Episode 5 - Thinking Historically: Public Health and the Military

LitSciPod: The Literature and Science Podcast

Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric) Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones. Laura and Catherine are joined by a special guest: Dr Robert C. Engen (@RobertEngen), Assistant Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College. Robert discusses his interdisciplinary research on parallels between the military responses to the 1918 pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic, public health and global conflict, a project commemorating the Battle of Hill 70, as well as more recent work on the human dimension of AI in warfare. At the end of the episode, you can hear Robert read an extract from The Glass Bead by Herman Hesse. Episode resources (in order of appearance): Introduction: -Katie Russell, ‘“Arts subjects have as much value as STEM”: the new education campaign tackling the myth of 'soft' degrees’, The Telegraph (25 June 2020) -Vanessa Thorpe, ‘University and Arts Council in drive to re-brand “soft” academic subjects’, The Guardian (21 June 2020) Interview: -Pamela K. Gilbert, Cholera and Nation (2008) -Claire Hooker, Chris Degeling and Paul Mason, ‘Dying a Natural Death: Ethics -Robert C. Engen, “CAF health protection during pandemic disease events: 1918 and 2020”, Journal of Veteran, Military, and Family Health (preprint, May 2020) -Commonwealth War Graves Commission -Robert C. Engen, Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War (2009) -Robert C. Engen, Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army (2016) -Robert C. Engen, Douglas Delaney, Meghan Fitzpatric (eds.) Military Education and the British Empire, 1815-1949 (2018) -Museum of Healthcare at Kingston - Margaret Angus Fellowship -Hill 70 project -Robert C. Engen, Inhuman Dimensions of Warfare (blog)