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Histories of Science in Africa Podcast Columbia University Libraries
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In this podcast, we examine the rich historical roots and contemporary developments of scientific practice and related disciplines in Africa. Often misconstrued as outside the history of science, scholars and science practitioners alike have sought to demonstrate the vitality of science in Africa, and this podcast aims to share these critical perspectives with a wider audience. While each episode is unique, common threads of discussion are: research methods, discourses of health and science, varying understandings of health and scientific inquiry, and the ways that the social and scientific are intertwined. The podcast is aimed at students and scholars of African studies, as well as casual listeners who are interested in learning about science, technology, and healthcare on the continent. We interview historians, social scientists, and practitioners of medicine and science who have published work on a variety of topics including epidemics, pharmaceuticals, food security, and environmental change. Each episode features a different guest, and takes one of the interviewee’s publications as a jumping off point for discussion. Suggested reading is mentioned at the beginning of each episode and listed on the website, but the conversation will not be lost on listeners who have not read. A complete transcript is available for download on the website, along with references to other works that we make in the podcast. Episodes will be released on the last Friday of each month.
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Bodies, Politics, and African Healing with Stacey Langwick
In this episode, we're joined by Stacy Langwick, a cultural and medical anthropologist at Cornell University who focuses on healing and medicine in East Africa. We talk to Stacey about her 2011 book, Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania, as well as more recent work that takes up issues of toxicity, therapeutics, dispossession, and plants, and healing. For a transcript of the podcast please visit our website hsia.podcasts.library.columbia.edu. This episode was recorded November 10, 2021
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Gray Parrots with Nancy Jacobs
In this episode Nancy Jacobs talks with us about her research on Gray Parrots. We discuss the politics of knowledge, ecologies, and non-humans as political actors. This episode was recorded in Fall of 2021. For more information and the transcript for this episode please go to hsia.podcasts.library.columbia.edu
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Climate Change with Peter Gufu Oba
In this episode, Peter Gufu Oba discusses his scholarship and work on the natural sciences, pastoralism, and environmental history in Africa. Unfortunately poor WiFi connection resulted in suboptimal audio quality for this episode. The transcript for the episode is available at hsia.podcasts.library.columbia.edu
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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 with People Kalala J. Ngalamulume Search Faculty/Staff Directory Faculty by Department and Rank Faculty and Staff by Department Search Student Directory Fields
In this episode guest Kalala Ngalamulume discusses his research on epidemics, public health, and urban politics in Francophone Africa. At the forefront of our conversation are his longstanding interests in both state and community responses to emerging health crises. His observations range in time from the fifteenth century to the present, and across several continents. In particular, he draws historical parallels between past outbreaks of disease and the current COVID-19 pandemic. The transcript for the episode is available at hsia.podcasts.library.columbia.edu
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Self-Devouring Growth with Julie Livingston
In this episode guest Julie Livingston discusses the direction that her academic scholarship has taken over the years and her consideration of the past, present and future. Drawing on her latest book, Self Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa, we discuss relationships between people, animals and the earth. We explore the implications that technological growth in pursuit of economic growth has for metaphysical understandings of the world and its future. The transcript for the episode is available at hsia.podcasts.library.columbia.edu
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Histories of Science in Africa Trailer
Conor provides a short description of the topics we will discuss on the first season of our podcast For more information please visit hsia.podcasts.library.columbia.edu Transcript is available for download in PDF format