Black History Month Lecture Featuring Dr. Rana Hogarth Online
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The Black History Month Lecture, co-sponsored by the Waring Historical Library and the MUSC Office of Humanities, will be held Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at 6 PM virtually on Zoom. This year's speaker will be Dr. Rana Hogarth, from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Hogarth’s book, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Difference in the Atlantic World, for which she used the Waring collection, is a broad look at the medical world in the late 18th and early 19th century. Dr. Hogarth will present on the topic “Professional Pursuits and the Making of Race: Medicalizing Blackness in the American Atlantic.” You can purchase Dr. Hogarth's book here: http://bit.ly/MedBlackness. Seating is limited and registration is required by Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at 12 PM to reserve your seat and receive log in information. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Waring at 843-792-2288 or waringhl@musc.edu. |
This lecture is part of our first expanded lecture series. The Waring Society Lecture Series provides a look at new, fresh, and innovative research and publications on the history of the health sciences. Each lecture will be presented in a hybrid format, part formal recorded presentation and part live discussion online with the author-historian. Those who wish to attend will need to register so that you can receive the necessary link to join the presentation.
- Date:
- Wednesday, February 10, 2021
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.