Hugh Cagle speaks about his research on the creation of the idea of the ‘tropics’, focusing on knowledge about nature, medicine, and disease in the Portuguese Empire during the late medieval and early modern periods.

Nükhet Varlık speaks about her research on plague, public health, and healing in the early modern Ottoman Empire, including the importance of considering the Ottoman experience in the broader history of plague, the links between Ottoman imperial expansion and the spread of plague, and practices of healing in early modern Ottoman society.

Sebestian Kroupa speaks about his research on the Bohemian Jesuit pharmacist Georg Joseph Kamel, who was stationed in the colonial Spanish Philippines at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th, and about how Kamel’s life, work, and correspondence can illuminate the ways knowledge was produced in cross-cultural, cross-imperial, and cross-oceanic settings in the early modern world.

Monica H. Green discusses the global history of disease, including the global black death, the ways in which historians and scientists can collaborate in writing global histories of disease, at what point a disease can be called global, and the role of colonization and trade in spreading disease.

Dr. Bronwen Everill speaks about abolition and empire in West Africa in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

In this segment, we hear from Professor Sujit Sivasundaram on the importance of islands in global history.

On this episode, Professor Barbara E. Mundy speaks about some of the complex, fascinating, and important visual and indigenous sources of colonial Mexico.

On this episode, we will be discussing Prof. Sebastian Conrad’s well-known critical approach toward the burgeoning discipline of global history, entitled What Is Global History? So, how does one go about writing the history of the world, and who is global history written by and for whom? Listen on to find out more.

Join us for episode 1 of the Global History Podcast, in which we speak with Dr. Alan Strathern about religion and political authority in the pre-modern world.