SAHJ Podcast

Julie Parle on the politics of medical mercy killing

In this podcast Erin Hazan discusses Julie Parle's award-winning article, 'The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s to 1976' with the author. The article appeared in Volume 74 Issue 2 (2022) and won the SAHJ Best Article prize for the year.

SAHJ Podcast, Episode 3: Roundtable on ’Teaching Texts’

This is a recording of SAHJ's 'Teaching Texts' Roundtable , hosted on 13 July. Laura Phillips, Rebecca Swartz, Laslo Passemiers, and Abraham Mlombo speak to Thula Simpson's History of South Africa, Sarah Duff's Childhood and Youth in African History, Hermann Giliomee, Bernard Mbenga, Bill Nassons' New History of South Africa, and Alois Mlambo & Neil Parsons' History of Southern Africa

SAHJ Podcast, Episode 2: Susanne Klausen’s ’Abortion Under Apartheid’

In the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Natasha Erlank speaks to Susanne Klausen about Klausen's 2015 book 'Abortion Under Apartheid.' Klausen also responds to reviewers' comments and reflects on the historiography on reproductive health in South Africa.
For more details about Juby Mayet's autobiography, discussed in the podcast's outtake, click here.

SAHJ Podcast, Episode 1: Anti-Fascism Special Issue

Thula Simpson speaks with Jon Hyslop, Kasper Brasken and Neil Roos about their Special Issue on Anti-Fascism, Volume 74, Issue 1.