The Sword and The Shield – A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part II)
With Adam Clulow & Peniel Joseph The Not Even Past Conversations Series was born out of the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. It takes the form of a long interview held informally (usually at home) over Zoom with leading scholars and teachers at the University of Texas at Austin and beyond. The first in the series is a conversation […]
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Episode 124: The “Spanish” Influenza of 1918-1920
Host: Augusta Dell’Omo, Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin Guest: Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, The University of Texas at Austin In the age of coronavirus and COVID-19, comparisons are being made to an unusually long-lived and virulent epidemic of influenza that occurred a century ago. The […]
Episode 123: Scientific, Geographic & Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
Host: Nicolás González Quintero, Ph.D. Candidate in History Guest: Lina del Castillo, Associate Professor of Latin American History The historian Andre Gunder Frank has theorized that former colonies cannot develop economically until they have overcome the legacy of their colonial past. The ways that the United States has overcome the legacy of its colonial past […]