#  Weatherhead (WIGH) Seminar: “The Geography of Containment: Colonialism, Slavery, the American Civil War, and the Making of Epidemiology” 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 30, 2015** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

**Jim Downs**, Associate Professor of History, Connecticut College.

Commentator: **Evelynn M. Hammonds**, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Graduate Student Commentator: **Westenley Alcenat**, PhD candidate at Columbia.

The seminar paper will be available one week ahead of time at [www.bit.ly/wigh2015](http://www.bit.ly/wigh2015) (Harvard ID required) or by request to <jbarnard@fas.harvard.edu>.



 

 



 

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