Race, Representation, and Museums Lecture Series

J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director, Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic Project, Duke University

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, the term “fetish...

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

Speaker: Daniel Wikler (HSPH, Ethics and Population Health)

Live Podcast from Radio Contact Exhibit

Sponsored by SIT’N Listen & Academic Ventures of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.    

The oceans cover 70% of our planet, but did you know that less than 5% of the ocean floor has been explored?  In the face of...

Title: “The Materials of Imperialism: Engineering Arid Landscapes in Washington’s Columbia Basin and Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley”
Linda Nash, University of Washington
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UCBerkeley cosmologist & astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma kicks off the first of a series of weekly discussions.... Read more about Black Hole Initiative Colloquium: Chung-Pei Ma

Please RSVP here for the SRC Colloquium Series Opening Reception

The "Science, Religion and Culture" seminar, one of the Mahindra Humanities Seminars, provides an opportunity to critically interrogate the categories of science, religion and culture and the sociocultural and discursive processes that create and transform these...

Title: "Fictioning Early Modernity: Storytelling with the History of Science”
Carla Nappi, Department of History, The University of British Columbia

Title: "Sound Matters: The Braided Tones of Vernacular Sciences in a Colonial Echo Chamber"

Projit Mukharji,
Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, History & Sociology of Science, UPenn