19 episodes

Two twentysomething undergrads who said, "to heck with it," and created a podcast to talk about history in an accessible, interesting, and hopefully fun way. We will do this though discussions, book/film reviews, storytelling, interviews and of course...puns. Join us as we explore how history connects with daily life and other academic disciplines.
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Interdisciplinary History Pod Interdis History Podcast

    • History
    • 5.0 • 8 Ratings

Two twentysomething undergrads who said, "to heck with it," and created a podcast to talk about history in an accessible, interesting, and hopefully fun way. We will do this though discussions, book/film reviews, storytelling, interviews and of course...puns. Join us as we explore how history connects with daily life and other academic disciplines.
https://www.patreon.com/interdis_hist/membership

    Time Travel Ft. Nerd Crusade

    Time Travel Ft. Nerd Crusade

    In this episode we reconnect with friends of the Nerd Crusade to discuss time travel in popular media and how common tropes within the genre can effect understandings of historical events. 

    This episode was recorded as part of Nerd Crusade's Holiday Rush live stream fundraiser for Santa's Anonymous Edmonton.  

    Academic Articles, Films, Videos, Television, and Books mentioned on the podcast-

    Academic Articles:

    Recovery of Damaged Information and the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators

    Bin Yan and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040605 – Published 24 July 2020

    https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.040605

    Tempting Fate

    The Historian as Time Traveler

    by Karin Wulf

    Tempting Fate | Perspectives on History | AHA

    Drawing the historian back into history: creativity, writing, and The Art of Time Travel

    By Meg Foster

    https://content.ebscohost.com/ContentServer.asp?EbscoContent=dGJyMMvl7ESeqLA4zOX0OLCmsEmeprRSsKu4TbWWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGqt0uyrLVRuePfgeyx43zx1%2B6B&T=P&P=AN&S=R&D=31h&K=127698790

    Videos on Time Travel:

    A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Works in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows | Open Culture

    Books:

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

    A Stitch in Time Series by Kelley Armstrong

    TV Shows:

    Timeless

    Outlander

    Loki

    Doctor Who

    Films:

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

    Avengers- Endgame



    If you are looking to listen to more podcasts like this, we highly recommend checking out Nerd Crusade's podcast on all available podcast directories, or Lit with Vik as well.


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    • 33 min
    Episode 14: A Virtual Field Trip Double Feature- Tales of Strange Museums

    Episode 14: A Virtual Field Trip Double Feature- Tales of Strange Museums

    In this episode, Viktoria and Sloan discuss two mysterious and strange museums that tackle a historical subject with an interdisciplinary perspective. Do be warned, here be weirdness. Keep listening for musings on tunes, toilets and much more. 

    Related Links:

    Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner - Musée des ondes Emile Berliner (moeb.ca) 

    Muzeum histoických nočníků a toalet (muzeumnocniku.cz)

    Our Interview with Dr. Seika Boye: https://anchor.fm/interdis-history-group/episodes/Episode-7-On-Research--Curation--and-Collaboration-A-Conversation-with-Dr--Seika-Boye-er0jlo/a-a4o50kk

    Tire sur la neige video (Sorry all the available videos were in French. This does have English subtitles if you do not mind.) https://youtu.be/OWBflQkF9bw

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    Thank you for listening! Stay safe and wear a mask! Love Vik and Sloan


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    • 45 min
    Episode 13C: Alias Grace Part 3

    Episode 13C: Alias Grace Part 3

    In this episode we discus penal reforms of the mid nineteen century, asylums and the Victorian spiritualist movement. 

    This episode concludes a three part series where we have examined the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production  is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of  Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era.

    Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published.

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    Citations and further reading:

    McCoy, Ted.(2012) Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in 19th Century Canada. 

    Chu, E. M.-Y., van Santen, J., & Harbishettar, V. (2018). Views from an asylum: a retrospective case note analysis of a nineteenth century asylum. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 53(10), 1141–1147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1575-1




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    • 56 min
    Episode 13B: Alias Grace Part 2

    Episode 13B: Alias Grace Part 2

    In this episode, Viktoria discusses gender and sexuality in mid 19th century Canada, and Sloan looks at the shows depictions of class stratification. Content warnings for mention of sexual assault and abortion. 

    This episode continues as the second of a three part series where we will be examine the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production  is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of  Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era.

    Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published.

    Please support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/interdis_hist

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    Citations and further reading: 

     Burley, David G. (1994). Particular Condition in Life : Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

    Darroch, G. (1988). Class in nineteenth-century, central Ontario: A reassessment of the crisis and demise of small producers during early industrialization, 1861-1871. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 13(1/2), 49.

    David Gagan. (1976). “The Prose of Life”: Literary Reflections of the Family, Individual Experience and Social Structure in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Journal of Social History, 9(3), 367–381.

    O'Neill, Teresa.(2016) Unmentionables: The Victorian Ladies Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners. 

    Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. (2003) "Eroticism of class and the Enigma of of Margaret Atwood's 'Alias grace'." Tulsa Studies in Woman's Literature. 22, No. 2: 371-386

    Rimstead, Roxanne. (2002) "Working class Intruders: Female Domestics in Kamouraska and Alias Grace" Canadian Literature 175: 44-65


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    • 56 min
    Episode 13A: Alias Grace Part 1

    Episode 13A: Alias Grace Part 1

    This episode kicks off the first of a three part series where we will be examine the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production  is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of  Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era. 

    In this first installment of looking at Alias Grace, Viktoria discusses depictions of urban and rural domesticity, and Sloan unpacks experiences of immigration.  

    Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published. 

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    Source Materials and Further Reading

    Kenneally, Michael. 2014 "Irish Immigration to Nineteenth Century Canada: Alternative Narratives" 

    Keough, Willeen G. 2013 "Unpacking the Discursive Irish Woman Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteen-Century Newfoundland" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09670882.2012.759709

    Melnyk, George. 2018 "The County of Half Welcomes: Canada's Checkered History With Refugees" 

    Palmer, Bryan D. 1993 "Nineteenth-Century Canada and Australia: The Paradoxes of Class Formation" 




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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Episode 12: Food History and Food in Historical Study

    Episode 12: Food History and Food in Historical Study

    Inspired by the virtual launch event for the digital archival exhibition From Our Mothers' Kitchens': Cooking in Rural Canada put on by Archival and Special Collections at the University of Guelph, this episode features Viktoria and Sloan discussing topics in food history and theory. Viktoria gives some perspective into the historiographical trends in the way historians treat food in history. Sloan presents arguments made by scholars as to the potential for interdisciplinary work on topics relating to historical  food and recipes. Together in this episode your hosts hope to get you thinking about the things we eat as primary sources of our era and to consider how future historians will look back on our contemporary.

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    Citations

    Claflin, Kyri, and Peter Scholliers. 2012. Writing Food History : A Global Perspective. English ed. Berg.

    Pilcher, Jeffery M. 2017 Food in Word History. 2nd edition. Themes in World History. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

    Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. 2014. The Food Section : Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers



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    • 1 hr 1 min

Customer Reviews

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8 Ratings

Fatima from Between Us ,

Loved this!

I listened to the episode with the owner of the bookstore, and I loved every moment of it! I love reading, but reading history books has been so boring to me. I love the approach she took about reading historical fiction, and I’m looking forward to listening more to other episodes!

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