History of Science and Medicine Lecture series:
Yellow Fever in America: Epidemics, medicine, and race in 18th and 19th century America.
Contact person: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig nstoyan@ufl.edu
These events are made possible by funding from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Margaret and Robert Rothman Endowment.
Title: Benjamin Rush and the American transition from colony to republic through medical systems
Wednesday February 8, 2023, 12:00-12:50 PM.
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Naramore, assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University, explores Benjamin Rush’s contribution to medical treatments and theories, that included ideas about racial immunity to disease.
Registration/Webinar link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0spk9qkIQwWQzbdqmM9z-g
Title: Yellow fever, race, and ecology in New OrleansWednesday February 15, 2023, 12:00- 12:50 PM.Speaker: Dr. Urmi Engineer Willoughby, is a professor at Murray State University has focused her research on the disease and ecology in North America, exploring histories of disease and medicine from a global and ecological perspective.Registration/Webinar link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bAeWPQxbSkaDm7Hex6yJ7Q
Talk topic: Medicalization of race in America in the Atlantic world and in Philadelphia, 1793
Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 12:00-12:50 PM.
Speaker: Dr. Rana Hogarth is an associate professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where her work explores medical and scientific constructions of race during the era of slavery and beyond.
Registration/Webinar link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x53uupQIR8KKjy52UCWD6Q