Birgit Tremml-WernerUniversitetslektor
Om mig
Docent vid Linnéuniversitet 2023, lektor i historia med inriktning mot globalhistoria vid Stockholmsuniversitet från 2023.
Jag disputerade vid Wiens universitet i Österrike i 2012 med en avhandling om den tidigmoderna handelsstaden Manila och gav en ny bild av handel och diplomatiska förbindelser i Sydostasien. Avhandling publicerads som Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644: Local Comparisons and Global Connections (Amsterdam University Press, 2015) och även översatt till kinesiska i 2022. Innan jag började vid Stockholms universitet har jag varit forskare vid Tokyo universitet (2013-2015), Zürichs universitet (2016-2019) och MSCA fellow vid Linnéuniversitet (2021-2023).
Undervisning
Undervisar på alla nivåer från första terminens grundkurs i historia till doktorandhandledning. Nuvarande kurser: Historia I (Delkurs 1: Historia som vetenskap och Dekurs 3: Tidigmoderna seminarium samt föreläsning om racism), Historia III (seminarium i Teori och metod samt föreläsning i Teori och metod).
De senaste åren undervisade jag mest i mastersprogrammet Koloniala i postkoloniala studier vid Linnéuniversitetet. Jag undervisar även regelbundet i olika kurser i historia vid University of the Philippines (Diliman, Baguio) och Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Doktorandhandledning: Mathias Istrup Karlsmose (SU), Tamara Ann Tinner (LNU), Isak Kronberg (LNU).
Forskningsprojekt
Publikationer
I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas
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Multiple Actors and Pluralistic Practices: Non-European Perspectives on Early Modern Diplomatic Relations
2024. Birgit Tremml-Werner. European Diplomacy, 49-67
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The Elephant in the Archive: Knowledge Construction and Late Eighteenth-Century Global Diplomacy
2023. Birgit Tremml-Werner. Itinerario 47 (2), 185-202
ArtikelThis article explores the dynamics behind global diplomacy and knowledge in Asian maritime empires in the late eighteenth century. The short-lived diplomatic exchange between the Kingdom of Mysore and the Spanish Philippines in 1776–7 provides a rich resource for an analysis of how global diplomatic agents coproduced material objects, images, and written records which in turn impacted politics and trade relations. The article makes at least four important interventions in the burgeoning field of new diplomatic history. First, it sheds light on certain aspects of growing research on Asian diplomatic encounters connecting the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia; second, it offers insights into the manifold actors involved in creating and negotiating knowledge; third, it highlights the epistemological importance of the visual and material archives for the study of global diplomacy in the early modern period; and fourth, it challenges narratives of cross-cultural foreign relations which tend to overemphasise asymmetrical and confessional explanations.
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Rethinking colonialism through early modern global diplomacy: A tale of Pampangan mobility
2024. Birgit Tremml-Werner. Journal of Global History 19 (1), 18-36
ArtikelThis study is an intervention in early modern global diplomacy. Integrating an indigenous community of the Philippines into foreign relations and maritime connections, the article reevaluates the complex story of the Pampangans of Luzon, allegedly long-term allies of the Spanish conquerors, and the narrative of indigenous collaboration. Foregrounding the Pampangans’ involvement in military campaigns, as well as territorial and maritime expansion in the early decades of the 1600s, the article introduces three scenarios of Pampangan power bargaining with global consequences. The focus on Pampangan foreign relations opens new analytical perspectives on the role of language and knowledge for internal coloniality on the one hand, foreign and diplomatic negotiations on the other. Methodologically, it proposes a deep (re-)reading of the polyvocal archive of the colonial-indigenous encounter and integrates insights with the largely separated scholarship of diplomatic and indigenous history as a new avenue in global history.
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