Latest Global history Podcast Episodes
Nurses - The American Civil War
Working Over Time - May 22, 2020 16:54 - 54 minutes"There was nothing medical about this" Dr. Kenya Davis-Hayes (Professor of History, California Baptist University) speaks with Host Dr. Karen Bellinger about a day in the life of a nurse and their role during the American Civil War. (Recorded globally over Zoom)
Jungle Laboratories
Ventricles - December 13, 2018 14:34 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis episode concludes season one of Ventricles Podcast. We continue our series on politics in the history of technology in this episode. Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga explains the central role that Mexico played in the creation of the birth control pill, a history that has often been told ab...
Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Ventricles - November 07, 2018 16:39 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow are technologies shaped by political needs, and how do technologies enable new kinds of politics? In this episode, Professor Eden Medina tells the history of communications technologies in Chile, during the socialist government of Salvador Allende, in the early 1970s. She explains how the in...
Why is There a History of Medicine?
Ventricles - October 25, 2018 13:11 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf the human body has remained the same in the past few thousand years, why have our approaches to its treatment varied so much? How can an ailment exist in only one part of the world, and not another? Why do so many treatments in the history of Western medicine seem bizarre to us now? This epi...
Imagining Iraq
Ventricles - October 13, 2018 19:29 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat will Iraq be like, 100 years in the future? How are Muslim women imagined in the future? In this episode, Professor Ahmed Ragab explores literary imaginaries of the future of the Middle East. He starts by discussing the story, Kahramana, from the recent short-story collection edited by Hass...
Canoes in Space
Ventricles - October 03, 2018 14:54 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat can we learn about space exploration from Polynesian voyaging, or wayfinding? How does a frontier differ from a horizon? In this episode, Professor Eli Nelson explains the story of the Hokule‘a, a double-hulled voyaging canoe launched in 1975 to understand and recover the navigation techniq...
Coins, Medieval and Digital
Ventricles - September 26, 2018 22:42 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat is money, and how is it changing? And what do bitcoins have in common with medieval coins? In this episode, Gili Vidan explains how the long history of coins can help us understand the history of digital currencies, something we perceive to be a radical break from the past. We start the epi...
Vaidyas with Wristwatches
Ventricles - September 20, 2018 12:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow do everyday technologies change our understanding of our own bodies? The pulse is a diagnostic tool common to many medical traditions, including Ayurveda, an ancient medicine of South Asia. In this episode, Professor Projit Mukharji tells us how the pulse has been understood by Ayurvedic pra...
The Pulse
Ventricles - September 12, 2018 15:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe body has many rhythms, but the pulse is one that people have paid close attention to. Over the last two millennia, the pulse has been used as a diagnostic tool in both Greek and Chinese medicine. In this episode, Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama discusses the history of the pulse in these two tr...
Telling Time
Ventricles - September 06, 2018 10:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow have humans kept track of time? What technologies have they developed to tell time, and how have they been influenced by religious and scientific cultures? In this episode, Dr. Sara Schechner, a historian of astronomy and an artist who has made sundials herself, speaks about the history of t...
Part II Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR? Chances and Risks of a Groundbreaking-Method
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - SD - July 05, 2016 20:30 - 1 hour - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Part II Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR? Chances and Risks of a Groundbreaking-Method
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - HD - July 05, 2016 20:30 - 1 hour - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Part I Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR? Chances and Risks of a Groundbreaking-Method
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - HD - July 05, 2016 18:30 - 38 minutes - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Part I Editing the Human Genome with CRISPR? Chances and Risks of a Groundbreaking-Method
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - SD - July 05, 2016 18:30 - 38 minutes - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Feed the World? Historische Perspektiven und technologische Machbarkeit von Welternährung
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - HD - May 03, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Feed the World? Historische Perspektiven und technologische Machbarkeit von Welternährung
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - HD - May 03, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - VideoCutting Edge – Herausforderungen der Wissenschaft/New Challenges for Scholarship, Die Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwic...
Feed the World? Historische Perspektiven und technologische Machbarkeit von Welternährung
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - SD - May 03, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Conflict, Security and Media: Does Gender Matter?
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - HD - April 27, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Conflict, Security and Media: Does Gender Matter?
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Cutting Edge (LMU) - SD - April 27, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - VideoDie Vortragsreihe am Center for Advanced Studies fragt nach den aktuellsten Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft. Gegenwärtige politische Krisen und deren Reflexion in den Medien oder Entwicklungen der Gen-Technik fordern die wissenschaftliche Kreativität und Innovationsf...
Healing, exorcism and charismatic powers in 19th and 20th Century Chinese Christianity
Christian Missions in Global History - March 07, 2016 23:00 - 58 minutesInstitute of Historical Research Healing, exorcism and charismatic powers in 19th and 20th Century Chinese Christianity Lars Laamann (SOAS) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
The most improbable Diocese of the Anglican Communion: Mission, Church and Revolution in Lebombo, Mozambique, 1961-76
Christian Missions in Global History - February 09, 2016 00:00 - 48 minutesInstitute of Historical Research The most improbable Diocese of the Anglican Communion: Mission, Church and Revolution in Lebombo, Mozambique, 1961-76 John Stuart (Kingston University) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
Play, Missionaries and the Colonial Encounter, 1800-70: evangelization, acculturation or hybridization?
Christian Missions in Global History - March 10, 2015 23:00 - 55 minutesInstitute of Historical Research Play, Missionaries and the Colonial Encounter, 1800-70: evangelization, acculturation or hybridization? Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, and William Colenso of New Zealand: nineteenth century protestant missionary cousins in conflict with their bishops and colonial governors
Christian Missions in Global History - February 11, 2015 00:00 - 1 hourInstitute of Historical Research John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, and William Colenso of New Zealand: nineteenth century protestant missionary cousins in conflict with their bishops and colonial governors Gwilym Colenso (London) Christ...
Localising the Global: Industrial Schools in Missionary Discussion, British India, 1880s-1940
Christian Missions in Global History - January 28, 2015 00:00 - 35 minutesInstitute of Historical Research Localising the Global: Industrial Schools in Missionary Discussion, British India, 1880s-1940 Arun Kumar (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Gottingen) Christian Missions in Global History seminar...
John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity
Christian Missions in Global History - June 03, 2014 23:00 - 1 hourInstitute of Historical Research John Wesley in America: Restoring Primitive Christianity Dr Geordan Hammond (Nazarene Theological College, Manchester) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
Book Launch: Missionary Families: race, gender and generation on the spiritual frontier
Christian Missions in Global History - November 19, 2013 14:11 - 24 minutesEmily Manktelow (University of Kent) Christian Missions in Global History Institute of Historical Research 2 October 2013
The Audacity of Veracity - the Rev. Tiyo Soga's role and part in the translation of the Bible into Xhosa
Christian Missions in Global History - May 28, 2013 23:00 - 44 minutesInstitute of Historical Research The Audacity of Veracity - the Rev. Tiyo Soga's role and part in the translation of the Bible in Xhosa Jo Davis (University of South Africa) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
Protestant Missions, Progressivism and Global Modernity: The YMCA in China, 1895-1935
Christian Missions in Global History - January 30, 2013 00:00 - 44 minutesInstitute of Historical Research Protestant Missions, Progressivism and Global Modernity: The YMCA in China, 1895-1935 John Heavens (University of Cambridge) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
Floundering in the Slough of Despond - singleness, unfitness, and the British woman missionary in India, c.1920-1950
Christian Missions in Global History - December 05, 2012 00:00 - 50 minutesInstitute of Historical Research Floundering in the Slough of Despond - singleness, unfitness, and the British woman missionary in India, c.1920-1950 Andrea Pass (University of Oxford) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
Mission studies and historical research: past trends and future trajectories
Christian Missions in Global History - October 10, 2012 00:00 - 39 minutesInstitute of Historical Research Mission studies and historical research: past trends and future trajectories Brian Stanley (University of Edinburgh) Christian Missions in Global History seminar series
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