Speaker: David S. Jones

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Title: “AIDS Origins: Can Stories that Don’t Tell Well Still Become History?"

Speaker: David Paternotte (Lecturer in Sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles)

Speaker: Kenneth Oye (MIT, Political Science)

Speaker: Sarah Richardson (Harvard, History of Science)

Title: The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich
Sabine Hildebrandt, M.D.: Assistant Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

"Representing the Human Drinker: Modeling Binge Drinking with Mice"
SPEAKER: Nicole Nelson, University of Wisconsin
DISCUSSANT: Sophia Roosth, Harvard University

Title: "The Social Life of DNA"
Alondra Nelson, Department of Sociology, Columbia University

HS Visiting Fellows Bruna Colombo dos Santos & ...

Title: "Ghost Fathers and Adultery by Doctor: The Medical and Legal Origins of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, 1920-1978"

Michael Knipper (Justus Liebig University and Harvard Medical School), “The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 and the Human Right to Health: Towards an Historical Understanding of Primary Health Care”

John Gee (History), “Applied Anthropology and Cultural Preservation: U.S.–Mexico Connections”

Lucas Müller (HASTS Program, MIT), “Breaking the Toxic Mold: Aflatoxin and the Making of Cancer Research in the Postcolonial World, 1960–2015”

Diane Paul (University of Massachusetts Boston and Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology), “Truby King, Infant Welfare, and the Boundaries of Eugenics”

James T. Downs (Visiting Fellow in Medical Anthropology and The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History) “The Coefficient in Epidemiology: The International Cholera Epidemics and the American Civil War”