The Colonial Department
by Lio Mangubat
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INTERVIEW: History and psychology as kapwa (feat. Sikodiwa)
INTERVIEW: History and psychology as kapwa (feat. Sikodiwa)
About this podcast
Lost stories from 🇵🇭 history
🔊 Narrative nonfiction pod
📖 Book version published by @factionpress
📻 Written, produced, engineered by @liomangubat
Episodes
The newest 20 of 121 episodes
- INTERVIEW: History and psychology as kapwa (feat. Sikodiwa) · 52 min · Season 8 Episode 34Since 2022, scholar and teacher Carl Lorenz Cervantes has been sharing his thoughts on psychology, folk wisdom, and spirituality through a series of social posts, podcasts…
- S8E13 The Philippines-India Express · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 30The threads that connect the Indian subcontinent to the Philippine archipelago stretch back centuries. Some have been lost to time, survived only by goldwork and the testimonies…
- S8E12 Borderline Bureaucrats: An Early History of La Union · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 27As La Union historian Adriel Obar Meimban writes, La Union fits neatly into its geography: bound by rivers on the north and south, by the Cordillera mountain range on the east…
- INTERVIEW: Mapping a life on time—the making of a historian · 59 min · Season 8 Episode 29In 2018, I first encountered The Sulu Zone and Iranun & Balangingi—two important books by James Francis Warren that opened my eyes to the rich, roiling history of the seafaring…
- S8E11: We're Off to the 1924 Paris Olympics! · 17 min · Season 8 Episode 25More than a century ago, the Philippine flag was unfurled for the first time on the biggest sports stage in the world. It was—and is—a matter of great pride to our nation. But it…
- S8E10 In Paracale, the Faintest Gleam of Gold · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 23According to historian Linda Newson, Bicol did not bow down easily to the Spanish occupation. For their resistance, they paid a dear price. Population showed Camarines lost…
- S8E9 White-Hot Heat: Climate and Culture in the Late 1800s · 17 min · Season 8 Episode 20Writing in June 1889, the Manila-based correspondent for La Solidaridad listed down the calamities afflicting the archipelago: cholera, fires, earthquakes, and economic ruin. In…
- INTERVIEW: What was it like to commute in Manila 100 years ago? · 44 min · Season 8 Episode 22Just the thought of commuting around Manila is enough to set one’s teeth on edge. But do our current-day problems of congestion and overcrowding have their roots in decisions and…
- S8E8 Pacific Sick Ships: Medicine Aboard the Galleons · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 18In the long journeys from Manila to Acapulco, disease was the clingy passenger no one wanted around. But it wandered around the decks, knocked on every cabin, stalked everyone on…
- S8E7 The Fractured Plateau: Bukidnon in World War II · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 15The word Bukidnon means “people of the mountains”, but historian Ronald K. Edgerton also gives another name for them: the people of the middle ground. As he writes in his book of…
- INTERVIEW: Making a Magellan Comedy Manga · 41 min · Season 8 Episode 17In the offbeat manga Ferdie!, Ferdinand Magellan and Antonio Pigafetta are caught up in a storm right before they arrive in the Philippines…and find themselves transported five…
- S8E6: After the Black Ships Departed · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 13The island of Balangingi stands halfway between Borneo and Mindanao. Surrounding Balangingi were sharp reefs and surging cross-currents that would be lethal to any boatman……
- S8E5: Rajio Taisō; Or, How to Get Fit in a Time of War · 16 min · Season 8 Episode 10At seven o’clock on the dot, a high-pitched Japanese voice blared out from speakers and switched-on radios all across the archipelago. The program came on like clockwork…
- INTERVIEW: Restoring historical markers with Project Panandito · 51 min · Season 8 Episode 12You pass by them every day: plaques of metal set onto walls and plinths, heavy with text and history. You may have wondered—how do you maintain these historical markers? A group…
- S8E4: Edison’s Cameras, Manila’s Trenches · 16 min · Season 8 Episode 8Yes, Edison as in Thomas Edison, the light bulb guy. At the turn of his century, the tech wizard of Menlo Park produced thousands of movies as a showcase for his company’s…
- S8E3: Nobody Expects the Philippine Inquisition! · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 6When you pulled up to the dock, they were there waiting for you, those holy men of God. But beyond inspecting ships that docked in the ports of Manila and Cavite for blasphemers…
- S8E2: Riding a Tram in 1911 Manila · 18 min · Season 8 Episode 4What kind of city was waiting for Dutch scholar Gerret Pieter Rouffaer when he got to Manila? After more than a decade of occupation, the Americans had given the colonial capital…
- INTERVIEW: Exploring the food history of the Philippines · 38 min · Season 8 Episode 3“There’s a message to it: It’s our responsibility to keep Filipino food popular!” At the launch for her book What Recipes Don’t Tell: Philippine Food History in Fifty Words…
- S8E1: The Philippine Sour-chipelago · 17 min · Season 8 Episode 1Sourness, according to Doreen Fernandez, “is a favored Philippine flavor.” Just how sour is sour? “Sour enough to savor, to make the lips pucker and the eyes squint slightly, and…
- An important announcement about the future of The Colonial Dept. · 6 min · Season 7 Episode 28Before we start Season 8, I have an important announcement about this little podcast. For more info, check out this Instagram post.
