Featuring a panel discussion of Nothing but Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects (Johns Hopkins, December 2023) with panelists Chien-Ling Liu (UCLA) and Aro Velmet (USC) Link to Zoom Registration
José Monge is a PhD candidate in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His dissertation, titled Maritime Labor, Candles, and the Architecture of the Enlightenment (1750-1872), focuses on the role that whale-originated illuminants, specifically spermaceti candles and oil, played in the American Enlightenment as an intellectual project and the U.S. as a country. By […]