Euclid and Descartes on the Potomac: The Geometrical Battle for the National Capital” Presenter: Amir Alexander (UCLA)
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History of Science Colloquium
History of Science Colloquium: E. Bennett Jones (The Huntington Library)
Bunche 5288 & ZoomThe Indians Say: Storytelling, Settler Colonialism and American Natural History, 1722 to 1846 This talk discusses the use of information attributed to Indigenous sources within eighteenth and nineteenth century Anglophone natural history. Early modern naturalists studying North American flora and fauna frequently sought out the expertise of Indigenous people, who they simultaneously regarded as authoritative […]
Dr. Elise Mitchell, History of Medicine, “Morbid Geographies: Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic”
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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”
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Isabela Dornelas, “From Pelvic to Abdominal: The Development of Cesarean Section in Brazil, Mid-XIX Century.”
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Danielle Carr, “SPACE/EARTH/BRAIN: The International Brain Research Organization and the Disciplinary Formation of Neuroscience.”
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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.
