History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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January 19, 2024
Speakers:
Dr. Rosanna Dent
New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, United States.
Dr. Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Presentation: “Listening Party: Trabalho de Campo por um Geneticista e um Técnico” [Fieldwork by a Geneticist and a Technician].
See Website: https://hogenetica.org/
*The speakers recommend that group members familiarize themselves with the website and listen to interviews they find interesting before the session.
Explore Previous Works: To learn more about Dr. Gomes, please click here. For more information about Dr. Dent, click here.
Join us for this engaging discussion!
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November 17, 2023
Guest: Geandra Munareto, Postdoctoral Researcher, State University of Maringá, Brazil.
Presentation: “Raça e eugenia no contexto do pós-segunda guerra: o Pioneer Fund e a Mankind Quarterly como objetos de estudo”
Previous works/Website: https://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/bitstream/tede/7843/2/Tese%20-%20GEANDRA%20DENARDI%20MUNARETO.pdf (PhD Thesis).
Reading: Article attached. Please log in to access it. Kindly, do not share.
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October 20, 2023
Guest: Alessandra Santana Soares e Barros, Full Professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
Presentation: “Deficiência, diagnóstico de anomalias fetais e aborto: o caso da Síndrome de Down no Brasil”.
Previous works/Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessandra-Barros-2
Reading: Attached are three texts by Alessandra Barros (please log in to see).
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September 15, 2023
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Guest: Pietra S. Diwan, Ph.D. in History from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Brazil)
Presentation: “A busca da excelência: eugenia, genética e transhumanismo. Estados Unidos, século XX”.
Previous works/Website: https://pietradiwan.com/bio/
Reading: “Human enhancement, ectogenesis and immortality: Russian cosmism and the archaeology of the transhumanism” (click here).
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June 16, 2023
Guests:
Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Professor of History of Sciences at the Department of History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Presentation: “Explorando a história oral na história da genética humana no Brasil.”
Reading: soon.
Previous works: Please click here (Gomes) e and here (Dent).
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May 19, 2023
Guest: Vedran Duančić, PhD in History and Civilization from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
Presentation: “Lysenkoism in Socialist Yugoslavia: Science and Politics across the Iron Curtain”
Reading: soon.
Previous works: Please click here.
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March 17, 2023
Guest: Marisa Adriana Miranda, CONICET Principal Investigator and Full Professor at the National University of La Plata, Argentina
Presentation: "Eugenesia or eugenesias. Argentina and its hybrid versions."
Reading: attached.Previous Works: Please click here.
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February 17, 2023
Guest: Jorge Quetzal Argueta Prado, México.
Title of the presentation: El cultivo del maíz en México en la primera mitad del siglo XX: modernizaciones contenciosas y reflexividades ambientales.
Reading: attached.
Previous Works:
>Intersecting perspectives on Mexican maize landscapes. Farmers’ strategies for crop diversity management. Revue d’ethnoécologie, n. Supplément 2, 2021.
>Historia de la agroecología en México. Agroecología, v. 10, n. 2, p. 9–17, 2015.>The multiplicities of maize. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society.
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December 16, 2022
Guest: Henrique Caldeira, PhD candidate, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Title of the presentation: "The Creation-Evolution Controversy in Brazil (1960-1990)"
Reading: Text attached.
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November 18, 2022
Guest: Thomas F. Glick, Professor of History, Emeritus, at Boston University, US.
Personal website: http://www.thomasfglick.com/index.html
Title of the presentation: "Darwin and Darwinism in Uruguay”
Reading: Darwinism in Uruguay (Attached).
Group Conveners
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William deJong-Lambert
William deJong-Lambert is a Professor of History at Bronx Community College, CUNY who will be spending the spring semester 2025 teaching at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul as a Fulbright scholar while researching a biography of Theodosius Dobzhansky.
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Paula Habib
Paula Habib is a Professor of History at the Federal University Fluminense (UFF/Brazil). Habib´s research specializes in history of agriculture, genetics, history of biology and eugenics during the first decades of the 20 th century. She holds a Ph.D. in History of Science and Health by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Marcelo Lima Loreto
Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (Institute of Latin American Studies), United
States. 2022-2023.
Science journalist working for Folha de São Paulo and other media.
Research fellow at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 2021-2022. Project, here.
Ph.D. in History of Science by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2019, Brazil.
Dissertation thesis, here.
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