The Program sponsors a regular biweekly Colloquium during the fall and spring terms. Its aim is to enlarge the engagement of faculty and, especially, students with the diverse approaches and cutting-edge work of both junior and senior scholars from the United States and abroad in the history of science and medicine. The colloquia are well attended and are the site of vigorous discussion following the talks.
All colloquia, workshops, and lectures are scheduled for 3:45 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2018
September 17, 2018
Luke Stark, Dartmouth College
“Darwin’s Animoji: Histories of Racialization and Emotion in Everyday Facial Recognition”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
October 1, 2018
Lisa Ruth Rand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Power, Sovereignty, and Decay in the Global Space Age”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
October 15, 2018
Hans Pols, University of Sydney
“Breaking the Colonial Hypnosis: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
October 29, 2018
Kathleen Murphy, California Polytechnic State University
“Searching for Goliath: Insect Collecting Through the Eighteenth-Century Bristish Slave Trade”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
November 5, 2018
Claire Wendland, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Slow Crisis and Struggles for Control: Maternal Death in Malawi”
Location: 333 Cedar Street
November 12, 2018
Anna Winterbottom, McGill University
“Before Alternative Medicine: Histories of Aloe and Neem”
Location: 333 Cedar Street
Spring 2019
February 4, 2019
Michitake Aso, University at Albany
“Medicine and International Relations in Cold War Vietnam”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
February 18, 2019
Manuelidis Lecture
Richard McKay, University of Cambridge
“Patient Zero, Affective Labour, and the Value of Historical Research”
Location: Hope 110, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m.
February 25, 2019
McGovern Lecture
Alondra Nelson, Columbia University
“Even a Moon Shot Needs a Flight Plan: Genetics and Ethics in the Obama Administration”
Location: Cohen Auditorium NIHB E 02, 230 South Frontage Road
Time: 4:30 p..m.
April 1, 2019
Kyrah Daniels, Boston College
“We Who Are Vulnerable Are Also Powerful: Motherhood, Birth, and Religious Healing in the Black Atlantic”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
April 8, 2019
Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title TBA
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
April 15, 2019
Holmes Lecture
Warwick Anderson, University of Sydney
“Planetary Health? The History of a Contemporary Investigatory Enterprise”
Location: Hope 110, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m.