Join us as we talk to Dave DeCamp as he talks about his dissertation work and animal imagery in the British Empire's self-imagination: "The Elephant in the Room: Empire, Animals, and Popular Culture in Interwar London". From the household to the tube station, imperial influence at home was one of the many sites where empire was re-imagined and rearticulated. Dave's dissertation focuses use of exotic animal imagery in London’s popular culture during the interwar. This animal imagery is significant to understanding the ways humans represent non-humans, other humans as non-humans, and the disconnect between the imagined and experienced geographies of empire.

Dave also talks about his work in the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern, the "Our Marathon" project on the Boston Marathon bombings, and Digital Humanities. He gives his advice for surviving a PhD program.

Books mentioned in podcast:

Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880-1960

by John M. MacKenzie

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2226036.Propaganda_and_Empire

Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity

by David Gilbert (Editor)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1578443.Imperial_Cities

An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture

by Randy Malamud

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13722019-an-introduction-to-animals-and-visual-culture

The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England

by Harriet Ritvo

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1502905.The_Animal_Estate

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

by Ian Jared Miller

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13277124-the-nature-of-the-beasts

Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture

W.J.T. Mitchell

https://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/mitchell.pdf

The Right to Look

Nicholas Mirzoeff

http://nicholasmirzoeff.com/RTL/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/RTL-from-CI.pdf

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This is an independent, three part episode, featuring a special guest who lived through the massacres, repression, assassinations, and government upheaval in Indonesia during the tumultuous political period following independence from the Dutch, about which many Americans have not heard. It is our intention that this episode can serve as an oral history source to document these events. This recording was made on April 28th 2017 with the interviewee, Kemal Taruc, and recorded with PhD students James Robinson, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and Professor Heather Streets-Salter.

Indonesia, like many other places, was a site of anti-colonial struggle. These global anti-colonial struggles often took the form of nascent nationalism, that utilized a variety of different ideologies, including communism, socialism, religious, and military ideology. In Indonesia specifically, these struggles took three unique forms: there was the Communist Party, which was one of the largest in the world; the Islamic movement, Nagara, which was sizeable as Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world; the third was the Indonesia Armed Forces, which played a significant role in the armed struggle against the Dutch and the Japanese. After World War Two, the Dutch tried to reclaim the country, and the various Indonesian factions fought back under a united banner. An intellectual named Sukarno, a long time symbol of anti colonialism, became recognized as a leader of the movement, and gradually rose to power by making promises to each faction. By 1957, he tired of political infighting among the factions, and instituted the idea of ‘guided democracy’, which was in reality a transition to an autocracy that lasted until his overthrow in 1965. Throughout his rule, he was still playing sides in order to retain power. Eventually however, the military began to grow suspicious of his leftist leanings, and his growing alliance with the Soviets. They instituted a coup, aided by the CIA, that overthrew Sukarno’s government, and instituted a conservative, right wing government that allied with Muslims and immediately began taking action against Communists and suspected Communists. This resulted in the death of an estimated 1 million people, and the torture and displacement of millions more. In the 1970s, the government was still trying to put down perceived dissidence, and this is where our subject’s story really begins. He was one of the leaders of the student movement which pushed back against the dictatorship. Because of the United States covert involvement in Sukarno’s overthrow, especially because of the list they supplied to the military about Communists and suspected Communists, very little personal history of this period has emerged, especially in western schools. We hope that this oral history will help students learn more about what life was like during this period in Indonesia, and about the activism that students engaged in during this time.

This is episode three. In this episode, Kemal discusses his life in the years after the student movement and how he remained involved in the struggle to build a better and just Indonesia.

For a full transcription of this episode, go here:

https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/kamal-taruc-interview-transcript-part-3/

The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association.

Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero

Theme Music: Kieran Legg

This is an independent, three part episode, featuring a special guest who lived through the massacres, repression, assassinations, and government upheaval in Indonesia during the tumultuous political period following independence from the Dutch, about which many Americans have not heard. It is our intention that this episode can serve as an oral history source to document these events. This recording was made on April 28th 2017 with the interviewee, Kemal Taruc, and recorded with PhD students James Robinson, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and Professor Heather Streets-Salter.

Indonesia, like many other places, was a site of anti-colonial struggle. These global anti-colonial struggles often took the form of nascent nationalism, that utilized a variety of different ideologies, including communism, socialism, religious, and military ideology. In Indonesia specifically, these struggles took three unique forms: there was the Communist Party, which was one of the largest in the world; the Islamic movement, Nagara, which was sizeable as Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world; the third was the Indonesia Armed Forces, which played a significant role in the armed struggle against the Dutch and the Japanese. After World War Two, the Dutch tried to reclaim the country, and the various Indonesian factions fought back under a united banner. An intellectual named Sukarno, a long time symbol of anti colonialism, became recognized as a leader of the movement, and gradually rose to power by making promises to each faction. By 1957, he tired of political infighting among the factions, and instituted the idea of ‘guided democracy’, which was in reality a transition to an autocracy that lasted until his overthrow in 1965. Throughout his rule, he was still playing sides in order to retain power. Eventually however, the military began to grow suspicious of his leftist leanings, and his growing alliance with the Soviets. They instituted a coup, aided by the CIA, that overthrew Sukarno’s government, and instituted a conservative, right wing government that allied with Muslims and immediately began taking action against Communists and suspected Communists. This resulted in the death of an estimated 1 million people, and the torture and displacement of millions more. In the 1970s, the government was still trying to put down perceived dissidence, and this is where our subject’s story really begins. He was one of the leaders of the student movement which pushed back against the dictatorship. Because of the United States covert involvement in Sukarno’s overthrow, especially because of the list they supplied to the military about Communists and suspected Communists, very little personal history of this period has emerged, especially in western schools. We hope that this oral history will help students learn more about what life was like during this period in Indonesia, and about the activism that students engaged in during this time.

This is episode two. In this episode, we discuss Kemal Taruc's life in the student movement, one of the few avenues of opposition to the regime, and the choices and sacrifices made in order to keep alive the flame of resistance.

For a full transcription of this episode, go here: https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/kemal-taruc-interview-transcript-part-1/kemal-taruc-interview-part-2/

The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association.

Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero

Theme Music: Kieran Legg

This is an independent, three part episode, featuring a special guest who lived through the massacres, repression, assassinations, and government upheaval in Indonesia during the tumultuous political period following independence from the Dutch, about which many Americans have not heard. It is our intention that this episode can serve as an oral history source to document these events. This recording was made on April 28th 2017 with the interviewee, Kemal Taruc, and recorded with PhD students James Robinson, Bridget Keown, Jamie Parker, Matt Bowser, and Professor Heather Streets-Salter.

Indonesia, like many other places, was a site of anti-colonial struggle. These global anti-colonial struggles often took the form of nascent nationalism, that utilized a variety of different ideologies, including communism, socialism, religious, and military ideology. In Indonesia specifically, these struggles took three unique forms: there was the Communist Party, which was one of the largest in the world; the Islamic movement, Nagara, which was sizeable as Indonesia has the largest population of Muslims in the world; the third was the Indonesia Armed Forces, which played a significant role in the armed struggle against the Dutch and the Japanese. After World War Two, the Dutch tried to reclaim the country, and the various Indonesian factions fought back under a united banner. An intellectual named Sukarno, a long time symbol of anti colonialism, became recognized as a leader of the movement, and gradually rose to power by making promises to each faction. By 1957, he tired of political infighting among the factions, and instituted the idea of ‘guided democracy’, which was in reality a transition to an autocracy that lasted until his overthrow in 1965. Throughout his rule, he was still playing sides in order to retain power. Eventually however, the military began to grow suspicious of his leftist leanings, and his growing alliance with the Soviets. They instituted a coup, aided by the CIA, that overthrew Sukarno’s government, and instituted a conservative, right wing government that allied with Muslims and immediately began taking action against Communists and suspected Communists. This resulted in the death of an estimated 1 million people, and the torture and displacement of millions more. In the 1970s, the government was still trying to put down perceived dissidence, and this is where our subject’s story really begins. He was one of the leaders of the student movement which pushed back against the dictatorship. Because of the United States covert involvement in Sukarno’s overthrow, especially because of the list they supplied to the military about Communists and suspected Communists, very little personal history of this period has emerged, especially in western schools. We hope that this oral history will help students learn more about what life was like during this period in Indonesia, and about the activism that students engaged in during this time.

This is episode one. In this episode, we trace the history of the Indonesian struggle for independence, and the resulting political upheaval, through the actions of Kemal’s politically active family. He also discusses his experiences during the coup, and how he and his family survived the massacres that followed.

For a full transcription of this episode, go here: https://breakinghistorypodcast.com/kemal-taruc-interview-transcript-part-1/

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Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero

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Join us as we talk to Dr. Laura Frader about her work in labor and gender! We talk about working class patterns in France, and connecting her work to women's history. We then talk about her current project on the Treaty of Rome and gender equality policies. Dr. Frader speaks to her own experience working in the academy and the problems of gender inequality and labor.

Dr. Frader’s research focuses on the historical and cultural foundations of social inequality, particularly gender inequality in modern Europe. She is currently working on the history of gender equality policies of the European Community since the Treaty of Rome (1957) and their impacts on member states. Her publications include Gender and Class in Modern Europe (co-edited with Sonya O. Rose, Cornell University Press, 1996), Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference (co-edited with Herrick Chapman, Berghahn, 2004); and Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (Duke University Press, 2008) as well as many articles in English and French-language books and journals.

Submit a paper to the Northeastern University Graduate History Association's 10th Annual Graduate World History Conference! It is scheduled for March 24th-25th and the keynote speaker is Ann Stoler!

For more information: https://nuhistorygrads.wordpress.com/conference/

Books mentioned in podcast:

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

by Mary Louise Roberts

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15999534-what-soldiers-do

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality

by Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2551707.Drawing_the_Global_Colour_Line

Making Empire: Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa

by Richard Price

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6368423-making-empire

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

by Ann Laura Stoler

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5966580-along-the-archival-grain

World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict

by Heather E. Streets-Salter

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32735228-world-war-one-in-southeast-asia

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Join us as we interview Dr. Harlow Robinson on the 100th anniversary of the Russia's October Revolution. How is the October Revolution remembered? What is its legacy? How did Soviet filmmakers and American filmmakers interact? How did Dr. Robinson navigate academia during the Cold War? How did Russian emigres influence the study of Soviet history in the US? How is the Soviet Union remembered today? Dr. Robinson also reflects on his academic career as he approaches teaching retirement (though not writing retirement!)

Matthews Distinguished University Professor Dr. Harlow Robinson is a specialist in Soviet and Russian cultural history, and has written widely on Soviet film and the performing arts. His major publications include Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography, which has appeared in five editions; The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok; and Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev, which he edited and translated. His book, Russians in Hollywood: Hollywood’s Russians was published in 2007. He has also contributed numerous essays, articles and reviews to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Opera News, Opera Quarterly, Dance, Playbill, Symphony and other publications. As a lecturer, he has appeared at the Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Aspen Music Festival and Bard Festival. He has also worked as a consultant for numerous performing arts organizations, and as a writer and commentator for PBS, NPR and the Canadian Broadcasting System.

Books mentioned in the episode:

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

by Steven Lee Myers

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24040192-the-new-tsar

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

by Tim Tzouliadis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3171446-the-forsaken

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

by Anya von Bremzen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262126-mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking

City of Thieves

by David Benioff

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1971304.City_of_Thieves

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430012-a-gentleman-in-moscow

The Breaking History podcast is a production of the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association.

Producers and Sound Editors: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero

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Join Bridget Keown, Matt Bowser, and James Robinson as we join Dr. Bill Fowler, Professor of Early American History and New England Maritime History, educator at Northeastern University from 1971 - 1998, and again 2005 - present (retiring), former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1998-2005), and a number of other positions in institutions around New England and elsewhere. He also lectures on cruise ships across the Atlantic.

Dr Fowler's faculty profile: https://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/faculty/william-fowler

Dr. Fowler tells us about his career, his thoughts on the place of New England in World History, his experiences at the MHS, being apart of the Boston part of the Bicentennial, being a park ranger in Lexington, and reflects on his plans after academia.

Books by Dr. Fowler:

Under Two Flags: The Navy in the Civil War

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1896383.Under_Two_Flags

Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3958200-silas-talbot

America and the Sea: Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport (co-author)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7156430-america-and-the-sea

William Ellery: A Rhode Island Politico and Lord of Admiralty

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/803552.William_Ellery

Rebels Under Sail: The Navy in the Revolution

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3958199-rebels-under-sail

Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783-1815

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581018.Jack_Tars_and_Commodores

Samuel Adams: Radical Puritan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700950.Samuel_Adams

Empires at War: The French and Indian War and The Struggle for North America, 1754-1763

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1743784.Empires_at_War

Books mentioned in the episode:

"Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153747.Moby_Dick_or_The_Whale

"Captains Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34057.Captains_Courageous

"The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail" by W. Jeffrey Bolster

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15723969-the-mortal-sea

The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4938808-the-maritime-history-of-massachusetts-1783-1860

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Producers and Sound Editors are: Matt Bowser and Dan Squizzero

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Join historians Bridget Keown and James Robinson, with Sociologist Mia Renauld, as we are joined by Dr. Rashad Shabazz, who stopped by Northeastern University to promote his new book, Spatializing Blackness Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago". We talk about Dr. Shabazz's academic path and making connections between international carceral containments before arriving at racialization of carceral power in Chicago, and how it manifests from slavery to schools. He explores how masculinity is performed in poor black spaces.

Rashad Shabazz is an associate professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from Minnesota State University-Mankato, a master’s degree from the Department of Justice & Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, and a doctorate in the History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

For further reading:

"Spatializing Blackness" by Rashad Shabazz

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25404003-spatializing-blackness?ac=1&from_search=true

"City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles" by Mike Davis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484028.City_of_Quartz

Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education

edited by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7048854-schools-under-surveillance?from_search=true

"Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison" by Michel Foucault

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish?from_search=true

"Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108428.Are_Prisons_Obsolete_?ac=1&from_search=true

"Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111975.Golden_Gulag?ac=1&from_search=true

"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow?ac=1&from_search=true

"Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary" by Dennis Childs

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23508133-slaves-of-the-state?ac=1&from_search=true

"From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America" by Elizabeth Hinton

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27311802-from-the-war-on-poverty-to-the-war-on-crime?ac=1&from_search=true

"Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom?from_search=true

"Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson" by George Jackson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962568.Soledad_Brother?ac=1&from_search=true

"Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata?ac=1&from_search=true

"Live from Death Row" by Mumia Abu-Jamal

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449916.Live_from_Death_Row?ac=1&from_search=true

Dillon Rodriguez:

http://ethnicstudies.ucr.edu/people/faculty/rodriguez/

"Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys" by Victor Rios

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11155862-punished?ac=1&from_search=true

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Join Bridget Keown, Jackie Gronau, James Robinson, Matt Bowser, and Thanasis Kinias as we join PhD Candidate Feruza Aripova to discuss her research into the suppression of same sex desire in the Soviet Union, either through punishment in the Stalinist era to later pathologizing same sex desire as a disease to be treated. The 1930s saw the rolling back of both legalization of homosexuality and abortion that had been gained by the Revolution. Feruza guides us through what happened, how same sex desire continued in prisons and underground communities, and how her background growing up in Soviet Central Asia shaped her experience. How did same sex desire come to be defined as a threat to the Soviet state and Communist Party? Feruza guides us through her research in the archives in the Baltics, and private archives in Moscow. We round it up with talking about the Women's Section of the Communist Party in exploring Soviet Feminism, specifically on Alexandra Kollontai.

Further Reading:

Agamben, Giorgio. What Is an Apparatus?: And Other Essays. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009.

Aldrich, Robert. Gay Life and Culture : A World History. New York, NY: Universe, 2006.

Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia : The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Engelstein, Laura. The Keys to Happiness : Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Foucault, Michel, and Jay Miskowiec. “Of Other Spaces.” Diacritics 16, no. 1 (April 1, 1986): 22–27. doi:10.2307/464648.

Kollontai, A., and Alix. Holt. Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai. Westport, Conn.: L. Hill, 1977.

Kon, I.S. The Sexual Revolution in Russia : From the Age of the Czars to Today. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Rudusa, Rita., Forced Underground: Homosexuals in Soviet Latvia, 2014.

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Join Bridget Keown, Dan Squizzero, James Robinson, and Thanasis Kinias, with our guest this week, Dr. Benjamin Schmidt, an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University and core faculty in the NuLab for Texts, Maps and Networks. We chat about his journey into Digital Humanities, from his initial research into the moral panics about attention-span discourse of the 20th century and the use of text mining for his research. Dr. Schmidt talks about the need for quantitative research in history using technological tools. Will historians hand over quantitative analysis to the social sciences?

Dr. Schmidt's webpage:

http://benschmidt.org/

NULabs:

http://www.northeastern.edu/nulab/

Twitters to follow to keep up with Digital Humanities:

@dancohen

@ryancordell

@nowviskie

@amandafrench

@miriamkp

@Ted_Underwood

Journals/Books:

Journal of Cultural Analytics

http://culturalanalytics.org/

Debates in the Digital Humanities:

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/debates-in-the-digital-humanities

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