Events

"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…

Negotiating Infection and Immunity: Ecologies of Care, Difference and Labor in a Colonial Pandemic

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health…

Unsettling Biomedicine: Indigenous Health and American Empire in Postwar Alaska

In the aftermath of World War II, Alaska emerged as a crucial outpost for national defense and as a destination for growing…

"Ancient Migration at the Bering Strait: A Trans-disciplinary and Trans-National History of Scientific Investigation"

Brooke Penaloza-Patzak, Visiting Scholar University of Pennsylvania,…

"The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender Before Modernity"?

Leah DeVun, Associate Professor, Rutgers University

This talk focuses on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender…

Venture Capitalism: Startups, Technology, and the Future of Work

Benjamin Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

In my book project, I investigate how venture…

"From Egyptian Gold to Chichimeca Silver: Extractive Rhetoric and Praxis in 16th-century Mexico"

This talk examines the relationship between silver mining and the rhetoric of extraction that accompanied it…

Banking on Petra: Archaeological Adventurism and the Politics of Preservation

Lynn Meskell, PIK Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design

Monsters in the Model: Anatomical Preparations as Objects of Evidence for a Developmental Paradigm of Embryology, 1770-1840

Sara Ray, Doctoral Candidate in the History and Sociology of Science Department,…

Darwin in the Cold War: Controlling “foreign scientists” at a field station in the Galapagos Islands, 1950-1980

Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania