Spring 2021 Colloquium May 17 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Bharat Venkat (UCLA) “At the Limits of Cure” What does it mean to be cured, and what does it mean for a cure to come undone? This talk draws from my forthcoming book At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, fall 2021), which focuses on […]
Spring 2021 Colloquium May 24 | 4PM - 5PM PST Erika Milam (Princeton) “Afterlives in Nature: Long-term Ecological Research in the Age of COVID” Registration Link
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The 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 […]
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In 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 […]
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