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History of Science Colloquium
Patrícia Martins Marcos, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge “The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population, Race-Making, and the Sciences of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1730-1800)”
6275 Bunche HallIn 1750, when the Brazilian border expanded by several orders of magnitude, Portuguese Crown officials, administrators, and men of science received the news with hope and apprehension. While the growth of frontiers of Portugal’s possession in the Americas was celebrated, it also presented formidable challenges for settlement. How could a diminutive metropole whose empire stretched […]
Michael McGovern, “Quantifying Injustice: Law, Science, and History”
5288 Bunche HallZoom link here
Isabela Dornelas, “From Pelvic to Abdominal: The Development of Cesarean Section in Brazil, Mid-XIX Century.”
5288 Bunche HallZoom link here
Danielle Carr, “SPACE/EARTH/BRAIN: The International Brain Research Organization and the Disciplinary Formation of Neuroscience.”
Bunche 5288 & ZoomThis event will be held in person and via Zoom.
Celebration of the publication of Surgery and Salvation (UNC Press Nov 2023) by Elizabeth O’Brien
Bunche 6275 & ZoomCelebration of the publication of Surgery and Salvation (UNC Press Nov 2023) by Elizabeth O’Brien (UCLA History Department). Co-Sponsored by the History of Gender and Sexuality Working Group. Details to follow. This event will be held in-person and via Zoom.
Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Bunche 5288 & Zoom“Silk and Leather: Paths to Biomaterials Science in 20th Century Japan” Link to Zoom Registration
Kara Schlichting (Queens College, CUNY)
Bunche 5288 & Zoom“Summer Dangers: Climatological Understandings of Ill-Health in 19th Century New York” Link to Zoom Registration
Book celebration for Kirsten Moore-Sheeley (Cedars-Sinai and Claremont Graduate University)
Bunche 5288 & ZoomFeaturing a panel discussion of Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (Johns Hopkins, December 2023) with panelists Chien-Ling Liu (UCLA) and Aro Velmet (USC) Link to Zoom Registration
Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham, UK)
Bunche 5288 & Zoom“Deadly purity: Antarctica as a 'natural laboratory' for infectious diseases c.1880-1980” Link to Zoom Registration
