THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Events
Emma Dowling, After Globalization: Fixes to the Care Crisis?
Lecture by Professor Dowling, “After Globalization: Fixes to the Care Crisis?” In conversation with Gabriel Winant (Associate Professor of History, UChicago).
Emma Dowling, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Change at the University of Vienna, will be at UChicago for a series of events on care work and social reproduction, of which she is one of the world’s leading scholars. Dowling’s work includes The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso 2022) and numerous articles on affective labor, austerity, housing, and financialization.
Workshop with Prof. Emma Dowling on Social Reproduction Theory
February 18-20, Emma Dowling, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Change at the University of Vienna, will be at UChicago for a series of events on care work and social reproduction, of which she is one of the world’s leading scholars. Dowling’s work includes The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? (Verso 2022) and numerous articles on affective labor, austerity, housing, and financialization.
The John Hope Franklin Lecture - David Scott (Columbia), Talk Title TBD
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David Scott (Columbia University), will be delivering the 2024-2025 John Hope Franklin Lecture on March 4 at 4:30 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). He will be joined in conversation by Adom Getachew, Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity (University of Chicago).
More details, including the title of the talk, are forthcoming.
Scott K. Taylor, “Self-Care, Self-Medication, and Soft Drugs in Early Modern Europe”
The Department of History, The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago invite you to attend a talk by Scott K. Taylor (University of Kentucky) on his new book Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe. The event will be held in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224) from 12:30-2:00 on April 22.
Soft drugs like sugar, chocolate, tobacco, tea, coffee, distilled spirits, and opium were either new to early modern Europeans, or newly available in mass quantities. One way that western Europeans domesticated them was to claim them as medicines, thus rendering them safe to ingest substances from exotic peoples. But consumers immediately began using these drugs every day, and even when healthy. Critics called this abuse, but defenders of the practice defended daily consumption in terms that we might recognize today as part of a wellness regime. This talk will draw from the newly published book, Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe, to explore whether their behavior fits better into our ideas of wellness, and self-care, or into our understanding of abusive self-medication.
Bio: Scott K. Taylor is a professor in the history department of the University of Kentucky. His most recent book is Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern Europe. His first book was Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain. Currently he is working on a project that uses the journals of James Boswell to explore the set and setting of drug and alcohol use in late 18th-century Europe. He is also planning a new project on street life in 18th-century Madrid.