Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar

Blood of the Earth: On Oil Extraction, Toxic Exposure, and Community-Led Healing in Amazonian Ecuador Speaker: Lindsay Ofrias, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Marcia Castro Lindsay Ofrias is a cultural anthropologist whose research broadly...

“A Method, Not a Force”: Evolution, Environment, and Indigeneity at the Zoological Survey of India, 1916-1935 Speaker: Aviroop Sengupta, 2024-25 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Alex Csiszar REGISTER HERE Aviroop Sengupta is a historian of science...

"Carboniferous Art and the “Latino Belt”: Remapping Migration, Recollecting Politics" REGISTER NOW Speaker: Jason de Lara Molesky, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Hannah Waits Jason de Lara Molesky is Assistant Professor of English at Saint...

"Charismatic Factuality: The Affective Labor of Oil Industry Boosters" REGISTER NOW Speaker: Nataya Friedan, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Sven Beckert Nataya Friedan is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on climate change...

"Performances of Infrastructure and Changing Climates in Nunavut" REGISTER NOW Speaker: Clara Wilch, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Robin Bernstein Clara Wilch is an interdisciplinary environmental studies scholar who researches performance...

"He Sendeth Rain on the Just and the Unjust: Social Response to Environmental Crisis in Medieval Romney Marsh" REGISTER HERE Speaker: Tobias Hrynick, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Alex Moore Tobias Hrynick is an environmental and digital...

"Anneal this Breath: Reading Glass, Poetics, and Nuclear Genealogies with Yhonnie Scarce" REGISTER FOR PRE-CIRCULATED PAPER Speaker: Rebecca H. Hogue, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Katie Holmes Rebecca H. Hogue (she/they) grew up on the...

"Administering Presence: The Role of Science and Technology in Nonhuman and Fetal Rights Projects" REGISTER FOR PRE-CIRCULATED PAPER Speaker: Lindsay O'Connor Stern, 2023-24 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Rebecca Lemov Lindsay O’Connor Stern received...

"Photosensitive Skin: Lebensreform Photography and the Open-Air Nude" REGISTER FOR KATERINA KOROLA'S SEMINAR Speaker: Katerina Korola, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Laura Frahm Katerina Korola is an art historian and media scholar whose work...

"Slow Transparency: Lead, Water Crises, and the Formation of Publics" REGISTER FOR KESSIE ALEXANDRE'S SEMINAR Speaker: Kessie Alexandre, 2022-23 MHC Postdoctoral Fellow Respondent: Steven Caton Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at...