History of Science, Technology, the Environment, and Medicine Colloquium, Fall 2024

All events will held on Fridays from 12:00 to 1:30 pm

13 Sept. — GAR 1.102 — Bassam Sidiki (UT English) — “Viral Rivalries: Influenza and Inter-Imperial Prestige in Colonial Samoa”

27 Sept. — GAR 1.102 — Pratik Chakrabarti (Univ. of Houston) — “The Naked Pharaohs: Decolonizing the History of Science”

11 Oct. — GAR 4.100 — Christine Folch (Duke Univ.) — “Re/Encountering Yerba Mate: Power, Plant Knowledges and the Americas’ Ilex Fix”

1 Nov. — GAR 4.100 — Alyssa Peterson (UT) — “Case Studies of Scientific Exchange in the 18th Century British Atlantic World”

15 Nov. — GAR 1.102— Brooke Johnson (Rice Univ.) — “General Chemistry for Who? Exploring the Intersection of Chemistry and Black History”

22 Nov. — GAR 4.100 — Cécile Stehrenberger (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) — “Doing Science in the Eye of the Storm: Social Science Disaster Research, 1949–1994”