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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Charles Kollmer (Caltech)
DESCRIPTION:“Industrial Accumulations: Microbes and Materials in Motion in the Late Nineteenth Century” \nBeginning 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 interests in single-celled life forms. Across varied contexts of investigation\, researchers adopted similar techniques for cultivating microorganisms\, developed on the premise that different varieties of microbes possessed distinctive nutritional needs and capacities for growth. To make these organisms into objects of scientific and technical knowledge\, researchers assembled so-called “pure cultures” and “enrichment cultures.” These complementary approaches entailed manipulating the composition of growth media\, which consisted of concentrated microbial sustenance separated from its surroundings by the walls of sealed glass containers. While ostensibly functioning to isolate cultivated microorganisms from the world outside\, these containers remained in some meaningful sense porous\, as researchers routinely incorporated into their growth media the products or byproducts of human affairs unfolding outside of the containers. Over the course of the talk\, I will introduce several examples of such nested milieus\, tracing connections between the life forms in- and outside microbial cultures. This exercise\, I will argue\, sheds new light on the molecular views of life that increasingly typified the life sciences over the course of the twentieth century. As researchers repurposed cultivated microorganisms as powerful instruments for probing nature’s order\, they also recorded\, sometimes unwittingly\, a proliferation of humans’ technical interventions in that order. \n  \nZoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldO6qqTkpHNUYeDeFN7a4kp65WWyWuUu0 \nIn Person RSVP: None – this meeting will take place only on Zoom.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-charles-kollmer-caltech/
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: John Di Moia (Seoul National University/ UCLA Korean Studies)
DESCRIPTION:“From ‘Boxes’ to Containers: Containerization\, Post-colonial East and SEAsia\, and Re-evaluating Technology Transfer (1950-1973)” \nWhen 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 ISO (International Organization for Standardization)\, or intermodal\, shipping container. These forms of conveyance transformed port cities such as Incheon and Busan from their recent history as part of Japanese empire (1910-1945). The subsequent “success story” of the ISO container\, often told as a story of European shipping\, or alternatively\, American trucking\, remains heavily embedded within a wartime context\, in this case\, the period preceding and leading up to American involvement in Vietnam (1965). A Los Angeles architectural and design firm\, DMJM (Daniel\, Mann\, Johnson\, and Mendenhall) helped to design plans for Vietnamese ports in the early 1960s\, helping to ease the transition from French colonialism. \nWith the commitment to Vietnam\, break-bulk shipping\, with goods handled by teams of stevedores\, needed to be replaced by containerization\, especially at sites such as Cam Ranh Bay\, one of the major intake points for goods. As a corollary to this rapid development of logistics\, the various Asian subcontractors involved in this process borrowed and used this technology while participating in Vietnam but also while transforming their own domestic ports. This paper tracks one Korean shipping firm\, Hanjin\, and its use of the technology in Vietnam (Qui Nhon\, Cam Rahn)\, and the movement of the technology to Busan by the early 1970s. Rather than a story of “technology transfer\,” containerization in East Asia stands as a representative case of local actors repurposing and altering an existing technology. \n  \nZoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpcuqppzssHNO7hqfVwu5KZZzfVRC4Mvgg \nIn Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gxkzD1bixlgz7hBglc2qfzQBkl965ui7TtEfPmH6cIg
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-john-di-moia-seoul-national-university-ucla-korean-studies/
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SUMMARY:Spiritscapes’ as ‘Atlantic Modernities’ by Degenhart Brown
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I explore how the dense vectors of material culture and spirit possession established in the crucible of the modern era continue to inform the decisions of millions of west Africans as they navigate everyday realities at home and abroad. In the first half of this talk\, I explore emerging themes in “fetish modernity” theory to demonstrate how\, as mediators of modern history\, “fetish” objects\, through their own semantic and epistemological ambivalence\, have changed the ways in which scholars interpret historical conventions. In the second half\, I look at some examples of the confluence of possession rituals and slavery discourse across contemporary west Africa to illustrate how the relationships between northern and southern “spirits\,” resulting from hinterland slave raids\, inform local interpretations of the ongoing legacies of trans-Atlantic slavery. I conclude by engaging the work of Charles Piot to demonstrate how power objects and ritual acts of possession are in themselves “alternative modernities” that have remained crucial ontological technologies in west Africa due to their capacity to efface national and international efforts to define and control west African lifeworlds. \nZoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcOmupzMsG9LfNoK0VVJ-BWY6wY-gX6_T
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