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Celebrating Osiris 39 - Disability & History Of Science
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With Mara Mills (Prof. Media, Culture & Communication @ NYU), Sarah Rose (Prof., Univ. of Texas Arlington), Jaipreet Virdi (Prof., Univ. of Deleware). |
| Columbia, 1180 Amsterdam Ave, Fayerweather Hall, New York
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Feb 12 (Wed) , 2025 @ 06:00 PM
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Disability has been a central-if unacknowledged-force in the history of science & the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology & laboratory research, disability has been good to think with: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise, especially the kind of expertise that produces (rational, neutral, universal) scientific knowledge.
Jaipreet Virdi, Mara Mills, & Sarah F. Rose introduce a disability history of science in the current volume of Osiris, which they co-edited. Across the volume, contributors trace the disabling impacts of scientific theories & practices in the contexts of war, factory labor, insurance, & colonialism; others excavate racial & settler ableism in the history of scientific facts, protocols, & collections; still others query the boundaries between scientific, lay, & disability expertise. Contending that disability alters method, the volume's authors bring new sources & interpretation techniques to the history of science, overturn familiar narratives, apply disability analyses to established terms & archives, & discuss accessibility issues for disabled historians.
In this talk, the three editors emphasize how disability history & the history of science need to be placed in conversation to foreground disability epistemologies, disabled scientists, & disability sciencing (engagement with scientific tools & processes). Looking beyond the paradigms of medicalization & industrialization, the editors further propose a scientific management model of disability to account for the shaping of disabled lives & relations by the applied sciences, from the ancient world to the present.
Event Speakers
Mara Mills, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, & Communication at New York University
Sarah F. Rose, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington
Jaipreet Virdi, Associate Professor of History at the University of Deleware
Event Information
Contact historyofscience@nyu.edu & scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.
This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Sponsoring Organizations:
Columbia University in the City of New York
NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Sciences
Co-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies at New York University.
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