Welcome to the Spring 2019 season of the Archives Workshop!
Please join us Friday, February 22nd, 6-8 pm, room 222 of 19 University Place. RSVP Here
Nicole Nelson is our guest. Check out her book, Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders, if you have a chance. It is a fascinating study of an animal behavior genetics laboratory.
For the new year we have decided to pair invited guests with people working on projects that are still in the early stages of development. Archives Workshop is less a lecture and more of an experimental conversation aimed at talking through questions about archives, and we hope this format will add to this dynamic.
In this vein, Katherine McLeod will present after Professor Nelson about her archival work with scientific animal specimens from Guyana—the limitations these pose in understanding the circumstances of their collection, but also their potential to reveal aspects of who collected them, how, and why in ways not formally recorded by the scientists and museum curators who house them.
Nicole C. Nelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her research investigates how biomedical scientists think about complexity and uncertainty in their research, particularly in preclinical research with animal models. Her recent book, Model Behavior, is an ethnography of an animal behavior genetics laboratory where researchers studied the genetics of psychiatric disorders using mouse models. She is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, where she is working on a study of the reproducibility crisis in biomedicine.
Food and drinks will be provided!