In our fourth episode, we speak to Annette Vowinckel about her new seminar on Harry Potter. The seminar uses J. K. Rowling's books as a springboard into theories of the twentieth century, such as those of Hannah Arendt and Francis Fukuyama. We discuss their theories and how they relate to the history of the twentieth century, how useful Harry Potte…

In this episode, Alex and James sit down with Rob and Diego to discuss Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle', Michigan: Black and Red, 1970. Expect debate on Debord's theories of time and history, about just exactly what the Spectacle is, and whether Debord's imagined communist society could function without commodities. Read the text in full…

In episode two of our History and Theory Podcast we discuss Maria Todorova's book 'Imagining the Balkans' and her concepts of Balkanism and Balkanisation with Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits of the Humboldt Universität Berlin.The podcast which Prof. Dr. Hannes Grandits mentions at the end of this episode can be found here: https://www.mixcloud.com/thesou…

Our first episode of the History and Theory Podcast concerns the approach of Global History. We talk to Sebastian Conrad about what the theory is, what it brings to history and wider society, and analyse two of his published academic articles.Some of the books and articles Sebastian Conrad mentions in the interview:"Enlightenment and Global History…