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 2019
September 9, 2019
Rana Hogarth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the Atlantic World”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
September 16, 2019 (An HSHM co-sponsored event)
SASC Lecture Series
Venkat Srinivasan, archivist at India’s National Center for Biological Sciences
“Archives as Interpretation”
Location: Rosenkranz Hall, Room 241, 115 Prospect Street, 4:00 p.m.
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Lecture Series
October 3, 2019
Grace Kyungwon Hong, UCLA
“Virtual Violence: Trauma & Memory in Gina Kim’s ‘Dongducheun/Bloodless’”
Location: William L. Harkness (WLH) Room 116
Time: 4:00 p.m.
October 7, 2019
Elizabeth O’Brien, Johns Hopkins University
“From Syringe to Surgery, and Back Again: Baptizing the Unborn in the Catholic World, 1770-1875”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Lecture Series
October 10, 2019
Audra Simpson, Columbia University
“Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow”
Location: William L. Harkness (WLH) Room 116
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Yale Peabody Museum
October 17, 2019
Bathsheba Demuth, Brown University
“The Ethical Choices of Whales: Bowheads, Hunters, and the Nature of History”
Location: David Friend Hall, 170 Whitney Ave., 3rd floor
Time: 5:30 p.m.
October 28, 2019
McGovern Lecture
Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University
“The Patient as ‘Watch Bird’: Historical Perspectives on Patients’ Roles in Health Care Quality Reform”
Location: Historical Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Lecture Series
October 31, 2019
Jodi Melamed, Marquette University
“Operationalizing Racial Capitalism: Administrative Power and Ordinary Violence”
Location: William L. Harkness (WLH) Room 116
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Lecture Series
November 14, 2019
Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University
“A New Jim Code?: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life”
Location: William L. Harkness (WLH) Room 116
Time: 4:00 p.m.
November 18, 2019
Michael Rodriguez, Northwestern University
“Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Quest for Demographic Recognition”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Lecture Series
November 21, 2019
Kalina Vora, UC Davis
“Inefficient Feeling: Care as Revoluationary Praxis at the End of Society”
Location: William L. Harkness (WLH) Room 116
Time: 4:00 p.m.
December 2, 2019
Nara Milanich, Barnard College
“Looking for the Father: The Transnational Quest for a Science of Paternity in the Twentieth Century”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration Lecture Series
December 5, 2019
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
“Convergence, Dissymmetry, Duplicity: Enactments of Queer of Color Critique in an Era of Administrative Violence”
Location: William L. Harkness (WLH) Room 116
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Spring 2020
January 27, 2020
Nic Ramos, Brown University
“Emergent Economies, Emergent Medicine: Emergency Medical Services and the Normalization of Everyday Violence in 1980s Los Angeles”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
February 3, 2020
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University
“The Work of ‘Loss and Damage’ within Global Climate Negotiations”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
February 17, 2020
Dan Bouk, Colgate University
“Reading Data as a Liberal Art: Telling Stories in and around the 1940 U.S. Census”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
February 24, 2020
Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
“Inscribed, Coded, Archived: Lessons from the Casebooks Digital Edition”
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Lecture Hall, 120 High Street
March 30, 2020
Holmes Lecture
POSTPONED: Wendy Kline, Purdue University
“The ‘LSD Block’ and the Therapeutic Alliance: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Psychedelic Medicine in the U.K.”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m.
April 13, 2020
Manuelidis Lecture
POSTPONED: Leslie Reagan, University of Illinois
“Defining Disabilities: Agent Orange, Veterans, Children, and the US Government”
Location: Fulton Room L215, 333 Cedar Street
Time: 4:30 p.m
April 27, 2020
CANCELLED: Nasser Zakariya, University of California Berkeley
Title TBA
Location: William L. Harkness Hall, Room 309, 100 Wall Street