Past Events › HoS Lecture Series

This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series and will feature Dr Lynette Regouby.

The essential backdrop of the history of the region we now call Latin America is the centuries-long process of negotiation between the different social, religious, cultural and political registers of the Indigenous, African and European peoples who came to inhabit the area. The resulting American scientific and technological convergence involved the combination and recombination of practices whose exact origins are difficult to trace. This talk proposes a framework for the study of the scientific and technological registers of the American convergence. It recognizes the hybrid, complex and local nature of the convergence and explores these through three kinds of human activities: learning, moving and making.

Unfolding in three scenes—each pinned to a financial crash, each oriented to the experience of a female employee—this talk will account for the material and affective networks that made gaming possible and computers thinkable as machines of everyday life.

Both like and not like cosmetic surgery and whole organ transplants, facial allografts have proven difficult to categorize. This talk will show how bioethicists, surgeons, and journalists have conceptualized face transplants as neither and both, and the resulting stakes for each.

Lan A. Li (Columbia University) will give a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.

Tillman Taape (Columbia University) will give a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.

Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) gives a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.

Noam Andrews (New York University) gives a talk as part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.