Dr. Mikko Toivanen (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich) joins us to discuss his research on colonial tourism and its relationship with the environment throughout various Southeast… Read More »19th Century Transcolonial Tourism
In this podcast, Professor Ling Zhang (Boston College, USA) unravels the multi-layered and multi-faceted impact of a major climatic anomaly in northern Song China in… Read More »The Yellow River’s Shifting Course and its Impact on 11th Century Northern Song China
In this podcast, the IOWC podcast team had the pleasure of interviewing Patrick Slack, a PhD student studying under the McGill University Geography Department. Throughout… Read More »‘Black Cardamom is Forever’: ethnic minority livelihoods in the western Sino-Vietnamese borderlands
The IOWC podcast team interviews Dr. Lisa Schipper (University of Oxford) an Environmental Social Science Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI). Dr. Schipper’s… Read More »Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Maladaptation to Climate Change
Professor Jakobina Arch (Whitman College) discusses her research into coastal shipping of Tokugawa Japan (17th century -19th century), and accounts of shipwrecks’ survivors as insights… Read More »Coastal Shipping of Tokugawa Japan
In this podcast, the IOWC interviews Professor Jenny Goldstein of Cornell University on her research into Indonesia’s peat lands. Her interview offers a discussion of her… Read More »Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics
Prof. Angela Schottenhammer (KU Leuven) discusses her and her team’s ongoing research into maritime disasters, risk appraisals, and exchanges of medicinal knowledge in East Asian… Read More »SchoMaritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in maritime East Asia
With the help of Dr. Alexander Jost, Xu Zhexin (both University of Salzburg) discusses his PhD research into the history of maritime activities in South and… Read More »Tang-Song transition era and maritime activities in E and SE Asia
Dr. Anna Winterbottom (McGill) discusses with Renee Manderville, Archisman Chaudhuri, and Philip Gooding her forthcoming journal article, ‘”Becoming traditional”: A transnational history of neem and… Read More »‘Becoming Traditional’: A transnational history of neem and biopiracy discourses
Martha Chaiklin and Philip Gooding discuss with Archisman Chaudhuri their recently published edited volume, Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World (Cham, CH: Palgrave, 2020). As… Read More »Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World