Events

Events



HSSC Workshop: Victor Seow, Harvard University, Assistant Professor

Feb 10, 2020 at

 

Monster or Marvel: Technologies of Extraction in a Manchurian Mine



HSSC Workshop: Nükhet Varlık, Rutgers University, Associate Professor

Feb 3, 2020 at

Rethinking Plague's Second Pandemic: The Ottoman Empire and Global Ecological History

The Black Death pandemic of the mid-fourteenth century swept across a substantial portion of Afro…



HSSC Workshop: Christopher J. Phillips, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Jan 27, 2020 at

Number Doctors: The History of Biostatistics and the Origins of Precision Medicine

Modern medicine in inescapably bound to statistical calculations, which have become essential for diagnosing diseases,…



Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group

Dec 12, 2019 at

Dominic Boyer – Energopolitics (2019) and Cymene Howe – Ecologics (2019)



HSS Workshop: Ruha Benjamin

Dec 9, 2019 at

 

A New Jim Code?

 



 



HSS Workshop: Nicole Barnes

Dec 2, 2019 at

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

For the majority of its long history, well into the twentieth century, China was an agricultural society…



Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group

Nov 21, 2019 at

Peter Singer – “All Animals Are Equal” (1974), Matthew Calarco – “Identity, Difference, Indistinction” (2011), and Lori Gruen – “Conscious Animals and the Value of Experience” (2016)



Science Beyond the West: Decolonial Pedagogies

Nov 19, 2019 at

Please join us on Tuesday, November 19, at 3:30 PM in the Hughes Lounge (3rd Floor of Cohen Hall) for a discussion on what it means to decolonize a syllabus, a classroom or a curriculum. The session…



HSS Workshop: Hannah Marcus

Nov 18, 2019 at

Medicine and the Censorship of Science in Early Modern Europe

 



Canceled: HSS Workshop: Marwa Elshakry

Nov 11, 2019 at