Scottish Centre for Global History

Paul Gillingham joins us to talk about is new book "Unrevolutionary Mexico: The Birth of a Strange Dictatorship". Paul shares his motivations for researching Mexico, the theoretical framework behind his book, and he discusses the 20th century history of Veracruz and Guerrero. Paul also tells of his teaching experiences that shaped his work and concludes with his opinions on the state of the history profession in 2021.

A.S. Dillingham discusses his 2021 book publication "Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico." In this podcast, Dillingham gives an overview of his work on social history in Oaxaca. He also responds to questions about his personal research journey, methodology, transitioning a PhD dissertation into a book publication, writing lucid prose, and why this history of Oaxaca matters.

Curtis Large interviews Sir Richard Evans on the life and work of Eric Hobsbawm. Evans responds to questions related to writing a biography of Hobsbawm (A Life in History), what Eric's contributions were to global history, and his methodology.

Chao Tayiana Maina and Anna Adima discuss Chao’s work as a public historian in Kenya. Chao talks about her organisations African Digital Heritage and Open Restitution Africa, as well as her project Save the Railway, and her work with the Museum of British Colonialism. Their conversation also touches on the importance of collaboration in ‘doing’ public history, and what it means to work in the field as a Black woman.

Social Media Handles:

Twitter: @ChaoTayiana

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Malik al Nasir and Anna Adima discuss Malik’s life work and research on slavery and his ancestry in Guyana and Britain. Their conversation touches on Malik’s research methodologies for his family history; his coping mechanisms for dealing with the often-traumatic nature of the sources; Scotland’s involvement in the slave trade; and public memory in Britain towards slavery.

Malik’s forthcoming book in September 2021, ‘Letters to Gil’ is available for pre-order.

Social media handles:

Twitter: @MalikAndTheOGs

Facebook: Malik & The O.G’s

Instagram: malikandtheogs

YouTube: Malik and the O.G’s TV

Jordan Buchanan and Philip Magowan talk to James Hoffmann on his experience in the specialty coffee industry during the 21st century. James shares his personal reflections on the history of coffee, coffee inequality, coffee media, and consumerism in relation to specialty coffee. He also elaborates upon his personal experience of these themes in recent history.

Augustine Sedgewick discusses the behind the scenes experience of writing his book "Coffeeland". He recounts his experience using private archives, completing his PhD and transforming his PhD thesis into the book format. He also responds to questions related to topics such as global and Latin American history, methodology, inequality and public history.

This interview was recorded at the Society for Latin American Studies Virtual Conference, 2021.

In this episode, Anna Adima is in conversation with Jessica Albrecht, a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion at the University of Heidelberg. They discuss Jessica’s doctoral research on the Theosophical Society; gendered education in the Victorian Era; relations between religions, feminism and race; and Chakrabarty’s theories of comparing the West with ‘the rest’.

Jessica’s research interests lie in the interrelation of feminism, religion and esotericism in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a regional focus on Sri Lanka. Jessica holds a masters in Gender History, as well as in South Asian Languages. She is also a co-founder and editor of “En-Gender!”, the international and interdisciplinary postgraduate journal on gender research.

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Jordan Buchanan and Philip Magowan discuss the emergence of specialty coffee in the 21st century with one of the trade's leading actors. Tim Wendelboe shares his experiences and reflections on how coffee has changed since he started in the industry in 1998. We talk about topics such as what is specialty coffee, what creates quality, coffee trading in the global and local market, changes in consumerism, his farm in Colombia and inequality in the trade.

In this episode, we discuss how the Spanish Civil War impacted histories outside Europe. Charlotte Eaton, Austin Clements and Kevin Aguilar share their ideas and research projects related to the political and social consequences of the Spanish war in the U.S.A., Mexico and South America.