Rebecca K. Wright, Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University (UK), discussed her book Moral Energy in America: From the Progressive Era to the Atomic […]
Month: March 2025
Online book talk: Kinder, World War Zoos
John Kinder, director of American Studies and professor of history at Oklahoma State University (USA), discussed his book World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals […]
Online book talk: Rhee, Natural Attachments
Pollyanna Rhee, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA), discussed her book Natural Attachments: The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970 […]
Online book talk: Nygren, The State of Conservation
Josh Nygren, Associate Professor of history at the University of Central Missouri (USA), discussed his book The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial […]
Online book talk: Long, Infrastructure in Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Film
Christian Long, media studies scholar at University of Queensland (Australia), discussed his book Infrastructure in Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Film, 1968–2021 (University of Chicago Press, 2024) […]
Online book talk: Gora, Culinary Claims
Sasha Gora, cultural historian and Project Director of “Off the Menu” at University of Augsburg (Germany), discussed her book Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in […]
Online book talk: Caison, Erosion
Gina Caison, Associate Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University (USA), presented Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance (Duke University Press, 2024) […]