Dr. Suman Seth
The April 2022 Student History Club (SHC) Noon Lecture will be held Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 12 PM virtually on Zoom. Dr. Seth will present on “Race-Medicine in South Carolina, 1750-1850".
Dr. Suman Seth is the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science and Chair of the department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He received his Ph. D. in History from Princeton University in 2003. He has two published books: Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory, 1890-1926 and Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire. He is the editor of a special issue of Postcolonial Studies (2009), on “Science, Colonialism, Postcoloniality;” of a FOCUS section of Isis (2014) on “Re-Locating Race;” and—with Erika Milam—of a forthcoming issue (2021) of BJHS Themes on the Descent of Darwin.
This lecture will count as 1 hour of DEI credit for employees.
Virtual seating is limited, and this event is free and open to the public. Registration is required by Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 5 PM to reserve your seat and receive log in information.
The April 2022 Student History Club (SHC) Noon Lecture is sponsored by the Waring Library Society and hosted by the Waring Historical Library.
For more information, please contact the Waring at 843-792-2288 or waringhl@musc.edu.
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