All Episodes

Stacey A. Langwick on Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Eric C. Rath on Kanpai: The History of Sake

Lauren Derby on Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Chelsi West Ohueri on Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife

Samuele Collu on Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Don Thomas Deere on The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space

Jonathan Howard on Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

John Drabinski on Atlantic Theory, So Unimaginable a Price, and At the Margins of Nihilism

Alejandro L. Madrid on The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening

Akane Kanai on The New Politics of Online Feminism

Marisa Solomon on The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez on Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines

Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Deborah A. Thomas on Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

Bimbola Akinbola on Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art

drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

Atiya Husain on No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Celina de Sá on Diaspora without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal

Julia Elyachar On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

Élika Ortega on Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas

Margaret J. Wiener on Magic's Translation: Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia

Mary Poole and Meitamei Olol Dapash on Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures

Wendell H. Marsh on Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities

José Miguel Palacios on Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973

Caroline Fowler on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art

Anna LaQuawn Hinton on Refusing to be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women's Writing

Tavia Nyong'o on Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World

Danielle Roper on Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas

Amber Jamilla Musser on Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined

Philip Janzen on An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean

Doyle D. Calhoun on The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire

Therí Alyce Pickens on What Had Happened Was

Jessie Cox on Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices

Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz on Projections of Dakar: (Re)Imagining Urban Senegal through Cinema

Jody Benjamin on The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850

Sandhya Shukla on Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place

Laura Helton on Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

Mary Hicks on Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of Atlantic Slavery, 1721-1835

Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition

Benjamin Barson on Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

Bryan Sinche on Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery

Nana Osei-Kofi on AfroSwedish: Places of Belonging

Étienne Achille and Oana Panaïté on Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature: French Writers, White Writing

Julia Hauser on A Taste for Purity: An Entangled History of Vegetarianism

Imani D. Owens on Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean

Jason Allen-Paisant on Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits

Kathleen Spanos and Sinclair Emoghene on Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences

Joshua Myers on Of Black Study

Autumn Womack on The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial data, 1880-1930

Mark Deets on A Country of Defiance: Mapping the Casamance in Senegal

Marlene Daut on Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Eziaku Nwokocha on Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States

Drew Dalton on The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism

Isaac Vincent Joslin on Afrofuturisms: Ecology, Humanity, and Francophone Cultural Expressions

Tina Post on Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression

Rima Vesely-Flad on Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation

Jasmine Nichole Cobb on New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair

Darieck Scott on Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics

Perry Zurn on Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry

Mari Crabtree on My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

Shanna Greene Benjamin on Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

Stefanie Dunning on Black to Nature: Pastoral Return in African American Culture

Sarah Jane Cervenak on Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life

Andrea A. Davis on Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean & African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

Margret Grebowicz and Kiff Bamford on Lyotard and Critical Practice

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan on The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

Christopher Freeburg on Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death

Habiba Ibrahim on Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life

Nicholas Harrison on Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education

Rinaldo Walcott on The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom

Felisa Vergara Reynolds on The Author as Cannibal: Re-Writing in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre (1969-1995)

Brian Valente-Quinn on Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theatre-Making in Francophone Africa

Bruce Janz on African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thought

Nick Bromell on The Powers of Dignity: The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

Sandra Gunning on Moving Home: Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic

Muriam Haleh Davis on Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

Catriona MacLeod on Invisible Presence: Drawing Women in French Comics

Andil Gosine on Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero on She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World

Elodie Silberstein on Animality & Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity

Adrienne J. Cohen on Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea

Jennifer P. Nesbitt on Rum Histories: Drinking in Atlantic Literature and Culture

Robin Brooks on Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction

Emily Marker on Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era

Lee McBride on Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed

Ana Lucia Araujo on Museums and Atlantic Slavery

Lindsey B. Green-Simms on African Queer Cinemas

Kaiama L. Glover on A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being

Ashley M. Williard on Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean

Richard Price on Maroons in Guyane: Past, Present, Future

Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus on Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel

Jay Rajiva on Toward an Animist Reading of Postcolonial Trauma Literature

Jacqueline Couti on Sex, Sea and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses, 1924-1948

Michael L. Dickinson on Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807

Alex Madva, Vanessa Wills, Ian Olasov, and Dana Miranda on The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives

Kir Kuiken and Deborah Elise White on Haiti's Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution

Sarah J. Zimmerman on Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire

Cajetan Iheka on African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics

Nick Nesbitt on The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean