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Davis Center Annual Conference

February 26, 27, & 28, 2021
Via Zoom

Time:

Friday, October 4, 2019
1:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Saturday, October 5, 2019
9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Organized by:

Iryna Vushko (Princeton University)
Emily Greble (Vanderbilt University)

Sponsored by:

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies

Program

Friday, October 4, 2019

1:15 p.m. Welcome and Introductions

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, 1969-2019

November 8, 2019
1pm
McCosh 10

50th Anniversary Symposium

Participants include:

• Sir David Cannadine
• Carlo Ginzburg
• Andrew Abbott
• Natalie Zemon Davis
• Gyan Prakash
• Hilda Sabato
• Yael A. Sternhell
• Daniel T. Rodgers
• Angela N.H. Creager
• Keith Wailoo

Followed by a festive reception in Chancellor Green, Princeton University.

Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism in Medico-Legal History

A Celebration of Her Ninetieth Birthday

Watch the day-long session:

<p>March 8-9, 2019</p>

<h3>Keynote:</h3>

<p>"The High Tide of Anticolonial Legalism"<br>
    Samuel Moyn (Yale University)<br>
    Friday, March 8, 10:15am</p>

<h3>For the full schedule, visit the website:</h3>

<p><a href="https://dcconf2019.princeton.edu" target="_blank">https://dcconf2019.princeton.edu</a></p>

Davis Center Symposium

March 9-10, 2018

Please RSVP to Jennifer Goldman.

Session I

9:00 - 9:15: Welcome and Introduction

9:15 - 10:45

Antoine Borrut, University of Maryland
Astrology and the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Early Islam

George Saliba, Columbia University
Al-Kindi as Astrolog Revisited

10:45 - 11:00: Tea and Coffee

Session II

11:00 - 12:30

The purity and safety of the food supply is an old issue, for ordinary people, experts, and state authorities. However, the so-called chemo-gastric revolution and the industrialization of agriculture catalyzed a new set of controversies about the risks of food, especially after World War II.