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Patrícia Martins Marcos, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge “The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population, Race-Making, and the Sciences of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1730-1800)”
6275 Bunche HallIn 1750, when the Brazilian border expanded by several orders of magnitude, Portuguese Crown officials, administrators, and men of science received the news with hope and apprehension. While the growth of frontiers of Portugal’s possession in the Americas was celebrated, it also presented formidable challenges for settlement. How could a diminutive metropole whose empire stretched […]
Mika Lior, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta, “Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé”
ZoomMika Lior, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta "Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé" Based on history, dance studies methodologies and critical ethnography, this paper addresses choreographies of invocation and incorporation in the Afro-Brazilian ritual practice of Candomblé through the lens of indigenous feminisms and choreographic analysis. […]
Edward Halley Barnet, History of Medicine, “Music and the Mind. Vibratory Mental Mechanics in the 18th Century”
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Dean Alexandra Stern, “Queer Oppression and Resistance to Eugenics in 20th Century California”
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Melissa Lo, History of Science, “How We Find Our Topics, How Our Topics Find Us: A Discussion”
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Alden-Berg Lecture ft. Stephen Aron
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Kevin Dawson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Merced “Surfing, Surf-Canoeing, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
6275 Bunche HallAtlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes. Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to understand how to design and surf waves ashore in surf-canoes loaded with fish cargo. Today, Atlantic Africans remain the only people […]
Dr. Kate McDonald, History of Science, “The Rickshaw Everyman: Transport and Memory in Postwar Japan”
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The History of Gender & Sexuality Group Graduate Student Workshop
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