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 2022
October 3
Daniel Williford, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Cementing Colonialism: Labor, Violence, and Technology in Protectorate-Era Morocco”
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
October 17
Holmes Lecture
Beatrix Hoffman, Northern Illinoise University
“The Necropolitics of U.S. Pandemic Responses: Expendable Workers in 1918 and 2020”
Location: Sterling Hall of Medicine (SHM), Room L-115
October 24
Bedour Alagraa, University of Texas at Austin
“Bad Infinities: Catastrophe and the ‘Changing Same’ ”
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
November 3
Bert Hansen, Professor Emeritus of History, Baruch College of CUNY
Title TBA
Location: Medical Historical Library, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4 p.m.
November 7
Justin Dunnavant, University of California, Los Angeles
“Have Confidence in the Sea: Archaeologies of Marronage”
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
November 28
Nandita Badami, Postdoctoral Fellow II Penn Program in Environmental Humanities
Title TBA
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
Spring 2023
February 6
Leslie Sabiston, McGill University
“ ‘Our Poor Ruined Babies’: Failed Fantasies of Home, Persistent Anxieties of Indigeneity, and the Rise of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Canada”
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
February 13
Sanyu Mojola, Princeton University
“Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capital”
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
February 27
Alma Steingart, Columbia University
“On Mathematical Measurement and Representative Politics: Rethinking the 1960s Apportionment Revolution”
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
March 27
McGovern Lecture
Johanna Schoen, Rutgers University
“Life and Death in the Nursery: The Yale-New Haven Hospital Special Care Nursery and Debates in Bioethics”
Location: Medical Historical Library, 333 Cedar Street
April 3
Manuelidis Lecture
Rana Hogarth, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title TBA
Location: Medical Historical Library, 333 Cedar Street
April 10
Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia
Title TBA
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street
April 24
Megan Raby, University of Texas at Austin
Title TBA
Location: HQ 276, 320 York Street