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German Historical Institute London Podcast
Welcome to the podcast of the German Historical Institute London, a research centre for German and British academics and students in the heart of Bloomsbury. The GHIL is a research base for historians of all eras working on colonial history and global relations or the history of Great Britain and Ireland, and also provides a meeting point for UK historians whose research concerns the history of the German-speaking lands. In each podcast episode, ranging from interviews to lecture recordings, we…
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German Historical Institute London PodcastGHIL 50: Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL Director)
In this episode of the GHIL’s 50th-anniversary series, Kim König and Thomas Kaal speak with Christina von Hodenberg, Director of the GHIL. They discuss…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGHIL 50: Indra Senguta (Senior Fellow and Head of India Research Programme)
In this episode of the GHIL’s 50th-anniversary series, Kim König and Thomas Kaal speak with Indra Sengupta, Senior Fellow and Head of the GHIL’s India Research…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGHIL 50: Marcus Böick (Cambridge)
In this episode of the GHIL’s 50th-anniversary series, Kim König speaks with Marcus Böick, former holder of the Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGHIL 50: Matthias Ammon (Head of the GHIL Library)
To mark the GHIL’s 50th anniversary, Kim König and Thomas Kaal speak with head librarian Matthias Ammon about the GHIL Library and its role in supporting…
German Historical Institute London PodcastAutosuggestion: On The Early History of Advertising Psychology
In 1900, psychologist Harlow Stearns Gale published what is probably the earliest psychological study of advertising. His main interest was the process of…
German Historical Institute London PodcastSigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune, and the Third Reich
For journalist William Shirer, ‘no other correspondent in Germany knew so much of what was going on behind the scenes as did Sigrid Schultz.’ Hermann Göring…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s
The twentieth century is normally considered the century of the refugee, beginning with the mass flight and expulsion of civilian populations in the First…
German Historical Institute London PodcastEpistemic Inequalities, the ILO, and Labour History in the Global South
In this episode, Kim König and Thomas Kaal sit down with Ulrike Lindner, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne, to talk about the research…
German Historical Institute London PodcastEpistemic Inequalities and their Consequences: The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
The lecture will first address the significance of epistemic inequalities in the Global South and work out why these are often prerequisites for the…
German Historical Institute London PodcastQueering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
What difference can queer perspectives make in our understanding of the German past and in present-day conversations around sexual and gender diversity? Having…
German Historical Institute London PodcastQueering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
What difference can queer perspectives make in our understanding of the German past and in present-day conversations around sexual and gender diversity? Having…
German Historical Institute London PodcastQueer Perspectives: New Ways of Understanding German History
In this episode, host Kim König speaks with Benno Gammerl (European University Institute in Florence) about the research underlying his lecture on “Queering…
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Queer Perspectives: New Ways of Understanding German History
In this episode, host Kim König speaks with Benno Gammerl (European University Institute in Florence) about the research underlying his lecture on “Queering…
German Historical Institute London PodcastDecolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire
This lecture, with a focus on India, aims to understand this important archive of knowledge of the natural world collected and organised in the context of the…
German Historical Institute London PodcastA linguistic legacy: The lasting impact of Reformation-era texts
In this episode, GHIL Fellow for Medieval History Thomas Kaal and host Kim König talk with Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and…
German Historical Institute London Podcast1525 and All That: How Nuns’ Letters and Reformation Pamphlets Shaped German History
The lecture will discuss how Latin and German texts written 500 years ago influenced the linguistic and historical development of early modern and modern…
German Historical Institute London PodcastLocal Modernity: Agency, Entanglement, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Current critical scholarship tends to cast the colonial West as the prime actor in shaping the non-Western world, ‘producing’ types of knowledge specific to…
German Historical Institute London PodcastWhat is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Chills, aches and hot flushes. What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research…
German Historical Institute London Podcast‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
The talk is concerned with the history of fever and febrile diseases in the French, Iberian, and British empires, from the 1770s to the 1820s, a time when…
German Historical Institute London PodcastUrban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities
In this episode, host Kim König and Research Fellow Ole Münch are joined by Christiane Reinecke, Professor of Modern European History at the Europa-Universität…
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Picturing working class communities
In this episode, we talk about working-class communities. Or rather: ideas about the working-class, some of which are quite romanticised. Joining host Kim…
German Historical Institute London PodcastSociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture
Jon Lawrence: Shifting Visions of Working-Class Community in Post-War Britain The idea that the British working class had its own distinctive way of life and…
German Historical Institute London PodcastMind the void: The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
In this episode, host Kim König is joined by Ole Münch, Research Fellow for Modern History, and Achim Landwehr, Professor of Early Modern History at the…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe Hole Story: Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
European cultures tend to overlook voids, or, at best, see them as unpleasant phenomena. Yet voids are not only unavoidable, but actually constitutive in the…
German Historical Institute London PodcastLondon – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
The exhibition “The Horror Camps”, displayed in the Reading Room of the Daily Express in London from May 1945, featured enlarged photographs from the liberated…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGerman racial science and modern anthropology in India
How do colonial-era racial theories continue to influence modern science in India? Today, we're exploring this question by examining new research which traces…
German Historical Institute London PodcastProcessing history
How do we define a process? What types exist, and how does our understanding of them reflect our historical and cultural context? In this interview host Kim…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe Problem with (Historical) Processes: Reflections on an Undertheorized Topic
Talk of ‘social processes’ is widespread in historiography as well as in the social sciences; process terms such as industrialization, urbanization…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe power of protest
In this episode, host Kim König and Ole Münch, research fellow in modern history, talk to Professor Philipp Gassert, whose lecture at the German Historical…
German Historical Institute London PodcastContesting Political Spaces: Thoughts on a World History of Street Protest
Even though we now live in an age of digital media, physical street protest is not a thing of the past. Anyone knows that even in the twenty-first century…
German Historical Institute London PodcastAfter Colonial Forms of Knowledge and Post-Colonial Technoscience: Revisiting the Historiography of Techniques and Technology
Dhruv Raina's lecture explores the conceptual challenges of developing a comprehensive historiography of techniques and technology in a global context. The…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe Future of Historical Reconciliation Research
Irreconcilability seems to define both global politics and societal dynamics today, leading to a growing focus on reconciliation processes. While political…
German Historical Institute London PodcastAnalysing Reconciliation and Irreconcilability from a Historical Perspective: The Example of Germany and Britain
Whether in a global political context or within society, irreconcilability seems to be the hallmark of our present times. This explains the growing interest in…
German Historical Institute London PodcastWinners and Losers?: Britain and Germany after the Second World War
How do historical narratives and memories shape our understanding of national identity and collective memory? Lucy Noakes (University of Essex) and Frank…
German Historical Institute London PodcastRaise, Reuse, Recycle: Global History and Marine Salvage in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Oceans and seas have long been a focal point in historiography, particularly in the field of global history, which emphasizes the connective power of these…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGlobalization: a threat to democracy?
Is globalization a threat to democracy? In this podcast interview, PR Officer Kim König is joined by Julia Angster, professor of modern history at the…
German Historical Institute London Podcast‘Post-Democracy’?: Globalization, Democracy, and the Nation State in Germany after 1990
Is ‘globalization’ a threat to democracy? From the 1990s to the late 2010s, social scientists, economists, and historians in Western countries thought so. They…
German Historical Institute London PodcastUnderstanding Power Relations in a Colonial Context: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, In-Between
Some years ago, historians reacted to the elite bias of much historical writing by advocating a ‘bottom-up’ approach focusing on peasants, workers, the urban…
German Historical Institute London PodcastCatholic or Protestant in the Reformation: A simple choice?
During the Reformation people had to choose between the Protestant and Catholic faith - or so the popular narrative goes. But is it really that simple? GHIL…
German Historical Institute London PodcastReligious Decision-Making in the Reformation
It is a widespread belief that the Reformation introduced the possibility of choosing between different variants of the Christian faith. In contrast, this…
German Historical Institute London PodcastCriminology and 'scientific' penology in India, 1894-1955
In this GHIL Podcast episode host Kim König is joined by GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengupta to talk to Radhika Singha…
German Historical Institute London PodcastInternational Penology in Colonial India: Too Advanced, Too American, Too Expensive?
The Indian Jail Committee report of 1919–20 is often cast as the turning point in colonial penal policy, when reform and rehabilitation were added to…
German Historical Institute London PodcastSocieties under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
Today, the state of emergency seems to be as permanent as it is omnipresent. The term became ubiquitous in the early twentieth century and continues to guide…
German Historical Institute London PodcastStates of Emergency and the Social Dimensions of Administrative Agency
From living through wars to experiencing humanitarian crises, in this podcast episode, GHIL Research Fellow Clemens Villinger and PR officer Kim Koenig talk to…
German Historical Institute London PodcastFederations, constitutions and the German Basic Law
Can federations be stable? Should political orders last forever and constitutions be permanent? 75 years ago, the German Basic Law came into force. In this…
German Historical Institute London PodcastShould Federations be Made to Last?
In political theory and political debates, an implicit expectation looms large: a ‘good’ polity is durable, ideally even permanent. Federal polities are…
German Historical Institute London PodcastColonial Times, Global Times: History and Imperial World-Making
This podcast episode is a recording of the second Thyssen Lecture, given by Sebastian Conrad, and organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in cooperation with…
German Historical Institute London PodcastBad pennies and revolting peasants: a monetary examination of the Peasants' War
Money doesn’t stink – or so the famous phrase goes. So, what did peasants in the Middle Ages mean when they complained about bad coin? Can a focus on monetary…
German Historical Institute London PodcastPeasants, Wars, and Evil Coins: Towards a ‘Monetary Turn’ in Explaining the Revolution of 1525
The ‘Great German Peasant War’ of 1524–6 has quietly slipped off the historian’s agenda. Structural-materialist interpretations have waned since the fall of…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGlobal rankings: Imperial Germany and the rise of personal achievement culture
Why did people in Imperial Germany became increasingly interested in their personal performance? Was there a link between global entanglements of Imperial…
German Historical Institute London PodcastGlobal Connections and Personal Achievements: (De)centring the Self in Fin de Siècle Germany
Within a few decades, people in Imperial Germany witnessed a dramatic rise in global exchange, as well as an increased public interest in personal achievement…
German Historical Institute London PodcastConvicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism: Aftermaths of penal transportation in the British Empire
Between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the British transported over a quarter of a million convicts to colonies and settlements including in…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe Perception of Colonial Cultural Goods and Human Remains among Communities in the Former German Colony of Togo in the Context of the Restitution Debate
The issue of restitution continues to animate public debate in both European and African societies. The search for ways and means to present the problem and to…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe restitution debate in Togo
The issue of restitution is an ongoing topic of public debate in both European and African societies. In this GHIL podcast interview, GHIL Fellow for Colonial…
German Historical Institute London PodcastHomer’s Heroes in Early Modern Germany: A Translational Anthropology
In this lecture Regina Toepfer will present her concept of translational anthropology and show how philological comparisons can reveal patterns of thought…
German Historical Institute London PodcastPollution and the modern city: Lessons from India's past
How have India's colonial past and its life as a postcolonial nation state shaped the history of climate change, particulate matter, and germs and viruses in…
German Historical Institute London PodcastIndia’s Atmospheric Modernity: Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City
Around the mid nineteenth century, air pollution began to be discussed in India, especially in its largest cities, Calcutta and Bombay. The concern was with…
German Historical Institute London PodcastImagining India in the Empire of Science
This podcast episode is a recording of the inaugural Thyssen Lecture, given by Sumathi Ramaswamy, and organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in cooperation…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe Classroom as Sensorium: Tactility, Attention, and Perception in the Mysore School, 1860–1930
How was the hand to be guided, the eye to be trained, the senses sharpened in preparing the child for an adult world? In princely Mysore in southern India, the…
German Historical Institute London PodcastThe history of schooling in colonial India
How can we unpack the history of schooling in colonial India by looking beyond official records of success and failure? How did the classroom in the Princely…