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The First Draft of History
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Maureen Miller, “Material Culture and Narratives of the Medieval Past”
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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 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 […]
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College), “History, Liturgy, and the Formation of Christian France”
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L’Encyclopedie noire: An Assembly of Shadows
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Deadlock in Israel-Palestine Part 2
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El Biombo de la Conquista y vista de la Ciudad de Mexico del Museo Franz Mayer
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History of Science Colloquium: Charles Kollmer (Caltech)
Zoom"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 globe colonized by European nations, lines of scientific inquiry on the etiology of infectious diseases and the efficacy of industrial fermentations converged with longer-standing academic […]
History of Science Colloquium: John Di Moia (Seoul National University/ UCLA Korean Studies)
"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 goods to the scene was the Transporter, a leftover from World War II, and the CONEX (Container Express) box, a predecessor to the more recent […]
