History of Science, Technology, the Environment, and Medicine Colloquium, Spring 2026
HSTEM events will be held on Fridays from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in GAR 4.100
16 Jan. — Odile Lehnen (University of Durham) — “A Seat at the Table: Collaborative Observation in the Herschel Household”
23 Jan. — José Roberto Campos Cordero (UT) — “Mesteña Empire: Becoming Wild Cattle and Horses in the North American Borderlands in the 18th and 19th Centuries” (co-sponsored by the Latin American History Workshop)
13 Feb. — Meg Perret (Texas A&M) — “Migration Is Natural: Conservation Biologists and the U.S.–Mexico Border Wall”
27 Feb. — Victor Seow (Harvard University) — “‘In the Service of Production’: Labor Psychology in Socialist China”
13 Mar. — Yingying Sun (UT) — “Across the Threshold: Contested Body Maps of the Opium Den in Late 19th Century San Francisco”
— Cecilia Flexa Freitas (UT) — “Fueling Modernization: Steamships, Firewood Extraction, and Environmental Change in the 19th and Early 20th Century Amazon”
— André Aguiar (UT) — “Urban Modernity and Heat: Press Narratives of the 1917 Summer Crisis in Rio de Janeiro”
3 Apr. — Nic John Ramos (UT–American Studies) — “A Tale of Two Clinics: Bringing the History of Anti-Poverty Clinics into the History of Community Mental Health Clinics”
17 Apr. — Donald C. Jackson (Lafayette College) — “John R. Freeman and the Damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley”
Additional events of interest:
3 Feb. (Tues), 5:00–6:30 pm in GWB 2.206 — Elizabeth O’Brien (UCLA) — on her book Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (UNC Press, 2023)
16 Feb. (Mon.), 12:00–1:30 pm in GAR 4.100 — Laurie B. Green (UT) — “America on Trial: The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health”
9 Mar. (Mon.), 12:00–1:30 pm in GAR 4.100 — Diana Heredia-López (UT) — “Counterfeit, Materiality, and Colonial Governance in New Spain’s Cochineal Trade, 1555–1599”
10 Apr. (Fri.) — Lone Star History of Science Group meeting at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville; host: Scottie Buehler; speaker: Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Houston)