Please note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history of science grad students; anyone else who would like to participate can get the papers from Iris (irisclever@ucla.edu)
Kathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
This presentation invites us to imagine afrodescended Latin@s—who live, think, and feel colonial modernity between different nations, regions, and subaltern positionalities—as subjects with inherently fragmented and “entangled” ontologies. Drawing from the writings of the Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant about the protean condition of the Caribbean (post)colonial subject, we will analyze various Cuban and Puerto Rican […]
Maureen C. Miller, Professor of History, University of California Berkeley - “Feuding Popes and Emperors: Characterizing the Investiture Conflict.” This lecture will argue for an updating of the conceptualization of the ‘crisis of church and state’ in the context of recent work on violence and conflict in Medieval Europe.
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Mario Biagioli - School of Law, Science & Technology Studies Program, Department of History, UC Davis. Academic misconduct has traditionally been tied to the stress generated by the “publish or perish” culture and, more recently, to the new opportunities offered by electronic publishing. I argue, instead, that misconduct is undergoing a radical qualitative transformation, adapting itself to […]
Adam Lawrence (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
Edward D. Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College. He teaches courses on global environmental history, the history of the Pacific World, and commodities in world historical perspective. He is the author of Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale University Press, 2015), the co-editor Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire: New Views on Environmental […]
In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Tracking how limits to Cold War authoritarianism finally emerged, Cowan concludes that the record of autocracy and repression in Brazil is part of a larger story of reaction against perceived threats to traditional […]
This presentation explores the relationship between time – as it was regulated and embodied in the Cuban sugar plantation world – and the lived experiences of the people enslaved on these plantations. It juxtaposes the function of time as an ever-evolving technology of the plantation world, and its possibilities as a site of black fugitivity […]
