EIHS Lecture: Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism in India
William Glover, University of Michigan
This talk presents one genealogy for exploring how the city and the countryside were conceptualized in relation to one another in late...
STS Speaker. Wild, Native, or Pure: Trout as Genetic Bodies
David Havlick, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Abstract and bio. coming.
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
Silvia Lindtner Associate Professor School of Information University of Michigan
How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding...
EIHS Lecture: Risk, Bodies, and Disease: Transatlantic Slavery and the History of Science and Medicine
Pablo F. Gómez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This talk will examine the history of the slave trade in the Iberian Atlantic and its relationship to the emergence of novel practices...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Myth-Busting the History of Chinese Medicine: Going Beyond the "Function, Not Structure" Stereotype
Yi-Li Wu, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and History, University of Michigan
This talk will challenge the widely-held stereotype that Chinese doctors were historically interested in the body's dynamic functions,...
STS Speaker. The Specter of Irreversible Change
Laura Martin, Williams College
In 1950, the United States had 299 nuclear weapons in its stockpile. By 1960, it had 18,638. And by 1965, it had 31,139. As the United...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970
Wayne Soon, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar
This presentation makes the case for a new concept of “global medicine" to highlight the multivalent and multidirectional flows of...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms
Michael Hathaway, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Over the last few decades, scholars from several disciplines have shown increasing interest in moving beyond anthropocentric studies to...
