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Nathaniel Mathews is associate professor in Africana Studies at Binghamton University and author of "Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf." He tells us about his journey in studying Zanzibar, prompted by his early exposure to Swahili culture. He delves into the historical significance of Zanzibar, its cosmopolitan nature, the Omani influence in East Africa, and the slave trade's impact. He explore Zanzibar's political transitions, from becoming a British protectorate to the post-revolution identity struggles, and the eventual union with mainland Tanzania. He also touches on the complex identities within Zanzibar, such as Afro-Arabs, and the effects of the 1964 revolution which led to a significant emigration of Zanzibar's residents to Oman and other Gulf states. The discussion closes with book and film recommendations related to Zanzibar and East African-Arabian history. 00:00 Introduction01:32 Historical Overview of Zanzibar03:55 Omani Influence and Colonization06:34 Economic and Cultural Transformation16:49 British Protectorate and the Shortest War20:25 20th Century Zanzibar: Identity and Belonging27:52 Path to Independence and Union With Tanzania29:52 Cultural Nation and Independence Movements30:48 Colonial Rule and Sovereignty in Africa32:40 Labor Protests and National Identity33:44 Understanding Afro-Arabs in Zanzibar36:41 Economic and Social Dynamics in Zanzibar39:54 The Zanzibar Revolution and Its Aftermath44:57 Exodus and Resettlement of Zanzibaris53:14 Return to Oman and Ethnic Migration55:58 Recommended Books and Documentaries Nathaniel Mathews is a historian of East Africa and the Indian Ocean. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton, specializing in the history of modern Zanzibar and the global afterlives of the Zanzibar revolution.Connect with Nathaniel Mathews
Episode 4: A Common HistoryWritten and Produced by Call HuitsonVisit gots8r.com for more!Cast (in order of appearance)Disclaimer…..Dea ElizabethNarrator…..Christopher KendrickAerys Targaryen…..Mark TunstallOswell Whent…..Matt HarknessTywin Lannister…..David MellerJaime Lannister…..Michael TreagustCersei Lannister…..Nikki SwiftLannister Servant…..Nick LoweRhaegar Targaryen…..Joel HardingVarys…..Fred Lavin-CrossleyElia Martell…..Maria ZiółkowskaBella…..Imogen SmithLewyn Martell…..Sebastian AndersenCatelyn Tully…..Amy-May TrudgeonBrandon Stark…..Harrison EmmondsPeter Baelish…..MJ AnthonyLysa Tully…..Jo HargreavesGerold Hightower…..Trevenen HarryGrandmaester Pycelle…..Roger MathewsonQarlton Chelsted…..Juniper BerryLucerys Velaryon…..WrenfoeRobert Baratheon…..Ben AaronsEddard Stark…..Fred Lavin-CrossleyRickard Stark…..Andrew WynnMaester Walys…..Maester WalysPatrick the Innkeep…..Nick LoweLyanna Stark…..Lorna DurhamSoundtrack“The Perfect Motive” by Daniel Willett"Stone of Essences” by Michael VignolaSound EffectsVisit gots8r.com for a full listing.
Sam interviews historian Dr. Jefferson Cowie, author of Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance (winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize). Jeff serves as the James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. He was recently honored with a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship - in part, in anticipation of his upcoming project, tentatively titled Crosswinds of a Common History. You can find more of Jeff's writing including information on his other three books here. Find out more about Refuse Fascism and get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (@RefuseFascism) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus, Sam is on TikTok, check out @samgoldmanrf. You can also send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Record a voice message for the show here. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org · http://patreon.com/RefuseFascism · Venmo: Refuse-Fascism · Cashapp: $RefuseFascism Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown Mentioned in the episode: The ‘Unified Reich' Scandal is a Feature Not a Bug of Trump's Brand of American Fascism by Annika Brockschmidt for Religion Dispatches Refuse Fascism episode 181: The Evangelical Prophets Anointing Trump with Matthew D. Taylor Straight White American Jesus Special Episode: Justice Alito Let's His Appeal to Heaven Flag Fly The Supreme Court's new voting rights decision is a love letter to gerrymandering by Ian Millhiser for Vox Refuse Fascism episode 197: Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto Fascism in America? (Part 1 of a deep dive into the "fascism debate") by Thomas Zimmer The Anti-Liberal Left Has a Fascism Problem (Part 2 of a deep dive into the "fascism debate") by Thomas Zimmer --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message
Understanding the origins of species and the evolution of our planet has really become a multidisciplinary field. In order to understand how birds evolved to fly, or fish evolved to walk on land, you have to look at fossils. But you also need to think about the molecular biology part of that story. Neil Shubin is a professor of biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago. He's the author of numerous books, including Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA and Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. Neil and Greg discuss the importance of understanding both biology and geology when looking at evolution, the mysteries that still exist in our DNA, and what Neil was doing with thousands of dead salamanders in his lab once. *unSILOed Podcast is produced by University FM.* Episode Quotes: Evolution is not designing things for a blueprint 11:10: Evolution is not designing things from a blueprint; there's not a blueprint, and everything's designed from scratch, fit for purpose. No, what you're having is you have ancestors that are being modified to make new things. So you're modifying ancient genes to make new structures. That means history is very important; history provides constraints because you're not starting from scratch, but it also creates opportunities because you're in a particular environment with particular genes, you may be in the right place at the right time. Does evolution happen at variable speed? 10:41: Evolution happens, by all accounts, very gradually from generation to the next. But when we look at it over geological time—which is the window we have as paleontologists—it may look rapid, but it's probably very slow if you were on the ground watching it and measuring it year to year. Evolution is not about rewiring, but about rerouting 15:14: When you think about these molecular switches—what we're looking at—is that you can look at not only where a gene is active in the body, but you can also look at the sort of almost the genetic software that tells the gene when and where to be active. And it turns out a lot of the big changes in evolution are not as much about evolving new genes—they're about using old genes in new ways: that is, changing when and where they're active. That's where those switches—the genetic regulatory elements—come into being. In part, there's a lot to that story, but the crazy thesis is right there. How is it possible to be both broadened and specialized at the same time? 40:13: So collaboration is the answer to that. So, what we try to foster is a culture of collaboration among scientists. That is, when I train scientists in the lab, I don't ask them to be experts in both paleontology and development. I ask them to be experts in the empiricism of one field, particularly in parts of the fields that are relevant to them. But I insist that they be able to have critical thinking. And creative thinking across the fields, but their empiricisms, the way they do their work, whether it's lab work or field work or sometimes both, they have to specialize there. Show Links: Recommended Resources: Charles Darwin St. George Jackson Mivart Ernst Haeckel Guest Profile: Faculty Profile at University of Chicago Professional Profile on National Academy of Science Neil Shubin on X His Work: Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The first four verses of I Corinthians 10 speak of the common Jewish history shared by a mainly Gentile church! How does this fit and what does it mean for us as believers? Listen and be blessed as Scripture is compared with Scripture!
Year Two of The Waxing Soul Podcast is all about ideas in action! It's June 16, 2022, and today's topic is spiritual communities centered around common experiences and roots. Are you ready to grow your soul? Music by ASHUTOSH-MUSIC from Pixabay --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/waxingsoul/message
Part 2 - The Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology is underway on St. Croix! Dr. Dara Hamilton and Dr. Chester Copemann join host Emile Henderson III to discuss what's in store, including Wednesday's community forum, the power of psychology and the importance of understanding your behavior, and some of the territory's most pressing psychological needs. To register for the “Returning Us to Ourselves, Common History, Culture, and Healing” community forum: CRCP2020+ Community Forum-Hybrid Event Tickets, Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite or engage remotely via Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/CRCP2020.
In celebration of Black History Month, we revisit a conversation that Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein had with Detroit Pastor Dr. E.L. Branch on the common history and experiences that the African-American and Jewish communities share. The post A Common History appeared first on International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
Think back, way back. Beyond last week or last year … to what was happening on Earth 100,000 years ago. Or 100 million years ago. It's hard to fathom such enormous stretches of time, yet to understand the evolution of the cosmos – and our place in it – your mind needs to grasp the deep meaning of eons. Discover techniques for thinking in units of billions of years, and how the events that unfold over such intervals have left their mark on you. Plus: the slow-churning processes that turned four-footed creatures into the largest marine animals that ever graced the planet and using a new telescope to travel in time to the birth of the galaxies. Guests: Jim Rosenau – Artist, Berkeley, California Robert Hazen – Senior staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory and the author of The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet Neil Shubin – Biologist, associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago, and the author of The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People Nicholas Pyenson – Curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. Alison Peck – Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia Descripción en español First released April 22, 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
ENCORE Think back, way back. Beyond last week or last year … to what was happening on Earth 100,000 years ago. Or 100 million years ago. It’s hard to fathom such enormous stretches of time, yet to understand the evolution of the cosmos – and our place in it – your mind needs to grasp the deep meaning of eons. Discover techniques for thinking in units of billions of years, and how the events that unfold over such intervals have left their mark on you. Plus: the slow-churning processes that turned four-footed creatures into the largest marine animals that ever graced the planet and using a new telescope to travel in time to the birth of the galaxies. Guests: Jim Rosenau – Artist, Berkeley, California Robert Hazen – Senior staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory and the author of The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet Neil Shubin – Biologist, associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago, and the author of The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People Nicholas Pyenson – Curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. Alison Peck – Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia Descripción en español First released April 22, 2013.
In this spring pledge drive show, How on Earth's Chip Grandits talks with Neil Shubin, author of the new book, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets and People. We offer this book to listeners to who call KGNU to pledge their support and bring you more programs like this. Additionally, we have thank you gifts for listeners who pledge that include, Facing the Wave, Pandora's Lunchbox, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, and The Fat Switch. These are all books we've featured, along with authors interviewed, thanks to the efforts of your all-volunteer science show team, How on Earth. You can pledge securely on line to support this show and others at kgnu.org. Hosts: Susan Moran, Joel Parker, Chip Grandits Producer: Shelley Schlender Engineer: Jim Pullen Executive Producer: Shelley Schlender Listen to the show:
"We are all star stuff." After discussing FFRF legal complaints in South Dakota and Arkansas, we take up on Carl Sagan's famous words by talking with paleontologist Neil Shubin, discoverer of Tiktaalik and author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish, whose newest book is The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People.
The truth of humanity is written in world history not the bible. Many people think that the truth about human existence is written in the Christian bible, but that is a huge misconception. The bible at its very beginning is based on some convoluted recorded extracts. From a historical point of view, some major traditions of the human way of life which continued from its' origins vanished, when the Romans inaugurated the A.D. calendar. Things like the gods and goddesses working together in the interest of balancing the functions and life of humanity changed, to having men as prelate over women.
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