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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, ...
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Philipp Rössner, Marcus Meer and Kim König: Bad pennies and revolting peasants:
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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 issues shed new light on the Peasants' War?In this GHIL Podcast interview, Research Fellow for Medieval History Marcus Meer and PR Officer Kim König are joined by Philipp Rössner, Professor o…
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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 the Iron Curtain, giving rise to several ‘cultural’ and other ‘turns’, most of which have also passed. One phenomenon, however, has been missed completely, in older as well as more recent histo…
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Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König: Global rankings:
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Why did people in Imperial Germany became increasingly interested in their personal performance? Was there a link between global entanglements of Imperial Germany on the one hand and a rise in personal achievement culture on the other?저자 Nina Verheyen, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
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Nina Verheyen: Global Connections and Personal Achievements:
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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. Work performance, intelligence, sporting achievements, and so on were measured, standardized, optimized and—above all—cherished. This lecture scrutinizes the link between both of these trend…
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Clare Anderson: Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism:
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Between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the British transported over a quarter of a million convicts to colonies and settlements including in Australia, the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. About one percent of the approximately 167,000 convicts shipped to the Australian colonies (1787-1868) were of Asian, African…
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Kokou Azamede, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König: The restitution debate in Togo
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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 and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König talk to Kokou Azamede, Associate Professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Lomé, about his work with local …
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Kokou Azamede: The Perception of Colonial Cultural Goods and Human Remains among Communities in the Former German Colony of Togo in the Context of the Restitution Debate
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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 involve communities is becoming a challenge for some African leaders because opinions on the issue tend to diverge between the communities and social groups concerned, depending in part on t…
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In this lecture Regina Toepfer will present her concept of translational anthropology and show how philological comparisons can reveal patterns of thought, systems of knowledge, and values held by historical individuals and societies. She considers literary translations to be key anthropological texts and sees shifts in meaning between the source a…
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Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König: Pollution and the modern city:
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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 the region? What is the relationship between these histories and India's urban modernity?In this GHIL podcast interview GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengup…
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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 black smoke and the impact that this had on the quality of urban life, human health, and economic efficiency. In time, visible smoke yielded to invisible particulate matter as a serious object …
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Sumathi Ramaswamy: Imagining India in the Empire of Science
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This podcast episode is a recording of the inaugural Thyssen Lecture, given by Sumathi Ramaswamy, and organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in cooperation with the GHIL. Drawing inspiration from Edward Said's concept of imperialism as geographical violence, she delves into the ways in which various scientific disciplines, like geography and car…
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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 missionaries, who took the initial steps in opening up education to wider circles than those entitled to forms of knowledge, and the Government efforts that followed were faced with new and …
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Janaki Nair, Indra Sengupta and Kim König: The history of schooling in colonial India
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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 State of Mysore become a place where children and young adults unlearned traditional prejudices and picked up new sensory skills, which in turn shaped their understanding of their own selves i…
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Patrick Anthony, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König: Climate Crises and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
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Why was the Enlightenment a turning point in the way in which humans think about climate? In what way did climate catastrophes affect revolutions and vice versa? How did climate politics emerge during this time?In this GHIL podcast interview, Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König, talk to Patrick An…
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Some scholars and scientists identify the Enlightenment as an inflection point in the Anthropocene, a geological age in which humans act as a planetary force. My talk suggests that this inflection point was characterized not only by new means and scales of environmental exploitation, but also by the emergence of climate politics. The naturalist Geo…
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Stefan Hanß: The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes:
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The ‘material Renaissance’, historians have argued, was an age of experimentation, and recipes were at the heart of this cultural movement. New collaborations between the humanities and the sciences allow for novel insights into Renaissance recipe cultures, and more specifically the degree of material experimentation and engagement by ‘recipe pract…
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Stefan Hanß, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König: Analysing Renaissance recipes
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PR Officer Kim König and Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius talk to Stefan Hanß about his research project which uses the scientific analysis and historical contextualization of the chemical fingerprints of Renaissance recipe users to offer a new understanding of material cultures, medicine, and the history of the body i…
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Behind the Wire: Exhibition: Internment during the First World War. The Global German Experience
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Talks from the Symposium at the launch event for Behind the Wire, an exhibition on Internment durinf the First World War, held at the German Historical Institute, April-June, 2023. During the First World War, German civilians were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ in British Empire locations around the world. British citizens, white and non-white, were in…
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David Kuchenbuch, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König: The history of globalism through the prism of media (and biography)
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How did people in the past understand globalism? GHIL Research Fellow for Modern History Pascale Siegrist and PR Officer Kim König speak with David Kuchenbuch about his research on American designer R. Buckminster Fuller and the (West) German historian Arno Peters. David Kuchenbuch argues that their work as ‘Welt-Bildner’ (makers of worlds) points …
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David Kuchenbuch: Mediating Globalism in the Twentieth Century:
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Many scholars have argued that historical concepts of the global are under-researched. In my talk, I will argue that filling this gap will mean taking a closer look at media representing global connections and differences. I will do this by presenting my research on American designer R. Buckminster Fuller and (West) German historian Arno Peters, bo…
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Prabhu Mohapatra, Indra Sengupta and Kim König: The employment contract in Indian labour history
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What is the employment contract? When was it introduced in India? What is the role of Indian labour history within the field of labour history and historical research more generally?GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengupta and PR Officer Kim König put these questions to Prabhu Mohapatra (University of Delhi) and ta…
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Prabhu Mohapatra: A Genealogy of Labour Regulation in India:
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When was the employment contract introduced in India? The story of the forging of the Formal Employment Contract in the first decades of the twentieth century, of its tortuous career and eventual dismantling over the next hundred years, may give us a clue to the persistent paradoxes of India’s labouring landscape. My presentation will examine how t…
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Ute Frevert, Ole Münch and Kim König: The influence of emotions on history
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How have people experienced emotions in the past and how did their meanings differ from how we experience emotions today? What influence did emotions have on history?GHIL Research Fellow for Modern History Ole Münch and PR Officer Kim König talk to Ute Frevert, the new president of the Max Weber Foundation, about the research behind her lecture on …
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Everyone knows from experience that emotions are powerful: they motivate us to act in a certain way, they colour our experiences and shape our memories. But what impact do they have on history? What do we learn about history from looking through the lens of emotions? And what do we learn about emotions by applying a historical perspective? The talk…
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Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König: The Hanseatic League: a ‘secret superpower’
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GHIL Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König speak to Carsten Jahnke (Copenhagen) about his research on the history of the Hanseatic League and how historians have used it to shape Germans’ historical understanding.저자 Carsten Jahnke, Mirjam Brusius and Kim König
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