Events

December 2, 2019

Listening Like a Computer: Computational Psychiatry and the Re-coding of Psychiatric Screening

Beth Michelle Semel

Harvard University

December 2, 2019

Bodies and Their Care in 20th century China: Making History from the Margins

Nicole Barnes

University of Pennsylvania

December 2, 2019

Looking for the Father: The Transnational Quest for a Science of Paternity in the Twentieth Century

Nara Milanich

Yale University

December 2, 2019

The Crisis of Expertise Book Talk

Gil Eyal, Peter B. deMenocal, Diane Vaughan, Steven Shapin, Shamus Khan

Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

December 2, 2019

Medieval Medicine and Literature: A Galenic Presence in Dante's Writing

Paola Ureni

Columbia University, NYU Department of Italian Studies, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò

December 3, 2019

The Monster Collectors: Anatomical Collecting and Abnormal Bodies in 18th-Century Embryology

Sara Ray

Science History Institute

December 4, 2019

Population Genetic Structure and Histories and Geographies of Race and Nation

Lisa Gannett

University of Toronto

December 4, 2019

Violence and the (Black) Brain: Law and Order Politics and the Biomedicalization of Urban Rioting and Violence, 1960-1975

Udodiri R. Okwandu

Columbia University

December 5, 2019

Tracking the Spread of Hitchhiking Exotic Species

Jocelyn Behm

Wagner Free Institute of Science

December 5, 2019

The Maker’s Space: Place, Person & Production in Early Modern China: Workshop

Johns Hopkins University and the East Asian Studies Program, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation; Department of History

December 5, 2019

Values before Evidence? Psychology and Developmental Disabilities in the Late 20th Century

Andrew Hogan

Johns Hopkins University

December 5, 2019

Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in an Era of Administrative Violence

Chandan Reddy

Yale University

December 5, 2019

2019 Montgomery Lecture with Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

American Philosophical Society

December 5, 2019

Wasted Space: The History of Orbiting Junk

Lisa Ruth Rand

Science History Institute

December 6, 2019

The Maker’s Space: Place, Person & Production in Early Modern China: Workshop

Johns Hopkins University Co-Sponsored with: East Asian Studies Program; Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation; Department of History

December 9, 2019

The Anatomy of Sammy Tubbs: Racial Pedagogies of the Human from Medical Science to Children’s Culture (1845-1880)

Camille Owens

Yale University

December 9, 2019

A New Jim Code?: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Ruha Benjamin

University of Pennsylvania

December 9, 2019

Meeting Your First Dinosaur: Museums, Extinctions, and Fossil Restorations in 19th-century Philadelphia

Mabel Rosenheck

Wagner Free Institute of Science, Science on Tap

December 10, 2019

Domesticating Water: Gender, Class, and Environment in the Household Wash, 1849–1919

Alexandra Straub

Science History Institute

December 11, 2019

Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1779-1840

Farren Yero

The Newberry

December 12, 2019

Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group

Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

University of Pennsylvania

December 12, 2019

Differentiating Astronomy and Astrology in Early Modern Europe

Jean Sanchez

Linda Hall Library

December 12, 2019

DNA: The Secret of Photo 51

New York Academy of Medicine and The Academy Section on History of Medicine and Public Health

December 12, 2019

Sonic Warfare: Military Music, Labor, and Technology Since the Civil War

David Suisman

Hagley Museum and Library

December 18, 2019

Biological Psychiatry and its Discontents: How We Got Here

Anne Harrington

Columbia University