Colloquia

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