Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Isidro Gonzalez Granados, will be presenting “Eugenic Spectrums: Social Science, Genetic Data, and Disabling in the U.S. West, 1900-1940.” González Granados's fundamental historical question is: how were disabled people made? His book project, Eugenic […]
Viviana Quintero-Marquez, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of History, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced. Presentation: “Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena.” Discussant: Nohora Arrieta Fernández, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Also on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98793935555
José Ortega, Associate Professor, Department of History, Whittier College Presentation: “Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance.”