Join James Robinson, Kyra Millard, Matt Bowser, and Thanasis Kinias as we interview Dr. Ryan Cordell as we talk about intersections between 19th century apocalyptic literature and digital humanities, and how Dr. Cordell has used DH in order to research his area of study. We talk about Print History of the 19th century. We then talk about the Viral Texts project and the potential for text mapping networks for historical research.

Why are newspapers named "The Telegraph"?

https://ryancordell.org/

https://viraltexts.org/

Books/Articles Mentioned In The Podcast:

"Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism between Close Reading and Machine Learning" by Hoyt Long and Richard Jean So

https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/literarynetworks/files/2015/12/LONG_SO_CI.pdf

"19th Century Data Vizualization" by Lauren Klein

http://lklein.com/category/data-visualization/

"Shifting Scales: Between Literature and Social Science" by Ted Underwood and Jim English

http://bostonography.benschmidt.org/Readings/English%20and%20Underwood%20-%202016%20-%20Shifting%20Scales%20Between%20Literature%20and%20Social%20Scie.pdf

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Join Bridget, James, and Matt as we interview Nav Athwal, an outgoing Masters Student of World History at Northeastern University, who focuses on the history of Medicine in the British Empire. We will talk about his academic journey from medical school to business to historian and his current process of applying to PhD programs. We talk specifically about his latest research on imperial medicine in British-ruled India and passive resistance vs active resistance. Nav also gives his thoughts on subaltern history, We then commiserate about trying to get into PhD programs. Nav tells us what he thinks of David Arnold. He links world history and subaltern methodology and problematizing Indian nationalist history.

Books mentioned in the podcast:

"Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India" by David Arnold

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552393.Colonizing_the_Body

"The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856" by David Arnold

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606338.The_Tropics_and_the_Traveling_Gaze

"Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India"

by Ranajit Guha

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344813.Dominance_Without_Hegemony

"Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference"

by Dipesh Chakrabarty

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008155.Provincializing_Europe

"Modern India, 1885 1947" by Sumit Sarkar

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4837599-modern-india-1885-1947

"Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire"

by Mrinalini Sinha

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631220.Specters_of_Mother_India

"Ideologies of the Raj" by Thomas R. Metcalf

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21334316-ideologies-of-the-raj

"Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World" by Niall Ferguson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166434.Empire

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Join Bridget, James, and Thanasis as we are joined by Dr. Moya Bailey. Dr. Moya Bailey is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. Her work focuses on Black women’s use of digital media to promote social justice as acts of self-affirmation and health promotion. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She currently curates the #transformDH Tumblr initiative in Digital Humanities (DH). She is a monthly sustainer of the Allied Media Conference, through which she is able to bridge her passion for social justice and her work in DH.

She is a graduate of the Emory University Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. She is the founder and co-conspirator of Quirky Black Girls, a network for strange and different black girls and now serves at the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network.

She attended Spelman College where she initially endeavored to become a physician. She fell in love with Women’s Studies and activism, ultimately driving her to graduate school in lieu of medicine. As an undergrad she received national attention for her involvement in the “Nelly Protest” at Spelman, a moment that solidified her deep commitment to examining representations of Black women in popular culture.

We talk about the role of the academic in social change, DH and intersectional social change, the Allied Media Conference, the story of Quirky Black Girls, the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, the concept of "Misogynoir". We touch on Dr. Bailey's dissertation on how representations in medical school curriculums shape how doctors see different marginalized groups and how the Nelly protest shaped her research and activism, how problematic portrayals become international, and dismantling binaries. Dr. Bailey talks about the possibilities of linking activists, academics, and scifi writers at the Black To The Future conference.

Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network:

http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com/

The Allied Media Conference:

https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc

Black To The Future Conference:

https://blacktothefuture.princeton.edu/

Books mentioned by Dr. Bailey:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower

Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, edited by Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown

https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html

News item mentioned:

Students at Spelman College protest Nelly's video "Tip Drill."

http://www.alternet.org/story/18760/dilemma

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Today we talk smuggling! Join us as were are joined by Northeastern University History Department Faculty Philip Thai, who is a historian of Modern China with research and teaching interests that include legal history, economic history, business history, and history of capitalism. At the core of his inquiries is understanding the complex interplay between law, society, and economy. He is currently working on his manuscript tentatively titled, “The War on Smuggling: Law, Illicit Markets, and State Power on the China Coast,” which uses China’s campaigns against smuggling during the twentieth century to examine the transformation of state authority and the larger socioeconomic impact of state-building. Professor Thai received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2013 and his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.

We talk about the theme of smuggling in China, how it fits into Chinese and World Histories, his journey from trade to smuggling, and his academic journey from being a financial advisor to a economics historian.

Books mentioned by Dr. Thai:

Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915

by Eric Tagliacozzo

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139755.Secret_Trades_Porous_Borders

Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground

by Michael Kwass

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736929-contraband?ac=1&from_search=true

Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision

by Brett Sheehan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23503010-industrial-eden?from_search=true

News item mentioned:

Chinese smugglers caught using zip-line for iPad/iPhone “shipments”

http://www.geek.com/apple/chinese-smugglers-caught-using-zip-line-for-ipadiphone-shipments-1410447/

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Join Northeastern Graduate students Bridget Keown and James Robinson as we join our department chair, Dr. Heather Streets-Salter, for a discussion on research and teaching of world history! We talk about Dr. Streets-Salter's path from American history to British Empire to Southeast Asian history. We also discuss world history teaching methods, research possibilities, and underresearched areas.

Books by Dr. Streets-Salter:

Martial Races: The Military, Martial Races, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914 (2004)

Traditions and Encounters: A Brief Global History(2006, 2009, 2012) with Jerry Bentley and Herb Ziegler.

Modern Imperialism and Colonialism: A Global Perspective(2010 and 2014) with Trevor Getz.

She is completing a monograph entitled Beyond Empire: Southeast Asia and the World During the Great War

Novels Dr. Streets-Salter uses in teaching world history:

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126151.Kaffir_Boy

Spider Eaters by Rae Yang

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525437.Spider_Eaters

Other books mentioned in the podcast:

The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War(Cambridge Military Histories) by Mustafa Aksakal

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11297038-the-ottoman-road-to-war-in-1914?ac=1&from_search=true

The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia by Cemil Aydin

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167838-the-politics-of-anti-westernism-in-asia?ac=1&from_search=true

A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire by Sugata Bose

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177777.A_Hundred_Horizons?ac=1&from_search=true

Empires at War: 1911-1923 (The Greater War) by Robert Gerwarth (Editor), Erez Manela (Editor)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21492056-empires-at-war?ac=1&from_search=true

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World by John Robert McNeill

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118559.Something_New_Under_the_Sun?ac=1&from_search=true

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, the Gambia by Donald R. Wright

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207293.The_World_and_a_Very_Small_Place_in_Africa?ac=1&from_search=true

World History Association annual conference, happening now in Ghent:

http://www.thewha.org/conferences-events/future-conferences-symposia/2016-ghent-conference/

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(We recorded slightly out of order, so despite what we say, this is actually Episode 5.)

Join Northeastern University Graduate Students James Robinson and Kyra Millard as we discuss the 19th Century Russian-Bulgarian Diplomatic History with newly minted PhD Mikhail Rekun. How did Pan-Slavism influence how Russian diplomats treated the newly independent Bulgaria? Dr. Rekun talks about his research adventures in the Bulgarian and Russian archives. He also touches on writing his dissertation and defending it. How does Diplomatic History fit into World History?

Book on Russia-Bulgarian Relations mentioned in the podcast:

Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879-1886

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5195627-tsarist-russia-and-balkan-nationalism?ac=1&from_search=true

News Item:

Putin's 'realpolitik' aims to make Russia indispensable

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-russia-indispensable-a-idUSKBN0TD1RQ20151124

Readercon:

http://www.readercon.org/

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Join Northeastern University Graduate Students Matt Bowser, Bridget Keown, and James Robinson as we discuss the Easter Rebellion that sparked the Irish War of Independence, and whose 100 Anniversary just passed. We discuss some of the recent scholarship, the rising in World History, the role of women in the Easter Rising and their writing out of the history, Ireland and British settler-colonialism, and the Limerick Soviets. We touch briefly on the articles going around the internet about "Irish slavery" and the rebuttal. We wrap about Roger Casement and his diary, and the what-if of the Easter Rising.

Books on Easter Rising mentioned in the podcast:

Ireland And The First World War

by David Fitzpatrick

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5116323-ireland-and-the-first-world-war?from_search=true&search_version=service

1916: A Global History

by Keith Jeffery

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25402257-1916

1916: Ireland's Revolutionary Tradition

by Kieran Allen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26153474-1916?from_search=true&search_version=service

At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916

by Lucy McDiarmid

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27134661-at-home-in-the-revolution?from_search=true&search_version=service

How the Irish Became White

by Noel Ignatiev

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305686.How_the_Irish_Became_White?from_search=true&search_version=service

News item discussed:

Two Cities, One Book: Dublin & Belfast Read Fallen by Lia Mills

https://libranwriter.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/two-cities-one-book-dublin-belfast/

Also check out:

Letters of 1916

http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/

Stories from 1916 podcast

http://www.storiesfrom1916.com/

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Join Northeastern University History Program Graduate Students Bridget Keown, James Robinson, and Matt Bowser as we interview Emory-bound PhD student Madelyn Stone about her capstone:

"Power through Paradox: Interracial Influences in Apartheid-Era South African Art, 1960-1990". We talk about basic South African history that set up Apartheid, and how it related to Black Resistance Art in South Africa. We compare South African poster art to Irish political art during the same time period, using a world history lense. We touch on gender in South African resistance art, and how the poster movement helped end Apartheid as well as the state's response to the art. How do we touch on the recentness of Apartheid in teaching history?

Related books:

• Art of the South African Townships Gavin Younge, 1987

• The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of South African Art (1930-1988) Steven Sack, 1988

• Resistance Art in South Africa Sue Williamson, 1989

• Art from South Africa Museum of Modern Art, 1990

• Art and the End of Apartheid John Peffer, 2009

• Biko's Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness Shannen Hill, 2015

South Africa in the news:

South African economy is on the brink of junk status

http://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-south-africa-precipice-20160330-story.html

South Africa Appeals Parole for Apartheid-Era Assassin

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/south-africa-appeals-parole-apartheid-era-assassin-38024002

Student Protests Against Tuition Increases in South Africa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35883919

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