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Interdisciplinary History PodDec 03, 2020
Time Travel Ft. Nerd Crusade
In this episode we reconnect with friends of the Nerd Crusade to discuss time travel in popular media and how common tropes within the genre can effect understandings of historical events.
This episode was recorded as part of Nerd Crusade's Holiday Rush live stream fundraiser for Santa's Anonymous Edmonton.
Academic Articles, Films, Videos, Television, and Books mentioned on the podcast-
Academic Articles:
Recovery of Damaged Information and the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators
Bin Yan and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040605 – Published 24 July 2020
https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.040605
Tempting Fate
The Historian as Time Traveler
by Karin Wulf
Tempting Fate | Perspectives on History | AHA
Drawing the historian back into history: creativity, writing, and The Art of Time Travel
By Meg Foster
https://content.ebscohost.com/ContentServer.asp?EbscoContent=dGJyMMvl7ESeqLA4zOX0OLCmsEmeprRSsKu4TbWWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGqt0uyrLVRuePfgeyx43zx1%2B6B&T=P&P=AN&S=R&D=31h&K=127698790
Videos on Time Travel:
A Concise Breakdown of How Time Travel Works in Popular Movies, Books & TV Shows | Open Culture
Books:
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
A Stitch in Time Series by Kelley Armstrong
TV Shows:
Timeless
Outlander
Loki
Doctor Who
Films:
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Avengers- Endgame
If you are looking to listen to more podcasts like this, we highly recommend checking out Nerd Crusade's podcast on all available podcast directories, or Lit with Vik as well.
Episode 14: A Virtual Field Trip Double Feature- Tales of Strange Museums
In this episode, Viktoria and Sloan discuss two mysterious and strange museums that tackle a historical subject with an interdisciplinary perspective. Do be warned, here be weirdness. Keep listening for musings on tunes, toilets and much more.
Related Links:
Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner - Musée des ondes Emile Berliner (moeb.ca)
Muzeum histoických nočníků a toalet (muzeumnocniku.cz)
Our Interview with Dr. Seika Boye: https://anchor.fm/interdis-history-group/episodes/Episode-7-On-Research--Curation--and-Collaboration-A-Conversation-with-Dr--Seika-Boye-er0jlo/a-a4o50kk
Tire sur la neige video (Sorry all the available videos were in French. This does have English subtitles if you do not mind.) https://youtu.be/OWBflQkF9bw
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Episode 13C: Alias Grace Part 3
In this episode we discus penal reforms of the mid nineteen century, asylums and the Victorian spiritualist movement.
This episode concludes a three part series where we have examined the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era.
Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published.
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Citations and further reading:
McCoy, Ted.(2012) Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in 19th Century Canada.
Chu, E. M.-Y., van Santen, J., & Harbishettar, V. (2018). Views from an asylum: a retrospective case note analysis of a nineteenth century asylum. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 53(10), 1141–1147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1575-1
Episode 13B: Alias Grace Part 2
In this episode, Viktoria discusses gender and sexuality in mid 19th century Canada, and Sloan looks at the shows depictions of class stratification. Content warnings for mention of sexual assault and abortion.
This episode continues as the second of a three part series where we will be examine the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era.
Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published.
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Citations and further reading:
Burley, David G. (1994). Particular Condition in Life : Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Darroch, G. (1988). Class in nineteenth-century, central Ontario: A reassessment of the crisis and demise of small producers during early industrialization, 1861-1871. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 13(1/2), 49.
David Gagan. (1976). “The Prose of Life”: Literary Reflections of the Family, Individual Experience and Social Structure in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Journal of Social History, 9(3), 367–381.
O'Neill, Teresa.(2016) Unmentionables: The Victorian Ladies Guide to Sex, Marriage and Manners.
Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. (2003) "Eroticism of class and the Enigma of of Margaret Atwood's 'Alias grace'." Tulsa Studies in Woman's Literature. 22, No. 2: 371-386
Rimstead, Roxanne. (2002) "Working class Intruders: Female Domestics in Kamouraska and Alias Grace" Canadian Literature 175: 44-65
Episode 13A: Alias Grace Part 1
This episode kicks off the first of a three part series where we will be examine the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era.
In this first installment of looking at Alias Grace, Viktoria discusses depictions of urban and rural domesticity, and Sloan unpacks experiences of immigration.
Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published.
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Source Materials and Further Reading
Kenneally, Michael. 2014 "Irish Immigration to Nineteenth Century Canada: Alternative Narratives"
Keough, Willeen G. 2013 "Unpacking the Discursive Irish Woman Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteen-Century Newfoundland" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09670882.2012.759709
Melnyk, George. 2018 "The County of Half Welcomes: Canada's Checkered History With Refugees"
Palmer, Bryan D. 1993 "Nineteenth-Century Canada and Australia: The Paradoxes of Class Formation"
Episode 12: Food History and Food in Historical Study
Inspired by the virtual launch event for the digital archival exhibition From Our Mothers' Kitchens': Cooking in Rural Canada put on by Archival and Special Collections at the University of Guelph, this episode features Viktoria and Sloan discussing topics in food history and theory. Viktoria gives some perspective into the historiographical trends in the way historians treat food in history. Sloan presents arguments made by scholars as to the potential for interdisciplinary work on topics relating to historical food and recipes. Together in this episode your hosts hope to get you thinking about the things we eat as primary sources of our era and to consider how future historians will look back on our contemporary.
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Citations
Claflin, Kyri, and Peter Scholliers. 2012. Writing Food History : A Global Perspective. English ed. Berg.
Pilcher, Jeffery M. 2017 Food in Word History. 2nd edition. Themes in World History. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Voss, Kimberly Wilmot. 2014. The Food Section : Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Episode 11: An Interview on Knowledge Keeping with Terri Suntjen's from 2 Crees in a Pod
In this episode we hear from Terri Suntjen’s, Director of indigenous Initiatives at MacEwan University and cohost of the 2 Crees in a Pod podcast. Terri speaks to us about the work she and many others are doing in academic circles and in the broader Edmonton community to engage with Canada’s Indigenous past, present and future. We also hear from Terri on the importance of honoring traditional understandings of knowledge and teaching practices as Indigenous scholars and community members work to repair the legacies of colonialism. We hope you enjoy listening to this episode and will have links below to additional resources.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/2-crees-in-a-pod/id1517083728
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yMGM5MzQyOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==
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Episode 10- (The Whole World is) Watching History: The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Episode 9: Rubenhold V. Ripperologists: Reckoning with Sensational Primary Sources
Episode 8: A Blind Study Date
Hello everyone! In this episode, Vik and Sloan teach each other a topic of their choice and answer some of our listener's questions about us and the podcast. Expect to hear about Viktoria's opinions on cucumber sandwiches and Kylo Ren, learn about how the creation of the postal system lead to the massive Valentine's industry, and much more.
Relevant Resources and links:
Becoming Jane (movie) Belle (Movie) Dinner with Mr. Darcy by Pen Vogler: Dinner with Mr Darcy: Recipes inspired by the novels and letters of Jane Austen: Vogler, Pen: 9781782490562: Books - Amazon.ca
The Letters of Jane Austen- Collected and Edited by Deirdre Le Faye- The Letters of Jane Austen :: Jane Austen's Letters, 3d edition :: [The Letters] (macewan.ca)
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne- The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things: Byrne, Paula: 9780061999109: Books - Amazon.ca
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice by Paula Byrne- Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice: Byrne, Paula: Books - Amazon.ca Jane Austen and the Abolitionist Turn by Patricia A. Matthew- https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/hlh/139978842 Vincent, David. Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750–1914. Cambridge University Press. pp. 44, 45: Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914, Book by David Vincent (Paperback) | www.chapters.indigo.ca
Young Man's Valentine Writer: https://library.macewan.ca/full-record/cat00565a/5027917
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Episode 7: On Research, Curation, and Collaboration: A Conversation with Dr. Seika Boye
Episode 6: Is History a Science? (Stay with us on this one) Ft. Amanda Dubrule
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Episode 5: The Personal (Interdisciplinary) History of David Copperfield (A Film Review)
Hey there everyone! In today's episode we talk about the fantastic new adaptation of David Copperfield starring Dev Patel. You will also hear about muppets, the sponsorship of a British actor's voice, and learn that military kids do not know how to fly kites, and other such fun stuff.
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Episode 4: Historical Depictions in Film- a Discussion about Jojo Rabbit and Inglourious Basterds (A Collaboration with Nerd Crusade Podcast)
Hey everyone! We are bringing in something a little different for today's episode. We are very excited to be sharing the discussion we had with the lovely folks over at the Nerd Crusade podcast during their 8-hour live stream in support of 630 Ched's Santa's Anonymous program. In this episode, we discuss how Inglourious Basterds and Jojo Rabbit tackle WWII and the effectiveness at which they do so. Thank you again to Nerd Crusade for inviting us to be on your live stream and for allowing us to share this audio. We are so happy to have been given a chance to have our discussion with you all. We hope all of you like this episode and stay tuned until our next episode!
Nerd Crusade Podcast Info:
- Anchor: Nerd Crusade • A podcast on Anchor
- Instagram: NerdCrusade Podcast (@nerdcrusade) • Instagram photos and videos
- Youtube: Nerd Crusade - YouTube
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Episode 3: Books, Coffee and Gift Ideas. A Cozy Chat with Lianne Traynor of Mandolin Books.
Today we are having a lovely chat with Lianne Traynor, owner of Mandolin Books. In it we talk about book and gift recommendations, historical building preservation, learn about what it is like to run a bookstore and coffee shop and more. Thank you so much to Lianne for chatting with us for our show, it is so appreciated. We hope you all will enjoy this episode as much as we have. Please give Mandolin Books a visit in the future if you are looking for something delightful to read and drink sometime in the near future.
Mandolin Books
- Website: Home (mandolinbooks.com)
- Instagram: Mandolin Books and Coffee Co. (@mandolinbooks) • Instagram photos and videos
- Twitter: Mandolin Books (@MandolinBooks) / Twitter
- Facebook Page: Mandolin Books and Coffee Company | Facebook
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Episode 2B: Historical Research, Learning, and Library Studies in the Covid Era (Ft. Doctor Sean Hannan, Lindsey Whitson, and Martina King)
Today's episode continues in our series on academia and libraries during the COVID-19 era. In this episode we talk to Doctor Sean Hannan about digital humanities, teaching and research during a pandemic, and to Martina King and Lindsey Whitson about how libraries have changed with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Thank you again to our three interviewees for talking with us on this episode! We enjoyed making it and hope you all will enjoy listening to it as well! Websites, books and resources mentioned: On Time, Change, History, and Conversion (Reading Augustine) Sean Hannan https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-time-change-history-and-conversion-9781501356476/ The Camp of God: Reimagining Pilgrimage as Migrancy in Augustine’s City of God 1 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1840036 Timeline JS https://timeline.knightlab.com/ Adobe Spark https://spark.adobe.com/ Google MyMaps https://www.google.com/maps/about/mymaps/ Voyant https://voyant-tools.org/ Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/modsbook.asp Grant MacEwan Community College Oral History · Digital Exhibits https://digitalexhibits.macewan.ca/exhibits/show/gmcc_oh/oh-about Interdisciplinary Dialogue Project - MacEwan University https://www.macewan.ca/IDP Métis in Space Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m%C3%A9tis-in-space/id921685195 You can find us on all our social media here. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IHGatMacewan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistatMac Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyatmac/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcsB7Q-NyysE7TiR7vN442A?app=desktop Website: https://interdisciplinaryh.wixsite.com/mysite If you have an idea for an episode, wish to partner with us, or have an idea for a topic you want to see us cover, please shoot us an email at interdisciplinaryhistgroupmu@gmail.com. Thank you for listening! Stay safe and wear a mask! Love Vik and Sloan
Episode 2A: Libraries, COVID-19, and Online Adaptation. Ft. Robyn Hall and Valla McLean
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Internet Archive: archive.org/index.php
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Episode 1: Monster Movies, Interdisciplinary History, and Angela Smith's "Hideous Progeny."
Trigger warning: This episode will discuss descriptions of ableism and racism in cultural media. Listener discretion is advised.
Citation: Angela Smith. Hideous Progeny : Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema. Film and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. library.macewan.ca/full-record/nlebk/584609.
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Episode 0: Trailer
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Transcription-
Funky Music plays…
Vik: Hello, my name is Viktoria
Sloan: And I’m Sloan. We are two friends based in Edmonton, Alberta and are undergraduate students at Macewan University.
Vik: I am studying for my History major and double minoring in classics and English.
Sloan: I am double majoring in Sociology and History.
VIK: And we are also your hosts for the Interdisciplinary History Podcast. This will be a show where we examine history through its relationships with other disciplines.
Sloan: We decided to start producing this show because we believe that there is power in the way we understand the past.
Vik: and that the greater perspective which comes from the interplay of intersectional approaches can have transformative potential
Sloan: We believe that those who study history have a lot to offer and to learn from those who engage in other academic disciplines, and also just for humans who engage with other humans
Vik: and that the perspectives, methodologies and theories of other disciplines lead to a deep, critical, and more meaningful understanding of the past
Sloan: Through interviews, discussions, reviews, guest speakers and more, Vik and I will delve deeply into the interconnections between history and the lives we lead.
Vik: With a lot of chuckles and bad puns of course.
Sloan: And all the charming banter two socially awkward nerds can muster.
Vik: You can find our podcast on your favourite podcast directory under Interdisciplinary History Pod or keep up to date with us on our social media.
Sloan: On Facebook, you can find us by searching Interdisciplinary History Group at Macewan, or you can find us on Twitter and Instagram at the links in the description
Vik: On any of these platforms, you will find a link to our website to find citations, bonus content, blog posts, information about events and more. From there, you can subscribe to our email list so you are notified every time we share something.
Sloan: you can also get in touch with us through our website or social media if you have an idea/suggestion for a topic you’d like us to explore.
Vik: and before we sign off we would like to acknowledge that this podcast is produced in Edmonton on Treaty 6 land, the traditional gathering place for many indigenous people. We honour and respect the history, languages, ceremonies and culture of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit who call this territory home.
Sloan: Our first episode will be up sometime in the last week of October. Stay tuned and stay safe!
Vik: (whispers) Wear a mask. And not just for Halloween.
Funky music fades out.