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SUMMARY:Dr. Lucas Mueller\, History of Medicine\, “Global Toxins: Cancer and Environmental Health after Empire"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-lucas-mueller/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T160000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Elise Mitchell\, History of Medicine\, "Morbid Geographies: Smallpox and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Link: https://forms.office.com/r/vWQgY5yDQs
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-elise-mitchell-morbid-geographies-smallpox-and-slavery-in-the-early-modern-atlantic/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: E. Bennett Jones (The Huntington Library)
DESCRIPTION:The Indians Say: Storytelling\, Settler Colonialism and American Natural History\, 1722 to 1846 \nThis 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 knowers and objects of study. But diplomatic alliances\, specific cultural protocols\, and regional dynamics all encouraged (or prevented) information sharing between settler naturalists and Indigenous people and these contexts in turn shaped how Anglophone naturalists presented and cited Indigenous expertise in published natural history. The talk explores the relationship between evidence\, identity\, and colonialism and examines how ideas about extraction and information underpinned the epistemology of early modern natural history. It also gestures towards present-day manifestations of these issues within scientific approaches to TEK (traditional ecological knowledge). \n  \nRSVP for Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodO6vqzMuHdyICRUzt3ost8nF5jHEO8TX \nRSVP for in-person: https://forms.gle/4YpigVHmijybhVYv9
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-indians-say-storytelling-settler-colonialism-and-american-natural-history-1722-to-1846/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221031T160000
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CREATED:20221024T204711Z
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SUMMARY:Euclid and Descartes on the Potomac: The Geometrical Battle for the National Capital”  Presenter: Amir Alexander (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:In person RSVP\nZoom RSVP 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/euclid-and-descartes-on-the-potomac-the-geometrical-battle-for-the-national-capital-presenter-amir-alexander-ucla/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210524T160000
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CREATED:20211021T033641Z
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SUMMARY:Erika Milam\, “Afterlives in Nature: Long-term Ecological Research in the Age of COVID.”
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 Colloquium \nMay 24 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nErika Milam (Princeton) \n“Afterlives in Nature: Long-term Ecological Research in the Age of COVID” \nRegistration Link
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/erika-milam-afterlives-in-nature-long-term-ecological-research-in-the-age-of-covid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210517T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260418T041006
CREATED:20211021T033626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T215639Z
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SUMMARY:Bharat Venkat\, “At the Limits of Cure.”
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 Colloquium \nMay 17 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Bharat Venkat (UCLA) \n“At the Limits of Cure” \nWhat 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 the history and present of tuberculosis treatment in India. Drawing on ethnographic and historical materials\, as well as film\, fiction\, and folklore\, I examine cure in its various iterations—from sanatoriums and gold therapy to travel and antibiotics—as well as how such cures come up against their limits. Through an anthropological history\, this book explores a range of curative imaginations that have taken form around tuberculosis: in debates contrasting idyllic sanatoriums and crowded prisons\, through which freedom in its many forms became envisioned as a kind of therapy; in the itineraries of ships filled with coolies and soldiers seeking work and treatment across the British empire; in the networks of scientists who tested antibiotics in India as a means of asking whether poverty really mattered to therapeutic success; in clinics where patients were told that they were cured only to undergo treatment again and again; and in the reworking of midcentury anxieties about population growth in relation to contemporary drug resistance in India’s urban centers. A central contention of this book–and my talk–is that our imagination of cure shapes our understanding of time: not only the temporality underlying histories of science and medicine\, but also\, the temporality of therapy itself. \n  \nRegistration Link
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/bharat-venkat-at-the-limits-of-cure/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T170000
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CREATED:20211021T033626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T215958Z
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SUMMARY:Jacy Young\, “Psychology\, Questionnaires\, and the Morass of ‘Big’ Data.”
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 Colloquium \nMay 10 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Jacy Young (Quest University) \n“Psychology\, Questionnaires\, and the Morass of ‘Big’ Data” \nZoom RSVP Link
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/jacy-young-psychology-questionnaires-and-the-morass-of-big-data/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260418T041006
CREATED:20211021T033626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T221556Z
UID:1393-1618848000-1618851600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Gideon Manning\, “False Images Do Not Lie: Medicine\, Editors’ Decisions\, and the Case of René Descartes’s Treatise on Man.”
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 Colloquium \nApril 19 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nGideon Manning (Cedars-Sinai) \n“False Images Do Not Lie: Medicine\, Editors’ Decisions\, and the Case of René Descartes’s Treatise on Man” \nHow 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 remains elusive. In this talk\, which builds from the medical tradition outward\, I will suggest that the technical language of historia-actio-usus (history-action-use)\, which originates in Aristotle and Galen and is then standardized among anatomists in the sixteenth and seventeenth century\, provides us what has been missing. I will specifically consider the case of René Descartes’s posthumously published Treatise on Man\, which appeared in Latin translation in 1662 and then in French in 1664. The original manuscript of the Treatise contained perhaps one or two images\, but the text called for many more. Accordingly\, the editors had to make numerous decisions. I will demonstrate how the language of historia-actio-usus\, which Descartes also used\, allows us to better understand the editors’ decisions and the many differences between the illustrations in the 1662 and 1664 editions of same text. \n Zoom RSVP Link
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/gideon-manning-false-images-do-not-lie-medicine-editors-decisions-and-the-case-of-rene-descartess-treatise-on-man/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210405T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T041006
CREATED:20211021T033626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T224550Z
UID:1392-1617638400-1617642000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Megan Rosenbloom\, “Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine and the Book.”
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 Colloquium \nApril 5 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Megan Rosenbloom (UCLA) \n“Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine and the Book” \nPlease click here to access an abstract from Megan Rosenbloom’s new book\, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. \nZoom Register Link
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/megan-rosenbloom-anatomized-bodies-at-work-the-human-skin-book-and-its-implications-for-the-histories-of-medicine-and-the-book/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T160000
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CREATED:20211020T225324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T231931Z
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SUMMARY:Preston McBride\, "Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools\, 1879-1934."
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nMarch 8 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Preston McBride (Dartmouth) \n“Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools\, 1879-1934.” \n\nZoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcOmuqD8tE9MFnnblgFrfwqJstbN7N8_v
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/preston-mcbride-lethal-education-native-american-boarding-schools-1879-1934/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T041006
CREATED:20211020T225324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T234114Z
UID:782-1614009600-1614013200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Roundtable\, Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science\, Technology\, and Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nFeb 22 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nRoundtable Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science\, Technology\, and Medicine \nwith interventions by: \nTerence Keel (UCLA)\, “The Demographic Future of the History of Science.” \nAbstract: This talk draws from my involvement in a roundtable\ndiscussion at the 2020 History of Science Society meeting this fall\nwhere up for debate was whether or not /Isis/ and the history of science\nmore generally is up for the task of addressing the legacy of racism\nwithin science and the current barriers that limit the demographic make\nup of our discipline. \nand\nCathy Gere (UCSD)\, “The Climate Crisis and Professional Equity in History of Science.” \nZoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkce-rqjsrGNLcii1yjLJfbh4xKJSSTSfx
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/roundtable-past-and-futures-current-challenges-in-the-history-of-science-technology-and-medicine/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T160000
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CREATED:20211020T225324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T235104Z
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SUMMARY:Hippolyte Goux\, "Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man."
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nFeb 8 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Hippolyte Goux (UCLA) \n“Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man.” \n\nZoom registration link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-urqTwuE91JLUd7x9rXNoEATlDLZV74
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/hippolyte-goux-representation-and-abstraction-economic-models-and-the-end-of-man/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210125T160000
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CREATED:20211021T033541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T235618Z
UID:1378-1611590400-1611594000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Philip Lehmann\, “Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.”
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nJan 25 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Philip Lehmann (UCR) \n“Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.” \n\nZoom registration link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqcOuuqjMqHNzVyDsxIPiFLgGCVb0u9BS_
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/philip-lehmann-polish-steppes-and-german-gardens-climate-amelioration-in-the-generalplan-ost/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210111T160000
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CREATED:20211021T033541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T002131Z
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SUMMARY:Grace Kim\, “Preserving Art\, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.”
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nJan 11 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Grace Kim (Vanderbilt) \n“Preserving Art\, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.” \n\nZoom registration link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/97402888165?pwd=SWpWdGNoR2h0dDJqbjZvZG00clI4dz09
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/grace-kim-preserving-art-producing-science-the-microbiological-lives-of-cultural-heritage/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T160000
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DTSTAMP:20260418T041006
CREATED:20211020T225308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T184949Z
UID:774-1606752000-1606755600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Claire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow)
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule \nWe will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. \nNov 30 \nRegistration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldumtpz0sEtPww5ISb-MGdBajvEwO8SZP \nClaire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow)\, “Slavery’s Medicine: Making Medical Knowledge from the Garrison to the Plantation in the British Caribbean\, 1763-1807”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-claire-gherini-cedars-sinai-postdoctoral-fellow/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T041006
CREATED:20211021T033526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T201050Z
UID:1372-1606147200-1606150800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Taylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History”
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule \nWe will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. \nNov 23 \nRegistration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdeGurzIqGtxldiJYGsO0ROwIFjd72WeD  \nTaylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History” \nCo-sponsored by the European History Colloquium \nCan emancipatory\, decolonial histories be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism?  This talk explores this question through the case study of the rhinoceros horn amulet (/qarn el-khartit/)\, an ethnographic object collected by British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how the rhinoceros horn was collected and displayed as an object in European museums\,  I follow the trail of the rhinoceros horn back to the site of its collection in Egypt to reveal a strikingly different story: one of magic/medicine\, gender\, race\, and enslavement—setagainst the backdrop of Egypt’s imperial pursuits in East Africa. As such\, I demonstrate how to “read” the rhinoceros horn as an object-archive that illuminates the networks\, actors\, and economies whose bodies and labor are generally rendered invisible in Eurocentric histories of global science and medicine. \nTaylor M. Moore is a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies\,decolonial/postcolonial histories of science\, and decolonial materiality studies. Her book manuscript\, /Superstitious Women: Race\, Magic\, and Medicine in Egypt/\, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers\, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1880-1950.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-taylor-moore-ucsb-tracing-the-magical-rhinoceros-horn-in-egypt-a-decolonial-materialist-history/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T041007
CREATED:20211020T225254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T201819Z
UID:772-1605542400-1605546000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule \nNovember 16\, 2020 | 4:00pm \nBook 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)\nDiscussants: Ted Porter (UCLA) and Iris Clever (University of Chicago) \nA copy of the introduction and epilogue of Heredity under the Microscope will be circulated to those registered on the day before the event. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Society and Genetics. \nTo register for this event to receive the Zoom link for the discussion\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-celebration-of-soraya-de-chadarevian/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201102T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T041007
CREATED:20211021T033526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T202758Z
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Theodore Porter (UCLA) "Democracy Counts: On Sacred and Debased Numbers”
DESCRIPTION:Nov. 2\, 2020\, 4:00pm\, PST \nTheodore Porter (UCLA)\, “Democracy Counts: Sacred and Debased numbers” \nCommentary by Amir Alexander (UCLA) \n\nThe 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 a rejection of democratic government. This colloquium is oriented around Porter’s blog\, “Democracy Counts\,” which has been made available with this announcement\, and which you are encouraged to read. Amir Alexander will provide a commentary\, to be followed by a wide-ranging discussion on numbers and politics. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy \nPlease register here to receive the zoom link. \nhttps://press.princeton.edu/ideas/democracy-counts-on-sacred-and-debased-numbers \n\nProtesters shout outside the Miami-Dade County election office Nov. 22\, 2000. (Colin Braley/Reuters)
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-theodore-porter-ucla-democracy-counts-on-sacred-and-debased-numbers/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Deborah Coen\, “Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge”
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Coen\, Yale University \n“Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge” \nOne 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 of industry-funded disinformation campaigns\, the disconnect between scientific research and the information needs of policy-makers\, the reluctance of scientists to engage in advocacy\, and the inexperience of US geoscientists with public engagement due to the secrecy imposed on their research during the Cold War. This presentation will lay out an alternative (yet complementary) framework for answering this question\, drawing on research in progress. I will argue\, first\, that the image of climate scientists as disengaged from the public derives from a focus on theorists and global modelers at the expense of those working at the regional scale (many of whom identified as geographers or ecologists rather than physicists or chemists). Indeed\, from the early days of research on the “Carbon Dioxide Problem” in the 1970s\, there was no lack of effort to make the science of anthropogenic climate change actionable and accessible—or\, in the parlance of the day\, “usable.” Indeed\, “usable knowledge” was a buzzword of the 1970s and ‘80s that significantly shaped climate research at multiple major international institutions. These projects evolved quite independently of each other (and were\, in some cases\, even marked by mutual hostility)\, yet all took usability as their goal. However\, what usability meant to this population of researchers was far from uniform. My aim\, then\, is to study how ideals of usable knowledge formed\, circulated\, and confronted each other in the community of climate researchers from the 1970s to today\, at times in dialogue with practitioners of Science & Technology Studies. My hypothesis is that the past four decades have seen an overall trend towards an increasingly narrow definition of usability\, reflecting the growing dominance of a top-down model of risk management. Yet the climate field has also generated creative resistance to this trend\, which requires a historical perspective to appreciate properly. \n\nMarch 16\, 2020\, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/deborah-coen-climate-change-and-the-enigma-of-usable-knowledge/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Otniel Dror\, “Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure”
DESCRIPTION:Otniel Dror\, Hebrew University and UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics \n“Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure” \nThis 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 whose repercussions and off-shoots are very much still with us today\, including the development of a neurophysiology of decision making\, risk taking\, addiction\, affective neuroscience\, and more. I argue that the excessiveness of the newly-discovered supramaximal super-pleasure challenged existing models of organisms\, of the self\, and of nature and society. It challenged basic conceptions of the self and of organisms by presenting a pleasure that disrupted the fundamental and necessary balance between pleasure and pain. I reconstruct the laboratory enactments and models that constituted this new pleasure as “supramaximal\,” instant\, and insatiable\, suggest several postwar contexts that situate the new pleasure\, and examine expert and vernacular reactions to the new super-pleasure. \nMarch 9\, 2020\, 4:00PM | Bunche 6275
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/otniel-dror-supra-maximal-super-pleasure/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T160000
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SUMMARY:Aro Velmet\, “Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France\, Its Colonies\, and the World”
DESCRIPTION:Aro Velmet\, University of Southern California \n“Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France\, Its Colonies\, and the World” \nMarch 2\, 2020\, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/aro-velmet-pasteurs-empire-bacteriology-and-politics-in-france-its-colonies-and-the-world/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200203T160000
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SUMMARY:Lukas Rieppel\, “Assembling the Dinosaur”
DESCRIPTION:Lukas Rieppel\, Brown University \n“Assembling the Dinosaur” \nDinosaur 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 spectacular creatures like Tyrannosaurus\, Brontosaurus\, and Triceratops became powerful emblems of American capitalism. Tracing the links among dinosaurs\, capitalism\, and culture during this era\, Lukas Rieppel reveals how these giant reptiles became intertwined with commercial culture\, philanthropic interests\, and the popular imagination during America’s long Gilded Age. \n\nFebruary 3\, 2020\, 4:00pm | 5288 Bunche Hall
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/lukas-rieppel-assembling-the-dinosaur/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191125T160000
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SUMMARY:Vivien Hamilton “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics\, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
DESCRIPTION:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology \nFall 2019 Colloquium \nAll talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. \nNovember 25: Vivien Hamilton\, UCLA \n“Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics\, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy” \nAbstract \nVery soon after the discovery of x-rays in 1895\, enthusiastic doctors began to use the new radiation to treat cancer and various skin diseases. This early period of x-ray therapy has often been portrayed as chaotic and exploratory\, largely because there were so many different methods for measuring a dose of x-rays. In the usual story\, the chaos was contained and progress was made possible when the international radiological community settled on a standard unit of measurement\, the röntgen\, in 1928. This unit was strongly preferred by the physicists working in the x-ray community\, who dismissed the methods preferred by their medical colleagues as rough and inadequate.  Rather than accepting this judgment\, this talk will ask us to look more closely at the ways in which x-rays were being measured in clinical spaces prior to 1928\, arguing that physicists and doctors evaluated the same measuring practices so differently because each group desired something quite different from the act of measurement. For physicists\, the key virtues of quantitative measurement were precision and standardization\, while doctors desired accuracy and repeatability within their own practice. The physicists’ vision ultimately won\, demonstrating that close collaboration between experts from different disciplines does not always result in compromise or mutual transformation. In this case\, the physicists’ values played an increasingly large role in shaping the emerging culture of radiology
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/vivien-hamilton-competing-virtues-of-measurement-physics-medicine-and-quantification-in-early-x-ray-therapy-2/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Scottie Buehler\, “Religion and Ecclesiastical Practices of Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-century France”
DESCRIPTION:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology \nFall 2019 Colloquium \nAll talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. \nNovember 18:  Scottie Buehler\, UCLA \n“Religion and Ecclesiastical Practices of Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-century France” \nFor more information about the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology graduate field\, click here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/scottie-buehler-religion-and-ecclesiastical-practices-of-midwifery-education-in-eighteenth-century-france/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:2019 UC SoCal History of Science Graduate Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Graduate students from the southern UC campuses in the history of science and allied fields will present papers over the course of the day. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. If you would like lunch\, kindly RSVP to ucsocalhistsci@gmail.com.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/2019-uc-socal-history-of-science-graduate-seminar/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:John Krige\, “Some Challenges of Writing Transnational History of Science and Technology”
DESCRIPTION:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology \nFall 2019 Colloquium \nAll talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. \nJohn Krige\, Georgia Institute of Technology and Caltech \n“Some Challenges of Writing Transnational History of Science and Technology” \nFor more information about the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology graduate field\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/john-krige-some-challenges-of-writing-transnational-history-of-science-and-technology/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Vivien Hamilton\, “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics\, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
DESCRIPTION:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology \nFall 2019 Colloquium \nAll talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. \nOctober 28: Vivien Hamilton\, Harvey Mudd College \n“Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics\, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy” \nFor more information about the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology graduate field\, click here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/vivien-hamilton-competing-virtues-of-measurement-physics-medicine-and-quantification-in-early-x-ray-therapy/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Sari Siegel\, “The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”
DESCRIPTION:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology \nFall 2019 Colloquium \nAll talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. \nOctober 21: Sari Siegel\, Cedars Sinai Program in History of Medicine and UCLA \n“The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/sari-siegel-the-recruitment-and-activities-of-jewish-prisoner-physicians-during-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Theodore Porter\, Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity  (Princeton Univ. Press\, 2018)
DESCRIPTION:Discussants:  Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA) and Chris Kelty (UCLA\, ISG) \nSoraya de Chadarevian is a Professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics. \nChris Kelty is an associate professor at UCLA.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/book-event-presentation-and-celebration-of-theodore-porter-genetics-in-the-madhouse-the-unknown-history-of-human-heredity-princeton-univ-press-2018/
LOCATION:6265 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Seth LeJacq - “Venereal Disease and Sexual Forensics in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
DESCRIPTION:Seth LeJacq is a historian of medicine\, gender\, and sexuality at the Huntington Library and Duke University.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/seth-lejacq-venereal-disease-and-sexual-forensics-in-eighteenth-century-britain/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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