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Liquid is a series dedicated to web3 crypto investing, hosted by Cosmo Jiang and Joyce Yang. Each episode we interview portfolio managers and venture capitalists on how they find, evaluate and select the next generation of great investments. We demystify the world of liquid token and venture investing by talking to some of the best investors about their views on the industry, investment process best practices, and how they see the web3 crypto investing changing over time.
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Welcome to the podcast of the German Historical Institute London, a research centre for German and British academics and students in the heart of Bloomsbury. The GHIL is a research base for historians of all eras working on colonial history and global relations or the history of Great Britain and Ireland, and also provides a meeting point for UK historians whose research concerns the history of the German-speaking lands. In each podcast episode, ranging from interviews to lecture recordings, ...
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In this GHIL Podcast episode host Kim König is joined by GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengupta to talk to Radhika Singha about her recent GHIL lecture and her research on criminology and 'scientific' penology in India, 1894-1955. Their conversation touches on criminal and labour histories, and seeks to answer th…
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The Indian Jail Committee report of 1919–20 is often cast as the turning point in colonial penal policy, when reform and rehabilitation were added to deterrence. But it is also acknowledged that very little changed on the ground. Why after all did a cash-strapped, politically-besieged regime sponsor a globe-trotting tour of jails and reformatories?…
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From living through wars to experiencing humanitarian crises, in this podcast episode, GHIL Research Fellow Clemens Villinger and PR officer Kim Koenig talk to Stephanie Middendorf about the research behind her GHIL Lecture on states of emergency and exception. What did they mean for societies in the 20th century and what can we take away for our o…
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Today, the state of emergency seems to be as permanent as it is omnipresent. The term became ubiquitous in the early twentieth century and continues to guide the self-description of contemporary societies. Yet, referring to ‘emergencies’ implies a large range of meanings, from actual states of war to moments of humanitarian crisis, from abstract re…
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Can federations be stable? Should political orders last forever and constitutions be permanent?75 years ago, the German Basic Law came into force. In this GHIL podcast interview, Research Fellow for Modern History Pascale Siegrist and PR Officer Kim König talk to Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Chair in Political Theory and History of Political Thought at …
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In political theory and political debates, an implicit expectation looms large: a ‘good’ polity is durable, ideally even permanent. Federal polities are accordingly conceptualized as orders which can regulate heterogeneity and resolve conflict—for the sake of long-term stability. The lecture will question this expectation of permanence by pointing …
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This podcast episode is a recording of the second Thyssen Lecture, given by Sebastian Conrad, and organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in cooperation with the GHIL. Sebastian Conrad’s lecture explores how the construction of a particular, western notion of time and temporality, of modernity, was central to the constitution of western imperial …
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Money doesn’t stink – or so the famous phrase goes. So, what did peasants in the Middle Ages mean when they complained about bad coin? Can a focus on monetary issues shed new light on the Peasants' War?In this GHIL Podcast interview, Research Fellow for Medieval History Marcus Meer and PR Officer Kim König are joined by Philipp Rössner, Professor o…
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The ‘Great German Peasant War’ of 1524–6 has quietly slipped off the historian’s agenda. Structural-materialist interpretations have waned since the fall of the Iron Curtain, giving rise to several ‘cultural’ and other ‘turns’, most of which have also passed. One phenomenon, however, has been missed completely, in older as well as more recent histo…
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Wes Tang-Wymer is co-founder of Room40, a crossover investment firm focused on crypto. Room40's platform consists of a multi-strategy hedge fund and early-stage venture funds. Prior to Room40, Wes was a founding team member of SoftBank Group International and SoftBank Vision Fund, where he oversaw investments and held board roles across a range of …
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Within a few decades, people in Imperial Germany witnessed a dramatic rise in global exchange, as well as an increased public interest in personal achievement. Work performance, intelligence, sporting achievements, and so on were measured, standardized, optimized and—above all—cherished. This lecture scrutinizes the link between both of these trend…
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David is a Senior Portfolio Manager at M31 Capital, a global crypto investment firm with institutional-grade liquid token and venture strategies. He previously co-founded Omnichain Capital, a thesis-driven liquid token fund focused on Web3 infrastructure and middleware. Before entering crypto full-time in early 2021, David spent ten years in tradit…
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Between the late eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the British transported over a quarter of a million convicts to colonies and settlements including in Australia, the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. About one percent of the approximately 167,000 convicts shipped to the Australian colonies (1787-1868) were of Asian, African…
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Theia is a liquid digital assets fund applying the principles of prudent investing to blockchain, led by Co-Founders CEO John McNiff and CIO Felipe Montealegre. Prior to founding Theia, John worked in the private equity group at Goldman Sachs, investing in opportunistic real estate and asset management companies. John received his MBA from Massachu…
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The issue of restitution continues to animate public debate in both European and African societies. The search for ways and means to present the problem and to involve communities is becoming a challenge for some African leaders because opinions on the issue tend to diverge between the communities and social groups concerned, depending in part on t…
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The issue of restitution is an ongoing topic of public debate in both European and African societies. In this GHIL podcast interview, GHIL Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König talk to Kokou Azamede, Associate Professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Lomé, about his work with local …
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On today's show we speak with Adam and Cole from Coinos.io Big believers in Bitcoin and a key player in fostering global Bitcoin adoption. Coinos is one of the Bitcoinization leaders with having 300+ businesses worldwide using their platform to accept Bitcoin Lightning payments. Coinos is The EASIEST way to get started with #bitcoin with Free and o…
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In this lecture Regina Toepfer will present her concept of translational anthropology and show how philological comparisons can reveal patterns of thought, systems of knowledge, and values held by historical individuals and societies. She considers literary translations to be key anthropological texts and sees shifts in meaning between the source a…
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Chris Abiaad is the founder of Frens Capital, a liquid venture fund with a long-only strategy investing based on fundamentals. He previously spent 10 years as a builder in Web2 focused on product, working with data companies such as Enigma.com. Chris has been involved in the cryptocurrency market since 2016 while he was pursuing his MBA at Cornell …
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How have India's colonial past and its life as a postcolonial nation state shaped the history of climate change, particulate matter, and germs and viruses in the region? What is the relationship between these histories and India's urban modernity?In this GHIL podcast interview GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengup…
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Around the mid nineteenth century, air pollution began to be discussed in India, especially in its largest cities, Calcutta and Bombay. The concern was with black smoke and the impact that this had on the quality of urban life, human health, and economic efficiency. In time, visible smoke yielded to invisible particulate matter as a serious object …
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James Ho is co-founder and Managing Partner of Modular Capital, a fundamental and thesis driven crypto investment firm that invests across liquid tokens and early stage venture. Previously, James was a Principal at Altimeter Capital, a $10 billion technology crossover investment firm where he focused on fintech and crypto investments. Prior to Alti…
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This podcast episode is a recording of the inaugural Thyssen Lecture, given by Sumathi Ramaswamy, and organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in cooperation with the GHIL. Drawing inspiration from Edward Said's concept of imperialism as geographical violence, she delves into the ways in which various scientific disciplines, like geography and car…
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How can we unpack the history of schooling in colonial India by looking beyond official records of success and failure? How did the classroom in the Princely State of Mysore become a place where children and young adults unlearned traditional prejudices and picked up new sensory skills, which in turn shaped their understanding of their own selves i…
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How was the hand to be guided, the eye to be trained, the senses sharpened in preparing the child for an adult world? In princely Mysore in southern India, the missionaries, who took the initial steps in opening up education to wider circles than those entitled to forms of knowledge, and the Government efforts that followed were faced with new and …
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