Events

Decolonial Doctoring: Attending to the “Pain without Lesion” in Frantz Fanon…

Colonizing Time: Caste, Colonial Rule, and the Exact Sciences in India, 1783–1874

My thesis follows science, empire, and the Hindu caste system over the long nineteenth century. I show that observatories and…

Bugs, Bodies, Biomes: The Many Futures of Cystic Fibrosis

Come hear the dissertation defense of HSS doctoral candidate Becca Mueller. The Genome and the Biome: Cystic Fibrosis @ Six Feet Apart, is a history…

Bathsheba Demuth, Assistant Professor of Environment and Society & History, Brown University

The Reindeer at the End of the World: Apocalypse, Climate, and Soviet Dreams

Climate change and other…

Quandaries in a psy history-in-progress: With psychopolitics, everyday psychiatries

PTSD experimentalities, and schizophrenics tallied in a crossborder, postgenocidal zone (S. Kivu-Rwanda)

Nancy…

“Debating Resource Scarcity, Global Population, and Hunger in the early Cold War—a View from Brazil”

Eve Buckley, University of Delaware

In the early 1950s, Brazilian physician and nutritionist…

Diversity and Teaching When Disciplines Burn

From anthropogenic climate change to the resurgence of xenophobic authoritarian politics to a world still in the throes of a pandemic that has magnified long-…

Ashanti Shih, Department of History, University of Southern California

"Plucking Flowers, Despoiling Islands: Settler Colonial Botany in Interwar Hawai‘i"

This talk explores the relationship between…

Juno Salazar Parreñas, Assistant Professor, Cornell University

"Pronouns for an Apocalyptic Future."

Orangutan rehabilitation centers, which are a kind of wildlife center, respond to the crisis of…