451. Sister Talk: Vanessa Ochs (26:22)

Date:
1995/2000
Main contributors:
WTJU (Radio station : Charlottesville, Va.)
Summary:
Vanessa Ochs, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, discusses women and Judaism through an anthropological lens.

452. Sister Talk: Virginia Himes (29:13)

Date:
1998-06
Main contributors:
WTJU (Radio station : Charlottesville, Va.)
Summary:
Virginia Himes, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses her course on Native American women using their published life histories.

453. Sister Talk: Wen Ching (31:07)

Date:
1995/2000
Main contributors:
WTJU (Radio station : Charlottesville, Va.)
Summary:
Wen Ching, Japanese scholar, discusses her work on comparative literature in Japanese women's writing and their women's movement from 1890 to 1920.

454. Sister Talk: Xiaolin Li (26:15)

Date:
1998-09
Main contributors:
WTJU (Radio station : Charlottesville, Va.)
Summary:
Xiaolin Li was born in mainland China and obtained her PhD from the University of Maryland focusing on women in the military; in this episode she discusses Mulan and the history of women warriors in China.

457. Slavery, empire, and the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum (58:55)

Date:
2018-02-28
Main contributors:
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary:
In 1759, London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time, the first free national public museum in the world. In this Phi Beta Kappa Lecture at Medical Center Hour, historian James Delbourgo explores the role of slavery and imperialism in making this now venerable institution possible by exploring the career of its founder, Anglo-Irish physician Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane worked in Jamaica as a plantation doctor, used money from sugar plantations in the caribbean and from the Atlantic slave trade to support his collecting, and created his own personal imperial network to assemble one of the greatest cabinets of curiosities in the world—and one of the key institutional legacies of the Enlightenment. Co-presented with Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Virginia), President's Commission on Slavery and the University, Department of History, and History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library