History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. November 18: Scottie Buehler, UCLA “Religion and Ecclesiastical Practices of Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-century France” For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here.
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. November 25: Vivien Hamilton, UCLA “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy” Abstract Very soon after the discovery of x-rays in 1895, enthusiastic doctors began to use the new radiation […]
Lukas Rieppel, Brown University “Assembling the Dinosaur” Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of late-nineteenth-century discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. Around the same time, the United States also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and […]
Aro Velmet, University of Southern California “Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World” March 2, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288
Otniel Dror, Hebrew University and UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics “Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure” This talk presents the discovery of a new post-World War II “supramaximal” “super-pleasure” region in the brain (of laboratory rats). This discovery of an instantaneously-produced insatiable self-perpetuating super-pleasure captured the imagination of contemporaries and of generations to come. It inaugurated a major transformation […]
Deborah Coen, Yale University “Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge” One of the most pressing challenges for historians of science today is to explain the failure of scientific knowledge of anthropogenic climate change to motivate timely action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To date explanations have focused on such factors as the role […]
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”
Winter 2021 Colloquium Jan 11 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Grace Kim (Vanderbilt) “Preserving Art, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.” Zoom registration link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97402888165?pwd=SWpWdGNoR2h0dDJqbjZvZG00clI4dz09
Winter 2021 Colloquium Jan 25 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Philip Lehmann (UCR) “Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.” Zoom registration link: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqcOuuqjMqHNzVyDsxIPiFLgGCVb0u9BS_
