Events

Gender & Technical Knowledge in The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980)

Domestic. Shop girl. Waitress. Cook. Those were the jobs for women in the 1930's — when they could get work. Suddenly…

'On the teeth of the wind': Medical Meteorology and American Imperialism in the Antebellum Gulf South

The direction, consistency, and temperature of the winds was central to 19th century understandings of…

Julia Rodriguez, History Department, University of New Hampshire

No "mere accumulation of material": Land as Evidence in Americanist Anthropology

Join HSS Phd Alum Nadia Berenstein for her paper “The Sciences of Flavor and the Industrialization of Food in America” at the Penn Economic Forum.

Looking for an exit: toxic atmospheres and the promise of change

In this presentation, I document four different environmental projects that I am working on across four different temporalities. The point of…

Stacey Langwick, Anthropology, Cornell University

Tonicity and Healing: An Emergent Politics of Habitability in Tanzania

On February 1 at 6 PM at the Rosenbach Library Professors Stephanie Dick and Jonathan Moreno will participate in a panel on the 200th anniversary of thje publication of a certain novel by Mary Shelley.…

S. Pearl Brilmyer, Assistant Professor of English

"The Frog in the Machine: Literary Character and the Generation of Life."