Max Planck Institut for the History of Science
 
 
 
 
 

Seminar Series
Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation

Organized by Max Planck Research Group "Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation” (Veronika Lipphardt)

Venue:

The Villa at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Villa
Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Seminar Room (005)
Thursday, 11am - 1pm

Contact: Alexandra Widmer (awidmer@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)

 

2013

February 21, 2013
Peter Rohrbacher

The Change in the Concepts of Human Diversity in Africa in the 20th Century

February 28, 2013
Susanne Lettow

Improving reproduction: Articulations of
breeding and 'race-mixing' in French and German Thought (1750-1800)

March 14, 2013
Jörg Feuchter

Genetic History: A Challenge to Medieval Studies

April 11, 2013
Yulia Egorova

The Substance that Empowers? Population Genetics Research in South Asia

April 18, 2013
Soraya de Chadarevian

Chromosomes and the study of human populations post-World War II

April 25-27, 2013
Conference "Visibility Matters: Rendering Human Orignis and Diversity in Space and Time"
Organisers: Marianne Sommer (Lucerne), Susanne Bauer (Frankfurt), Veronika Lipphardt (Berlin), Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter), Sandra Widmer (Berlin)
Venue: University of Lucerne

PDFProgram Conference Visibility Matters – PDF-File, 0.9 MB

May 23, 2013
João Rangel de Almeida

Epidemic risks: places, religions, and races in the construction of international public health'

June 6, 2013
Yuriditzi Pascacio Montijo
The Biological Categorization of El Indígena in the First Half of the 20th Century

June 20, 2013
Vivette Garcia Deister

Laboratory life of the Mexican mestizo

 

Past Events

2012

2011

2010

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