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Rethinking Homelessness and Urban Poverty in Los Angeles and Beyond (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Rethinking Homelessness and Urban Poverty in Los Angeles and Beyond
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: This roundtable considers the vexing issue of homelessness and urban poverty in Los Angeles and the Bronx. It foregrounds homelessness as a key crisis exacerbated by these uncertain times that far from being exceptional reveals a continuity with post WWII policies and trends. The panel explores two under-examined causes of homelessness, war and the antipathy of people who identify as queer, and how these forces ghettoized refugees, asylum seekers, and people who identify as queer in homeless districts nationwide such as Skid Row, Los Angeles and select communities in the Bronx.
Date: 4/1/23
Primary URL:
https://www.oah.org/meetings-events/oah23/view-meeting-session/4826Primary URL Description: webpage for session held at 2023 OAH conference
Conference Name: 2023 Organization of Aerican Historians (OAH) Conference on American History
Take Chances! Make Mistakes! Get Messy!: The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of Science Education, (Conference/Institute/Seminar)Title: Take Chances! Make Mistakes! Get Messy!: The Magic School Bus and the Reanimation of Science Education,
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Abstract: This presentation was a first synthesis of archival material collected as a fellow in Spring 2022; I showcased the conceptual framework developed during my fellowship, highlighted key findings from the archives, and refined the structure I will utilize in the book under development.
In the mid-1990s, a crazy-haired teacher named Ms. Frizzle took children on field trips inside the human body and to the outer reaches of space. The Magic School Bus was a centerpiece experiment to reinvigorate American science education that became a global phenomenon. The television series’ catchphrase, “Take Chances! Make Mistakes! Get Messy!” suggested new ways of getting children excited about science. In contrast to a white-coated man performing demonstrations, the show used cartoon animation to help viewers experience science in action and to allowed the children to venture into unreachable environments and imagined worlds. Along the way, Ms. Frizzle encouraged kids to take risks, to fail, and to find patterns. Beyond its pedagogical innovations, The Magic School Bus was an experiment in how to pay for the technoscientific future. The show resulted from a public-private “synergy” between government agencies, commercial publishers and broadcasters, high tech companies, and even McDonald’s. It combined science education with CD-ROM software, a traveling show, and a clothing line. In this talk, I use The Magic School Bus to analyze “edutainment” and science education reform in the late-20th century. I explore how in content and in form, The Magic School Bus contributed to an emerging model of “STEM” education in a fraught era for science.
Date Range: 6/24/2022
Location: Centre Alexandre-Koyré - CAK École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France,
Primary URL:
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/personne/matthew-wisnioskiPrimary URL Description: webpage of upcoming conferences for ehess (ecole des hautes etudes en sciences)
“Towards a New Genealogy of Eugenics: Slavery and the Study of Race Crossing,” (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: “Towards a New Genealogy of Eugenics: Slavery and the Study of Race Crossing,”
Abstract: This talk examines how ideas about race from the era of slavery informed white eugenicists’ approaches to studying race crossing in the early twentieth century. I focus on the differing methods employed by American eugenicist, Charles B. Davenport, and British eugenicist, Karl Pearson, to study the heredity of skin color in “Black and white racial hybrids.” The tension that arose between these scientists’ opposing views on the heredity of skin color occasionally played out in the pages of academic journals, and it serves as my point of entry for examining how each scientist staked their claim as an expert based on data derived from the close inspection of mixed-race people’s bodies. Moreover, because both Davenport and Pearson relied on data from Britain’s Caribbean colonies, much of the genealogies that appeared in their studies represented an extraction of intimate personal family histories from colonized groups of people not so far removed from slavery’s traumas. Finally, this talk will show that no matter how different Davenport and Pearson were in their approach to assessing the heredity of mixed-race skin color, they shared the underlying assumption that Blackness could be reduced to a trait and made legible through careful study.
Author: Rana Hogarth
Date: 04/03/2023
Location: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Primary URL:
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/towards-a-new-genealogy-of-eugenics-slavery-and-the-study-of-race-crossing/Primary URL Description: Webpage announcement of the Elias E. Manuelidis Memorial Lecture in the History of Medicine and Science
“Expertise, Eugenics, and the Legacies of Slavery: Studying Race Crossing in the early 20th Century” (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: “Expertise, Eugenics, and the Legacies of Slavery: Studying Race Crossing in the early 20th Century”
Abstract: Scientific endeavors to study mixed race people with Black and white ancestry in the early twentieth century did not emerge in a vacuum, nor did ideas about race that would later undergird eugenic race crossing studies on that very group of people. Slavery gave rise to myths and taxonomies that would come to dominate lay and scientific perceptions of mixed race people’s bodies for years to come. Moreover, slavery facilitated the often violent contexts in which racial intermixture took place across generations in the Americas. In this talk, I discuss how the anti-Black racism that circulated before and after slavery’s demise became constitutive of a kind of biological determinism that rested on faulty, but enduring ideas— namely that race is an element of biology; that degrees of Black ancestry in a mixed race person can be made legible; mapped on to their bodies through examination and quantification. These ideas steered the trajectory of eugenic research into race crossing, generating debate and elevating the careers of a number of biologists, physicians, statisticians, anthropologists, and others who aligned themselves with eugenics. As they collected family pedigrees, measured skin color, hair texture, rates of disease, physical form and function, these eugenicists relied on racial logic from the slavery era that held Blackness to be a constellation of discrete bodily features and dispositions. Thus this talk will highlight slavery’s little studied role in the development of eugenicists’ opinions about the fitness of mixed race people with Black and white ancestry in the Americas.
Author: Rana Hogarth
Date: 12/6/2022
Location: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Primary URL:
https://history.princeton.edu/news-events/events/expertise-eugenics-and-legacies-slavery-studying-race-crossing-early-20th-centuryPrimary URL Description: Webpage of announcement for History of Science Colloqioum,
Daniel Sennert and the Renaissance Debates on Occult Qualities and Occult Diseases (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Daniel Sennert and the Renaissance Debates on Occult Qualities and Occult Diseases
Author: Hiro Hirai
Abstract: This conference uses the career and achievements of one of the most important medical scholars of the seventeenth century, Daniel Sennert, to construct a systematic analysis of how medical knowledge was created and disseminated in the early modern era.[1] Sennert (1572-1637) was one of the most prolific, innovative and influential physicians of the period. [2] A professor at Wittenberg, he played an important part in developing a precocious atomic theory, transformed medicine through the use of chemistry, worked in anatomy and botany, published numerous successful medical handbooks and treatises, affected everyday medical practice, and had more than one hundred students who spread his methods and ideas through large parts of Europe. He wrote and taught a combination of classical medicine and new empirical knowledge, enriching and elaborating the views of such canonical medical authors as Galen, Hippocrates and Aristotle.[3
This paper explores the discussions on occult diseases and occult qualities advanced by Daniel Sennert of Wittenberg at the threshold of the Scientific Revolution.
Date: 08/08/2023
Primary URL:
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sennertsworldPrimary URL Description: website for the International Conference, June 8-9, at Forschungszentrum Gotha, Universität Erfurt ,
Conference Name: The World of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637): Creation and Dissemination of Medical Knowledge in the 17th Century
Astral Magic in Islam and Europe (Conference/Institute/Seminar)Title: Astral Magic in Islam and Europe
Author: Hiro Hirai
Abstract: This panel session consisted of three papers exploring diverse aspects of astral magic in Islam and their reception in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Date Range: March 21-23, 2024
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Primary URL:
https://www.rsa.org/page/RSAChicago2024Primary URL Description: website for 70th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago, March 21-23, 2023).
Cesalpino's Mineralogy between Meteorology and Chymistry (Book Section)Title: Cesalpino's Mineralogy between Meteorology and Chymistry
Author: Hiro Hirai
Editor: Craig Martin
Editor: Fabrizio Baldassarri
Abstract: Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.
By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle's texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas. Cesalpino's relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and medicine. In combining Cesalpino's reception of these traditions alongside his connections to early modern science, this book provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.
In Part II, section 9, Hiro Hirai's article addresses the mineralogy of the Italian physician Andrea Cesalpino active at the papal court and his criticism of alchemy.
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://search.worldcat.org/title/1390968229Primary URL Description: WorldCat link for the book, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism
Access Model: hardback book
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Book Title: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 9781350325142
Broader Impacts: The Magic School Bus and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships for Science Education (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Broader Impacts: The Magic School Bus and the Rise of Public-Private Partnerships for Science Education
Author: Michael Meindl
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Abstract: In 1991, children’s publisher Scholastic approached the NSF to adapt its bestselling book series The Magic School Bus (MSB) into an animated television show. “An opportunity that combines the best features of sponsorship and public service,” Scholastic pitched, one that encouraged girls and minority children to pursue scientific careers and also provided “unlimited merchandising opportunities.” Airing on PBS, with over $10 million in federal grants, MSB ultimately reached hundreds of millions of children. An effort to enhance scientific literacy, MSB also was an experiment in how to pay for the nation’s techno-scientific future. Its partnership involved Scholastic, Microsoft, Fox, and animation studio Nelvana; NSF and DOE; PBS and Carnegie Corporation; and other stakeholders. This talk contributes to scholarship on the motivations, tensions, and impacts of public-private partnerships in science education. MSB was one of several initiatives such as Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Cro, that utilized private enterprise to pursue national goals in a “multimedia” era of government austerity. Did collaborations between government, corporations, and nonprofits result in a “synergy” greater than the sum of its parts? (James and Singer, 2016; Roehrich, et al., 2014) Or, were they neoliberal encroachment into science, education, and the commodification of children (Cain, 2021; Ames, 2019; Sims, 2018; Banet-Weiser, 2007; Cook, 2004)? Utilizing archives, government and industry publications, and animated media, we analyze the micro- and macro-processes that made public-private partner-ships desirable and productive, but also problematic and hard to sustain. We investigate the tension between “science as inquiry” and “STEM competitiveness” among educational reformers. We explore the role of a new generation of women media executives leading these initiatives. Finally, we show how NSF’s very definition of broader impacts stemmed for the corporate
partners that brought MSB to life.
Date: 03/14/2024
Primary URL:
https://thebhc.org/index.php/abstract/88388Primary URL Description: 2024 Business History Conference abstracts -webpage
Secondary URL:
https://thebhc.org/Secondary URL Description: The Business History Conference website
Conference Name: Business History Conference, Providence, Rhode Island
Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates (Book Section)Title: Galen in Renaissance and Early Modern Debates
Author: Hiro Hirai
Editor: Ralph M. Rosen
Editor: Peter Singer
Abstract: The Oxford Handbook of Galen provides a comprehensive overview of the life, work, and legacy of Galen (129--c. 216 CE), arguably the most important medical figure of the Graeco-Roman world. It contains essays by thirty leading experts on Galen's life and background, his medical theories, his therapeutic and clinical practices, and his philosophical contributions in the areas of logic, epistemology, causation, scientific method, and ethics. This article examines the reception of Galen’s medical ideas among early modern readers through the debates launched by the French physician Jean Fernel.
Year: 2024
Primary URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-galen-9780190913687?cc=us&lang=en&Primary URL Description: Oxford University Press webpage for the book
Access Model: book
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Galen
ISBN: 9780190913687
Giordano Bruno, Universal Animation and Living Atoms (Article)Title: Giordano Bruno, Universal Animation and Living Atoms
Author: Hiro Hirar
Abstract: This article explores Giordano Bruno’s striking atomism of animated particles upon its historical and intellectual context by suggesting two possible near-contemporary sources.
One of the most striking features of Giordano Bruno's philosophy is the marriage of universal animation with atomism. This unusual combination produced an extraordinary image of the universe, which was governed by the World-Soul and its universal intellect along with an infinite number of living atoms or corpuscles, animated by their internal spiritual principle. After examining Bruno's principal arguments on the World-Soul, universal animation and living atoms or corpuscles, this article explores two possible sources among the works of his near-contemporaries. The first author, Agostino Steuco, tried to reconcile the doctrine of the World-Soul with Christianity, integrating the idea of Anaxagoras on the cosmic mind as the demiurgic agent of the universe. The second figure, Jacob Schegk, further elaborated his unusual atomistic or corpuscular reinterpretation of this Presocratic philosopher's ideas.
Year: 2024
Primary URL:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496977.2023.2283929Primary URL Description: article webpage on Taylor & Francis Online
Access Model: open access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Intellectual History Review
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Rethinking Homelessness and Urban Poverty in Los Angeles and Beyond (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Rethinking Homelessness and Urban Poverty in Los Angeles and Beyond
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: This roundtable considers the vexing issue of homelessness and urban poverty in Los Angeles and the Bronx. It foregrounds homelessness as a key crisis exacerbated by these uncertain times that, far from being exceptional, reveals a continuity with post–World War II policies and trends. The panel explores two underexamined causes of homelessness, war and the antipathy of people who identify as queer, and how these forces ghettoized refugees, asylum seekers, and people who identify as queer in homeless districts nationwide such as Skid Row, Los Angeles, and select communities in
the Bronx.
Date: 4/1/2023
Primary URL:
https://www.oah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/oah_2023_conference_program_digital_copy.pdfPrimary URL Description: 2023 Organization of American Historian Conference program
Conference Name: 2023 conference on American History - Confronting Crises: History for Uncertain Times
Queering the US History Survey and Beyond (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Queering the US History Survey and Beyond
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: The second decade of the 21st century has proven dangerous to queer people, especially members of the trans community. Conservative governments have declared war on what they consider “un-American behavior,” transforming sovereign entities into states of emergency. Given this reality, this roundtable will offer suggestions on how to queer the U.S. survey and upper-division history courses so that LGBTQ individuals and their stories are recovered and made known to students (and the public at large) and help us re-envision the past, the present, and the future and ensure that affirmative notions and knowledge of queerness become common sense.
Date: 4/13/2024
Primary URL:
https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah24/sessions/session/?id=5524Primary URL Description: Organization of American Historians Conference, program page
Conference Name: 2024 Organization of American Historians Conference- Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation
Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: This talk considers the vexing issue of homelessness and urban poverty in Los Angeles and the Bronx. It foregrounds homelessness as a key crisis exacerbated by these uncertain times that, far from being exceptional, reveals a continuity with post–World War II policies and trends.
Date: 2/15/2024
Conference Name: Rice University, Medical Humanities Program
Take Chances! Make Mistakes! Get Messy! (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Take Chances! Make Mistakes! Get Messy!
Author: Michael Meindl
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Abstract: In the mid-1990s, a crazy-haired teacher named Ms. Frizzle took America’s children on fieldtrips inside the human body and to the outer reaches of space. The Magic School Bus was a centerpiece experiment in a national effort to reinvigorate science education. The show’s catchphrase, “Take Chances! Make Mistakes! Get Messy!” suggested new ways of getting children excited about science. In contrast to the live-action format of a white-coated man performing structured demonstrations, the show used animation to help viewers experience science in action. Animation allowed the children to venture into otherwise unreachable environments and imagined worlds, making use of the affordances of animation scholars have pointed to. Along the way, Ms. Frizzle encouraged kids to take risks, to fail, and to find patterns. Beyond its pedagogical innovations, The Magic School Bus was an experiment in how to pay for the nation’s technoscientific future. The show resulted from a public-private “synergy” between the National Science Foundation; Scholastic, Inc.; PBS; Fox; Microsoft; and even McDonald’s. Though the show was only in production for four seasons, it had a lasting impact on science education in the United States, living on in syndication, nationwide classroom use, and a recent reboot. This presentation uses The Magic School Bus to analyze science education reform in the late- 20th century United States. We situate the show in the history of efforts to use television as an educational medium and broader discussions of children and public science. We then discuss how NSF and its corporate partners produced the show and its networked activities. Finally, we explore the role of animation in the show’s pedagogical, ideological, and economic goals.
Date: 02/01/2024
Secondary URL:
https://thebhc.org/Conference Name: STS Seminar Series, Virginia Tech
Surfin' on a Soundwave: The Magic School Bus and the Invisible World of Sound (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Surfin' on a Soundwave: The Magic School Bus and the Invisible World of Sound
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Abstract: The mid-1990s saw the release of one of the most iconic public science initiatives in the United States: The Magic School Bus (MSB) television series. Based on the books by Joanna Cole (author) and Bruce Degen (illustrator), and a result of public-private partnerships, MSB focused on the eccentric teacher Ms. Frizzle and her multicultural class, who would take field trips to various locations, including space and the human body. The invisible often played a role in the show’s episodes, from sound waves to odor particles. Representing the invisible is difficult for any audience, but it can become especially tricky when your target demographic is elementary students. Acting as an example of “useful animation" (Cook et al., 2023), MSB’s creators embraced the medium of animation and, through its characters, plots, and designs, found a number of ways to help its young audience to understand scientific concepts, including those that deal with things beyond what we can see. In this presentation, we look at a number of episodes that deal with the invisible, with a special emphasis on those that tackle sound. Through a detailed analysis of these episodes, we show how MSB’s “scientific storytellers” (Ockert, 2018) utilize various animation narrative strategies, including metamorphosis and penetration (Holliday, 2024; Wells, 1998), to help explain the invisible world of sound. We also show how the episodes work to be both educational and entertaining, a difficult task for any educational (science) media (LaFollette, 2013). Beyond content analysis, we also draw on extensive archival research to help connect the episodes’ strategies in showcasing the invisible with the larger goals of the series. In the end, we show how animation is used strategically to help teach a particular audience about the invisible while also entertaining the viewers.
Date: 12/15/2023
Conference Name: Figuring the Invisible—An Interdisciplinary Conference, Lucerne School of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland
Science Rules: Educational Reform, the Children’s Television Act, and the Public Face of STEM in the 1990s (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Science Rules: Educational Reform, the Children’s Television Act, and the Public Face of STEM in the 1990s
Author: Michael Meindl
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Abstract: In March of 1994, Teacher Magazine declared a “Blizzard of Wizards” to describe nearly a dozen science television shows hitting the airwaves. Using “humor, slick graphics, fast editing, and other whiz-bang gimmicks,” programs such as Bill Nye the Science Guy aimed to convince the MTV generation that “Science Rules.” This flurry of productions impacted how generations of American children came to understand what science is and who participates in it. This talk investigates the confluence of stakeholders and agendas behind this critical moment in science media. We demonstrate how the science television boom was the result of federal STEM education reforms to encourage participation by girls and minorities and to achieve nation competitiveness in the global economy. This science reform coincided with the Children’s Television Act of 1990, which mandated educational programming to combat the violence and commercialism of television for young people. Commercial broadcasters as well as Disney, Microsoft, Scholastic, and Target embraced science television to avoid penalties and to take advantage of federal funding. We then compare three showcase programs with National Science Foundation support–Bill Nye the Science Guy, The Magic School Bus, Cro–to explore how STEM was reimagined for different audiences, via different techniques, and in different partnerships. We utilize archival collections, local and national policy documents, and the shows themselves to explore the motivations, contradictions, and outcomes of science television in the 1990s.
Date: 11/10/2023
Secondary URL:
https://thebhc.org/Conference Name: 2023 History of Science Society Conference
I break for large intestines’: The Magic School Bus and the comparative media of edutainment (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: I break for large intestines’: The Magic School Bus and the comparative media of edutainment
Author: Matthew Wisnioski
Abstract: This talk explores the rapid growth of “edutainment” software in the early 1990s to investigate the relationship between the media industry, user experience, childhood imagination, and science education. In 1994, the Microsoft Corporation collaborated with the publisher Scholastic Inc. to produce a series of CD-Rom games for The Magic School Bus (MSB). The point-and-click adventure used full-screen animation to offer children the experience of traveling inside the human body and on the ocean floor. The games were part of a major public-private partnership to turn the best-selling book series into a cross-platform media brand centered on an animated television show. The federal government saw the software component of the broader project as an opportunity to expand digital literacy and harness the promise of classroom technology. Scholastic used MSB’s games as a signature effort to become a multimedia company and to lay the groundwork for early internet content. Microsoft spearheaded the project amid their competition with Apple Computer to capture the growing school and home market. MSB’s unique place in the history of multimedia education offers an ideal lens for understanding the interplay between producers, users, and the cultivation of imagination and knowledge via edutainment. To understand the values, outcomes, and long- term impacts of MSB’s software innovations, I utilize archival material that includes children and teacher feedback to these different media as well as product developer material; reviews; and the games, books, and television episodes themselves. This approach allows comparison between how different media forms and their real-world uses constrained and afforded science education and imaginative play.
Date: 10/28/2023
Secondary URL:
https://thebhc.org/Conference Name: SHOT Annual Meeting 2023-Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest (Web Resource)Title: Information Control and Indigenous Politics of Documentation in the American Southwest
Author: Adam Johnson
Abstract: In this podcast, Adam Johnson introduces us to his book project, which examines the shifting relationships between white ethnographic fieldworkers and Pueblo and Navajo communities in the American Southwest around the documentation of sensitive information. By contrasting Anglo universalist conceptions of knowledge with Pueblo and Navajo epistemic systems, which both have restrictions on the free flow of information (though in quite different ways), he shows that Indigenous practices of information control constrained ethnographic fieldwork methods. In response, Southwesternists regularly dropped the emerging gold-standard of participant observation to pursue Indigenous knowledge that was purposefully withheld from them, adopting tactics that isolated and coerced individual informants. The consequences of ethnographic extraction were complicated: for many communities, not only was sacred knowledge profaned when outsiders learned of it, but the publication of such information risked that even unsanctioned members of their own communities might learn things about which they were supposed to be ignorant.
Year: 2023
Primary URL:
https://www.chstm.org/video/161Primary URL Description: Webpage for recorded podcast on the Consortium Perspectives portal. Perspectives is an ever-growing library of podcasts, videos, and essays on the history of science, technology and medicine, along with resources for further learning and opportunities to engage in ongoing conversations. Perspectives provides discussions with leading scholars, interviews with recent authors, and archival highlights from the exceptional collections of Consortium member institutions.
Eugenics and the Legacies of Slavery (Web Resource)Title: Eugenics and the Legacies of Slavery
Author: Rana Hogarth
Abstract: Her research project focuses on the medical and scientific constructions of race during the era of slavery and beyond. She discusses the collections she will use as she investigates – the American Philosophical Society, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Columbia University and Rockefeller Archive Center—and the records that are available there that will inform her current book project, Measuring Miscegenation: Eugenic Race-Crossing Studies and the Legacies of Slavery.
Professor Hogarth's previous book, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, examined how white physicians defined blackness as a medically significant marker of difference in slave societies of the American Atlantic. Her work can be found in numerous scholarly journals including the American Journal of Public Health, American Quarterly, and African and Black Diaspora. In this podcast, she describes her background and her research in Consortium collections.
Year: 2022
Primary URL:
https://www.chstm.org/video/141Primary URL Description: Webpage for recorded podcast on he Consortium Perspectives portal. Perspectives is an ever-growing library of podcasts, videos, and essays on the history of science, technology and medicine, along with resources for further learning and opportunities to engage in ongoing conversations. Perspectives provides discussions with leading scholars, interviews with recent authors, and archival highlights from the exceptional collections of Consortium member institutions.
Pseudo-Paracelsus, Recipes and Experiments (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Pseudo-Paracelsus, Recipes and Experiments
Author: Hiro Hirai
Abstract: This paper provided an overview of the corpus of early modern texts attributed to the Swiss physician Paracelsus.
Date: 10/15/2022
Conference Name: Princeton-Bucharest Seminar, University of Bucharest (Romania)
Daniel Sennert, Chymistry and Theological Debates (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Daniel Sennert, Chymistry and Theological Debates
Author: Hiro Hirai
Abstract: This paper examined the major chymical work of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) which was one of the earliest treatises promoting chymistry and chymical medicine, written by university professors of medicine amid the publication of Paracelsian and ps.-Paracelsian works.
Date: 2/11/2023
Conference Name: 69th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (San Juan, Puerto Rico
Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986 (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 2/15/2024
Conference Name: Medical Humanities Program, Rice University
Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986 (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 2/12/2024
Conference Name: Cornell University, Institute of Labor Relations. Ithaca, NY
Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986 (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 2/9/2024
Conference Name: University of Texas, Austin Department of American Studies. Austin, TX
Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986 (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Organized Employment: The Politics of Making Race, Sexuality, and Poverty Productive in Global Los Angeles, 1965-1986
Author: Nic John Ramos
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 2/5/2024
Conference Name: Structural Racism and Health Equity Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles Medical School. Los Angeles, CA