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_
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
