History of Science Colloquium

Nov. 2, 2020, 4:00pm, PST Theodore Porter (UCLA), "Democracy Counts: Sacred and Debased numbers" Commentary by Amir Alexander (UCLA) The Trump Administration's systematic rejection of accurate numbers in such domains as public health and the census is of a piece with Trump's denial of the possibility of fair elections. Taken seriously, it comes down to […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule November 16, 2020 | 4:00pm Book Event: Presentation and celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2020) Discussants: Ted Porter (UCLA) and Iris Clever (University of Chicago) A copy of the introduction and epilogue of Heredity under the Microscope will be […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule We will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. Nov 23 Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdeGurzIqGtxldiJYGsO0ROwIFjd72WeD  Taylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History” Co-sponsored by the European History Colloquium Can emancipatory, decolonial histories be extracted from objects collected […]

Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule We will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. Nov 30 Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldumtpz0sEtPww5ISb-MGdBajvEwO8SZP Claire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow), “Slavery’s Medicine: Making Medical Knowledge from the Garrison to the Plantation in the British Caribbean, 1763-1807”