History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

This group examines the history of the evolutionary synthesis of genetics and natural selection, and its impact upon agriculture, and theories of race and eugenics.
 
Meetings are held in Portuguese.

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Upcoming Meetings

  • Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EDT

    Guest: Alessandra Santana Soares e Barros, Full Professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
     
    Presentation: “Deficiência, diagnóstico de anomalias fetais e aborto: o caso da Síndrome de Down no Brasil”.
     
    Previous works/Website: Lattes CV.
     
    Reading: Attached are three texts by Alessandra Barros.


  • Friday, November 17, 2023 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST

    TBA


  • Friday, December 15, 2023 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST

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  • Friday, January 19, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST

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  • Friday, February 16, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST

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  • Friday, March 15, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EDT

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  • Friday, April 19, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EDT

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  • Friday, May 17, 2024 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EDT

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Past Meetings

Group Conveners

  • William.deJong-Lambert's picture

    William deJong-Lambert

    William deJong-Lambert is a Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY, whose current work addresses the evolutionary synthesis of genetics and natural selection. His most recent publication is the entry on I.V. Michurin in the Encyclopedia of Genetics. His current project is an oral history interview with Miklos Muller which will at some point become a book project. 

     

  • PaulaHabib's picture

    Paula Habib

    Paula Habib is a Professor of History at the Federal University Fluminense (UFF/Brazil). Habib´s research specializes in history of agriculture, genetics, history of biology and eugenics during the first decades of the 20 th century. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Science and Health by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

     

  • marcelo.loreto@gmail.com's picture

    Marcelo Lima Loreto

    Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (Institute of Latin American Studies), United
    States. 2022-2023.

     
    Science journalist working for Folha de São Paulo and other media.
     
    Research fellow at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 2021-2022. Project, here.
     
    Ph.D. in History of Science by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2019, Brazil. 
    Dissertation thesis, here.
     

     

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