Sarah Hammerschlag: I read two of your essays, “An (Un)Natural History: Tracing the Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt” and “Occult Epidemics,” as works of restoration—attempts to “coax from objects made visible” to us by means of colonial violence the voices of Black Africans brought into Egypt through the slave trade. The stories told in these records […]

Robyn d’Avignon: Levi, the prompt for our conversation suggests that dialogue between science and technology studies and religious studies has been minimal because of scholarly adherence to a narrative of secularity that justifies their distinction. This rings true, at least for a great deal of STS work on the North Atlantic, which has roots in […]

George Aumoithe: I’m happy we get to speak, Ahmad, following our February 2024 Black Religion and Mental Health symposium at Harvard. We assembled scholars and practitioners to talk about the Black experience of mental health institutions. We’ve since been invited to discuss our work at The Immanent Frame with an evocative prompt about religious studies […]