Tracing Transimperial History: With Shijie Zhang and Professor Martin Dusinberre

In the transimperial history podcast’s fourth episode, MA Student Shijie Zhang talks to Professor Martin Dusinberre from The University of Zurich about the creation of a Japanese diaspora under Meiji Japan and its spread across the pacific.

Join us as we discuss the spaces in between home and abroad and how ships encapsulate transition in 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.  

Professor Dusinberre’s recent works include:

1. Martin Dusinberre, Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

2.Martin Dusinberre, “J. R. Seeley and Japan’s Pacific Expansion”, The Historical Journal 64(1) (2021): 70-97. 

3.  Martin Dusinberre and Ronald Wenzlhuemer, editors. “Being in Transit: ships and global incompatibilities”, Journal of Global History (Special issue) 11(2) (2016).

This podcast has been produced by Michelle Olguin-Flückliger and David Motzafi-Haller.

The Pierre Du Bois foundation website: https://www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/

The International History and Politics department: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/international-history-politics