"Industrial Accumulations: Microbes and Materials in Motion in the Late Nineteenth Century" Beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, across Western Europe, North America, and regions of the […]
"From ‘Boxes’ to Containers: Containerization, Post-colonial East and SEAsia, and Re-evaluating Technology Transfer (1950-1973)" When the United States became involved in the Korean War, its primary mechanism for conveying personal […]
In 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 […]
“A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science.” The idea of progress frames our modern understanding of understanding itself. It offers a historical account of the development of knowledge in […]
POSTPONED: Anthony Grafton's talk scheduled for February 9th 4-6PM has been postponed to Spring Quarter. More information will be provided in the future.
The French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in pre-colonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes, collecting and cultivating African plants and mapping the landscape and natural […]
Forcibly removed from Jamaica in 1796 after waging war against the colonial state, the Trelawny Maroons boarded a ship bound for Nova Scotia, where they struggled against the colonial government […]
EUROPEAN COLLOQUIUM TALK BY WEBER POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR, BRIAN GRIFFITH This paper analyzes the struggles between the Italian winemaking and brewing industries over the shaping of bourgeois Italian tastes and habits during the interwar decades. During the […]
“Polio, Adventism, and Rehabilitation Medicine in Los Angeles.” Rancho Los Amigos was founded during the late nineteenth century as a poor farm but became a rehabilitation hospital for iron lung […]
April 4 Devon Golaszewski (Loyola Marymount, LA) “Medicalizing Childbirth in Post-Colonial Mali: Uterine Stimulant Drugs as Techno-Medical Tools and Social Cures" By the 1970s, uterine stimulant and oxytocic drugs such […]
A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk. RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/JAUpUCWi8t
A lecture by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University). Ecclesiastical history began in the 1550s, when the Lutheran Matthias Flacius Illyricus organized a collaborative century-by-century history of Christianity. This confessional project never reached […]
