• American Imperialism in the Philippines, Pt. 1
    Oct 3 2024

    This episode explores the rationales and events leading up to the United States' decision to formally colonize the Philippines following the Spanish American War, as well as Filipino forms of resistance. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠⁠⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?

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    47 mins
  • A Reading: Rethinking Imperial Impact and Autonomous History in Modern China: A Historiographical Survey
    Sep 19 2024

    This episode examines the traditional schools of thought surrounding 19th and 20th century imperial impact in China and Chinese response. It critically analyzes various scholarly views and attempts to offer a more nuanced and workable approach to the subject, taking into account Chinese historical agency and autonomy.

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    34 mins
  • A Reading: Muslim Integration in the Philippines: A Historiographical Survey
    Sep 5 2024

    This podcast examines the various historiographical trends that have shaped the intellectual and political integration of Filipino Muslims into a developing national narrative over the past century in the Philippines. This piece highlights the various intersections and points of contention that frame a negotiated exchange between majority and minority populations in the Philippines. Questions of cultural and national authenticity, imperial conquest, and post-colonial economic and bureaucratic modernity create widely differing visions of a sharply contested “Filipino nation.”

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    40 mins
  • A Reading: "Our Present Concern: Historicism, Teleology, and Contingent Histories of a More Democratic Past"
    Aug 22 2024

    As scholars have attempted to move away from Eurocentric views over the past few decades and integrate disparate parts of the world into a more democratic narrative of world history, they have increasingly relied on the present as an empirical guidepost. The motives and rationales for this primary concern with the present as a source of historical knowledge are complex and deeply embedded in epistemolo- gical traditions and chronotypes that demand particular views of transitional history and time. This article attempts to explore these views from two critical angles.


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    49 mins
  • Asian World Podcast - The Rise of Colonial Consciousness in Southeast Asia
    Aug 8 2024

    This episode explores the rise and nature of colonial consciousness in Southeast Asia among the colonized. It looks at the various modern developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that not only created an awareness of colonial oppression but systematically demythologized colonial regimes.


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    45 mins
  • Phases of Imperialism and Indigenous Response
    Jul 25 2024

    This episode explores the subtle and systematic ways that imperialism embeds itself in indigenous societies in Asia. It examines methods, motives, and rational responses to the opportunities and pressures imperialism brings to bear on both colonizer and colonized. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?

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    36 mins
  • A Reading: "Life and Times: The Temporal Habitations of R.A Kartini"
    Jul 11 2024

    This article explores the remarkable temporal perceptions and attempted historical habitations of a young Javanese noblewoman at the turn of the century in the Dutch East Indies. It examines the ways in which this young woman used the concepts of relative temporality, civilizational evolution, and stagist histories to challenge both the imposition of Dutch colonialism and the conventions of her indigenous culture. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: ⁠https://gofund.me/04e5824c⁠. Follow on Facebook at ⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439⁠.

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    37 mins
  • A Reading: "Exploring Colonial Boundaries: An Examination of the Kartini-Zeehandelaar Correspondence"
    Jun 27 2024

    This piece explores Indonesian nationalist and feminist R.A. Kartini's role in the Dutch colonial hierarchy. It looks at identity, power, and the ultimate boundaries of colonial society that structure access to power. We need your support for more episodes, consider giving to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/04e5824c. Follow on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557270533439.

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    49 mins