Department of History, Durham University, Podcast

Contested Pasts and Radical Futures: Statues and the Politics of Commemoration in the BLM Era features Anne Heffernan [https://www.dur.ac.uk/history/staff/display/?id=17477]and Jake Richards [https://www.dur.ac.uk/history/staff/display/?id=18653]in conversation with Alan Fentiman [https://alanfentiman.co.uk]. For more on Jake's research seeAnti-Slave-Trade Law, ‘Liberated Africans’ and the State in the South Atlantic World, c.1839–1852 [https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=pdetail&id=18653&sid=18653&pdetail=126884]and for AnneStudent/teachers from Turfloop: the propagation of Black Consciousness in South African schools, 1972–76 [https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=pdetail&id=17477&sid=17477&pdetail=121211].

Iron Curtain Twitchers features James Koranyi [https://www.dur.ac.uk/history/staff/display/?id=10691], Durham University, talking with Alan Fentiman [https://alanfentiman.co.uk/], on touching biographies of a family separated by the Cold War, torn between West Germany and Romania. The podcast draws on research that James has recently published in Romanian, ‘Priviri secrete peste Cortina de Fier: O familie de germani din România în perioada Războiului Rece’ (‘Iron Curtain Twitchers: A Romanian German Family during the Cold War’) in Mathias Beer, Sorin Radu and Florian Kührer-Wielach, Germanii din România. Migrație și patrimoniu cultural după 1945 (Germans in Romania: Migration and Cultural Heritage since 1945) (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Româna, 2020), pp. 73-94.

Two Centuries of Misunderstanding Wuhan: Part 2 features Chris Courtney and Alan Fentiman on the longer connections between Britain and Wuhan, and the deeper roots of cultural mis-representation that characterised these connections.

Two Centuries of Misunderstanding Wuhan, Part 1, features Chris Courtney [https://www.dur.ac.uk/history/staff/display/?id=17479], Durham University, speaking on cultural misunderstandings relating to the city of Wuhan, prominent in the media within the current pandemic. Part 1 explores mis-representation of food culture and the nature of Covid-19.

Resilience or reticence? features Daniel Adamson, [https://www.dur.ac.uk/history/staff/display/?id=18654] Durham University, on responses to the Holocaust in Britain, during and after World War Two. More information: https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/digital-holocaust-resources [https://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/digital-holocaust-resources]