Nomads, Past and Present

By Maggie Freeman

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Episodes: 48

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A podcast about nomadism and nomadic peoples, around the world and throughout history.

Episode Date
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past
Feb 17, 2026
Eric Halsey, "State Builders from the Steppe: A History of The First Bulgarian Empire" (This is RETHINK, 2025)
Nov 13, 2025
A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia
Oct 27, 2025
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, "Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East" (UP Colorado, 2025)
Sep 28, 2025
The Nomadic Origin of the State
Aug 01, 2025
The Roma: A Travelling History
Jul 08, 2025
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
Jan 15, 2025
Persistent Pastoralism: Monuments and Settlements in the Archaeology of Dhofar
Dec 07, 2024
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
Aug 30, 2024
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
Jul 14, 2024
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 12, 2024
"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024): A Discussion with Judith Lindbergh
Apr 24, 2024
Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013:: An Anthropological Approach
Mar 12, 2024
Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
Mar 08, 2024
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 22, 2024
Adriana Helbig, "ReSounding Poverty: Romani Music and Development Aid" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 19, 2024
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
Dec 02, 2023
The Secret History of the Mongols
Sep 24, 2023
Archaeology and Nomadism in the Russian Empire: An interview with Ismael Biyashev
Jul 29, 2023
Mongol Nomadism, Mongol Identity, and the Fall of the Mongol Empire
Jun 25, 2023
Constant’s “New Babylon": An Interview with Jérémie McGowan
Jun 21, 2023
Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
Jun 07, 2023
Selcen Küçüküstel, "Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia" (Berghahn, 2021)
May 22, 2023
Jonan Pilet, "Nomad, Nomad" (Bound to Brew, 2021)
Apr 03, 2023
The Transformation of Livestock Herding in Socialist Mongolia
Mar 31, 2023
Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders
Mar 14, 2023
Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
Feb 13, 2023
Star Wars: Andor’s Aldhani and its Real-World Parallels
Feb 10, 2023
Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
Jan 27, 2023
Gillian Tan, "Pastures of Change: Contemporary Adaptations and Transformations among Nomadic Pastoralists of Eastern Tibet" (Springer, 2018)
Jan 24, 2023
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 2)
Jan 12, 2023
The Sámi in "Frozen" (Part 1)
Jan 11, 2023
The Fremen in "Dune"
Jan 10, 2023
Romani Representation in Pop Culture
Jan 09, 2023
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Jan 08, 2023
Bordering the Bedouin
Jan 07, 2023
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
Jan 06, 2023
The Bedouin and the Formation of Iraq's National Borders
Jan 05, 2023
Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
Jan 04, 2023
The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
Jan 03, 2023
Iraqi Bedouin and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Jan 02, 2023
Bonus Episode: "Nomadland"
Jan 01, 2023
Nomads in the Bible
Dec 31, 2022
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
Dec 30, 2022
The Ancient Arabs
Dec 29, 2022
Trader, Hunter, Herder, Other: Types and Categories of Nomadism
Dec 28, 2022
An Introduction to Digital Nomads
Dec 27, 2022