The Transimperial History Podcast International History and Politics Department - Geneva Graduate Institute

The transimperial history podcast's fifth episode delves into Tunisian and North African History. PhD Candidate Abha Calindi speaks to Professor M'hamed Oualdi from Sciences-Po Paris about the importance but also the limits of the colonial history framework for the history of Tunisia, about Oualdi's new project about slavery in the Mediterranean, about empathy and the micro-historical method, and about how such historical work reflects and challenges present tensions around islamophobia and conservatism in French society and academia.  Professor Oualdi's recent works include:

1. M'hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

2. M'hamed Oualdi,  "La longue fin de l'esclavage au Maghreb." Cogito, le magazine de la recherche, 2020,https://www.sciencespo.fr/research/cogito/home/la-longue-fin-de-lesclavage-au-maghreb/.

3. M'hamed Oualdi and Isabelle Grangaud, “Does Colonialism Explain Everything in North Africa? What Historians Can Bring to the Table?”/“Tout est-il colonial dans le Maghreb? Ce que les travaux des historiens modernistes peuvent apporter” Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine 63-2 (2016): 133–56.

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

In the transimperial history podcast’s third episode,  PhD Candidate Atiya Hussein talks to Professor Nile Green from UCLA about Mumbai as a transimperial cradle of Muslim modernity. What kinds of diasporas are made and remade across empires? Who makes a place transimperial? And how does the transimperial framework shape language?

Join us as we discuss the role Mumbai played in a religious marketplace that spanned the Indian Ocean. We debate how supply and demand form the cradle of modernity and how these were not only economic, but also religious and social terms.



Professor Green’s recent works include:

1. Nile Green, How Asia Found Herself: A story of Intercultural Understanding. New Haven, CT: University of Yale Press, 2022. 472p. 

2. Nile Green, The Love of Strangers: What six Muslim Students learned in Jane Austen’s London. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016. 416p.

3. Nile Green, Sufism: A Global History. Hoboken, NJ: WIley-Blackwell, 2012. 288p.



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

In the transimperial history podcast’s second episode, PhD Candidate Anshul Verma talks to Professor Harald Fischer Tiné from ETH Zurich about how transimperial networks of scientists shaped the way colonialism was practiced on the ground, when a transimperial framework isn't required, and how to retain a balance between agency and structure. 

 

Join us as we discuss the benefits and the limits of practicing transimperial history, and ask what the YMCA and the Boy Scouts were doing in the
rural United Provinces of northern India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Professor Fischer Tiné’s recent works include:

1. Harald Fischer Tiné, Stefan Huebner and Ian Tyrrell, editors. The Rise and Growth of a Global “Moral Empire”: The YMCA and YWCA during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2021.

2. Harald Fischer Tiné, editor. Anxieties, Fear and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

3. Harald Fischer Tiné, 'Low and Licentious Europeans’: Race, Class and White Subalternity in Colonial India. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2009. 

 

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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

 

The transimperial history podcast’s first episode overviews the field of transimeprial history. PhD Candidate David Motzafi-Haller  talks to Professor Cyrus Schayegh about the evolution, the future and the central characteristics of transimperial history. 

Join us as we discuss the nuts and bolts of writing transimperial history, the persistence of container thinking in historiography, how racial and class lines go across empires, and whether transimperial history is a fad. 



The three reading recommendations by Professor Schayegh are:

1. Véronique Dimier, Le gouvernement des colonies, regards croisés franco-britannique, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, coll. « Sociologie politique », 2004, 288 p.

2. Ulrike Lindner, Koloniale Begegnungen: Deutschland und Großbritannien als Imperialmächte in Afrika 1880-1914, Frankfurt/New York, Campus Verlag GmbH, 2011, 529 p.

3. Daniel Hedinger and Nadin Heé, “Transimperial History - Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition”, Journal of Modern European History 16(4): 2018: 429-452.



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

The transimperial history podcast’s first episode overviews the field of transimeprial history. PhD Candidate David Motzafi-Haller  talks to Professor Cyrus Schayegh about the evolution, the future and the central characteristics of transimperial history. 

Join us as we discuss the nuts and bolts of writing transimperial history, the persistence of container thinking in historiography, how racial and class lines go across empires, and whether transimperial history is a fad. 



The three reading recommendations by Professor Schayegh are:

1. Véronique Dimier, Le gouvernement des colonies, regards croisés franco-britannique, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, coll. « Sociologie politique », 2004, 288 p.

2. Ulrike Lindner, Koloniale Begegnungen: Deutschland und Großbritannien als Imperialmächte in Afrika 1880-1914, Frankfurt/New York, Campus Verlag GmbH, 2011, 529 p.

3. Daniel Hedinger and Nadin Heé, “Transimperial History - Connectivity, Cooperation and Competition”, Journal of Modern European History 16(4): 2018: 429-452.



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