Winter 2021 Colloquium Feb 8 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Hippolyte Goux (UCLA) "Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man." Zoom registration link: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-urqTwuE91JLUd7x9rXNoEATlDLZV74
Winter 2021 Colloquium Feb 22 | 4PM - 5PM PST Roundtable Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine with interventions by: Terence Keel (UCLA), “The Demographic Future of the History of Science.” Abstract: This talk draws from my involvement in a roundtable discussion at the 2020 History of Science Society […]
Winter 2021 Colloquium March 8 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Preston McBride (Dartmouth) "Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools, 1879-1934." Zoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcOmuqD8tE9MFnnblgFrfwqJstbN7N8_v
Spring 2021 Colloquium April 5 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Megan Rosenbloom (UCLA) “Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine and the Book” Please click here to access an abstract from Megan Rosenbloom’s new book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of […]
Spring 2021 Colloquium April 19 | 4PM - 5PM PST Gideon Manning (Cedars-Sinai) “False Images Do Not Lie: Medicine, Editors’ Decisions, and the Case of René Descartes’s Treatise on Man” How to discuss the role of illustrations in the early modern period in a way that is responsive to the concepts and vocabulary of the time […]
Spring 2021 Colloquium May 10 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Jacy Young (Quest University) “Psychology, Questionnaires, and the Morass of ‘Big’ Data” Zoom RSVP Link
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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