In: Colloquium

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Colloquia Speaker: Leigh Alon
March 20, 2023

Leigh Alon of Johns Hopkins University will present ““A Jew Can Only Look to Another Jew For Help”: Tay Sachs Screening…

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Colloquia Speaker: Zubin Mistry
March 14, 2023

Dr. Zubin Mistry of University of Edinburgh will present “The Problem of Monastic Gynecology: Reproduction, Religion and Medicine in Western Europe…

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Colloquia Speaker: Rana Hogarth
March 3, 2023

Dr. Rana Hogarth of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will present “The Science of Skin Color: Miscegenation and the Eugenic Gaze…

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Colloquia Speaker: Eram Alam
February 14, 2023

Dr. Eram Alam of Harvard University will present “The Logistical Body: Reflections on Medicine and Movement,” as part of our Spring…

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Colloquia Speaker: Courtney E. Thompson
February 14, 2023

Dr. Courtney E. Thompson of Mississippi State University will present “A Calculus of Compassion: Emotion, Medicine, and Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,”…

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Blue book cover titled "Epidemic Orientalism" with vintage-style illustrations of insects, rodents, and map outlines in pink, subtitle "Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease" and author name Alexandre I. R. White at the bottom.
Colloquium Special Event: Book Launch with Dr. Alexandre White
February 2, 2023

You are invited to the book launch for our own Dr. Alexandre White’s new publication “Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the…

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Colloquium Speaker: Bill Leslie
January 19, 2023

Dr. Stuart “Bill” Leslie of the Johns Hopkins University will present “New Universities for a New Nation: American Architects Redesign Higher…

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Mary E. Fissell, PhD
Colloquium Special Event: Mary Fissell
September 1, 2022

RSVP here J. Mario Molina Endowed Professorship in the History of Medicine: Dedication and Installation of Mary E. Fissell, Ph.D., M.A….

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Colloquium Speaker: Dominique Tobbell
September 1, 2022

Dr. Dominique Tobbell of the University of Virginia will present “”Moms and Tots”: Nursing and the Politics of Community Health in…

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Book cover: “The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth” by Jeremy A. Greene, featuring a person at a control console viewing small screens and a large monitor showing an eye.
Colloquium Special Event: Book Launch with Jeremy Greene
September 1, 2022

You are invited to the book launch for our own Dr. Jeremy Greene’s new publication “The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology,…

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