RCHA's "Life & Death" Seminar Series
directed by Kim Mutcherson (Co-Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School) and Johanna Schoen (History, Rutgers)
Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings will be held from 11--1:00pm via in person and virtually
For pre-circulated readings, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
JANUARY
25- "Life and Death in the Nursery: The History of Neonatal Intensive Care Units" Johanna Schoen (History, Rutgers)
FEBRUARY
1-"‘Alive or Dead, They’re Ours!’ Activism of Relatives of the Disappeared in Colombia’s 2016 Peace Accords" Jennifer Trowbridge (Center for Latin American Studies)
8- Breaking the Ladder: Foundation and Fantasies of Reproductive Resurrection Rebecca Rosen (English, RCHA Postdoc)
15-"Bringing the Good with the Bad": HIV/AIDS in the United States After the Development of Protease Inhibitors and Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy" Jeff Berryhill (History, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
22- "Whose Life/Lives Will It/They Be Anyway?" Trip McCrossin (Philosophy, RCHA Faculty Fellow)
MARCH
1- "Intimate Lives: Japanese Land Question and Filipina Concubinage along Afterlives Archival Grain" Eri Kitada (History, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
8- Erica Reed (WGSS, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
22- Andrew Seaton
24- "Beyond Roe…what lies ahead for Abortion rights" Panel Event (Kim Mutcherson, Amy Hagstrom Miller, and Brigitte Amiri)
29-"Black Extinction, Infectious Laughter, and the Science of Racial Transmigration." Amadi Ozier (English, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
APRIL
5- Ellen Amster
12-"Landscape and the Supernatural in the 1641 Depositions.” Daniel Bottino (History, RCHA Graduate Fellow)
19- Paul Clemens (History, Rutgers)
26- Erica Goldblatt Hyatt (School of Social Work, Rutgers)
May
3- Jochen Hellbeck (RCHA Faculty Fellow, History)