This artist-guided event will explore Lake Sturgeons' Guide for Surviving the Anthropocene (LSGFSA), an experimental media artwork created by Anna Scime from nine years of research and fieldwork collaborations with scientists working in biology, geology and ecology. The work consists of a series of short video essays and interrelated multimedia installations that examine history, art, […]

Nostalgia for Armpit Goats? Body Odor and Biopower Wednesday, Nov. 17, 11:30a to 12:30p at Coalesce (308 Hochstetter) Bodies smell.  But what does that mean?  Since the Roman Empire took on “armpit goats,” governing body odor has been used as a signal of progress and civilization.  Yet the odiferous sweat from an honest day’s work […]

Please join us for the next installment of the Humanities Institute Science Studies Workshop series on Race, Health, and Science Fixing Parents or Fixing Poverty? Lessons from Child Welfare Policy History Mical Raz, MD, PhD, Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, Department of History, University of Rochester, and Clinical […]

Abstract: Transitioning away from fossil fuels requires the production of energy from non-fossil sources. However, quantitative analyses and historical assessments of previous shifts in energy use indicate that the expansion of non-fossil energy sources – _in the absence of direct efforts to suppress fossil fuel extraction and challenge the power of the fossil fuel industry […]

Modeling Across Disciplines: A conversation with an atmospheric scientist, a family sociologist, and a philosopher about how we can (and cannot) use models to better understand our world. The world is almost as messy as it is complex. This is a big problem for anyone attempting to understand…well… anything. How are we to tease apart […]

Workshop on a pre-circulated chapter-in-revision, “The Widening Gap: The 1980s Crisis of Black Infant Survival.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 545 Park Hall, 10:45am to 12:15pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/97306125070?pwd=VDlQMFR1Y0paemhFZEJTM0hKSFpTdz09 The chapter traces the historical origins of the Black infant mortality crisis, and how new medical theories and […]

Formal talk, “To Protect the Mother and Baby: Black Infant Death in Historical Perspective.” WANGUI MUIGAI, PHD, ASSISTANT PROF., BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY 532 Park Hall, 3-5pm, and can also be attended by Zoom at https://buffalo.zoom.us/j/91630026180?pwd=djdDM2ZDN3NlNFF0bTVSUVVmY3FwZz09 Dr. Muigai will trace the long history of efforts to reduce Black infant mortality. Through exploring how politicians, physicians, midwives, and […]

In this lecture, Professor Holleman will discuss the vital lessons we can learn from one of the first global environmental problems of modern capitalism, which reached its apogee in the “dust-bowlification” of agricultural lands in the 1920s and 1930s. Based on award-winning research, Prof. Holleman explains that the regional crises of soil erosion in this […]

This talk will examine the capacity of chemical manufacturers to influence the scope of U.S. regulatory decision-making through mobilizing the scientific field surrounding PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Drawing on participant observation at two offices within Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in-depth interviews, and analyses of industry documents, Richter will share a portion of her research investigating […]

The HI Science Studies Research Workshop will host a talk by Scott Frickel of Brown University. This talk introduces new research that aims to reconstruct a history of soil contamination science and policy and its relationship to broader socio-ecological processes of environmental inequality and urbanization. Set mainly in Providence, Rhode Island the study is anchored […]