Date:
Monday, November 30, 2015, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location:
Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Lower Level Library
“The Geography of Containment: Colonialism, Slavery, the American Civil War, and the Making of Epidemiology”
Speaker:
Jim Downs, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College.
Commentator:
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Graduate Student Commentator:
Westenley Alcenat, PhD Candidate in History, Columbia University; Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at www.bit.ly/wigh2015 (Harvard ID required) or by request to jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu.
