Events

Elena Conis, Chemical Heritage Foundation 
 
"Rethinking the American DDT Narrative"

Nick Wilding, Georgia State University
"Forging the Moon; Or, How to Spot a Fake Galileo"   

Cosponsored with Material Texts

Kislak Center, Van Pelt…

Jeffrey Brosco, University of Miami

"The Politics of Prevalence: Measuring the Health of 'Special' Populations in the 20th Century US"

On Monday, March 14th, Suman Seth is presenting a paper titled, "Pathologies of Blackness: Race-Medicine, Slavery, and Abolitionism” (a chapter of his current book project). We are meeting for a discussion and…

Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology

"Moving Violations: Regulation and Technological Change in the American Automobile"

Whitney Laemmli will defend her dissertation,

"The Choreography of Everyday Life: Rudolf Laban and the Making of Modern Movement"

Monday, February 29, 2016

10:00 a.m.

Claudia…

Yulia Frumer, Johns Hopkins University
  
"Where Time Begins: Time Measurement and the Establishment of the Prime Meridian in Tokugawa Japan"   

Cosponsored with Center…

Oliver Rollins, University of Pennsylvania
   
"Unlocking the Violent Brain: Managing Controversy and Uncertainty in Contemporary Biocriminology"

 John Pollack, University of Pennsylvania   

"Early American Words in Motion: The Printing and Circulation of Native American Languages in the Renaissance"

Michell Cresfield, Vanderbilt University

"Mestizos, Mongrels, and In-Between People: Investigations into Racial Mixing in the Early Twentieth Century U.S"

Please…