Departmental Seminars take place monthly during the academic year and are open to both the university community and the wider public. Each session is generally 90 minutes long and features a presentation from a guest speaker followed by interactive discussion. The seminars share a common commitment to engage with inventive and cutting-edge research across the disciplinary areas represented by the SSoM departmental faculty.
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2023-24
Shireen Hamza, Northwestern University. “The Proximity of Masculinity: Gender, Space, and Medical Authority in Medieval Islam”
Joelle Abi-Rached, Harvard University. “For a Topohistory: Psychiatric ruins and sediments of memory”
Stephen T. Casper, Clarkson University. “Industry Capture and Traumatic Brain Injury: Who gets hurt and how when industries focus on protecting profits”
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2022-23
Sophie Vasset, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier. “Murky Waters: Exploring Spas, Health, and Leisure in 18th Century Britain.”
Stefan Timmerman, UCLA. “The Unclaimed: Death, Standardization, and Families”
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2021-22
Hannah Zeavin, UC Berkeley. “Absence, Presence, Distance: A [Brief] History of Teletherapy”
Eugene Richardson, Harvard University. “Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health”
Bettina Hitzer, Max-Planck - Institute for Human Development, Berlin. “Cure in the Bunker. Radiological Cancer Treatment and Emotion in the Cold War”
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2020-21
Katrin Solhdju, University of Mons, Belgium/ “The Fear of Being Duped. Modern Medicine and Its Modes of Disqualification”
Nükhet Varlık, Rutgers University. “Why the Islamic World is Central to the History of the Plague”
Thorben Simonsen. IT University of Copenhagen. “The Spatial Organization of Psychiatric Practice: A Situated Inquiry into Healing Architecture”
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