Events

Events



HSS Workshop: Cathy Gere

Mar 21, 2011 at

 Cathy Gere, History and Science Studies, University of California San Diego

“The Neurology of Regicide: a Jacobin Science of the Body Politic.”

Note: Professor Gere will also…



HSS Workshop: Carla Nappi

Mar 14, 2011 at

Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia

"Recipes for Exchange: Translating Bodies in Early Modern China."

[This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.]



HSS Workshop: Projit Mukharji

Feb 21, 2011 at

Projit Mukharji, McMaster University
"Lord Hanuman in Brazil? The Multiple Historicities of Eupatorium ayapana"



HSS Workshop: Didier Fassin

Feb 14, 2011 at

Feb 14. ** SPECIAL TIME AND LOCATION **

Didier Fassin, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
"Conspiracy Theories and the Frontiers of Truth”

12-1:30 p.m. in Museum Room 345 (University…



HSS Workshop: Pratik Chakrabarti

Feb 7, 2011 at

Pratik Chakrabarti, University of Kent, Canterbury
“‘A land full of wild animals’: Snakes, Venoms and Imperial Antidotes”.



HSS Workshop: Manjari Mahajan

Jan 31, 2011 at

Manjari Mahajan, New School University

"Governing Through the Non-Governmental: Shifting Terrains of Public Health in India."



Symposium: The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge

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The Materiality of Scientific Knowledge, scheduled to take place in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts September 30th-October 1st.

The keynote speaker on Friday evening, will…



Conference: Timescales

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TIMESCALES: Ecological Temporalities Across Disciplines

A Conference of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

The University of…



Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1890-2015

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Since the late nineteenth century, scientists have devised an ever-increasing number of tasks, tests, and trials in order to explore the relationships between the brain, the mind, individual personalities, and social…



Symposium: Animals in the Archives

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Animals in the Archives Symposium


Thursday, Oct. 27: 6-8 pm, Screening of Matto Grosso (1931) and roundtable discussion at the Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium


Friday,…