland on Yehudi Menuhin and Yoga

   Is it possible to overcome the curse of the child prodigy? How did a meeting between wunderkind violinist Yehudi Menuhin and upstart yoga guru BKS Iyengar change the course of both of their lives? For this episode of Open Books, Mae Velloso-Lyons is joined by Kristin Wendland, teaching professor emerita of music theory at Emory University and author of The Power of Practice: How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin.

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   1 Oct 2024

   Who Decides What You Read? Dan Sinykin on Big Fiction

   How are changes to the publishing industry shaping what we read? Is it harder to be an author now than it used to be? For this episode of Open Books, Mae Velloso-Lyons is joined by Dan Sinykin, associate professor of English at Emory University and author, most recently, of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature.

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