History Watch: The Podcast Series History Watch Project

In this episode Dr. Audra Diptée is in conversation with Professor Ana Lucia Araujo of Howard University. They discuss the politics of race and the practice of racism in modern-day Brazil. Professor Araujo's research focuses on the history, memory, and legacy of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in global perspectives. To learn more about her work see her website: http://www.analuciaaraujo.org

In this podcast, Professor Gaiutra Bahadur of Rutgers University is in conversation with Audra A. Diptée. Professor Bahadur discusses the story of and challenges in writing her book "Coolie Woman" which was shortlisted for Britain's Orwell Prize. The podcast discusses the history of her great-grandmother who left India alone and pregnant in the early 20th century to go to British Guiana (modern day Guyana). Together Bahadur & Diptee discuss the ways in which the very remarkable story of her grandmother was in fact a very ordinary history of Indian women travelling to the Caribbean under the indentured labour system. They also discuss the challenges of recovering lost voices and the ways in which the politics and power of historical memory operates in the present day.

In this espisode, Dr. Audra Diptee is in conversation with Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega about the challenges of developing public policy when addressing water insecurity and water privitization. They also discuss the importance of using a historical lens and historical methods when undertaking policy analysis.

Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega is a faculty member with the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico). Their discussion was recorded in Paris (April 2019) while they were both holding the post of Invited Professor with the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Podcast notes:

Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega: http://www.raulpacheco.org/

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico)
https://www.cide.edu/

Private Water Companies Mentioned

* Suez Environnement
* Veolia Water

People Mentioned in Podcast:

Dr. Michael Bess, División de Historia at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico
https://cide.academia.edu/MikeBess

Dr. Juliette Levy, University of California (Riverside)
https://history.ucr.edu/people/juliette-levy

Book Mentioned:

Heiko Feldner, Kevin Passmore, Stefan Berger, Writing History: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2010)

In this episode, you will hear Bridget Brereton who is Professor Emerita of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad as she is being interviewed by Professor David Trotman of York University. The two discuss a number of themes including the politics of history, reparations for slavery, Caribbean regionalism, and the link between public history and collective memory.

Podcast notes:
Historical References

* Woodford Square named after Sir Ralph James Woodford (Governor of Trinidad, 1813-1828), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_James_Woodford
* Sir Thomas Picton, Governor of Trinidad, 1797-1803, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Picton
* Destruction of Grey Friars Church in Trinidad, https://www.joshualuecheekong.com/greyfriars-grief

Organizations Mentioned

Alma Jordan Library
https://libraries.sta.uwi.edu/ajl/

Caricom Reparations Commission
http://ncr.org.tt/about-us/caricom-regional-commission

Citizens for Conservation (Rudylynn Roberts)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/City/Citizens-for-Conservation-Trinidad-and-Tobago-462499293822720/

Cross Rhodes Project (Shabaka Kambon)
crossrhodestt.com/

Heritage Library
https://www.nalis.gov.tt/Libraries/Heritage-Library

National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago
http://nationaltrust.tt/

Paria Publishing - Gerard ‘Jerry’ Besson.
— Caribbean History Archives
http://caribbeanhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/

Trinidad and Tobago Heritage Library
https://www.nalis.gov.tt/Libraries/Heritage-Library

Trinidad & Tobago National Committee on Reparations (Chairman, Mr. Aiyegoro Ome)
http://ncr.org.tt/about-us

Trinidad and Tobago National Archives
https://www.natt.gov.tt/

Trinidad and Tobago National Library
https://www.nalis.gov.tt/About-Us/National-Library-of-Trinidad-and-Tobago


Academics Mentioned

Sir Roy Augier
https://www.mona.uwi.edu/history/staff/our-staff-0

Sir Hilary Beckles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Beckles

Dr. Susan Craig-James
The Changing Society of Tobago, 1838-1938 (Cornerstone, 2008)

Dr. Elsa Goveia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Goveia

Sir Arthur Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Arthur_Lewis

Dr. Rita Pemberton: https://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/history/RitaPemberton.asp

Dr. Verene Shepherd
Radio program mentioned: “Talking History”, Jamaica’s first weekly radio history education programme
https://nationwideradiojm.com/personalities/talking-history/

Dr. David V. Trotman,
http://www.davidvtrotman.com/
Article mentioned: ‘Acts of Possession and Symbolic Decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago,’ Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2012), 21-43.

Dr. Maureen Warner-Lewis:
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2094635407_Maureen_Warner-Lewis

In this episode of the History Watch Podcast series, Audra Diptee is conversation with Dr. Vanessa Watson about the legacies of colonial urban planning on present day Africa. For more on Dr. Watson, please see the following link: https://uct.academia.edu/VanessaWatson

In this podcast, Sir Woodville Marshall of the University of the West Indies discusses the role of the Association of the Caribbean Historians as well as power and historical narratives in Caribbean contexts.

About Sir Woodville Marshall: He is one of the founding members of the Association of Caribbean Historians and a scholar of Caribbean history.

His publications include the following books:

From Plantations to University Campus: The Social History of Cave Hill, 2013.

I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford (2003)

The Colthurst Journal: Journal of a Special Magistrate in the Islands of Barbados and St. Vincent, July 1835-September 1838 (1977)