If the master's tools can never dismantle the master's house, what can we build instead? Since emotional labour is racialized and gendered, what if minoritized people say 'no'? Listen to several brilliant WOC scholars discuss PhDiva Xine's new book DISAFFECTED: each of them was given a chapter of the book to respond to in order to give the audience a sense of the overall argument as well as a chance for each scholar to discuss their own research. 170+ people attended from around the world!

0:00 to 6:15 Xine's overview of the event and Christine Okoth's introduction

6:15 to 26:50 Xine reads a section of DISAFFECTED's argument 

26:51 to 38 Chapter 1: white sentimentalism, unsympathetic Blackness, and Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
Respondent: Christine A Okoth (King's College London) is working on a brilliant manuscript that will revolutionize ecocriticism: _Race and the Raw Material: Black Aesthetics as Extractive Form_

38:10 to 53:04 Chapter 2: on Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, science, and global revolution in Martin R. Delany's work
Respondent: Rianna Walcott (King's College London) who researches Black women's identity formation in digital spaces. She co-founded projectmyopia.com which promotes inclusion in academia and decolonised curriculums. She co-edited The Colour of Madness, an anthology about BAME mental health. www.riannawalcott.com and @rianna_walcott on Twitter 

53:05 to 1:02:35 Chapter 3: on queer frigidity, medical science, the limits of white feminism, and the subgenre of (white) women doctor novels
Respondent: Lara Choksey (UCL) who works on STS, critical race and decolonial studies with particular interest in speculative fiction. She is the author of Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds (Bloomsbury 2021). https://www.bloomsbury.com/.../narrative-in-the-age-of.../

1:03:50 to 1:13:35 Chapter 4: on Black women doctors, transformative love, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Iola Leroy
Respondent: Jade Bentil (Oxford) is a Black feminist historian whose first book REBEL CITIZEN uses oral history interviews to explore the lived experiences of Black women who migrated to Britain after WW2. Forthcoming from Allen Lane. https://www.jadebentil.com/

1:13:31 to 1:26:25 Chp 5: Oriental inscrutability, Chinese diaspora, the first Asian North American woman writer Sui Sin Far
Respondent: KerryMackereth(@CambridgeGender) works on racialization of AI, AsAm studies; co-host of @TheGoodRobot1 @KerryMackereth on Twitter

1:26:30 Coda: Toward a Disaffected Manifesto Beyond Survival. PhDiva Xine highlights respondent Lucia Lorenzi who was unable to attend. Lucia trained as a Canadianist and trauma theorist, working on how artists and writers use silence to reshape, resist, reimagine experiences of violence. Their artwork is featured on the cover of the book! @empathywarrior on Twitter and Instagram

DISAFFECTED won the Duke UP Scholars of Color First Book Prize.

For a 30% discount use the code E21YAO on the following sites
North America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014836/disaffected/

You can read the intro for free here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

S6E5 | WOC Scholars in Community: PhDiva Xine's Book Launch!

Join us as we revisit our spotlight on Aristotle's Masterpiece with Professor Mary Fissell, from October 2020. To see the visuals that Dr. Fissell references in the podcast, go to: www.chstm.org/video/83

Follow along with Professor Fissell as she discusses her research on this late 17th century sex, midwifery, and childbirth manual popular in England and America from its publication until well into the 20th century. Dr. Fissell explores the ways in which readers used their copies of the book to record births and vows of love and companionship, performing a similar function to the Bible. Dig into the similarities and differences between copies of the Masterpiece held at Kislak Center for Special Collections at the University of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

To explore more resources related to this presentation, please visit:
www.chstm.org/video/83

Replay — Aristotle's Masterpiece: Early Modern Sex Ed with Mary Fissell

Differences in rates of institutionalization between England on the one hand and Scotland, Wales, and Ireland on the other are at the heart of this podcast. Its aim is to explain why societies in some parts of Britain leant more towards institutional solutions than others, as late as 1900. The podcast brings out the importance of social, demographic, political and economic contexts, to choices about the provision of care in the past.

Image of the week: insane woman drawn by Charles Darwin, 1872
Full Bibliographic Record: Wellcome Library Catalogue L0049513   
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

5.3 Domestic Or Institutional Options

Mental ailments are presently the fastest growing diagnostic category in world medicine, particularly anxiety, depression, and the damaging effects of abusing alcohol and recreational drugs. Intuitively, we tend to associate this with the accelerating stresses of modern living. This podcast tries to test this assumption by looking at the history of changes in the incidence of certain mental pathologies such as schizophrenia. It explores whether they actually took place, and asks if changes are the result of different perceptions or thresholds, or of changing illness patterns.

Image of the week: Emil Kraepelin, 1856-1926
Full Bibliographic Record: Wellcome Library Catalogue L0030730  
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

12.1 New Diagnoses Or New Ailments

This week we commemorate the Centenary of the Armistice and the end of the First World War.

We meet the Royal British Legion's Head of Remembrance to discuss the Centenary commemorations, the impact the war had on society, and how the country will commemorate the anniversary of the Armistice, from poppies marking the contribution of the Commonwealth to the annual Festival of Remembrance.

Episode 5: Remembrance

Why do we talk about our immune systems using the language of warfare? Let's discuss immunity from two perspectives that may seem very different: biomedical engineering and biopolitics. In this episode PhDivas Liz and Xine educate each other about their disciplinary knowledge of what "immunity" means. Cells at Work! is a recent anime about what goes on in the human body: Liz explains the science behind their portrayal of viruses and immune processes. Xine talks about how political and legal immunity came before our knowledge of the immune system by drawing upon Ed Cohen's A Body Worth Defending.

Bonus: PhDiva Liz's genius comparisons between immune system functions and social media platforms!

Cells at Work is on Netflix. Cohen's book is available from Duke University Press. 

Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

S5E11 | Cells and Society at Work: Biomedical & Biopolitical Takes on Immunity

Podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide. Dr. Liz Wayne and Dr. Christine "Xine" Yao are two women of color Ivy League PhDs navigating higher education. Biomedical engineer meets literary critic. Both fans of lipstick.

Rab Houston was born in Hamilton, Scotland, lived in India and Ghana and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Andrews University before spending six years at Cambridge University as a research student (Peterhouse) and research fellow (Clare College). He has worked at the University of St Andrews since 1983 and is Professor of Modern History, specialising in British social history. He is a fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland’s national academy), and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is married to a senior university manager and lives in Edinburgh. In his spare time he likes any form of active meditation.
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/rabhouston.html
https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/psychhist/

A new public events series from the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine brings historical perspective to contemporary issues and concerns.

In the public forums, historians and other specialists speak about culturally relevant topics in front of a live audience at Consortium member institutions. Forum subjects range from medical consumerism to public trust in science and technology. Videos of these events are also available at chstm.org.

In podcast episodes, authors of new books in the history of science, technology, and medicine respond to questions from readers with a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise. These conversations illuminate the utility and relevance of the past in light of current events.

New tracks tagged #HistMed