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Elizabeth O'Brien

@eobrien.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/sur…

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm impressed that our PhD students organized this conference for other grad students and early career scholars. All are welcome to attend!

Southern California
History of Science Graduate Student Colloquium
9:00-9:50 AM
COFFEE AND BREAKFAST

9:50-10:00 AM OPENING REMARKS

10:00-11:15 PANEL 1
   

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Katherine White, UC San Diego
Printing Medicine in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Mexico

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Izabel Barros, UC Riverside

Beyond the Ledger: The Untold Stories of Enslaved Women and Children on a 19th- Century Swiss Plantation in Bahia, Brazil
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Julian Kaptanian, UC Los Angeles
Moderator
11:15-11:30 AM BREAK

 
11:30 AM-1:00 PM PANEL 2

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Niall Chithelen, UC San Diego

Unstable Concrete Structures: Time and Environment in the History of Technology
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Alexandra Noi, UC Santa Barbara

(Re)Making a Homo Pavlovius: Labor Therapy, Pavlovian Conditioning, and the Stalinist Gulag
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Joseph Moreno, UC San Diego

Frontier Statecraft: From Massive Agribusiness in South Texas to the Development of Starbase (SpaceX)

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Chiara Di Leone, UC Los Angeles
Moderator
1:00-2:00 PM LUNCH
If arriving after 10:00 AM, please contact Meg or Ben, so that we can let you in.

May 24, 2025  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Room 6275, Sixth Floor, Bunche Hall, UCLA
11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

*The closest parking lot to Bunche Hall is Parking Structure 3
2:00-3:15 PM
PANEL 3

Sookyong Ko, UC San Diego

Portrait Art or Science Image?: Oscar G. Mason and the Early Medical Daguerreotypes

Robyn Fishman, UC Santa Barbara
Sitting Pretty: The National Trends in Anthropology Revealed by Frances E. Watkins' Career
at the Southwest Museum
Ben Schnieder, UC Los Angeles
Moderator
3:15-3:30 PM
Break
3:30-4:15 PM
Roundtable 

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Erin Budrow, UC Los Angeles

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Alden Requena-Robison, UC San Diego

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Ben Schnieder, UC Los Angeles

Community Disenfranchisement and Environmental Displacement in the Institutionalization of Science and Medicine  

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Meg Spaulding, UC Los Angeles
Moderator

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Obsessed with this brilliant review by Bonnie Lucero, just published in História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. I'm especially awe-struck by this paragraph, because of how perfectly she articulates the messy contradictions borne from paternalism in women's healthcare www.academia.edu/126510475/Lu...

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I'm incredibly grateful to Nicole Von Germeten and the University of Oregon for inviting me to give the Paul Farber Lecture on Wednesday. Friends near Corvallis—please let me know if you'd like to have coffee or a meal!

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Friends at Dartmouth, please consider joining this fabulous group of historians next week for a discussion of Surgery and Salvation, from @uncpress.bsky.social! I'm beyond grateful for their time and for the invitation, and I can't wait to hear their thoughts.

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

My book is available at a 30% discount from UNC Press! @uncpress.bsky.social Discount code 01UNCP30

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Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

My wonderful @uncpress.bsky.social book editor, Andreína Fernandez, let me know that the blurbs arrived for Surgery and Salvation! I've long admired these scholars and I couldn't be more humbled by, or grateful for, their generous reading of this work. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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