The Unsettlingly Radical Implications of Teaching Global Histories of Science

Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University

University of Pennsylvania

Friday, October 11, 2019 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm EDT

LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania
3907 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama will deliver the keynote address at "Collaborative Pedagogies in the Global History of Science." Professor Kuriyama is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University. Professor Kuriyama has been actively engaged in expanding the horizons of teaching and scholarly communication through the creative use of digital technologies both at Harvard and at other universities in the US and abroad.
 
In the past few decades, scholarship on the globalization of science has grown dramatically and pushed our field into closer conversation with disciplines such as anthropology, geography, area studies, and Indigenous studies. This “global” turn has de-centered histories of science focused on Europe and North America, moving past binaries of “center/periphery” and “local/global” while attending to both the circulation and stoppages in scientific knowledge production and practice. Our workshop takes inspiration from these emerging approaches and will address a topic that has as yet received little attention: how to integrate global perspectives into our graduate and undergraduate teaching. This workshop is organized by the Science Beyond the West Working Group at the University of Pennsylvania.