[STS-Africa] Teaching and States of the Field

[Prof JC Holbrook]

Hello Helen,

I, & others, keep copies of my articles on Academia.edu. I couldn't find 
an STS-Africa tag/group but maybe you could start one? Also, I started 
following you.

Best,

Jarita

On 1/10/19 2:24 PM, Helen Tilley wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Laura Foster and Tolu Odumosu’s call for papers yesterday reminded me 
> that I wanted to reach out asking if there’s a site anywhere that 
> pools syllabi relating to STS-Africa (including history) on various 
> themes. I’m also interested in review articles that set new research 
> priorities for the field.
>
> Along these lines, I thought I’d share a piece I wrote last summer and 
> that went live in November on “The History and Historiography of 
> Science” for /Oxford’s Encyclopedia of African History/.
>
> I’ll add that when I was invited to prepare this, other authors, 
> including Clapperton Mavhunga, had been solicited to write their own 
> review essays on technology (and medicine) so while I touch on some 
> technological (and medical) themes, I left a lot of this literature to 
> one side (including citations because I assumed these authors would 
> cite their own work). That’s the peril of disciplinary sub-divisions :-)
>
> But caveats aside, here’s the link to the online version and a pdf of 
> the piece is attached below.
>
> http://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-353
>
> I’m sure many on this list have written terrific review essays and it 
> might benefit us all to pool this information somewhere for ourselves 
> and our students.
>
> All best wishes for the New Year!
> Helen
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> STS-Africa mailing list
> STS-Africa at lists.uni-halle.de
> https://lists.uni-halle.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sts-africa

-- 
JC Holbrook, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy Department
University of the Western Cape
@astroholbrook

-- 
Second Episode of Science Tourist
Washington D.C.
On YouTube
https://youtu.be/tiP4a0f0SRQ

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wiser.org.za/pipermail/sts-africa/attachments/20190110/a4747cce/attachment.htm>