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 M

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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 transcri

Climate Change with Peter Gufu Oba

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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 transcri

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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

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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

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Histories of Science in Africa Trailer

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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

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