Cliocast

 

Cliocast is a podcast series of conversations with historians about their recently published books. The programmes, which last about 30 minutes, might cover the main subjects and research theses of the books, methodological issues, the historian’s working conditions and the reception of the books.

The podcast are made available through various online platforms (iTunes, SoundCloud etc.); long-term preservation is secured by the Swiss National Sound Archives.

Cliocast's editors are Alexandra Binnenkade (Basel), Séveric Yersin (Basel/London), Malik Mazbouri (Lausanne), Jan-Friedrich Missfelder (Basel), Eva Pibiri (Lausanne) and Isabelle Schürch (Bern), with the support of infoclio.ch.

Cliocast is licensed under the Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license.

Bruno Strasser
The Mask. A History of Breathing Bad Air
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Bruno Strasser (Professor, History of science, science studies, and science education, University of Geneva) in conversation with Séveric Yersin (associate researcher at the Institute for European Global Studies Basel, visiting scholar at King's College London). Recorded on November 14, 2025 via Zoom (Language: English).

Yersin, Séveric: Podcast with Bruno Strasser – The Mask. A History of Breathing Bad Air, cliocast 31, infoclio.ch, 14.11.2025. Online: <https://www.infoclio.ch/en/node/191254>.

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