Tara Nummedal of Brown University will present, "Familiar Bodies: Dwelling with Spirits in Early Modern Saxony". Tara Nummedal joined the History Department in 2002, after completing her undergraduate and graduate degrees in California. She is the author of Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and […]

Sander Gliboff of Indiana University will present, "The Origins of Hermann Muller’s Mutation Concept". Dr. Gliboff is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University Bloomington. Gliboff’s research and teaching interests are in the history of biology, especially evolution and genetics, and the science […]

Ali Mirza of Amherst College will present, "Settler Dinosaurs and Colonial Objects: Adaptation and Entrenchment in the Nineteenth-Century Connecticut River Valley".