{"id":17247,"date":"2023-05-21T21:58:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/?page_id=17247"},"modified":"2023-05-21T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T22:03:28","slug":"launch-of-the-transimperial-history-podcast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/launch-of-the-transimperial-history-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the Transimperial History Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History may be grounded in the past, but it is always evolving and changing as new perspectives, research, and discoveries emerge. Events are never set in stone, and as time passes, historians continually re-evaluate and re-interpret the past, shedding new light on events that were once shrouded in mystery. While history is rooted in the past, it is also forward-looking, providing valuable insights into how we can navigate the present and future.<\/p>\n<p>In this series host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/associate-researchers\/david-motzafi-haller\/\">David Motzafi-Haller <\/a>and his colleagues discuss the meaning and evolution of trans imperial history, as well as its significance in pushing the boundaries of scholarship on empire and colonialism. Leading scholars in the field share their insights and perspectives on the key challenges and opportunities of trans imperial history today and its future prospects.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by <a title=\"Michelle OLGUIN FL\u00dcCKLIGER\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graduateinstitute.ch\/discover-institute\/michelle-olguin-fluckliger\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"85aee8d3-698c-406d-82e1-533dcdd3eb00\">Michelle Olguin-Fl\u00fcckliger<\/a> and David Motzafi-Haller, the Transimperial History Podcast&#8217;s first episode can be accessed through the Pierre Du Bois foundation website or the International History and Politics department&#8217;s website. The podcast provides an excellent opportunity to gain insights into the history of empires and their interconnectedness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Episode 1: Introducing Transimperial History David Motzafi-Haller and Professor Cyrus Schayegh<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/67a16PMVEOgImymYB3nDUy?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe transimperial history podcast\u2019s <strong>first episode <\/strong>overviews the field of transimperial history. PhD Candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.graduateinstitute.ch\/discover-institute\/david-motzafi-haller\">David Motzafi-Haller<\/a>\u00a0talks to Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.graduateinstitute.ch\/academic-departments\/faculty\/cyrus-schayegh\">Cyrus Schayegh<\/a>\u00a0about the evolution, the future and the central characteristics of transimperial history.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we discuss the nuts and bolts of writing transimperial history, the persistence of container thinking in historiography, how racial and class lines go across empires, and whether transimperial history is a fad.<\/p>\n<p>The three reading recommendations by Professor Schayegh are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>V\u00e9ronique Dimier, <em>Le gouvernement des colonies, regards crois\u00e9s franco-britannique<\/em>, Bruxelles, \u00c9ditions de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Bruxelles, coll. \u00ab Sociologie politique \u00bb, 2004, 288 p.<\/li>\n<li>Ulrike Lindner, <em>Koloniale Begegnungen<\/em><strong><em>: <\/em><\/strong><em>Deutschland und Gro\u00dfbritannien als Imperialm\u00e4chte in Afrika 1880-1914<\/em>, Frankfurt\/New York, Campus Verlag GmbH, 2011, 529 p.<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Hedinger and Nadin He\u00e9, \u201cTransimperial History &#8211; Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition\u201d, <em>Journal of Modern European History <\/em>16(4): 2018: 429-452.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Episode 2: Practising Transnational History Anshul Verma and Professor Harald Fischer Tin\u00e9<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5UBMJZxRcjkeqIwFJAHIVD?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn the transimperial history podcast\u2019s <strong>second episode, <\/strong>PhD Candidate Anshul Verma talks to Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gmw.ethz.ch\/en\/people\/personen-a-z\/person-detail.html?persid=159017\">Harald Fischer Tin\u00e9<\/a> from ETH Zurich about how the way transimperial networks of scientists have shaped the way colonialism was practised on the ground, when not to use a transimperial framework, and how to retain a balance between agency and structure.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we discuss the approaches to, and the limits of, practising transimperial history, and ask what exactly the YMCA and the Boy Scouts were doing in the heart of rural India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Fischer Tin\u00e9\u2019s recent works include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Harald Fischer Tin\u00e9, Stefan Huebner and Ian Tyrrell, editors.<em> The Rise and Growth of a Global \u201cMoral Empire\u201d: The YMCA and YWCA during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. <\/em>Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Harald Fischer Tin\u00e9, editor. <em>Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown<\/em>. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Harald Fischer Tin\u00e9, <em>&#8216;Low and Licentious Europeans\u2019: Race, Class and White Subalternity in Colonial India<\/em>. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2009.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Episode 3: Placing Transnational History Atiya Hussein and Professor Nile Green<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/02g4tm20SLcXCCQvTEO1yG?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn the transimperial history podcast\u2019s <strong>third episode, <\/strong>\u00a0PhD Candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.graduateinstitute.ch\/discover-institute\/atiya-hussain\">Atiya Hussein<\/a>\u00a0talks to Professor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/history.ucla.edu\/faculty\/nile-green\">Nile Green<\/a>\u00a0from UCLA about Mumbai as a transimperial cradle of Muslim modernity. What kinds of diasporas are made and remade across empires? Who makes a place transimperial? And how does the transimperial framework shape language?<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we discuss the role Mumbai played in a religious marketplace that spanned the Indian Ocean. We debate how supply and demand form the cradle of modernity and how these were not only economic, but also religious and social terms. *<\/p>\n<p>Professor Green\u2019s recent works include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nile Green, <em>How Asia Found Herself: A story of Intercultural Understanding<\/em>. New Haven, CT: University of Yale Press, 2022. 472p.<\/li>\n<li>Nile Green, <em>The Love of Strangers: What six Muslim Students learned in Jane Austen\u2019s London<\/em>. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 416p.<\/li>\n<li>Nile Green, <em>Sufism: A Global History<\/em>. Hoboken, NJ: WIley-Blackwell, 2012. 288p.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Episode 4: Tracing Transimperial History Shijie Zhang and Professor Martin Dusinberre<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3GhTTXCCliR5egT5UDu9KU?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the transimperial history podcast\u2019s <strong>fourth episode, <\/strong>MA Student Shijie Zhangtalks to Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hist.uzh.ch\/de\/fachbereiche\/neuzeit\/lehrstuehle\/dusinberre\/team\/dusinberre.html\">Martin Dusinberre<\/a> from The University of Zurich about the creation of a Japanese diaspora under Meiji Japan and its spread across the pacific .<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we discuss the spaces in between home and abroad and how ships encapsulate transimperial worlds. We talk about how to read an archive globally and how historians can react creatively to changes in their lives and careers, and the serendipity of research itineraries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Dusinberre\u2019\u2019s recent works include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Martin Dusinberre, <em>Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Martin Dusinberre, \u201cJ. R. Seeley and Japan\u2019s Pacific Expansion\u201d, <em>The Historical Journal <\/em>64(1) (2021): 70-97.<\/li>\n<li>Martin Dusinberre and Ronald Wenzlhuemer, editors. \u201cBeing in Transit: ships and global incompatibilities\u201d, <em>Journal of Global History <\/em>(Special issue) 11(2) (2016).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">History may be grounded in the past, but it is always evolving and changing as new perspectives, research, and discoveries emerge. Events are never set in stone, and as time passes, historians continually re-evaluate and re-interpret the past, shedding new light on events that were once shrouded in mystery. While history is rooted in the past, it is also forward-looking,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/launch-of-the-transimperial-history-podcast\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17247","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17247\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondation-pierredubois.ch\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}