15 Minute History
Summary: 15 Minute History is a history podcast designed for historians, enthusiasts, and newbies alike. This is a joint project of Hemispheres, the international outreach consortium at the University of Texas at Austin, and Not Even Past, a website with articles on a wide variety of historical issues, produced by the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. This podcast series is devoted to short, accessible discussions of important topics in world history, United States history, and Texas history with the award winning faculty and graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, and distinguished visitors to our campus. They are meant to be a resource for both teachers and students, and can be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in history. For more information and to hear our complete back catalog of episodes, visit our website! Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
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Our first roundtable features three experts who've taken the destruction of sites where they've worked and lived seriously, and are working to raise awareness of the importance of antiquities in danger around the world.
Moderator: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Featured Guests: Stephennie Mulder, Department of Art & Art History / Middle Eastern Studies David Stuart, Department of Art & Art History / Mesoamerican Center Debora Trein, Department of Anthropology Straight from … Continue reading →
Guest Mike Loader gives an enthusiastic look at high drama at the peak of the cold war, which gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the Soviet Union from a different perspective.
Host: Christopher Rose, Assistant Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Mike Loader, Doctoral Candidate, King’s College, London For a period in the 1950s known as the Khruschev Thaw, the Soviet Republics enjoyed a brief moment of relative autonomy from … Continue reading →
Our first episode of Season 4 explores the little known history of slavery in Iran, how it came to be abolished in the 19th century, and how Iranian society has slowly forgotten its involvement with the human trade.
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania The untimely death of a black man causes a stir in the press, causing intellectuals and activists to point to a long … Continue reading →
Guest Jessica Werneke has just completed her doctorate that looks at this oft-overlooked aspect of Soviet society, and discusses the turbulent world of amateur photography in the Soviet Union.
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: Jessica Werneke, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin In its early days, photography occupied an awkward middle ground between documentation and an art form, a debate which dragged on … Continue reading →
Dominic Lieven of the London School of Economics has spent his career examining problems of political stability in Europe in the 19th century, and helps us understand the world on the eve of its first global war.
Host: Joan Neuberger, Editor, Not Even Past & Professor, Department of History Guest: Dominic Lieven, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science; Fellow, British Academy; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge World War I is often described as “the war to end … Continue reading →
Imagine the pressures of translating a sacred text whose language is well known and imbued with religious significance and symbolism. Leonard Greenspoon from Creighton University has done just that with translators of the Jewish Bible over the centuries.
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UT-Austin Guest: Leonard Greenspoon, Professor of Near Eastern Civilizations and Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University Any student of a foreign language knows that the process of translating a text can be … Continue reading →
Host: Christopher Rose, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Guest: James Martin, Doctoral Student, Department of History At 2:30 pm on Saturday September 21 1969, US president Richard Nixon announced ‘the largest peacetime search and seizure operation in history.’ Intended to … Continue reading →
Adam Shapiro from Birkbeck University describes how evolution was first received in the United States, and the debates that led up to its most famous test–the Scopes “Monkey Trial” held in Dayton, Tennessee, in the 1920s.
Host: Joan Neuberger, editor, Not Even Past Guest: Adam Shapiro, Lecturer in Cultural and Intellectual History, Birkbeck University, London Controversies over the theory of evolution are well documented in American society: according to a Gallup poll conducted in the late … Continue reading →
