Working for the Race: Black Scholars, Invisible Labor, and the Baggage of Creating Space

By Ayah Nuriddin, Shelby Pumphrey, Ezelle Sanford III and J. Corey Williams

This article is part of the series: Critical Histories, Activist Futures

“Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine and Racial Violence,” a conference hosted by Yale University in February 2017, was a welcome departure from the Anglo-centrism dominating the fields of the History of Science and Medicine (HS&M). Focusing on the history of knowledge production, dissemination, and professionalization using objects, practices, and ideas, these historical subfields too often ignore the politics of …

Features

September 12, 2017

More than Local Arrangements: How Conference Logistics Can Speak to Values

By Sarah Pickman

This article is part of the series: Critical Histories, Activist Futures

In the fall of 2016, my colleagues Tess Lanzarotta, Marco Ramos, and I met as the core organizers for the “Critical Histories, Activist Futures” conference to hammer out our individual roles. We decided that I would take on the role of head of local arrangements, managing all of the practical logistics for the conference: food, room reservations, registration, etc. “Local …

Features

September 11, 2017

Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine and Racial Violence

By Sarah Pickman

This article is part of the series: Critical Histories, Activist Futures

A Reframed (and Reflexive) Conference Report

Organized and Edited by Tess Lanzarotta and Sarah M. Pickman

After a conference ends – after the last paper coffee cup has been tossed into the trash, after the adaptor cable has been disconnected from the podium laptop, after the speakers have rushed out to catch trains and flights homeward – what then? …

Somatosphere

Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics.

Series: Critical Histories, Activist Futures

Working for the Race: Black Scholars, Invisible Labor, and the Baggage of Creating Space

More than Local Arrangements: How Conference Logistics Can Speak to Values

Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine and Racial Violence