German Historical Institute London Podcast
1) What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Chills, aches and hot flushes. What exactly were people describing when they complained of fever around 1800? In this episode, host Kim König and GHIL Research Fellow Pascale Siegrist talk to Stefanie...Show More
2) ‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
The talk is concerned with the history of fever and febrile diseases in the French, Iberian, and British empires, from the 1770s to the 1820s, a time when these were widely considered the most common ...Show More
3) Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities
In this episode, host Kim König and Research Fellow Ole Münch are joined by Christiane Reinecke, Professor of Modern European History at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, to discuss her research on no...Show More
4) Picturing working class communities
In this episode, we talk about working-class communities. Or rather: ideas about the working-class, some of which are quite romanticised. Joining host Kim König and Research Fellow Ole Münch to discus...Show More
5) Sociology and the Urban Experience: Double lecture
Jon Lawrence: Shifting Visions of Working-Class Community in Post-War Britain The idea that the British working class had its own distinctive way of life and culture can be traced back to at least ...Show More
6) Achim Landwehr, Ole Münch and Kim König: Mind the void
In this episode, host Kim König is joined by Ole Münch, Research Fellow for Modern History, and Achim Landwehr, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Konstanz. Together, they discuss ...Show More
7) Achim Landwehr: The Hole Story
European cultures tend to overlook voids, or, at best, see them as unpleasant phenomena. Yet voids are not only unavoidable, but actually constitutive in the emergence of European-Western modernity ov...Show More
8) Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin: London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
The exhibition “The Horror Camps”, displayed in the Reading Room of the Daily Express in London from May 1945, featured enlarged photographs from the liberated Nazi camps. It prompted questions about ...Show More
9) Thiago Barbosa, Indra Sengupta and Kim König: German racial science and modern anthropology in India
How do colonial-era racial theories continue to influence modern science in India? Today, we're exploring this question by examining new research which traces the transnational connections between Ger...Show More
10) Wolfgang Knöbl, Almuth Ebke and Kim König: Processing history
How do we define a process? What types exist, and how does our understanding of them reflect our historical and cultural context? In this interview host Kim König and GHIL/UCL Visiting Postdoctoral Fe...Show More