Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, talks about his award-winning book Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market.

Michael B. Katz, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the history of urban inequality and answers the question posed by the title of his latest book Why Don't American Cities Burn?.

Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore, and Kathleen Ryan from University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology discuss the facets of Sustainable Lifeways, how humans adapt to changes in their environment over time.

Mitchell D. Silber, Director of Intelligence Analysis for the New York Police Department and author of The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West, discusses the the characteristics of jihadist terror activities in Europe and North America and their various relationships to Al Qaeda.

In the September podcast, Afaf Ibrahim Meleis and Susan M. Wachter, two of the coeditors of Women's Health and the World's Cities, discuss why gender matters in public health and urban planning.

Afaf Ibrahim Meleis is the Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Susan M. Wachter is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Women's Health and the World's Cities was also coedited by Eugenie L. Birch, Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and codirector with Wachter of the Penn Institute for Urban Research.

Scott Gabriel Knowles is Associate Professor of History at Drexel University. He is the editor of Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City and the author of a new book, The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America. In this podcast, Knowles talks about urban disaster preparedness and mitigation at the dawn of the twentieth century, thoughout the Cold War, in the years leading to the birth of FEMA, and after the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/2001. Knowles also considers the implications of America's history of growing disaster expertise and risk taking on current and future dangers, such as terrorism and climate change.

Craig Williamson, poet and Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College, is the editor and A Feast of Creatures: Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs. His latest book is Beowulf and Other Old English Poems. In this podcast, Wiliamson discusses the challenge of translating poetry from Old English into English. He also reads from his translation of Beowulf and recites a section of the original poem in Old English.

University of Pennsylvania Historian Kathy Peiss, author of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, talks about the long career of a big suit. She covers the suit's creation in Harlem, it's connection with swing music, the pachuco culture of the Southwest, the Zoot Suit riot, Al Capp's take on the zoot suit, the zoot suit overseas, the rebirth of the suit as a symbol of ethnic pride, and today's zoot suit.

Listen to a candid talk with Martin H. Krieger, Professor of Planning at the University of Southern California's School of Policy, Planning, and Development and author of Urban Tomographies. Krieger's latest book scans contemporary Los Angeles to illuminate different aspects of a community, from work to worship.

Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor in English and Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois. Parker's collection of poetry, Changing Is Not Vanishing, reinvents the early history of American Indian literature and the history of American poetry by presenting a vast but forgotten archive of American Indian poems. In this podcast, Parker discusses the editing process and reads selected poems from his new book.