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 2017
September 11, 2017
Christina Ramos, Washington University in St. Louis
“Bedlam in the New World: Institutions of Madness in Colonial Mexico”
Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211
October 9, 2017
Nukhet Varlik, Rutgers University - Newark
“Plague, Ecology, and Empire: Re-thinking the History of the Second Pandemic”
Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211
October 16, 2017
Yulia Frumer, Johns Hopkins University
“A new species of robot is born”
Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211
***October 23, 2017***
An HSHM sponsored event
Donna Haraway, Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Making Kin: Multispecies Environmental Justice”
Location: Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
Time: 5:00 p.m.
October 30, 2017
Manuelidis Lecture
Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University
Title: TBD
Location: 333 Cedar Street, SHM, Historical Library
Time: 4:30 p.m.
November 6, 2017
Holmes Lecture
Paula Findlen, Stanford University
“Mondino’s Assistant: Imagining the Female Anatomist in Medieval Italy (and Beyond)”
Location: 333 Cedar Street, SHM, Historical Library
Time: 4:30 p.m.
November 13, 2017
Pablo Gomez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Risky Corporeality: Slavery and the New Quantifiable Bodies of the Early Modern Atlantic”
Location: 333 Cedar Street, SHM, Fulton Room L215
Spring 2018
January 29, 2018
McGovern Lecture
Marcos Cueto, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro
“Lost in Translation, Brazil, Aids and Global Health, c. 1996”
Location: 333 Cedar Street, SHM, Historical Library
Time: 4:30 p.m.
February 19, 2018
Joelle Abi-Rached, Columbia University (Society of Fellows)
Title: TBD
Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211
March 5, 2018
Marie Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology
Title: TBD
Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211
March 26, 2018
Bretton Fosbrook, York University
Title: TBD
Location: 320 York Street, HGS 211
April 9, 2018
Martine Lappe, Columbia University, New York City
Title: TBD
Location: 333 Cedar Street, SHM, Fulton Room L215