May 14, 2014

Arnold van Huis Discusses Eating Insects with Nature

In a recent interview with Nature, Arnold van Huis discussed eating insects and the recently published The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet: Question: How did you get involved in entomophagy? Arnold van Huis: I’m a tropical entomologist, very...

May 13, 2014

Interview with Robert Sitton, author of Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film

The following is an interview with Robert Sitton, author of Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film: Question: Who was Iris Barry? Robert Sitton: Iris Barry (1895-1969) was the self-educated daughter of a rural British brass...

May 13, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Columbia Engineering, Eco in Paper, and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new titles: A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864 Robert McCaughey Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography Edited by Stanley L Witkin Understanding Environmental Policy, Second Edition Steven...

May 12, 2014

Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter Discuss Pot Smuggling on HuffPost Live

Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, coauthors of Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade, were recently on HuffPost Live to discuss their book and drug smuggling in Thailand in the 1960s and 1970s. Also joining...

May 9, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. On OUPblog, author...

May 9, 2014

Badiou and Roudinesco on Lacan's Legacy

“[T]he contemporary world is haunted by uncertainty, disorientation, and the specter of permanent crisis. And Lacan is a great thinker of disorder.” – Alain Badiou This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain...

May 9, 2014

The Ethics and Ambivalence of Motherhood — Sarah LaChance Adams

“Mothers have opportunity for great crimes and great heroism. Maternal ethics are illustrative precisely because both these options are possible; we are capable of being both better and worse than we typically imagine.”—Sarah LaChance Adams Mother’s Day is Sunday and...

May 8, 2014

More from Badiou and Roudinesco

This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. Today, we are taking a look back at previous works by both Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. We have excerpts from...

May 8, 2014

Professor Mom! An Interview with the editors of "Mothers in Academia"

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, we thought we would shed some light on those mothers who also toil in academia. The following is an interview with Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro, the editors of Mothers in Academia. The...

May 7, 2014

"I Am Counting on the Tourbillon": On the Late Lacan, by Jason E. Smith

“If Lacan’s rightly celebrated Seminar VII from 1959-60 elaborates a properly psychoanalytic ethics through the intransigent figure of Antigone and her refusal to give way on her desire, Badiou and Roudinesco emphasize instead a certain ethical and tragic dimension to...

May 7, 2014

Video: Marian Harris on Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare

In the following video, Marian S. Harris discusses her new book Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare. In the book, Harris identifies the practice and policy changes required to successfully address the unequal treatment of children of color in the child...

May 6, 2014

One Master, Two Encounters, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco

Read an excerpt from “One Master, Two Encounters,” the first chapter of JACQUES LACAN, PAST AND PRESENT, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco.