Talks and presentations

Selected talks and presentations

2024-2025

Research Talk at Centre for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Oxford, June 16 (scheduled)

‘Thinking Beyond Accuracy,” AI & the Human Condition Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, February 12 (scheduled)

Panelist at “Surveillance and Countersurveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency,” public event for the HSS Centennial celebration, Wende Museum Los Angeles, November 23 (scheduled)

Research talk at Racial Justice Speaker Series, Claremont Colleges, November 15 (scheduled)

“Sarton’s New Humanism in the Age of AI,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Mérida, 7-10 November (scheduled)

“Beyond ‘Neutral’ Data: Historical Insights on Algorithms, Racism, and Bodies,” Medical and Health Humanities Speaker Series, Sam Houston University, November 6 (scheduled)

“What Databases Tell Us About History,” Colloquium History of Science Department, University of Oklahoma, March 1.

2023

“Big Data, Clinical Algorithms, and Race,” Research talk at Health Humanities and Bioethics Department, University of Rochester, 1 December.

“Old Bones in New Databases: the Case of Fordisc,” History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago, 26 May.

“The Afterlives of Skulls: Data Journeys from Race Science to Big Tech,” STS Department colloquium, Rensselaer Polytech Institute, 8 February.

“The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science,” History Department, Purdue University, 25 January.

2022

“Geoffrey Morant and the Unexpected Connections Between Racial Science and Human Growth Studies (1940s-50s), History of Science Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, 17-20 November

“The Afterlife of Race Science: Postwar Craniometry in Human Evolutionary Studies,” University of Pennsylvania History of Science Workshop, 31 October

“Data Doesn’t Speak For Itself: Race Science and Present-Day Skull Databases,” New Perspectives on racialization, colonialism, and epistemic injustice in science and society, Utrecht University, 7 June.

“The Impact of British Biometry and Race Studies on the Origins of Forensic Anthropology in the United States,” American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting, 21-25 February. Co-presented with Dr. Nicholas Passalacqua.

2021    

“The Afterlives of Skulls: How Race Science Became a Data Science,” UCLA History of Science Colloquium, 29 November.

“Tracing Race in Forensic Anthropological Data Practices: the Case of ForDisc,” History of Science Society/SHOT Joint Annual Meeting. New Orleans, 18-21 November.

“Old Bones in New DataBases: the Case of ForDisc,” Society for the Social Studies of Science Meeting, 6-9 October

“Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Antiracism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology,” Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology, 10 April.

“Quantifying Race: How Numbers Divide Us,” SIFK Cultures and Knowledge Workshop, 22 February.

2020    

“Bodies and Chromosomes. Commentary on Heredity Under the Microscope,” Book Event for Soraya de Chadarevian, UCLA, 16 November.

“Old Bones in New Databases: Pearson, Howells, and ForDisc,” History of Science Society/SHOT Virtual Forum, 8 October.

 “The Anthropological Politics of Standardizing Man’s Measurements.” Contested Data: What Happens When the Givens Aren’t Taken Academic Workshop. Data & Society Research Institute, 6 March.