Reverb Effect

University of Michigan Department of History
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Reverb Effect

Reverb Effect is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say, and whose job is it to find out? We'll dive deep into the archives, share amazing stories about the past, and talk with people who are making history now. Presented by the University of Michigan Department of History.

  1. JUN 13

    Season 5, Episode 6: "Does It Matter?": Legacies of the First World War

    Nationalism. Emerging technology. Militarization. Destroyed bodies. Total war. In this episode, three historians reconsider the dominant themes of the First World War—which are as relevant today as they were a century ago. Cheyenne Pettit studies Canadian and British conflicts over the treatment of venereal disease during World War One. Matthew Hershey's research explores meanings and experiences of soldiers’ suicide in the First World War. And Lediona Shahollari focuses on the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange during the partition of those two states in the aftermath of the Great War. Join them in a conversation reflecting on the legacy of that conflict.

    33 min

  2. MAY 7

    Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives

    Archives are central to the work of historians. But they are not just for scholars. In this episode, we talk with an archivist, an archival theorist, and a historian, all working to democratize these spaces, what they hold, and who can access them.  Professor Patricia Garcia will help us think about the archives through a critical lens. Archivist Brian Williams will help us understand how to build an archive essentially from scratch. And Professor Stephen Berrey will help us understand what role the public can play in archival endeavors.

    33 min

  3. APR 4

    Season 5, Episode 4: Constructed Categories: Syriac Christians and the Immigration Act of 1924

    One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”

    24 min

  4. FEB 20

    Season 5, Episode 3: “Peace to the World”: Lessons from the Soviet Antiwar Underground

    Alexander McConnell talks with Olga Medvedkova, a Soviet antiwar activist whose arrest garnered worldwide attention in 1983. In light of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, what can we learn from Medvedkova and the Soviet peace movement?

    35 min
  5. Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    12/20/2023

    Season 5, Episode 2: Waiting with Mozart

    Join Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1777 as he waits, in an aristocrat’s antechamber in Munich, for a conversation that could change his life. What did it mean to wait in the past? Who waited? How did it shape society and culture, and how did it define social interactions?

    34 min

  6. 11/27/2023

    Season 5, Episode 1: Curating the Remnants of Enslavement: A Conversation with Jason Young

    In this episode, Paige Newhouse interviews Jason Young, co-curator of Hear Me Now: the Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a traveling exhibit housed at the University of Michigan Museum of Art centering enslaved artisans and the stoneware they produced.

    29 min
  7. Season 4, Episode 3: Clesippus and the Candelabrum: Imagining Disability in Ancient Rome

    06/06/2023

    Season 4, Episode 3: Clesippus and the Candelabrum: Imagining Disability in Ancient Rome

    The funerary inscription of Clesippus tells an impressive story of illustrious honors and administrative achievements in Ancient Rome. But there is another story, one of a man who navigated slavery, disability, and the sexual advances of the woman who owned him.

    29 min

  8. 05/26/2023

    Season 4, Episode 2: Forging Property from Struggle in South Africa

    In 1911, a contested horse race sparked one of the largest movements by Black South Africans to reclaim colonized land. How does the history of the Native Farmers Association offer a glimpse into alternate futures of property ownership in South Africa?

    41 min
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About

Reverb Effect is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say, and whose job is it to find out? We'll dive deep into the archives, share amazing stories about the past, and talk with people who are making history now. Presented by the University of Michigan Department of History.

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  • Creator
    University of Michigan Department of History
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2020 Regents of the University of Michigan
  • Show Website
    Reverb Effect

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