Coffee and Pepsi

Episode 17: In this episode Sulaiman Ahmed talks with Ambika Natarajan about her book: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914. Please follow this link for more information about Servants of Culture: berghahnbooks.com/title/NatarajanServants

Episode 16: Nationalism. In this episode Sulaiman Ahmed talks with Passi Ihalainen and Antero Holmila about the volume that they co-edited: Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined: A European History of Concepts Beyond the Nation State; and to Liliya Berezhnaya and Heidi Hein-Kircher about their edited volume Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism. Please follow these links for more information about these books: berghahnbooks.com/title/IhalainenNationalism berghahnbooks.com/title/BerezhnayaRampart

Editorial Associate of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Sulaiman Ahmed, talks to Andrew Kloiber, the author of Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century Globalization Amanda Horn, our Cultural Studies Editor, talks to Melissa Oliver-Powell, the author of Pepsi and the Pill: Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969

Ulf Hannerz says of Stephen Gudeman that he "may well be the internationally most renowned economic anthropologist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries." In this episode of Salon B, Tom Bonnington, Social Sciences Associate Editor at Berghahn, talks with Stephen Gudeman about his new book Enlightening Encounters: The Journeys of an Anthropologist

In this episode Janine Latham, our Journals Manager, talks with the managing editors from two of Berghahn's journals: Dr Ann Smith from Girlhood Studies and Dina Davida from TURBA.

Episode 12 In this episode, our senior social science editor Tony Mason talks with anthropologist Keith Hart about his life and his newly published book Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes. They cover a wide variety of topics including Keith's early life in Manchester, the writing process behind the book, and how money relates to our place in society.  www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HartSelf

In this episode, we are pleased to share two interviews that look at the themes of gender in history, and coloniality. In the first interview, we are joined by Christian Straube, author of the open access title After Corporate Paternalism: Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination. In the second interview, we are joined by Karen Hagemann and Donna Harsch, who co-edited Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements along with Friederike Brühöfener. For more information about these books: berghahnbooks.com/title/StraubeAfter berghahnbooks.com/title/BruehoefenerGendering

In this episode we discuss a variety of topics related to Indigeneity, colonialism, and play. Guests on this episode include friends of the Berghahn journal 'Girlhood Studies,' author Emily Aguilo-Perez, and book editors Tiina Äikäs and Anna-Kaisa Salmi.   www.berghahnbooks.com/podcast

Following an initial proposal for lasting solidarity in June of 2020, Berghahn Books committed to joining the global academic community and our publishing peers in challenging racism. Since then, we have fostered company-wide conversations on how best to contribute in perpetuity to that cause from the vantage point of our publishing program. Through establishing a new collection titled Reading Against Racism: A Berghahn Collection, we have committed to increasing the visibility of and access to materials which contribute to ongoing conversations surrounding race and racism. To coincide with the release of Reading Against Racism, this episode features four interviews with writers included in that work. You can visit www.berghahnbooks.com/readingagainstracism to find chapters and articles by all of today's guests, as well as a number of other free resources on the topic of race.  

In this episode of Salon B, our senior social science editor, Tony Mason, talks with the series editors of Catastrophes in Context, a Berghahn series that aims to bring critical attention to the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that create disasters, out of natural hazards or political events, and that shape the responses. The conversation focuses on the parallels between human created disasters and natural phenomena, what Disasters Studies has to say about contemporary issues, such as Haiti and post-Katrina New Orleans, as well as representation and diversity in the field of Disaster Studies, as well as the series editors' plans for the future.   Learn more about the book series here:  Berghahn Series: Catastrophes in Context