12 events found.
Degenhart Brown, “‘Spiritscapes’ as ‘Atlantic Modernities’: Examining the Ritual Pathways of Spirit Possession and ‘Fetish’ Objects in West Africa.”
Zoom RSVPIn this presentation I explore how the dense vectors of material culture and spirit possession established in the crucible of the modern era continue to inform the decisions of millions […]
Mario Biagioli, “From Anti Science to Science Mimicry: Inventing Ethics in Trump’s EPA.”
Zoom RSVPOctober 18, 5 pm Mario Biagioli (UCLA Law and Information Studies) (please note the later time) This paper moves from the recent findings of agnotologists (like the book Merchants of Doubt) about […]
Corinna Treitel (Washington University), “Gesundheit! Seeking German Health, 1750-2000”
To RSVP, please email: ann@history.ucla.edu
Chris Willoughby, “Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum.”
Zoom RSVPNov 1 Chris Willoughby (Huntington Library) "Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum." Co-sponsored with the Atlantic field In 1847, upon his retirement, John Collins Warren gave […]
Jamie Kreiner, “From the Mud to the Cosmos”
Location given upon RSVP
The First Draft of History
RSVP link is www.tinyurl.com/uclaneilchase
Maureen Miller, “Material Culture and Narratives of the Medieval Past”
Location given upon RSVP
Iris Clever, “The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science.”
ZoomNov 29 Iris Clever (University of Chicago) "The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science." This talk will introduce anthropological practices that remain largely unexplored in the historical […]
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College), “History, Liturgy, and the Formation of Christian France”
Location given upon RSVPTo RSVP, please email Ann Major ann@history.ucla.edu
