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Depressed Mothers and Rebellious Sons: Relationships in the History of American Mood Disorders
Laura Hirshbein, U-M
The formal diagnosis of adult major depressive disorder emerged in the 1970s in the context of research with medication, though disagreement...
Becoming Sensitive: The Pedagogy of Smelling and the Environmental Politics of Sensitivity
Tinghao Zhou, U-M
This talk examines how different social and technological bodies—including e-waste workers, environmental scientists, and...
A Brief History of Pretending to Use the Computer
Nick Seaver, Tufts University
The post-pandemic explosion of work-from-home arrangements is often credited with the rise of "mouse jigglers," devices or...
Japanese Medical Aid, Iranian Blood, and the Diplomacy of Genetic Racialism
Elise Burton, University of Toronto
In 1966, Japan’s Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency (OTCA) established an office for “medical cooperation,” which recruited...
People of the Machine: Computers and Human Reason in the Cold War
Joy Rohde, U-M
Additional details forthcoming.
