Chris Willoughby, “Collected without Consent: Imperialism and Enslavement in Harvard’s Medical Museum.”

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Nov 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 his entire anatomical collection to Harvard’s medical school, including a  collection of racial skulls that would grow to include more than 150 objects. In this […]

Iris Clever, “The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science.”

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Nov 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 literature on racial science: biometrics. In the early twentieth century, biometricians analyzed skull measurements with novel statistical methods to demonstrate racial-biological differences. With skull-measuring instruments […]

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