Podcast

New Books in Central Asian Studies

Author: New Books Network
Feed episode count: 200
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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/central-asian-studies

Episodes

Sep 26, 2026 · not_requested

Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan with Thomas Gregory (Oxford UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2573
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Sep 2, 2026 · not_requested

Whistling Arrows and Heavenly Horses: The Han-Xiongnu War

Duration seconds: 1835
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Aug 23, 2026 · not_requested

Old Lhasa: A Biography of a Sacred City

Duration seconds: 1803
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Aug 8, 2026 · not_requested

Ryan Schweitzer, "Homosexuality in Central Asia: Stories of Hardship and Hope" (B&N Press, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2481
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Aug 2, 2026 · not_requested

Luca Anceschi, "Pandemic Politics in Central Asia: Authoritarian Contagion" (Routledge, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3535
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Aug 1, 2026 · not_requested

Magdalena E. Stawkowski, "Atomic Collective: Radioactive Life in Kazakhstan" (U Toronto Press, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3078
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Jul 31, 2026 · not_requested

Nabi Sahak, "Anglo-Afghan Power and Politics, 1893–1947: The Durand Line Unmasked" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Duration seconds: 1646
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Jul 25, 2026 · not_requested

Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2152
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Jul 11, 2026 · not_requested

Diana T. Kudaibergen, "What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani?: Power, Identity and Nation-Building" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Duration seconds: 3223
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Jul 2, 2026 · not_requested

Chinese EVs: From Nordic Streets to Central Asian Hubs

Duration seconds: 1468
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Jul 2, 2026 · not_requested

Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3120
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Jun 26, 2026 · not_requested

Benjamin J. Nourse, "The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism"(Lexington Books, 2025)

Duration seconds: 4187
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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

David Leupold, "The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities: Urban Futures and Their Afterlives" (Routledge, 2026)

Duration seconds: 2891
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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan

Duration seconds: 964
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Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested

Stephen F. Jones, "The First Social Democracy: The Democratic Republic of Georgia, 1918–1921" (Harvard UP, 2026)

Duration seconds: 3695
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Feb 26, 2026 · not_requested

Warwick Ball, "Ancient Civilizations of Afghanistan: From the Earliest Times to the Mongol Conquest" (Reaktion, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2601
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Feb 19, 2026 · not_requested

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2835
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Feb 15, 2026 · not_requested

Sugata Bose, "Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century" (Harvard UP, 2024)

Duration seconds: 3579
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Dec 22, 2025 · not_requested

Zubeda Jalalzai, "Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Duration seconds: 1385
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Dec 15, 2025 · not_requested

Yasmin Cho, "Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3014
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Oct 19, 2025 · not_requested

Martyn Whittock, "Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine" (Biteback, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3563
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Oct 10, 2025 · not_requested

Nick Higham, "Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2717
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Sep 28, 2025 · not_requested

Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard

Duration seconds: 1186
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Sep 4, 2025 · not_requested

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP of Colorado, 2025)

Duration seconds: 3304
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Sep 4, 2025 · not_requested

Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)

Duration seconds: 2980
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