Events

Black Eugenics and the Struggle for Racial Equality

My talk traces the evolution of what I call black eugenics, which I define as a hereditarian approach to racial uplift that emphasized social reform,…

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Culturing Evolution: A History and Anthropology of a Cognitive Science of Culture in Illiberal Hungary

Since the mid-twentieth century, an array of life, mind, and behavioral scientists have centered the…

Chasing the ‘Intact Mind’: Autism Discourse, Policy, and Practice 1943-Present

In her 2006 memoir Strange Son, Cure Autism Now co-founder Portia Iversen described the “intact mind” she believed was buried…

Michele Anzabi, The Revitalization of the U.S. Menstrual Movement

Natalie Doppelt, The Unsustainability of Hospital Waste: How Disposable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)…

A MELTING FOSSIL: CONSTITUTING PLANETARY TIME IN THE CRYOSPHERE, 1815-1980

Alexis Rider

“Specters of Justice: Mental Health and Terror in Cold War Argentina”

In the 1970s, a young generation of psychoanalysts in Argentina attempted to forge “a new science” that would liberate the oppressed…

"Monsters in the Cabinet: Anatomical Collection, Embryology, and Bodily Difference in Holland, 1664-1850

Monsters in the Cabinet uses the historical collection of abnormal fetuses to examine how scientific…