‘HISTORY OF SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND TECHNOLOGY’ SEMINAR

19 February 16:00
Weston Library

'Tracing the Legacies of Empires of Extinction'

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Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester)

Professor Sadiah Qureshi is a historian of racism, science, and empire. She has recently joined the University of Manchester as Chair in Modern British History. Her first book, Peoples on Parade (2011), explored the importance of displayed peoples for the emergence of anthropology. She is currently writing her next book, provisionally entitled Vanished: Episodes in the History of Extinction, for Allen Lane, supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. In 2023, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library.

The seminar in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology is convened by Alex Aylward (University of Oxford), Hohee Cho (Wolfson College), Mark Harrison (Green Templeton College), Catherine Jackson (Harris Manchester College), and Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford)