History of Science Colloquium

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Everyone is welcome to the first installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s own Jamie Kreiner will be presenting “How to Build a History of Science Course from the Ground Up.” Creating a course from scratch takes a lot of work — but it doesn't have to be a mystery or […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s own Margaret Spaulding and Claire Votava will be presenting. Meg’s talk is titled “Wasteland to Date Garden”: Eugenics and Agriculture in the California Desert. Previous historians have shown how the conservation movement inspired eugenicists, who anthropomorphized trees […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Cristiano Zanetti will be joining us- he is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Caltech and a long-term Research Fellow at the Huntington Library. Cristiano will be presenting “Engineering the Engineer at the Medici Court in the Age of […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. California State University, Long Beach’s Professor of History Dr. Caitlin Murdock will be presenting Boring into the "Mountain Sickness" Miners' Cancers, Occupational Health, and the Discovery of Radiation Risk in Central Europe. In the early twentieth century, physicians, public health […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Dr. Tamara Venit-Shelton, Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College, will be joining us. She is a will be presenting “The Road Not Taken: Big Sur and the Unimaginability of Retreat.” California Highway 1 at Big Sur is […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Dr. Wendy Kline Purdue University's Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine and Director of the Medical Humanities Program, will be joining us. She is a will be presenting “Mapping the Criminal Brain: Murder, Morphology, and […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Dr. Claire Bubb, Visiting Associate Professor of Classics at USC, will be joining us. She is a will be presenting “Vulnerable Bodies: Roman Medical Research and the Enslaved.” Roman doctors periodically required bodies, both living and dead, for […]

Everyone is welcome to the first installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Professor Sharrona Pearl of Texas Christian University will be presenting “From Face Blindness to Superrecognition: The Discovery of a Spectrum.” Super recognition was clinically identified in 2009. That’s yesterday in scientific terms. In this talk, Sharrona Pearl discusses […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Isidro Gonzalez Granados, will be presenting “Eugenic Spectrums: Social Science, Genetic Data, and Disabling in the U.S. West, 1900-1940.” González Granados's fundamental historical question is: how were disabled people made? His book project, Eugenic […]

Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Moorpark College Professor, Joshua McGuffie, will be presenting “Mountains of Capital: Private Power Production in the Sierra Nevada.”   Over the course of 1905, the Nevada Power, Mining and Milling Company constructed a hydroelectric power system on Bishop […]