Salon B

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.

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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:

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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.

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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

In celebration of International Workers' Day having taken place on May 1st and Karl Marx having been born on May 5th, our theme for this month’s episode is labor.

This episode features Stephanie Fortado, co-editor of Histories of a Radical Book: E. P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class; Raffaella Sarti, editor of What is Work?: Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present; and a poem from John Greening, whose most recent collection, A Post Card To, was published this year by Red Squirrel Press.

A reminder that both of today’s featured books can be found on our website berghahnbooks.com, and the poem will be featured in an upcoming edition of Critical Survey.

In the spirit of the April Fool’s Day release date, this episode is themed around ‘humor,’ featuring conversations with Heidi Hakkarainen, author of Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna and Veronika Pehe, author of Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture. We’ll close today’s salon with a reading of a poem by Colin James, “The Betrothal of a Semi Compliant Therefore Semi Coherent, Narcissus,” previously published in Critical Survey.