Episode 09 - Galen Poor & Joy Block interview Professor Sarah Mellors, Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University. Mellors discusses birth control in China during the Republican and early Communist eras. Learn how Chinese families thought about and practiced birth control before the One-Child Policy.

Episode 09 - Galen Poor & Joy Block interview Professor Sarah Mellors, Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University. Mellors discusses birth control in China during the Republican and early Communist eras. Learn how Chinese families thought about and practiced birth control before the One-Child Policy.

Episode 08 - Our Gender series kicks off as Sam Timinsky interviews Ayako Kano, Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Their wide ranging discussion covers gender, family, labor, and the current Abe administration's policies in Japan. Kano explains the ways in which gender penetrates nearly every aspect of an individual's life and claims that activism or policy-making related to gender strike at the heart of a society's culture and politics.

Episode 08 - Our Gender series kicks off as Sam Timinsky interviews Ayako Kano, Professor of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Their wide ranging discussion covers gender, family, labor, and the current Abe administration's policies in Japan. Kano explains the ways in which gender penetrates nearly every aspect of an individual's life and claims that activism or policy-making related to gender strike at the heart of a society's culture and politics.

Episode 7 - Joy Block and Galen Poor talk with William Noseworthy, Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. A specialist in Southeast Asian History, Noseworthy compares the political violence in Indonesia under Suharto and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Noseworthy looks into how both events pursued policies of genocide. Whether directed against communists or non-communists ostensibly, violence in both countries held strong ethnic and sometimes religious components.

Episode 7 - Joy Block and Galen Poor talk with William Noseworthy, Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. A specialist in Southeast Asian History, Noseworthy compares the political violence in Indonesia under Suharto and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Noseworthy looks into how both events pursued policies of genocide. Whether directed against communists or non-communists ostensibly, violence in both countries held strong ethnic and sometimes religious components.

Episode 6 - Our series on Political Violence opens up our transnational perspective to consider how humanitarian organizations and political parties in Germany built strategies around reactions to leftwing violence in South America. These leftist groups sometimes associated with violent Maoism. In today's podcast Felix walks us through the complex relationship between political violence abroad and domestic political struggles in Germany. Join Sam Timinsky and Galen Poor as they talk with Felix Jiménez Botta, recent PhD graduate in History from Boston College.

Episode 6 - Our series on Political Violence opens up our transnational perspective to consider how humanitarian organizations and political parties in Germany built strategies around reactions to leftwing violence in South America. These leftist groups sometimes associated with violent Maoism. In today's podcast Felix walks us through the complex relationship between political violence abroad and domestic political struggles in Germany. Join Sam Timinsky and Galen Poor as they talk with Felix Jiménez Botta, recent PhD graduate in History from Boston College.

Episode 05 - Sam Timinsky and Joy Block talk with Alex Macartney, teaching fellow in Japanese & German History at Georgetown University. Also listen to excerpts of a talk he gave about two "Red Army" movements that helped define international Left-wing violence in the 1960s - one in Japan and the other in West Germany. Macartney discusses the logic that made both groups choose to practice political violence, and draws attention to global developments, transnational connections, and gendered violence.

Episode 05 - Sam Timinsky and Joy Block talk with Alex Macartney, teaching fellow in Japanese & German History at Georgetown University. Also listen to excerpts of a talk he gave about two "Red Army" movements that helped define international Left-wing violence in the 1960s - one in Japan and the other in West Germany. Macartney discusses the logic that made both groups choose to practice political violence, and draws attention to global developments, transnational connections, and gendered violence.