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 ...
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Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two? Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of transformative justice, pop culture and where the two meet. Leave a 5-star review for The Popaganda Podcast and we might feature it in an upcoming episode! You can also send us love or suggest show ...
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DNA Papers 15: A Conversation with Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl
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Tune in one last time to a bonus episode of The DNA Papers with the authors of the most beautiful experiment in biology as they reminisce about "the best years of their life" and field questions from the commentators of episode 14. Series moderator Neeraja Sankaran was joined by historian of science Kersten Hall to co-host this special treat. Matth…
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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica guides Shannon through the American religious thriller film series, Left Behind. In what feels like an accelerated Vacation Bible School experience, they discuss how and why traditional Evangelical Christian teachings have been used to implement harmful legislation, institutional policies, and soci…
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Mathilda Zeller: Never Whistle at Night
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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Shannon and Tashmica talk with Mathilda Zeller, author of "Kushtuka”, one of the 29 spine-tingling horror stories included in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology. She also got in trouble with Tashmica at a tamalada for talking about transformative justice when they were supposed to …
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History of Science Society at 100: History of Science in Song
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Four historians share their interests in music, and their perspectives in using songs as source material for better understanding the history of science.Antony Adler, Carleton CollegeAndrew Fiss, Michigan Technological UniversityAsif Siddiqi, Fordham UniversityBetty Smocovitis, University of FloridaSong Notes:(https://soundcloud.com/antony-adler/th…
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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast Shannon and Tashmica discuss how we failed Amber Heard. Despite decades of work to disrupt the stigma and myths surrounding domestic violence, the Depp v. Heard trial gave us all a look at how the court of public opinion continues to demonize survivors seeking justice. Tune in for a conversation about what w…
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On this episode of The Popaganda Podcast Shannon and Tashmica are joined by special guest, Hoai An Pham, an abolitionist organizer, graphic designer, animator, public health student, and avid lover of Grey's Anatomy. Together they discuss the radical storytelling that pops up in the halls and on-call rooms of Seattle's Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital …
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Our guest zara raven (zara/z), taught us a lot about conservatorship through their love of Britney Spears. Turns out, we were only scratching the surface of this important Disability Justice issue. Find out more on this week's episode of Lingo Plinko. Find the full show notes and links at www.popagandapod.com…
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Join Tashmica and Shannon as we discuss the Netflix drama Baby Reindeer. Listen in as we explore the complexities of surviving domestic and sexual violence, the nuanced portrayals of male survivors and our deep love of the character Teri played by the fabulous and brilliant Nava Mau. Come for the pop culture. Stay for the abolition. For this week’s…
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IsisCB on Pandemics - On Past, Present, and Possible Future, Pandemic Diseases
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Episode three of the podcast companion to the Isis CB special issue on pandemics, focuses on the very substance of pandemics, namely the diseases themselves. Join Mark Honigsbaum, Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, and Michael Bresalier in a conversation about the impact of disease on history and on the condition of our planet vis-a-vis current disease…
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True Detective Night Country was a massive success with not-so-great reviews. Led by Kali Reis, the first Indigenous lead of an HBO series, Hollywood legend Jodie Foster, and Issa Lopez, the Mexican Filmmaker who created, wrote, and directed this powerful supernatural thriller, this season had us - and a record-breaking 3.2 million viewers - on the…
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In today’s episode of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica introduces Shannon to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s through the award-winning documentary, Satan Wants You. To scare people back into a Sunday pew, the Catholic Church funded the publication of a book based on the account of a woman who claimed to have survived satanic ritualistic child abuse. …
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DNA Papers 14: Matthew Meselson, Franklin Stahl, and semiconservative replication of DNA
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The penultimate episode of the DNA Papers podcast series revisits a paper that demonstrated the semiconservative mode of DNA replication, which had been predicted by complementary base-paired double helix model of the molecule discussed in episode 13 of this series:Meselson, Matthew, and Franklin W. Stahl. “The replication of DNA in Escherichia col…
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Britney Spears with Guest Zara Raven
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Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok discuss Britney Spears, the nuances of conservatorship, mad liberation, and the liberatory possibilities of dancing on the internet with our first guest ever - mad queer mama, Zara Raven. Zara Raven isn't just our premiere Abolitionist Britney building a world without prisons + policing, starting at home. They…
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Lingo Plinko! Abortion Trafficking is the New Satanic Panic
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What do abortion and human trafficking have in common? Find out on this week's episode of Lingo Plinko. Read the full article at https://accountablecommunities.com/writing Find the full show notes and links at www.popagandapod.comبقلم Shannon Perez-Darby & Tashmica Torok
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Tim Ballard is a lying, McLiar face (allegedly) but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had an indelible impact on how everyday Americans understand or misunderstand the sexual exploitation of children around the globe. But how did this qanon-tinged thriller become the 10th biggest domestic film of the year? Join Shannon and Tashmica for a conversatio…
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Why do Shannon and Tashmica say the criminal legal system instead of the criminal justice system? Tashmica breaks it down with a little help from the Bureau of Justice and the Vera Institute for Justice. Functions of Criminal Justice Why we say "criminal legal system," Not "criminal justice system" Season 2 of The Popaganda Podcast launched on Mond…
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Tom Cruise once claimed Scientology had solved humanity’s greatest challenges. To which Shannon and Tashmica say, “What now?” The Popaganda Podcast kicks off season 2 with a conversation about “Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise, Scientologist”. An American actor, producer, and celebrity Scientologist, Tom Cruise is the lead in major blockbuster films like T…
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The Popaganda Podcast: an award-winning social justice podcast about the pop culture we love and how it inspires us to build a safer, more just world for everyone. Hosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok are former latchkey kids who grew up to become survivor activists and pop culture besties. Tune in for elevated unscripted commentary that no…
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Lingo Plinko is a minisode of The Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. On Monday, we dropped a bonus episode about the HBO original documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life that came with a trigger warning and an encouragement to listen with care. So instead of breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justi…
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CW/TW: child sexual abuse. In anticipation of the Popaganda season 2 launch on April 22nd, cohosts Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok reconnect to discuss the original HBO documentary, Great Photo, Lovely Life. This poignant film follows Photojournalist Amanda Mustard as she investigates her ‘touchy-feely grandpa’ and his role in decades of ser…
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Popaganda Season 2 launches on April 22nd but Shannon and Tashmica can’t wait that long to talk pop culture chisme and transformative justice. In this bonus episode, we talk about cults, communes, and the surveillance state through the experiences of the recently released but not quite free Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband, Ryan Scott Anderson,…
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DNA Papers #13 - James Watson, Francis Crick, and the DNA Double Helix × Status message
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Rounding out the story begun in the previous installment, episode 13 of the DNA Papers centers on the publications in which the double helical structure for DNA was proposed, detailed, and its various implications speculated upon. It features four papers, all by Watson and Crick from Cambridge,. Together these papers not only proposed that DNA’s th…
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Donald L. Opitz - Daughters of Ceres
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Don's book project, "Daughters of Ceres: The Scientific Advancement of Women in Horticulture, 1870–1920" examines the confluence of two 19th century movements—one dedicated to the promotion of scientific agriculture, another to the advancement of women's education in science. These movements fueled international efforts to elevate women's position …
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Rena Selya — Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America
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In this episode, we speak with Rena Selya, the archivist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and author of Salvador Luria: An Immigrant Biologist in Cold War America.Blacklisted from federal funding review panels but awarded a Nobel Prize for his research on bacteriophage, biologist Salvador Luria (1912–1991) was as much an activist as a scientist. In t…
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DNA Papers #12: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and the double helix model for DNA structure
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Episode 12 of the DNA Papers, is the first of a two-parter, which centers on papers published about the now iconic double helix structure of the DNA molecule. This episode features three publications, all published in the journal Nature, which represent the work of scientists working at King’s College London, whose X-ray crystallographic work provi…
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Vandersommers - Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive
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In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Daniel Vandersommers, author of Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive. In this book, Vandersommers shows how zoo animals always ran away from the zoo. This is meant literally—animals escaped frequently—but even more so, figuratively. Living, breathing, historical zoo…
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Christopher Willoughby — Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
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In this episode of Perspectives we speak with Christopher Willoughby, author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools. Masters of Health examines how the founders of U.S. medical schools promoted an understanding of race influenced by the theory of polygenesis—that each race was created separately and as different sp…
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DNA Papers #11: Hershey, Chase, and DNA as the material of heredity
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In episode 11 of The DNA Papers we revisit a paper describing a famous experiment performed by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase which combined the atomic-age tools of radioisotopes with an ordinary kitchen blender to show that DNA alone, and not protein, was the carrier of hereditary information: Hershey, Alfred D., and Martha Chase. “Independent Fu…
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IsisCB on Pandemics - The Social and Political Dimensions of Pandemic Diseases
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Following in the wake of the Isis CB special issue on pandemics, this episode of the companion podcast takes a deeper look at the social and political contexts of pandemics, and also considers the impact of doing such a history during times of disease crises. Contributors Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Keith Wailoo and Emily Hamilton share their insights…
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DNA Papers #10: Harriet Ephrussi-Taylor and Rollin Hotchkiss
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The tenth episode of the DNA papers podcast brings to light some of the lesser discussed papers in the history of DNA that were instrumental in confirming its role in effecting genetic transformation. Both papers discussed in this episode were first presented at the 1951 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology; the first by a geneticis…
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Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology
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In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Christopher Heaney, author of Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology. Bringing together the history of science, race, and museums' possession of Indigenous remains, from the sixteenth century to the twentieth, Empires of the Dead illuminates how South Amer…
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DNA Papers #2: Albrecht Kossel by Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicineبقلم Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Radical Visions - It Takes More Power to Build Than to Burn
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It takes more power to build than to burn and Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok want to build. In the season finale of The Popaganda Podcast, you are invited to jump into a time machine and look into their radical visions for a future where transformative justice practices and abolition frameworks are realized. Listen in as they reflect on how…
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Who Does the Work of Science? A Century of Science as Passion, Punishment, and Paycheck
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Laura Stark is a historical sociologist and Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. Her second book project, The Normals: A People’s History, explores how a global market for healthy civilian “human subjects” emerged in law, science, and everyday imagination over the past century. The Normals shows how logics of racialized citizenship were bu…
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In episode 5 of The Popaganda Podcast, Tashmica Torok guides Shannon Perez-Darby through where her love of True Crime began and how it has changed over time. The people who are the most interested in the True Crime genre are also those who experience the highest rates of sexual and domestic violence. How can this be? Listen in as we explore what ma…
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History of Science Society at 100: Publications
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The current and incoming editors of the journal Isis reflect on their expectations, experiences, and hopes for the journal and for the field of the history of science.Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, AmherstElise Burton, University TorontoProjit Mukharji, Ashoka UniversityMatt Lavine, Mississippi State University Alexandra Hui, Missis…
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Lingo Plinko is a minisode of the Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. During these short and sweet segments, we'll be breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justice terms that we use throughout the podcast episodes. So far, you’ve heard us drop the acronym TERF at least twice. But do you know what a T…
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One thing about Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok is they're gonna get to the bottom of a TikTok beef. In episode four of Popaganda, join them as they scroll through a collection of bookmarked beefs and discuss cancellations that have pushed popular influencers into digital exiles. Whether we're creating parasocial or for real social relations…
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Episode 9 of the DNA Papers discusses a set of papers by the first scientist who made a sustained effort into uncovering the secret behind specificity of nucleic acids. The principle author, Erwin Chargaff, a European-American biochemist from Columbia University in New York, determined that the relative rations of the four nucleotide bases—A, T, G …
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Lingo Plinko is a minisode of the Popaganda Podcast with Shannon Perez Darby and Tashmica Torok. During these short and sweet segments, we'll be breaking down our working definitions of the transformative justice terms that we use throughout the podcast episodes. Listen in as Tashmica talks about what we mean by the word 'Abolition' and offers real…
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In the third episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby invites Tashmica Torok for a hometown visit to one of her favorite pop culture stomping grounds -- Bachelor Nation! Listen in as we reflect on examples of harm, accountability, and repair lived out by the Bachelor Nation contestants. And because we have a few extra roses to hand out, we'll thro…
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In the second episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok talk about what Copaganda is and how it impacts survivors as they attempt to seek out justice for themselves and their communities. Cops are always singing, whatcha gonna do when they come for you but we want to know, whatcha gonna do when they don’t. As children, McGruff ta…
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In the first episode of Popaganda, Shannon Perez-Darby and Tashmica Torok make some pretty big confessions. Shannon has spent hundreds of hours watching the Kardashians and as if that’s not bad enough, Tashmica spent much of 2022 soothing herself by secretly watching The Cosby Show. They say they’re abolitionists but, do they even go here? Listen i…
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Come for the pop culture, stay for the abolition. Do you love reality television, true crime, memes, TikTok, and all other forms of pop culture? Are you also interested in communal care outside of harmful state systems? Do you struggle to reconcile the two? Join Tashmica Torok and Shannon Perez-Darby on Popaganda, as we dive deep into our love of t…
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History of Science Society at 100: Global Perspectives
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Join us for a discussion of history of science from the perspectives of Latin American, African, and Ottoman history — and global history more broadly. How have these perspectives been represented in the past? What has changed more recently? What are the pressing questions and challenges for the future of the field from a global perspective? Sharin…
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DNA Papers #8: Maclyn McCarty and Oswald Avery
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In Episode 8 of the DNA papers, we discuss the papers that directly followed up the discovery of the 1944 paper from episode 7. These papers, which have received little attention in histories of DNA, describe the purification and experimental use of an enzyme, desoxyribonuclease, or DNase, which specifically destroys DNA. By showing how the transfo…
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History of Science Society at 100: HSS at the Movies
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Moviegoers who might never pick up a book on the history of science may nonetheless find themselves confronted with the stories, themes, and questions to which historians of science devote their careers when they go to the movies. Films and other forms of popular culture both reflect and shape public discourse about the significance of scientific d…
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DNA Papers # 7: Avery, McLeod and McCarty
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The seventh episode of the DNA Papers is the central one in this podcast series, not only because it marks the halfway point of the podcast, but also, more so, because the paper discussed is at the center of the history of all twentieth century biology. Written by a trio of microbiologists at the Rockefeller University in New York City, this paper …
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History of Science Society at 100: Women Historians of Science
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The discovery of a never-released report from 1973 on women in the History of Science Society provides an opportunity to reflect on how much things have changed, what has not changed, and challenges that remain for improving inclusion in the Society. Discussants in this episode are:Tara Nummedal, Brown UniversitySamantha Muka, Stevens Institute of …
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Adam Fulton Johnson — Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation
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In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Adam Johnson, Consortium NEH Fellow. Adam introduces us to his book project, which examines the shifting relationships between white ethnographic fieldworkers and Pueblo and Navajo communities in the American Southwest around the documentation of sensitive information. By contrasting Anglo universalist…
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