History of Science, Technology, the Environment, and Medicine Colloquium, Spring 2025

All HSTEM events will be held on Fridays from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in GAR 4.100

31 Jan. — Felipe Vilo Muñoz (UT) — “‘Under the Desert Spell’: The Atacama Desert Exploration Communities in Chile, 1820–1880”

21 Feb. — Diana Montaño (Washington Univ., St. Louis) — “The Young White Man’s Burden: Revolutionary Mexico in the American Imagination” (co-sponsored with Latin American History)

28 Feb. — Sylvester Abedi Akyea (UT) — “‘Essential War Supplies of Timber’: World War II and Timber Exploitation in Colonial Ghana”

7 March — Sharrona Pearl (TCU) — “Bodies and Borders: The Long History of Biometric Surveillance”

11 April — John Lisle (UT) — “The Irony of MKULTRA: How the CIA’s Failure in Mind Control Facilitated Conspiracy Theories”

 

Lone Star Historians of Science meeting:

18 April — Elizabeth Bishop (American Univ. of Iraq)